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I made it to the Guardians, but it's just ridiculously difficult. I could still defeat the melee and ranged units, but the flying unit is complete nonsense; it takes them out in the first turn without a chance. It has dragons with 34 initiative, and all the others have 25+ initiative. My djinn with an artifact that gives +35% initiative don't even get a chance to go, not to mention the gargoyles. Honestly, I don't see any chance of winning. At least if there were a staff + ring that gave 20% initiative, but there aren't any.

And also, there was a message at the very beginning about the bonuses that the red crystal gives, but it seems like they don't work; the random bonus definitely doesn't work.

What if you deploy the entire army for a battle? Wouldn't that be an option?
The aerial unit has high initiative but the lowest attack/defense stats. A staff would definitely be helpful, or a mass slow effect. In the new version, the multiplier for the army size has been significantly reduced for the Guardians (from 2 to 1.3 when fighting a full army, and from 1.3 to 0.9 when fighting a partial army).
The random bonus for the army is only given once at the beginning of the game. Increasing stats definitely works.

Why are there joining manticores on the map? (And so many phoenixes aren't really needed, unless they're for guarding experience points)

Phoenixes can be useful for one quest there, but it's really unclear why manticores are needed.

Something went wrong in one place - it said to bring the phoenix cloak, which is with some phoenixes. There's only one phoenix squad on the map, which I cleared of the guards, and when I went to them, they opened a wall. But there's no cloak anywhere. At the start, there was another squad of phoenixes with titans, but I killed them a long time ago, and they didn't drop a cloak.

found Phoenixes.

Damn... I took level 34, thought a trip to the Dungeon would be easy – I took 2 trees – and there's so much meat down there (((
And there's no save file to go back to and not take the trees.

Wow, the guardians are really tough)
Well, here we go) after antimagic, you need to skip turns to regenerate mana

1) https://c2n.me/45jK8j5
2) https://c2n.me/45jKuZb
3) https://c2n.me/45jM0we (with difficulty)

And then, it's all downhill, at best you can take down a large Air Elemental with heavy losses, but Fire Elemental is impossible :(
After Fire Elemental, it's impossible to take down Air Elemental

It took a lot of effort, and I finally managed to beat it on the 10th try.

Scout -
Ranger - (if someone watches, the battle will be very long)
Mage -

All three according to the rules and with almost no losses, but I couldn't honestly defeat the flyer. Almost all battles are like this - , just wiping out the entire army before the hero's turn (who has a sharp mind). Once in 10 attempts, I managed to move and summon a subordinate, which the enemy immediately removed. As I see, vasik had both a ring and a staff; with them, it would have been possible to win, otherwise, there are simply no chances. I played on the very first version on Hero difficulty, and it took 165 days.