When I went to take down Kolyan, Vlad followed me, and he had a huge army. I would move away, and he would chase after me. He had very good logistics, and with each turn, he would slowly catch up. After three turns, I found Kolyan and was horrified:eek: His army (12,000 skeletal archers, 2,200 plague zombies, 1,300 ghosts, 600 higher vampires, 200 archliches, 280 death messengers, and probably 290 lizardmen riders who joined him) was just as strong as Vlad's. And I had: 700 dryads, 450 dancers, 650 master archers, 250 high druids, 160 war unicorns, 130 ancient ents, and 40 emerald dragons. I lost to him about 10 times, but then things finally worked out, and I still managed to defeat him, but I lost all my dragons, dryads, dancers, 50 unicorns, 50 ents, and 200 archers. Then I noticed that Nicholas wasn't going to die, and Vlad was nearby with the same hordes of undead. That's when I realized that I wasn't just given a handful of phoenixes as a "lamp"! Luckily, I had a teleport spell (without it, I wouldn't have gotten away from Vlad) to the castle, so I took the phoenixes and went back! I was lucky that Vlad didn't transfer his troops to Kolyan. I found Kolyan with 400 skeletal archers, 600 plague zombies, 100 higher vampires, 300 archliches, 100 death messengers, and 260 air elementals. In short, this time I easily defeated him with my remaining troops. Nicholas also has that mind control magic, but luckily I had some percentage of antimagic, and he sometimes missed, otherwise it would have been a complete disaster. And it was good that I had phantom magic; without it, I wouldn't have been able to do anything.