Karador is Killing Me. Help!

[Boozie]

Karador Down!!! I figure I’d chime in with my thoughts on this fight for the next person who reads this thread looking for help. My setup:
12500 Leadership
~11 atk
~25 def
~23 int
Pally on normal (I know it’s just normal)

Army composition:
Green Dragons (7)
Black Dragons (5)
Royal Snakes (I had the wife + the poison dmg ring)
Griffins
Dryads

Looking back, I can’t stress how helpful Shaman would be for this fight. I didn’t have access to them, but I would have swapped them in place of the black dragons which I hardly used for the fight. Really the key to this fight is positioning + ice thorns (+any other method of covering up corpses, necro call would have been awesome too).

Best advice I can give is don’t feel rushed to kill off his units, take it slow. Create choke points and cover up corpses at the same time with ice thorns. As already mentioned, invis + emerald green dragons is great, I didn’t have that. I wouldn’t suggest phantom on the green dragons at least with my crappy stack of 7 it isn’t worth it. Mana spring on griffin + time back is very very handy as well.

I found it effective to nuke with rain of fire early while they were grouped up. 2x rain of fire really helped reduce the skelly archer stack. I also took advantage of my dragons by waiting and then attacking at the end of the round and retreating at the start of the round. I used this to reduce the necro stack and skelly archer stack.

I personally don’t think inquisitors were worth it. If you were going for a no loss tactic maybe it’d be more essential. I could probably have swapped them for the Black Dragons no problem.

Plan for the long haul this fight. Karador will run out of mana before it’s over most likely. Just keep corpses managed and it shouldn’t be too hard even with only 12k leadership. I felt trap was pretty handy in conjunction with choke points to minimize damage and maximize your dmg/mana spent. Good luck.

Also, don't bother killing the crystal until the end of very near the end. Just manage corpses.