Smoother normal game play - warrior, paladin, or mage

[loreangelicus]

Well, since you are playing warrior on impossible now instead of mage, you might want to try this lineup:

black knight-repair droid-guard droid-repair droid-bone dragon

Droids don't need mana/rage to repair, and you only need Eviln to resurrect the two undead units. And if you really don't want to micromanage their minimal losses, you could just spam Phantom level 3 on the bone dragons and just use the phantoms to engage the enemy for no losses; then use your real army to mop up survivors if there are any.

For boss battles, just use the black knights (with stone skin of course) and repair droids to attack the boss while the rest of your army either does nothing or kills summons.

Only boss battles would make you pause to think, and only Zilgadis and maybe Baal (haven't fought him yet) will prove a challenge:

Driller at level 33, 25 rounds, no loss
Zilgadis at level 47, 63 rounds!, no loss
K'Tahu at level 53, 16 rounds, no loss

I didn't kill the spider and frog bosses since I am going for a fast run as well and I want to chain-fight them with an Ancient Knowledge scroll, but with undead and droids that are 50% and 80% poison resistant, they would have been pushovers anyway; they are also the weakest bosses, btw.

In the battle with Zilgadis, maybe it could have been done in a lot less rounds. He was doing a string of mass attacks, and it came to a point where I held off in killing him only because I was waiting for him to generate a friendly tower (to keep alive while I recover from his mass attacks), but those are the breaks of the game. Granted, 50% magic-vulnerable droids and 0% magic-resistant undead are not exactly the optimal units to use against a mass magic attacking boss, but it was a welcome challenge since the said lineup was slaying everything else with impunity before that point (and even after that point).

K'Tahu was a joke. Except for the gorguanas, he and his minions were all doing physical damage which my lineup was highly resistant to. Undead and droids are immune to fear as well, so the Tirexes were not a factor. Then again, maybe my high level at that point made a difference (I'm doing a high level run as well)...

Oh, and with Bloodthirst, you could end battles with zero rage and max mana (with mana accelerator/calm rage), then your rage immediately jumps back up to 40% of your max rage for the next battle, usually more than enough to start turn one with mana accelerator-Phantom level 3 (25 mana).