I took a chance and took the bridge from Verona to Montero so didn't have to find the chart. I found phantom on scroll in Montero and Demon portal on scroll in Umkas So I didn't have to pay for those. Also found my first Fire Rain and a fire amulet to boot in the Grand Canal
and Ice Snake in Shattera so my mage is pretty prepped snd I took Chaos 3 naturally. I dunno about damage though, with this kind of set up I would be chewing through TL but in AP I find the stacks are much bigger which means they last much longer, also the lack of true high magic prevents the double fire rains. Thankfully I'm not interested in no losses (got my 50 that's all that matters to me) but replacing lost units can be a pain.
Maybe I'll drop those assassins (they're not bad no retal units and that backstab is great but I find they spend the rest of the combat on wait guarding my beholders\demonologists) and pick up those Red Dragons , but then my royal griffins will fight with them
Hmm replace the royal griffins with Demons for their mini demon summoning - yeah not the same as the guardians but they do the job, gives morale to the demonologists and my paladins are at +1 morale anyways - can't check do humans suffer -1 or -2 with demons in the army?