Tactics for playing against Sylvan.

Monks are level 3, and fairies are level 1, so it doesn't count. They'll defeat them in a maximum of two hits.

Well, some are level 1, some are level 2, some are level 3. It's very unlikely that monks, without the help of infantry, will defeat fairies in two hits, because monks have weak melee combat (the modifier is the same as for fairies), fairies have retaliation, and there will probably be several times more fairies than monks – so it's unlikely.

Griffons, that's a different story:smile14: .... but if all the troops go forward, the heroes become vulnerable.

It's not necessarily true that they will become vulnerable, and even if they do, it's not so easy to defeat a general with armor, you either have to send someone into the enemy's ranks or try to take him down with ranged units, but archers won't be able to do it, and monks (if there are any) will be quickly occupied or killed; sending angels/cavalry forward, well, it's not at all certain that the remaining infantry will be able to cope with phoenixes and griffons (and without crusaders, they have very little chance), so it's still uncertain...
And Nature might have powerful ranged units, so everything could be completely different...
In general, there are endless possibilities, but I think it's not very rational to destroy the Nature mage first, the losses might be greater than the goal itself