We played Carli against Nimues twice with Kalmaris, and both times I was Carli. The first time, I lost (I grouped all the archers together, and their cave mages shot them down), and the second time, I won. The second match seemed more interesting to me, probably because I won :) Psychology, huh...
Shak against Carli. We played in a random match. nik591989 really doesn't like to lose, and he didn't want to play pairs like Iris - Ossir, Helmar - Ossir, Jalib - Dyra, so I put Shak against Carli. Apparently, he didn't know this pairing.
And Axel defeats Iris, practically without my participation; I made a mistake (the battle griffons attacked Axel's 5 squads), but there's no need to talk about Iris's mistakes - she made a mistake every turn. I haven't won this pairing against strong players as Axel.