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After playing a normal paladin game , I played a impossible Mage game.
Did it in 71 days and had 1 loss !!!! Main problem with the mage was the lack of int items and Elenhel rebeled on me at the wrong time. So I played the game more as a control mage than a dmg dealing mage. After reading a lot on this forum I played a Hard Warrior game. Finished in 15 days, and I experiemented with different troops, to see what would happen.

This time I want to try impossible Mage with undead and Dmg dealing.
This build has vampire blade, 2 hand of necropolis , Black helmet.
And some of the other items. Again i don't have any rings with int. (grrrrr).
But i do have the Ancient Amulet and Gladitor Sword early.

To battle the barbarians someone on this forum suggested to use Ancient Vampires. I was lucky to find some early on and playing with them I really liked them. With stoneskin / mage shield they are hard to kill plus they heal themselfs back to full stack. Incase they get hit to hard then eviln will help.
But the best I like is that they are nice rage builders and in case a stack is to powerfull , I can slow or fear them. With the help of the vampire blade they almost always go first and can move 2 places futher.

Red dragons I also like a lot, and I am so used to them that I have not though of replacing them. Maybe I should try some bone dragon's.

In the early part of the game I used the Archmage a lot and needed the paladin to keep him alive. But 1 thing I never thought about was to use phantomed Green dragons to get more mana.
More things to experiment with.