Boy, I tried my best top end tech army, full 8 knight with cold attack, and even put power spell sure as stoneskin on every of them with my best leader (though can't used fire based attack, due they can't be harmed by fire) How do you win this once battle, yikes! 6 dragon fire based, only one of leader is hard to killed.

wicked army leader ofcourse:

evoker, live 1, fire 2, air 1, attunement, impulsive

reasoning:

* live 1 gives regen, which is way to overpowered. should go into earth imo

* fire 2 gives flame burning blade, burning hands, pillar of flame and flame dart, a must early in game. fire  3 + impulsive give you a 1 turn fireball, way to overpowered

* air 1 for haste at the start, but air 2 + fire 2 give you tireless march, WHICH STACKS AND WORKS IN COMBAT. my 6 here army has a move of 10 on the world and combat maps, which really is a gamekiller. air 3 gives storm and stormstrike for when your flames won't work, and air 4 gives cloudwalk - woohoo

now all you need is a hero who can cast stoneskin and tremor and steal 2 levels of water from someone to get gentle rain (20% extra food). it's really the comination of impulsive which makes you able to cast a first turn fireball or 2 other spells and the fact that haste seems to reset the combat order in some way.

impossible difficulty, large map everyone allied against me and i still win (with a half decent starting location all i train are scouts and pioneers. for the end of game battles, since the dragonslayer spell is still a dud i run around a lot and cast storm a lot. sometimes i have 1 or 2 dead champs, but always win. stormstrike on your champs makes them be able to teleport out of sticky situations. now all i need is a way to counter fear.

fireball WITH impulsive just breaks the initiative system ...

while fireballl WITHOUT impulsive is a semi-mediocre spell at best.

Not just that, but I think dragons are fire immune

-> I've thought about stacking some Blizzard scrolls to use for that battle

Blizzard is a level 4 water spell.  Also worth trying for is level 3 air - storm and thunderstrike.

both true, but there just aren't any decent direct damage spells other then fire. storm is random, blizzard is underpowered and has a casting time of 3. i just rolled over the final dragons with friggin stinking mud. master dragon leaps to me and kills one here, the rest all got stuck in the mud and didn't even reach me.

and the initiative system is borked, try casting haste or slow and watch how everything gets rearranged on the second.

In WOM first verion, they allowed you to summon a bunch of elementals early on.  This gang of elementals allowed you to run around cleaning up monsters as fast as you found them.  They said this ruined game balance and did away with it.  Instead, I make cheap dragon fodder units by making a custom pioneer unit: click on Pioneer, click on Edit, change the weapon to the free 2-handed staff, change the hair to anything else, add a second negative trait and the "Scout" trait; do not change the gender.  This will give you a cheap 3-tile move unit with the capability to make a city.  With a full roster of these units and a sovereign with fire and water spell casting I can take on much tougher monsters.  Researching magic out to Erog's journals will give me 5 high level heroes I can gang with my sovereign by turn 40.  This allows me to run around cleaning up monsters as fast as I can find them.

I find I can successfully take on a dragon with a level-9 sovereign, 2 level-8 heroes, a 50+ point weapon and 3 dragon fodder units.  A 50+ point weapon can be obtained by killing enough Hoarder Spider armies.

I've said it before, but I would prefer if Administrative type buildings give free Exp to "Path of the Governor" types.

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In this way, Economic/Tech progression could be closely tied with a Governor's level progression.

As a long time pen and paper roleplayer, i always create a character to be fun, usually giving them at least one flaw. to me its more about the epic story of a map than "winning or losing", id love to see the ability to label locations on the cloth map so you can really make a believeable play world.

I make a little story about each hero. Each traits adds a piece of the story. Love it when a hero gets amnesia. Adds so much to the story, often sending them on quests to get their memory back.

Honestly, I like to have more fun heroes, it is quite obvious though, I like to play around with heroes, I think most traits should be balanced so I am not penalized (Too Much) for picking stuff up that sounds fun/fitting to a theme.

Did try to have a mage hero do 200 damage with flame dart, couple of combats later that got really really boring (3 times evoker, mage class track and warlock background (ok head is a little fussy, sorry for wrong names) and a ton of fire shards).

Also have had melee warriors do insane damage in melee, oddly I find it excruciatingly hard to make decently tanky characters.

Cant wait for the next beta release tho, the remevol of str, con and int will be intriguing to try out!.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej