I love grabbing the early mana shrine; chaining frost spells with assassin crits deletes armored brutes before they blink.

Don’t park everyone on one node—stagger squads so reinforcements can intercept split-path demons midlane.

Upgrading warriors into guardians plus aura banners made my frontline practically immortal through Chapter 3.

Remember to retreat battered units between waves—the free heal is faster than wasting gold on replacements.

Summon tokens are best saved for assassins; their blink strike deletes portal elites that normally slip past.

I run dual sorcerer nodes on turns—the overlapping slow fields give archers all the time they need to shred giants.

The final boss is manageable if you pre-place rally flags; dragging squads behind the golem to avoid slam AoE saved my run.