In danger of giving this up

[drambuie]

Hi all,

Am on normal, level 19 Mage atm and in serious danger of giving this game up. Problem is I have none of the better spells - turn back time, resurrection, divine armour - and am now at the point where every fight is lethal/impossible. I have trolls, cyclops, assasins, royal griff and inquisitors or a variety of other stuff. Have no more trolls/cyclops available as I only found a few. Can't upgrade any items because the fights invovled are pretty ridiculously overpowered.

I have seen a few paladins but not many. Not trying to do a timed game or no loss, just want to have fun.

Problem is it is now becoming a real slugathon, big stacks of say royal snakes are just taking too long to kill before they start killing my troops off.

Any tips or advice? Am I doing something drastically wrong? I don't want to play a perfectly managed game of losing no troops etc - not my idea of enjoyment - but this is now becoming a chore rather than fun.

Cheers