Defensive gameplay and other tactics.

:smile14: In another section of this forum, a girl asked how she could best fight Phoenixes without specifying a particular situation (judging by the help files, it's a common problem:confused:). Besides the banishment spell (which isn't always available and isn't always powerful) and a strong unit of high-level units with fire immunity (which not all factions have):smile13:. But there's also a tactical solution: take one powerful unit of archers into battle, and the rest are single units of level 1 or 2 (units you don't mind losing) with high initiative (e.g., sprites). Place the archers in a corner or behind obstacles on the battlefield, and the rest surround them in a checkerboard pattern, constantly moving after the Phoenixes destroy one of them, while the archers and the hero calmly destroy them. This solution isn't new, of course (it's often used against creatures that occupy 4 squares), but it works very effectively against Phoenixes with their high initiative and retaliatory attack with the entire resurrected group (after destroying the last one in the main group) (minimal losses):smile14: