Impossible, Mage - No unit loss.

[Vilk]

This path lost a lot of time from a record point of view but in this approach it's sure that giants are tempting. Giants are also rather tempting to do their area damage and lower fish stacks.

I don't understand what you mean by provoking the Kraken to avoid fish summon. Since round 1 I had at least horsemen and often cursed ghost that was in direct contact to the Kraken and most often the Kraken summon anyway.

The key point is to kill faster the kraken to avoid to big fish stacks, that's why Leadership and units that hit hard should be great. Giants are definitely a good choice for this fight but that also means to give up any time record.

EDIT: I checked and had Leadership 6178 right before Kraken fight, not bad for a mage. And I had already done the Orc Embassy fight but hadn't pick a Shaman pack when I was close to doing Kraken Fight.