There's a trick to fighting enemy heroes though that I discovered pretty quickly. More often than not they will actually fire their spells based on certain conditions. For example, I had picked up cyclops on Bolo island before clearing the level 5 castle (excessive I know) on Debir. I had my inquisitors in the far right position at the start of battle, I hasted my snakes to get into lunge range and would always kill the first stack of skeleton archers. However whenever I did this, he would cast phoenix and it would always attack my royal thorns/bears and would do insane damage (partially because of -fire resist, and the burning that followed) making it impossible for me to resurrection multiple stacks with just inquisitors. After this failed 3 times, I switched it up. I didn't rush my snakes up and just waited, ancient vampires get the next turn and he casts poison skull on my inquisitors. Now that wasn't particularily the problem, what was the problem was the following turns of spell casting that killed a different stack. So I moved my army around putting the Cyclops where the inquisitors were. Now when I waited my snakes, he wouldn't cast poison skull on my cyclops, but on the royal thorns that were right next to them. As you should know, plants are highly resistant to poison spells so I suffered very little damage and I was ready for the next round of spells, and to my luck he cast it on my cyclops which obviously did very little damage.
Thats just one example, even though a hero may be casting something like flaming arrow that burns a high life unit for tons of damage on several different mobs making it impossible to ressurect both stacks without paladins or if you aren't quite so lucky enough, resurrection magic, there are ways to outsmart them. Remember this is just simple AI, they are coded to do certain things in certain situations so experiment! If you have some patience and don't mind reloading the same fight 10+ times (like I have done in some cases) then you will eventually find a solution. You can't win every fight right away either, run around and look for another army that might be heavily melee oriented if you have the control spells (slow, dragon kick, etc) and ranged damage/tanks to deal with it.
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