[FrankTrollman]

No. First off, get yourself about 5-10 Blizzard Warriors for every Harab Elder. Now put them in groups of 1-2, put them on "fire whatever" and then take those groups and distribute them pseudo-randomly about the battlefield. Most of them should be distributed up and down in front of the commanders, but some of them can profitably be held in the rear.

The pathing on the "attack rear" order is such that such troops will go to the back end of the first or second thing that gets in their way. So a bunch of little groups spoofs "attack rear" almost all the time. That and a couple of archer groups actually in the rear will mean that if any Devil finds a hole in your line it's still jumping one of your pigeon archers that you don't give a damn about.

If you have a problem filling up the ranks, go ahead and have a "create skeletons" order at the beginning, as this will leave Devils lost in a sea of transient undead long enough to be silenced with lightning.

Caelum, even Return of the Raptors, is blessed with relatively cheap leaders who can spam Orb Lightning and Thunderstrikes with no Gem investment at all. As such, people who are trying to rush with "pretty decent" troops that cost real gems should be sucker punched by your leaders. Remember that as Caelum your troops are there only to distract your enemies' army long enough for your leaders to deliver victory to you.

But you are going to need those screening troops. Otherwise your inestimable leaders will be shredded to pieces. They are made of paper mache, after all.

-Frank