Anyway the best for tanking is paladin :D

Well I am at 80 now :) so hopefully it will get easyer.
Unfortunately all of Veronas Map guardians are still way too powerful.
I am at leas getting better with money.

Just killed the 10000 peasant, really fun fight for once, Heroes2(3?) had a similar one when you needed to gather an army with your necromancer :)

When I get cyclops' early I will actually run them forward before attacking to get them out in the thick of things. They actually have two very high quality special abilities. Push does massive damage for a unit of that leadership, and their stun ability is also a nice no retal ability.

Of course, an early dragon is much better. It would seem that booking it to Rusty Anchor, supplying the man there with pirates/robbers/marauders and then kiting for the green dragon should be about the most consistent way to get an early level 5er. (You will need 1900 leadership though).

Progrees report : Cleraed dersu and uzala currently on tekron oh and beat a spider menawhile ;p i didnt change army for him. Since he had insane hard hitting poison i didnt bother to atack him with my troops i just swarmed him with gobots xD

Sorry for OT, but indeed Arilian this was in the evil campaign of HoMM2, where you had to fight loads of stacks with thousands of peasants, a really challenging yet fun map!
I might actually replay the campaigns again some time, should still be awesome. ::grin:

Elon and Shettera done. The big demon guy in Shettera was a moderate challenge for no losses, but the Wandering spelling that gives +10 attack fixed him up. Zigaldis was very easy. My stack of 500+ Royal Thorns could score 20,000 on a critical, meaning that the summoned towers were dead before they could spawn. And I just kept zapping him with the Inquisitors, Archmages, Red Dragons with their special attack, and phantomed Paladins. Zigaldis does have a nasty area of effect attack, but it's nothing that the Paladins can't fix.

On to Nameless then, at level 49 with 32,000 leadership. Day 22.

Well, the good question is how did you manage to save the royal thorns and the red dragons from dying? :) The dragons can survive one such blast with the proper equipment, but the thorns seem to be another matter.

As for Samman, I remember that I used the stalling tactic. I simply waited out till he's out of mana summoning demon portals. Otherwise he is very quick to dump an armageddon spell without thinking...

500+ Royal Thorns? That would require 190,000 Leadership. Do you mean 50+? (boggle!).

Whoops! I mean Royal Snakes. I've got 500 of them, not Thorns. :o
I've stopped using the Thorns altogether because they can't be resurrected. Shame, as they are potentially an outstanding unit.
I am yet to be convinced that Royal Snakes aren't among the best strike units in the game. 6-10 damage means that Holy Anger from the Inquisitors is a big help, and like I said, I was seeing 20,000 damage on a Critical (40 per snake - is that the max possible?)

i have around 200 gorguanas they also have 6-10 and crit for around 9k so its same .. but gorguana kills and takes next xD 5-6 kills in a row is normal :p

Progress: 235 no loss left to do nameless shattera reha zilgadis ktahu ball uldara uldara

and btw my units have 70-100% crit chance its insane powerfull :P