Questions regarding my strategies

[K]

Dedas said:
A common mistake overall (even late game) is to forget the importance of a mixed army of troops, mages, thugs and perhaps a SC. I often see people using a troop only army, maybe backed up with a few evocation horny mages, that are trying to deal with a single SC - and get slaugthered. Then focusing on their own SC to try to counter the other one, only to get killed by it. The result is usually that they resign after a couple of turns.

Adapting is key. If someone throws SCs, you toss in SC killing spells...if someone has tons of chaff, you toss in archers or big evokers.....if someone tosses in lots of mages, you use battlefield-destroying spells....the lists of tactics and potential counters is what makes this game so rich.

[Dedas]

Yes, of course the main goal should be to adapt to every single encounter you have. But in the wild world of dominions things can change very, very fast. It may appear that the enemy builds only one or two types of units, or that his SC is vulnerable to poison and frost, but that might be very wrong with a good player. Suddenly you face and invisible army of shadows and ghosts backed up with a SC who is frost and poison resistant when your army is focused on defeating just the opposite.

It that and many similar situations it is good to not have adapted too much to what you think is right but instead on avoiding the worst case scenario. A dynamic army with a balance between flexibility and focus can do that.