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The best defense is a good offense IMO. Fighters and archers hit the hardest of lev 1 units. Use Shamans for healing and for slowing the really hard hitting orcs. Line up along the edges of the water and hit the orcs as hard as you can when they're floundering in the water. More units eliminated mea...

Here's what I did. And my army is absolutely pathetic when it comes to fast units (so I can't do lich assassination), but very strong in casters and elves. I have 3 lev3 elven heroes, elven marshal, elven avenger, lev3 druid, lev3 white mage, lev3 sorc, delfador, lev2 kalenz (almost lev 3), and a le...

On normal difficulty, here's what I did. I made it through without losing anyone particularly important. In the beginning, I immediately summoned about 1.5-2 full castle full worth of troops including a druid, white mage, sorc,some elven heroes, an elven ranger, and a couple of the lev 2 bandit guys...