Which faction is the most interesting to play as, and what strategy do you find most engaging?

If I happen to find the Tactics skill, I always choose it. It's one of the best skills in the game! For us, a battle starts with a larger area for deploying troops. After all, all ranged units are dangerous only at a distance – you can't shoot from a bow or cast spells in melee combat. So, Tactics allows us to reach them from the very first turn. Large creatures can block the path for 3-4 ranged units at once if placed diagonally between them. However, this is a double-edged sword. For example, the AI rarely considers blocking several of our ranged units at once, but it will still try to reach them with all its might. Therefore, the tactical mode helps to position them closer together and surround them with infantry from all sides.