Request for some newguy tips

[Tuplis]

I've been playing with a paladin and can offer some advice on strategy that'll work at least on normal difficulty.

I'm level 24 at the moment and I still find Inquisitors and Griffins to be very effective. You'll be getting them soon enough. For the moment, I'd suggest going with 2 or preferably 3 stacks of ranged units (archer, archmage, priest perhaps?), some good defensive damage dealers (like swordsmen and guardsmen) and one stack with high initiative and speed (fireflies or something) OR you could just ditch the defensive ones. The strategy would then be first taking down opposing archers, then getting rid of the melee guys.

I've also found that the battle system is very strategic and that's why I took Onslaught and Tactics as soon as I could and they are the ones that help me destroy armies with dragons without ever taking casualties. I do have to use resurrection a lot though so I don't know how well the "no casualties"-part applies to you since as far as I know warriors are a little worse at spellcasting.