"Frida's Dilemma" - "Negotiations" [Campaign 1, Mission 4]

Hmm. No one told me anything about the hydras. And 45 paladins are probably for such clumsy players as myself. I suffered unreasonably large losses on Veteran difficulty when trying to capture the dwarven armor. And without these attempts, even after the fire dragons, my army was much larger than after passing the outpost. By the way, the riders (or horsemen) on bears join in one place. And they are quite strong – as many as 68 of them.
And in the second castle, they didn't give me resurrection. Instead, they gave me a phantom, which can be cast on paladins and royal griffins.