Not all generals are the same

[Kshahdoo]

So my 7 lvl army attacked enemies 6th lvl army. Usually such battles are pretty easy, but this time the enemy's army had a general - Glabrezu. So this bastard just destroyed my army with his spells. His army could be a 1st lvl one, and he would destroy me anyway. I love this balance.

[amills1]

I find the cure wounds spell can heavily counter this. If the enemy damages one of your units, cast it on the unit to restore them. I found one enemy hero who kept throwing fire bolts at my archers so I kept healing them up. At the end of the fight I hadn't lost a single unit.

[Edmund Greyfox]

Unfortunately spell caster generals > any other kind of general. Wish i had known that before i spent the money to recruit the two I've been using.

[Sid Icarus]

Yup, that's the same army that forced me to leave and come back later lol. He always opened up with nuking my clerics, so I needed to get a big enough pile of clerics to soak up the hit first. Cured them, then nuked him right back.

[Marcos_DS]

Basically you first split off any troops the enemy can one-shot with his spells, and otherwise counter his spellcasting with cure spells (just 2 energy and usually stronger than attack spells).

But yes, spellcasters are tough (same for own spellcasters, you can roll up the map with a good wizard very early)

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by Edmund Greyfox:

Unfortunately spell caster generals > any other kind of general. Wish i had known that before i spent the money to recruit the two I've been using.

Yeah I can see that, I'm just starting out with armies. How can you tell which generals can cast healing spells?

[Marcos_DS]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

Originally posted by Edmund Greyfox:

Unfortunately spell caster generals > any other kind of general. Wish i had known that before i spent the money to recruit the two I've been using.

Yeah I can see that, I'm just starting out with armies. How can you tell which generals can cast healing spells?

I cannot say whether thats true in general, but both my wizard (fireball icon) and my archer (bow icon) general was able to select/get cure spell at lvl-up

[Kshahdoo]

Originally posted by amills1:

I find the cure wounds spell can heavily counter this. If the enemy damages one of your units, cast it on the unit to restore them. I found one enemy hero who kept throwing fire bolts at my archers so I kept healing them up. At the end of the fight I hadn't lost a single unit.

I still don't have this spell, what level you get it on?

[Blue]

Originally posted by Kshahdoo:

Originally posted by amills1:

I find the cure wounds spell can heavily counter this. If the enemy damages one of your units, cast it on the unit to restore them. I found one enemy hero who kept throwing fire bolts at my archers so I kept healing them up. At the end of the fight I hadn't lost a single unit.

I still don't have this spell, what level you get it on?

Most casters get it early on, there's an elf ranged general that starts with it too.

[There is no Mango]

The balance of crusades battle is just bad.

I had a 260 archer stack that gets systematically 1 shot by the lightning strike of an enemy general.
Really not fun.

Just luck that I managed to end the battle with them still alive in the end.

[DarkFenix]

There's a female elf archer general who starts with maneuver mastery and flare. She guaranteed gets cure wounds at level 2.

[Gregor Eisenhorn]

The best general in the game is the monk looking dude with blue hair and mustache and a red/orange robe. He gets scorching ray, heals, and regiment size increase and 95 energy very early in the game.

[DCRWrites]

Originally posted by Gregor Eisenhorn:

The best general in the game is the monk looking dude with blue hair and mustache and a red/orange robe. He gets scorching ray, heals, and regiment size increase and 95 energy very early in the game.

I have a bunch of other generals but he's the only one that's much if any good. Right I have him with six units, heals, haste, and scorching ray. He and my 400 marksman stack just murder things.

[Astral Projection]

Originally posted by Gregor Eisenhorn:

The best general in the game is the monk looking dude with blue hair and mustache and a red/orange robe. He gets scorching ray, heals, and regiment size increase and 95 energy very early in the game.

Hah yeah I got him by accident. Read a spoiler that nuker/healer generals are best. He happened to be the first recruitable one.

His army killed 90% of the map. All my other generals could barely level up.

[Quacksalber]

I have the old guy mage and the cat. The cat is decent enough, but his traps seem to do nothing - making most of his skills useless.

[Something completely different]

Originally posted by amills1:

I find the cure wounds spell can heavily counter this. If the enemy damages one of your units, cast it on the unit to restore them. I found one enemy hero who kept throwing fire bolts at my archers so I kept healing them up. At the end of the fight I hadn't lost a single unit.

Same.

Enemy commander blasted 118 of my marksmen with one spell. I cured them back with one spell.

It doesn't excuse the horrid way in which spells are OP but at least it helps you get by without losing your army.