how do you kite so much?

[MaroonMaurader]

I would slightly disagree. Kiting will take away the challenge of the *fights* in the first third of the game or so. Kiting is, however, quite tricky to do well (easy if you just abuse saving-and-loading until it works, but hard to do without saving in the middle). And by the time you hit the second half of the game you'll probably be struggling even if you did some kiting early.

I also kite because it helps you speed through what I find the boring part of the game - when you have basically no intelligence, no mana, no spells, no dragon abilities, and limited units - thus your choices for fights are very narrow. Admittedly it's a hard part of the game, but boring nonetheless to me.