Tactics for playing as the Dwarves.

I'm not arguing that Divine Retribution is an overpowered spell, but it's not very effective at the beginning of a battle, and it's not an area-of-effect spell either, which is not very convenient... so I'm sticking to my opinion...

Where have you seen a player who tries to use Divine Retribution at the beginning of a battle? In 90% of cases, the first 2-3 turns with a developed Light skill are spent on mass spells! And only then do high-level spells come into play, by which time someone will have accumulated enough kills, and we can carefully use Divine Retribution on them. Of course, if they give us the opportunity in the guild. Otherwise, you can also cast Resurrection, cast an area-of-effect dispel, etc.

P.S. You're missing out by not playing on random maps; many of them are very interesting, and besides, the chance that the game can turn in the most unexpected way increases (which is what I like about them). Ordinary maps just get too boring over time, and you know them so well that you can play them with your eyes closed, and you know all the loopholes and where everything is. IMHO, but that's boring...

GSC maps are terrible. There are no mana wells, there are absolutely stupid straight roads that cross almost the entire map (they could at least be a little more winding), stupid dark Dungeons, the artifacts are all the same, and the location of mines also leaves much to be desired. If a map is created for 2 players, then very often both appear in the Dungeon, which greatly affects the time it takes to complete the map. It's awful, not a map... If standard maps are getting too boring, you can download fan-made maps. There are remakes of good maps from the third game, and in general, there are good maps. You just need to look for them, instead of stupidly claiming that there are few maps, etc.