Sacred Haven of Debauchery

So, new discoveries I made while playing as a mage! I'm eager to share!

I just played against someone in my least favorite map, "Former Friends." I don't like it because I almost always lose on it, no matter which faction I play.
My opponent was playing as some Kaspar (a Necromancer) and was taunting me, saying, "I'm coming, you're done for."

Meanwhile, I randomly got some Hafiz.
I didn't build Golems or Ghouls in the first week, only mages, Djinns, and Gremlins. I took gold and a couple of mines, and had -2 luck.
I usually develop like this: first, I go to the Dungeon, level up, and then around week 3, I go to the center (it's scary to break through the bridge right away - the guards are strong).

But this time, I didn't even make it to the Dungeon (it was the beginning of the second week), and I saw that my turn would NOT be simultaneous! This means that Kaspar had broken through both guards! I was standing right next to the bridge, so I ignored the Dungeon and, on my next turn, broke through both guards (the most surprising thing is that I did it with minimal losses!) and went to the center. What I saw shocked me: Kaspar had just entered and already taken the Dragon Shrine, but when I targeted him, it said that his army was "small." I didn't understand why, because he had over 100 Warriors, 50 Plague Zombies, 10 Vampires, and about 5 Liches + a Bone Dragon from the shrine - that's a decent army.
I only had 180 Gremlins, 12 Archmages, and 7 simple Djinns + a Giant from the shrine. I didn't quite understand why his army was so much weaker, but he started running away to his castle.

After wandering around the territory for a week and taking everything (the Spellbook, a +20 Initiative Staff), I headed towards him, but he attacked me before I reached his castle.

So, his army:
3 Bone Dragons, 15 simple Liches, 26 Vampire Lords, 55 Spectres, 80 Plague Zombies, and 174 Warriors.

Me:
2 Giants, 2 Red Dragons, 2 Gray Dragons, 7 Advanced Djinns, 22 Archmages, 49 Gray Gargoyles, 181 Gremlins.

Here's the recipe for victory:
The thing is, he had a very strong Ballista, and I was already going to shoot it with Gremlins to destroy something, but then I saw that there was some kind of magic when targeting his Ballista and Tent. I decided to use this and targeted the Ballista. The result was astounding: the Ballista flew so far on the scale that I didn't even understand where it went at first (it was no longer visible on the Initiative scale). Then, I did the same thing with his Tent.

And then... I used my Ballista to destroy 2/3 of his Vampires, and the Dragons and Gargoyles blocked the Liches. After killing the Vampires with the Ballista, I destroyed the spellcasters. I also summoned a Phoenix. Losses: 2 Gray Dragons. The battle is won!

I think my opponent made a mistake when he ran away from the center after seeing my initial army! It wasn't any stronger than his, if anything, it was weaker. This is what determined the victory.

I also noticed a bug: when resurrecting 2 dead Gray Dragons with the "Raise Dead" spell, after the battle, I was left with 1 Dragon!!!
But according to the game rules, all resurrected creatures (that are not Necromancers) should disappear after the battle! The same thing happened to me on that map when I lost a Giant and resurrected him with Raise Dead, and after the battle, I saw that he remained in my army!
The developers' oversight is obvious, although in the concept of this game, it certainly helped me.