Hand of Fate. Part 2: Despair

I thought the same thing until the map author gave me a replay where he easily and without losses defeats 16 Imps with a small group of Mummies.

No matter how much you change the magic orientation, what's the point if your turn simply doesn't come? Their initiative is 16; even if you reduce it to 13 using artifacts, they still go first, and 9 + 9 Imps have such an attack that an army of 100 Titans and other minor units (proportionally) dies immediately, and it's impossible to build up large forces in 4 months (maybe I don't know something).