You need to get 7 Battle Dwarves, but what's the point if only 2 will remain? It's easy to remove the "Unlucky" curse (must use), Death Cape + Staff of the Underworld + Shout. Priests under Sar-Iss? What's that compared to Armageddon! Ice Shield + Raise Dead + Reflection = the priests won't be able to do anything against a single Fireball. Berserk + Vampirism with Subjugation against Dwarves is not our best choice; they're too tough, so it won't be very effective. But you can remove a lot with Plague, and Unlucky is just what you need. I was just playing with Demons, and the Necropolis faction got fat as always. The only thing that annoys me is that damn tower with reinforcements (probably some Gnome developer came up with it), but there's a clever trick to counter it: the main thing is to kill everyone except those Gnomes, then run away, and with the second hero, capture the clean Castle.
By the way, does anyone have a good strategy for Demons?

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I agree with your post.
No offense to Necropolis fans, but I want to point out that Necropolis is only strong if it has more than two Castles!

I still believe that Gnomes should especially fear Orcs!

Orcs, in my opinion, are not feared by anyone at all. Even Gnomes.:smile18: