Interesting strategies.  For K'tahu on my impossible mage with no loss battles I found that paladins moved too slow, and that the trex fear would make me lose.  So what I did was I used....
repair droids 

  Yep.  Just one stack of repair droids.  Stoneskin, Divine Armor, and phantom.  It took about 30 turns I believe to kill him.  Hellbreath worked nice too, to up dmg.  And I used calm rage alot to get mana back.
For Baal, the paladins extra damage to demons and phantom res was essential.  Droids couldn't handle it.