Fighting against neutral Sorceresses.

Paladins and Inquisitors appear too late, and without a gold mine, even later. The whole point of the topic is how to overwhelm Sorceresses with initial troops of levels 1-4, because it's not possible to find troops higher than level 4 by the 2nd week, and a gold mine is very much needed. Isn't there any "clever tactic" :) and are large losses inevitable? :(