I've never seen such a fast start; my main hero reached level 5 in just one day.
The mage was level 29, and the orc was level 26. The mage crushed the orc with his army. He only managed to cast Slow and Mind Control on one stack. The rest of the spells didn't even get a chance to be used. The army performed very well, and the combination of gremlins, titans, and mages under the archer's Dream was devastating. I also had almost all the dark magic spells and all the chaos magic spells of level 3 (collected by Nazir and retrained for Rosie using the skill from Sorcery) to heal the super golems, but it didn't come to that.
Thanks for the game; against a mage, you definitely need to take Anti-Magic against an orc.