Why drag it out to such an extent – like level 30 – when the Academics have become ridiculously powerful and have created tons of miniatures? The problem with mages is the slow city development and slow progress. Why not take advantage of this, especially when playing against them as Elves? Now, let's break it down. Wing has very good chances; he will move first with almost all his units, even despite the Academics' miniatures. With a developed Elven Castle and "empathy," you can create a significant advantage. But if the mage has a lot of troops, he might win. Miv is not a good choice at all. Her special ability gives a bonus to "acceleration," but the mages will move first due to their high initiative. It might turn out that there's no one to accelerate (this situation is described in the question). In the Human castle, with these conditions, Laslo would be a better choice. Even better, take Rutger with education – this goes back to the first lines of the post.

Unfortunately, these are the agreed-upon game conditions. And, fundamentally, I want to kill the Academic in the late game. I've already tried Laslo; I even gathered 1800 Zealots, 1800 Zealots!!! But he went into Dark Magic instead of Light Magic, and as a result, I had 100 Rakshasa with 45 initiative, and they managed to attack my armored units 5-6 times per round, dealing 100 damage each time without retaliation. And when I finally managed to defeat the Rakshasa, I encountered them, the Golems, 650 Golems, with artifacts for 12 HP, 13 attack, and defense, and they finished off the remnants of Laslo's army. In the end, he had almost his entire army left. In the first round, all troops were destroyed except for the armored units, which died slowly, and the Adepts, of which there were about 150. If the Rakshasa could kill 100 armored units at a time, then only 40 Adepts died. So, I thought, if I train 1000 Adepts, protect them with the remaining armored units with shields, place archers with armor-piercing attacks nearby, and accelerate them with Miv to 20 initiative, then I would at least not fail as miserably as I did with Laslo. 1000 Adepts with 82 HP each is 82,000 HP, and it won't be easy to kill such a stack.