Tactics against Necromancers.

Well, achieving utopia on the first week is unrealistic. It's only possible if you get incredibly lucky with the mines. However, achieving utopia on the second week with Galtran (on a Fortress map) is much more feasible. In short, the essence of the tactic is to capture Angels in mines or Wyverns from trees, and then distribute them among different Necromancers. Developing several Necromancers to have 3-4 thousand skeletons by the second month is quite achievable. We capture secondary resources and convert creatures of level 1-2 into skeletons using the "transformer" (creature conversion building). If we find peasants, we send them to the transformer as well! We can even convert level 3 creatures from other castles there. We try not to lose the skeletons; later, we combine them all for the final battle. If the hero is Galtran, the skeletons will have very high stats, especially if there are Rings of Life and Elixirs of Life. If you want to know more, search for information on this forum. Here's a link with save files from very strong players in Heroes 3. There are no Necromancers there, but it's still worth checking out to understand the tactics of good players. http://randommaps.siteburg.com/indhallbestnd.htm