Well, this group dow seem to have died off!

To try to stimulate some discussion, I thought
I'd ask for favorite strategies of players, so I'll
start off with ... "Managing Monsters and
Controlling Cannon Fodder."

This is based on the pretty good assumption that
summoned monsters and SC's provided by the game
are (mostly) your friends.

There are two aspects here. First of all, many scenarios
the gabme designer has provided several Special Characters
to aid you on your quest.  (The Sword Lands scenarios
have oddles of them.)  Most often, these characters
volunteer to join you a you bump into them in various
places. Asan example, with noi effort at all, you can pick
up 6 SC's by the time you finish saving Wialsrond in
WiSL. These SC's remain with you and keep the
same stamina points and attacks they had when you
picked them up throughout the game.  So, when you
do run into one of these critters, make sure you have
the game difficulty set to Veteran/MegaMonsters.
(If it wasn't, revert to your previous save, reset
the difficulty, then reset it back after picking up the SC.)

Similarly, several scenarios provide fised encounters right at the start,
before you ahve a lot of time ad effort invested into that
game.  Three that come to mind are WiSL, the Training
Ground in Griloch's Revenge and White Dragon.  Again take
these at Veteran/MagaMonster level and use a scroll
of Summon Cannon Fodder 6 ASAP. You can get some
pretty powerful allies this way.  If you don't like wht you
summoned (e.g. Wooly Mammoths), reload from the save
you made just before the encounter, and try again.  Be patient,
it might take quite a few attempts to get the critters
you want, but the effort is well worth it when you have
600+ stamina-point dragons along as bodyguards.
Revert back to your preferred ddfficuley level after
getting these critters, and you'll (almost) never lose your
bodyguards to the bad guys.

Anyone else got any favorites?