rusty island all very strong and lethal

[KongMysen]

You need to support us with some more info. Which troops are you using? Spells? Items etc.

Have you managed to win no-loss fights to earn the leadership medal?
Are you able to buy any lvl 5 troops, or +leadership items.
Do you possess a "Call Colossus" or Call of Death" wanderers scroll?

Some tips

-Search any shop on the 5 islands to see if you can find "better" units
-Search for items, which will suit your hero troops

Troops who work well in most lineups.

-All lvl 5 units, especially dragons and trolls
-Any troop, that summons troops. Especially Demonologists, Druids, Royal Griffins
-Paladins

Lvl 5 troop + Stoneskin + heal can get you past most troops. Lethal armies aren't really lethal if your troops are better survivors

[loreangelicus]

There is a reason why there are guaranteed units on the starting islands:

Debir: royal thorns, royal snakes, inquisitors
Scarlet: archmage
Bolo: repair droid, guard droid

When having trouble getting no-loss or just having trouble defeating enemies at Bolo/Rusty use this lineup:

royal thorn/repair droid/guard droid/repair droid/archmage

The repair droids repair each other and the guard droid, the guard droid tanks, the archmage cast magic shield on the guard droids to make them tougher tanks, the royal thorn summons secondary tanks and dishes out a not-too-shabby ranged damage. Your weakest unit here is the archmage, which is not so bad considering he has a reasonable Defense of 24 and 140 HP.

Hope this helps.

[Eightyseven]

Originally Posted by KongMysen

You need to support us with some more info. Which troops are you using? Spells? Items etc.

Have you managed to win no-loss fights to earn the leadership medal?
Are you able to buy any lvl 5 troops, or +leadership items.
Do you possess a "Call Colossus" or Call of Death" wanderers scroll?

Some tips

-Search any shop on the 5 islands to see if you can find "better" units
-Search for items, which will suit your hero troops

Troops who work well in most lineups.

-All lvl 5 units, especially dragons and trolls
-Any troop, that summons troops. Especially Demonologists, Druids, Royal Griffins
-Paladins

Lvl 5 troop + Stoneskin + heal can get you past most troops. Lethal armies aren't really lethal if your troops are better survivors

hmmm i have no lvl 5 units and cant find them either

my units are inquisitors , bears, royal snakes, priests, royal thorns
problem is i have 4 royal thorns but i have room for 7

im a lvl 12 paladin with like 3000 leadership and lvl 2 divine magic
i finished the first game on normal pretty easy, but this one seems to be alot harder

[KongMysen]

Originally Posted by Eightyseven

hmmm i have no lvl 5 units and cant find them either

my units are inquisitors , bears, royal snakes, priests, royal thorns
problem is i have 4 royal thorns but i have room for 7

im a lvl 12 paladin with like 3000 leadership and lvl 2 divine magic
i finished the first game on normal pretty easy, but this one seems to be alot harder

well You obviously need a new tank. the Bears arent really good enough on Verona

You can get 9-10 Paladins in the University on Debir. more to buy once you can beat the guard on the bridge to Montero, and there are usually Tiatans there to recruit.
or
Song of the wind can give you Royal Griffins
Call Colossus can give you your salvation
Call of Death can give you Bone dragons
(100% certainty i resently learned in these forums)

Anyway, get a high hp, high defence/ resistant unit and tank with Stoneskin on. Arch Mages can support even further defence with the Magic Shield, so you could swap your priests for those.

Divine Magic = Order Magic? If yes, I suggest you get distortion for the Target spell and the Stone Skin.

[Eightyseven]

there were only 5 paladins in Debir university
and i could only find 6 archmages but it still worked better then what i had before

[KongMysen]

The Guard droid - repair droid - repair droid is a very good lineup as already mentioned. The repair droids can repair a huge amount, so its ok to split them. And defence on droids is good, except when fighting mages and priests, inquisitors etc.

You could also get the free green dragon on Rusty Island. Just bring 50 robbers, pirates and bowmen to the guy on the beach, and you will get a key to the cave.
The barbarian guard can be lured away, and inside the cave you can get a green dragon for free.

[Hento]

You don't have to split Repair droids after you get the phantom spell.

[KongMysen]

I disagree...

You don't have to split them late game. But a 3000 leadership Paladin most likely uses all his mana to get around 40 % repair droids.
She would be better off casting stone skin and slow and such and wait with the phantom spell till she finds some mana items and gets a boost to intellect

[N3MES1S]

As a start u should go with swordman, inquisitors, royal snakes, archers and bears. U can use sea dogs from scarlett instead of swordman (they work really well) if u run out of em. Once u manage to clear scarlett, u should be able to go to bola island. There u can get polar bears and ancient bears. Also beholders. On my last game, at level 30 i was using evil beholders (i found a stack of 2300 on nameless island lol), inquisitors, paladins, royal griffins and assasins. Assasins are just amazing, and evil beholders works great. I got the -20% requirements equip for griffins, inquisitors and paladins. Royal griffins are a very resourceful unit, lol, i just summon avenging guards, teleport em to the front and watch how they do all the work xD (while i get the ranger units). If u find the game going too hard, use royal griffins (u can get em on the barbarian side of verona) and summon avenging guards on the first turn. Then, teleport em (if u have teleport) to the front of the enemy line, so their tanks go directly to fight the avenging guards. With a paladin, the game should be very easy on normal mode.

[joasoz]

Originally Posted by N3MES1S

If u find the game going too hard, use royal griffins (u can get em on the barbarian side of verona)

Since units are somewhat randomized you cannot be guaranteed anything of the sorts. In my last game as a mage I got em at the lighthouse in Verona. In my current game I havent found anything useful in Verona (no Paladins, Royal Griffins, good level 5 units). Finally got Paladins at the bridge to Tekron.