Newbie Tactics

[Agrajag]

Ahhh, the noturious unknown gendered hero from HoMM.
Anyway, I don't know that much about the game (pretty much of a newbie as well, even though Ive been trolling here for a long time) but here are some things I'd like to say about your post:
1) PD (Provincial Defense) is pretty bad for most nations, its just the chaff units that get killed in a blow, you don't want a lot of that guarding your provinces (though atleast 1 is almost a must, just so you can see what attacked you). I much prefer saving my money for troops that can retake the province or protect it.
2) A strong offense is also a strong defense, since by pushing the borders in the direction of the enemy, you prevent him from directly attacking you with armies (unfortunatly, he can still use flying/teleporting/stealthy (etc.) troops to cross the borders, but while your main army can advance forwards, the second army marching to the front can take care of intruders.
3) 7 dominion sounds a bit too high for such scales, in my opinion. If you don't have good scales, you don't have to have a positive dominion score in all of your provinces.

From what I hear here, most games are won by use of magic, which means that regular armies tend to become obsolete as the game progressess, so relying solely on national armies isnt a good idea, but I wouldn't know much about alternatives with Arco, being a newb and all P=

[Manuk]

First you want to do is to read the documentation that´s already been written. check out the links

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...t=&Board=UBB74

Then, always remember to place units in the right place and with what you want them to do. Fast units could be on the sides ordering them to attack rearmost. Heavy infantry in front followed by javeliners and then archers.

I understand that Arco´s mages have lots off randoms. use different kind of mages to search for magic sites first. then they can help you casting attack spells during battle. Defensive players like to research a lot(sages are best), grab a water 2 mage and build clam of pearls item to equip as much pearls as they can on they researchers (when you have pearls on them press f7 and pool them to take them to your reserve.)

Thaumaturgy school is good for your astral mages.

Initially build pelstasts in combination with something, they are good against weak things.