Keeping level 5 units alive

[Elwin]

there are plenty of dragons .. in lairs ..

[tetleytea]

If one of my stacks--level 5 or otherwise--is completely sold out everywhere, and I don't want to retire that stack, I just use Diplomacy to fill it out.

[dudex]

u can easily get more by sacraficing droids and repairing them to get no losses. thats what i do to replenish my level 5 stacks.

[DragonBlaster]

As said, the shamans can heal the black dragons when the shamans damage a stack with their axes. This healing is very powerful (up to 400 hitpoints with 45 shamans...). That means 400 healing every 4 rounds. On the bad side, enemy shamans can target your Blackies even if they are immune to magic otherwise...

[joasoz]

Originally Posted by DragonBlaster

As said, the shamans can heal the black dragons when the shamans damage a stack with their axes. This healing is very powerful (up to 400 hitpoints with 45 shamans...). That means 400 healing every 4 rounds. On the bad side, enemy shamans can target your Blackies even if they are immune to magic otherwise...

This I will try. See if it does the trick. I used Shamans a lot in The Legdend, but havnt tried in Armored Princess

[N3MES1S]

Originally Posted by Elwin

there are plenty of dragons .. in lairs ..

Not always. I played 5 times and only on 1 found 37 red dragons on a lair (cant remember if it was on nemeless island or reha). The rest, i only found about 10, 15 and something like that. The problem is not dragon, cuz i barely use em, the problem is for example, cyclops. At level 51, u can only carry 27 cyclops (being a warrior witn 38900 ls), but on reha u only get about 20 and on montero u only get about 10. Same for other units (like trolls, i never got more than 20 on the entire game). But it is not that hard to keep level 5 units alive, just avoid the worst enemies against em, for example shamans are the worst enemy u can encounter if u have cyclops, giants. Shamans will always target your cyclops or giants, and u will lose almost half of your troop with the dam axes. Of course, if u manage to kill shamans fast, u can avoid to lose more than 1 or 2 level 5. Evil beholders will target level 5 creatures too, but if u cast divine armour (or something like that, cuz stone skin doesnt work on non physical atacks) on a level 5 creatures, they will not be attacked anymore. That on hard, i never tried yet the impossible difficult level (i am a bit tired right now of ap -.-). The only resurrect spell u can cast is sacrifice, but u dont need to have it on the higher level, just 2 (in ma case cuz i was a paladin, but i suposse u have it already on level 3).

[DGDobrev]

Usually, there is one spell that keeps them alive all the time - Fear. Cast it on the most dangerous enemy stack on turn one and start working on wearing it down with post effects (burning/poisoning) if possible.

[N3MES1S]

Originally Posted by DGDobrev

Usually, there is one spell that keeps them alive all the time - Fear. Cast it on the most dangerous enemy stack on turn one and start working on wearing it down with post effects (burning/poisoning) if possible.

The problem is that lower level enemy units dont attack higher level units, they usually attack lower lvl stock troops. I always get my cyclops attacked by chamans, evil beholders, necromancers and so on. And as i remember, fear (even on level 3) doesnt work for high level creatures. The only thing u can do is using sacrifice spell or cast divine armour / stone skin as fast as u can on your level 5 troop, so the enemy dont waste turns on em. If u have high defense level 5 units, like cyclops with divine armour, the enemy probably dont even waste turns on em (only if there is a chamans, evil beholders and some units on the enemy force).

[DGDobrev]

That is absoutely correct. Enemy who is afraid will attack troops of its own level and lower. However, fear can save all your lvl 5 troops, which is the case here

Still this does not save your lower level troops, as you stated properly...