[loreangelicus]

Well, if you have never played a turn-based strategy game like this, I suggest playing on Easy mode first. Play it only for a couple of fights (around 10 battles) since Easy would become really easy (and boring) once you get the hang of the game, then play on Normal. Don't even try Hard or Impossible unless you have either finished a game on Normal or have read thoroughly a lot of the posts in this forum.

While most of the units and items to be found in the game are random, the developers have been kind enough to make some units fixed and always there in the game, especially at the starting islands when the game is at its hardest.

For the first island (Debir) you could use the following: Inquisitors, Priests, Royal Thorns, Griffins (from griffin eggs), Royal Snakes.

For the second island (Scarlet) get the archmages and drop the Griffins from your lineup since you most likely cannot recruit any more of them at this stage of the game.

For the third island (Bolo) go straight to the shop that sells droids. Get a stack of Guard Droids, and get Repair Droids split into two stacks since they can't repair themselves, but can repair other droid stacks. Complement these three droid stacks with archmages and royal thorns; you can drop all other unit types, this lineup will take out all enemies out there with no casualties at all.

All the units I mentioned above are always there in a game.

Note that you don't have to kill all enemies in one island; simply skip them for later when you are stronger, but do try to go into all battles and just see if you can kill them anyways (and just reload if you are unsuccessful).

That's it for now, I'm sure by the third island you would have gotten the hang of the game.

Oh, and the easiest character to play is the paladin. Make sure you prioritize increasing the Glory skill in the mind tree (top right in the tree). This skill increases your leadership, which means you get to use larger number of troops.