Okay i can tell what is your problem, you dont have disortion lvl 3, WHY!??????? It's the best school of magic, and make this fight major pushover, whitout it u have to prolong fight to resurect every1 that got killed by ancient vampires coz lvl 2 target doesnt affect them. Other than that, just do as i said earlier target and stoneskin on paladins then u dont have high initiative unit so u cant slow ghosts, before they move so put divine armor and magic spring on next round and focus vampires right after u killed dragons coz they will kill your army. You have plenty of fights left, so you can do it to get disortion lvl 3, or prolong fight to res everyone. This fight is really easy one tbh...

The replay to this is quite obvious. In the previous installments the new maps corresponds to the difficulty. Now you get the 4 initial islands almost at the same time AND you get your pegas too. So you can hop and gather resourse and weak enemies. AND later you get almoost at the same time 3 continents and 3 islands with practically no need to fight. AND it seems the rage is gathered too quickly as at the same time the rage skill are somewhat overpowered. You need just 1 fight to get the 4th valkyrie and her golem rage skill is a game changer.

The problem is enemy archers just DISPEL paladins in the next round from all the buffs I put on them. What spell in distortion magic you talk about ?

TARGET, u cant dispell target becouse it forces them to use NORMAL ATTACKS, no special attacks are able to be used against unit with target spell. It's like magic shackle against ranged units, but way more powerfull and without leadership restriction.

Oh, so wish me luck on finding those 3 might runes :) cuz I usually get only one on lvl up :D

level 2 will work, but if u want to do no loss will take some time ressurecting units.

One more question, by resurrecting you mean the spell ? Cuz its really mana hungry and I cant calm rage forever.

In my try i just kept using gift on paladins, and dmging undead with paladins ressurect, u will have mana spring on paladins, so mana won't be an issue. U can leave 2 archer stacks and they will provide u mana.

just wanted to update how i killed ele taera for anyone stuck there.
10 Ogres 1 white rune mage guy(with antimagic shield).Shield on ogres , fire rain , ARMAGEDDON defend , repeat.When you run out of mana run and do it again :)

I got some ideas from this page and resolved the Zalnaron problem.

Zalnaron has
13.8K (x2) archers
25 Bone Dragon and vs vs...

I am level 37 soothsayer and have
70 Rune mages (4 equal stack),58 Paladin (1 stack)
You see , a considerably weak army.

At round 1 , teleport the paladin close to archers and make him invisible.

With ur rune mages. Create 4 phantoms of the paladin. (max %60 with 40 unused spirit runes )
With ur Rage skill , use the wall skill and protect your mages so the Bone Dragon does not prefer to attack you.

Every time you have the turn with Phantoms, use the second wind skill on Rune Mages. Dont forget to get away from the original unit so you have space to spawn new phantoms. (look below)

In the extra turn for Rune Mages (i.e. by the second wind) use Phantome again or use "Give Runes" in case ur out of Spirit Runes. (max 6 runes , so better to keep 40 unused Magic runes in stock).

In the second round , slow down (level 3) the bone dragons so he cant reach you. Use the Crystal Rage skill to create crystals so that it will be harder to reach the mages.

In the third round and so on ... deal first with the bone dragon, keep an eye on archers (slow down etc) so they cant shoot mages. The necromencers will hit you a few times so dont let your mages very close to each other.

EGDs dont work here... since they are very vulnerable.

It takes a hour or such careful gameplay and you will get them.

-math