Demonesses – although they are cute, they are extremely unpleasant creatures. In battle, with their teleport and seduction, they simply ruin all tactics; they move quickly on the map, and it is not always possible to avoid them. The most effective method for a Warrior is not to wait for the teleport of their creatures, but to attack. A bonus to initiative from the start, tactics, and mass acceleration are essential. And have fewer humanoids in the army; otherwise, with your current set of units, everything except the bears will periodically miss their attacks on them. By the way, when they recruit their creatures, you can use spells against them. For example, I slowed down the recruited snakes and kept my distance. As a result, they did not harm me, although the unit was neutralized for two rounds. Recently, I gained the ability to hire black dragons – the strongest creatures in the game in terms of stats. But they didn't impress me much. First, the fire damage makes them almost useless against demons and other dragons (but I must admit, they mow down thorns and ents with ease). Second, their damage is not very high. In general, I have noticed that low-level creatures generally deal more damage than high-level creatures. Perhaps this is because I am playing as a Warrior, who gives a good bonus to combat stats, and it is more advantageous to use numerous armies. If this really has a significant impact, then a Mage will probably benefit more from using high-level creatures. I also recently appreciated zombies. With developed resilience and an upgraded Dark Commander, they become simply beasts. In my case, they receive +7 to attack and +2 to initiative (if I'm not mistaken) from the Dark Commander, +1 initiative from one artifact, they start the battle with a +2 bonus (upgraded in the Warrior branch), and I have boots that give +1 to the speed of the slowest warrior. As a result, a bunch of fat and terribly strong undead start with an initiative of 6, a speed of 3, and can also be accelerated (another +2), and they have an ability that doubles their speed, which is "built into" the creature. Now I'm thinking about who to replace with zombies