Trouble with Bass Azz Beholders in the Mines

[Razorflame]

human armies are the worst to have

you might reconsider taking humans
the only 2 god human units are(and ONLY b/c of their abilities) inqi's and archimages

[DGDobrev]

I disagree Human armies are pretty good. Keep in mind that Calinda had a mostly human army in his quick victory - with most of his army being archers, inquisitors, archmages and horsemen. He did have cannoneers and the 2 types of archers from the elves.

It's easy to revel in the power of the skeleton archers with dragon arrows, the power of target + faeries and dryads, but all of this is generally costly to replenish, especially time-wise.

EDIT: Wait till you get Armored princess. You're going to love the humans there. Paladins (resurrects everything in the surrounding 6 cells around them and are decent tanks) + Archmagi (still have magic shield) + inquisitors (still good 1-time resurrect) + gift + some resurrection + pretty much any other troop will do means you're in for slim to none losses in the battle.

[jfp3]

At this point I'm down to only 1 full stack of Archmages available to me and I left them at the King's Castle for future use. They seem to be hard to come by now. Unless of course I will find more availble to me in the Dwarven Lands, I'll be leaving the Archmages safe for a while. If I had brought them into the mines, I'm sure most of them would have been toast by now.

[Vilk]

Human Archer aren't that good nor priests. Priest are excellent units at the beginning because of their healing talent and wide availability. After that priest becomes almost useless. In fact almost all human units aren't good but Inqui and Archmage that are required for a record, Horsemen and Knights that are excellent, Sea Dog that are very good.

Calinda game doesn't reflect the best choice in general but more an excellent choice and perhaps the best for the special constraints involved to achieve such record.

For example:

• With Anga Ruby, a women army is extremely powerful. But getting that Ruby and attempt finish the game in 7 days is probably totally incompatible.
• One point is about resources available. The only strong unit available at the beginning are Horsemen.
• Another point is about using warrior and lack of magic support, with stronger magic support Knights are quite more interesting than with few magic and no Higher Magic skill.
• One more point is that when attempting such record you don't have time to make many change to your army and the Calinda final setup is certainly very well balanced for most type of fights.
• I'm using Cursed Ghosts is it's clear that in many fights with a mage they are a better choice than Horsemen.
• Calinda setup has a strong weakness, no lower level close combat units allowing using time back sooner, that's a huge disadvantage until you get that ability to use it on horsemen, this can take a lot of time.