Why am I not able to win the Orania Map ?

[Arker]

Well I froze that game where it's at for now. I think I'm in a really good position, but I need to learn the game better before I screw it all up again.

So I'm back on the Brittain map with Pangea, trying to figure out how to control things better. There are just so many things I can't seem to figure out, like how scripting works. I script a guy to cast blessing, strength of gaia, eagle eye, tangle vine tangle vine tangle vine and attack. He has all these spells, and can cast them without gems. When he gets into battle he casts bless, strength, eagle eye... and then starts raising the dead every turn. A complete waste of what should be a very powerful unit. And I can't get my missile troops to quit killing my melees, no matter what I try. I read something that lead me to believe it was from putting them on 'fire closest' so I quit doing that and just put them on fire. Doesn't matter. I had 20 some odd harpies set to hold-attack archers. They hold, then attack the enemy commander. Well, there weren't any archers, so I guess that makes some sense, though I'd rather they just stay out of the way in that case. But then, when my javelinists get close, they take out every single harpy with a couple vollies of javelins that don't even scratch the enemy leader. It's just ugly.

I appreciate all the pointers folks have posted, I think it's helped a lot, I'm using a much more balanced pretender and I got a production bonus and it's all helping, but I'm still a long ways from figuring out how to get my troops to act like they're not completely retarded when it comes time to fight.