It is possible to get veteran orc earlier, just do the Orc embassy recapture thing at the Islands of freedom, after you signed the peace treaty with the dwarves.

Wow, you really suck at this game, 14040 casualties!!!:confused:
I had only 6 and that was from the final battle.

And? Why shoulnt there be casulties?

Btw. those casulties were on purpose. Why should i finish every game without casulties? :P

haha and what of it?

what was your score on your first play through? mine 1520 and I had more casualties than him. It depends on your play style.

Of course, it depends on the play style. In my last game as Paladin on impossible, I had 1557 points (18 days, 102 finished quests) with 610463 enemies killed and 1138 causalities. And I am not sure if the computer includes here the phantom forces, because I dont remember to have that much losses (I had dismissed 930 dryads at sertain stage, if this is included in the causalities, than I can explain that number). In most battles I had zero losses, in some I had 2-3 archmages or 2-3 black unicorns because I was too lazy to resurrect them since I got them in reserve.

Yes, dismissed troops count as casualties, for some dumb reason. Maybe it's to encourage you to just park them in a castle somewhere instead of dismissing them, but that's not always an option.