Griffins are amazingly tough and versatile troops. Even a phantomed stack (about 25% of the original for me) thrown into the midst of enemies survives the whole battle almost all the time. And they do great damage all around from retaliations while soaking up all the damage.
And how about this for an awesome trick with griffins: Split the stack, send the second one right to the enemy. Let them take all the heat for the first turn, and weaken the enemy with retaliations. It doesn't matter even if the second stack gets wiped out. Next turn, send in the original stack for even more melee fun. Then at the end of the second turn (wait with a different high initiative troop), cast time back on the original stack of griffins for a completely, 100% restored stack, including the ones that were split off. For example, you have 100 griffins. Split it, you have two stacks of 50. Send one in, even if it gets killed, time back on the original and you have 100 again. It's essentially a phantom that doesn't cost mana or use up a spell, great for a warrior like me. You just have to be careful that the sum of both stacks doesn't exceed your leadership level.
You can also use this to rapidly gain griffins without sacrifice. i.e, if you can support 100 with your leadership, but only have 66, split it and use time back to get stacks of 66 and 33, or 99 griffins in total.
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