New player - lots of stuff to learn

[Gribs]

Ah, okay. I played all yesterday evening. So far the game is definitely seeming like a "occupies a lot of my time" sorta game which is a good thing as I wanted something to get into.

I am pretty amazed at all the posts here about zero casualty wins. I guess that you have to really learn how to optimize to do that. I don't know how you would do that - peasants are so fragile you know

[yaang]

Well if you can't resurrect them somehow them i'd suggest not putting them in your army. In the early game when you have no way of getting your dead troops back the best strategy is to form your army from the highest HP creatures you can find or creatures that can summon.