What are your top 3 stradegies?

[axelle]

I am currently a level 20 mage on impossible. only like 1/3 way through the game but i am loving it!

so far, some of my my favorite strategies are:

1, DoT (damage over time) spam (poison skull, fire arrow etc)

the most powerful spells in my opinion are the ones with a dot effect, because those dots kill a certain percentage, and when the enemy has a troop with like 1400 units in it, a poison skull tick + a fire arrow tick can take away up to 20% of it. so sometimes it's funny to see a 600-initial-damage fire arrow skull does 6000 damage ticks on those poor ents...to abuse dots, invisibility + 1 high initiate+high speed troop is highly effective, i usually use green dragon for non-living enemy like undead, and ancient vampire for the living ones. with some careful kiting, i unlocked montero with only 21 ancient empires at level 16, i also killed 4572 skeleton archers + 3558 skeletons with just 2 green dragon.

2, early in the game, when you are still on the starting island, 4 single inquisitors + 1 royal thorn can get through most fights, and even later on, after you learn resurrection, one main troop + 4 single inquisitors is a very good way to level your dragon pet, 1 inquisitor can only resurrect 7 health, but that's enough to resurrect 1 inquisitor...so, let them all die, and at the end of the fight, you simply resurrect one and he can resurrect one, and that one can resurrect another one and so on, let them spam holy anger (that's 12 holy anger, which means, on average 6.5*12 = 78 rage points!) let your dragon dig up treasure, build walls or just simply create mana balls and get your mana back to full.

3, stack those percentage-based resistance items and spells . stone skin(40)+twinkling boots(15)+leather dress(5), my ancient vampire is sitting at 60% physical resistance, throw on a level 3 magic spring (+15 defense), find a cell where there is only 1 or 2 adjacent cells, with the help of no retaliation and drain life, you can tank ridiculously amount of enemies, i killed 4*105 black unicorns at level 19 with just 30 ancient vampires.

honorable mention: 2 repair droids healing each other. repair droids are so awesome when used properly, i am actually thinking that my end game set up will be 2 repair droids + 1 guard droid + 1 ancient vampire + 1 royal thorn, with royal thorn and ancient vampire in my 2 reserve spots in case i lose some and don't have mana to sacrifice droids to get them back.

i know i will probably discover more strategies as i advance through the game, but anyways, what are your favorite strategies?