gain mana back

[lilmoon]

hi

I wanted to ask which tactics you use to gain mana back at teh end of fight to resurrect my team. I heard there is a way to use rage to gain mana back???? the only one I thought is mana spring on my horsemen + poison cloud, but after 1 round the cloud is on top of the enemy and the match is over.

I am in elven land and I need to use a lot of hypnosys and phantom or I will always suffer some losses (maybe only 1-2 troops per stack, but it's booooring) and I dont have sacrifice ore resurrect so I need my inquisitor to slowly resurrect, hoping that some enemy archer is still around.

so I usually:
place the totem of life
use mana spring hoping that that unit will be hitten... (any clever idea on how to make this happen?)
resurrect with inquisitor
use gift
do it again
sometimes i use timeback, but I noticed rage doesnt charge up after a while when I get hit... why?

bottomline, how can I do faster? it's quite boring to use this very slow mana growing tactic
tnx