New player seeks advice about playing a mage and the tactics for no loss

[N3MES1S]

I always used to use polar bears or ancient bears instead of wolfs, fairies, etc but the point is i never used em on battle on Debir xD. In fact, i did the glory medal and the no losses medal only with inquisitors and a 1 royal thorn lol. U dont need a hugh army on Debir. The exploit u mention on the start of the game is not such a exploit, it is the initial army given to you at the start, when u finish the tutorial, the game gives u again the same troops (on case u lost almost all of em). So, if u dont waste any troops , u will have 2x.

Royal Snakes are the best units on early game, but if u want to minimize loses u will change em to another stronger unit on mid-later islands. If u find a big stack of level 5 units, use em, they rule normal mode (and on impossible, but impossible is a bit hard for u right now). And bowman are too fragile unit, u should change em too. They are good on high number stacks, but they die too fast. If u can get cyclops on bola, use em. Only a few units will attack em, like beholders or shamans, and cyclops are a very useful units.

As u noticed, there are some units / races that the AI will not attack eventually. Elfs and Demons are one of em. I am playing now with a mod that gives me , for example, cerberus or scoffer imps at the beginning, and the AI never attacks em. But this is on impossible....

[kcwong]

I switched from the very weak wolves to polar bear - never found any ancient bears, so I kept using the guardsmen until their number became too small.

Luckily I found Demonologists! I never found any in my Paladin game, but now I found over 30 on Rusty Anchor (in the inn at the pier).

With them I managed to beat the roaming armies on Bolo with no to minimal loss, and killed the roaming driods (ranked strong to me) in the mines. Then I kite the boss driod away (turns out I need to talk to it once first before it will chase me). Then I managed to kite Zag Zag away too, so now my army consists of 1 EGD, 9/10 Paladin (that's all I can find), 22 or so Inquisitors, 10 or so Polar Bears, and 10/10 Demonologists. I have my Royal Snakes and Repair Driods stashed away for the time being.

I think I'll be fine from this point forward!

Thank you all for the tips. The Inquisitor rage skill tip is a life-saver.