MA Pangaea-best starting troops?

[Xietor]

yeah, late in the game you have to pick your fights. But, late in the game i do not use the gorgon to attack, she stays back and casts spells. Very hard to kill her in that situation in her own dominion. And if gift of health and haunted forest are up, you can just forget it. Even with "just" 5 earth, she cast summon earth power and has those artifact boots on that gives her 1 extra earth, so she is sitting at 7.

And, by the way, petrification works on the undead as well as the living. So the gorgon does not fear the undead!