How does direct damage mage hold up on impossible?

[plin500]

Originally Posted by john_crapper

Basically only thing i have is poison, fire arrow firestorm and rarely trap when i need to cancel a turn of an enemy unit.

In my mage IMP game, i'll search the nearest trap spell, get dist. lv1 and start building my trap level. At level 3 you'll get 3 traps with a damage of 100% and that helps to slow down enemy and kill weaker units.

And as it been said already, high intellect is the key.