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Yes, I manage to win "Impossible level", I used Drawf (Golem + hero) that time i got night elf as neutral neighbour and they are week, i conquered them and built some warlocks (but this is later in the game). My books in beginning is 3 life, 3 nature. Warlord, Myarran. That time was lucky to get an hero in the beginning that has Agility* (3 gold upkeep) forgot his name.

Another thing is i am choosy on my starting place. I was lucky to have ath mine (magical weapons), wonderful rivers which boots my gold + growth, and i have a tree (which will dispel magic onto my city) and this come as a great help in later game, while the opponent wizards cast lot of spell on my home city.

I use a trick to see where my opponent are, alt-rvl to view map first, and decide what i need to do first then of course i will reload the game after i view the map, lucky another wizard in Myrran with me, and there is a land gap which i can block his troop from coming to my city with two units, and i did block it. So the only way he can come to my land is by air or by sea. Then i will make treaty with all wizard when i meet, non agrression pack with them. After get the pack up, every turn tried threathen the wizards for spells, even you're weaker as compare to them, sometimes they are willing to give in, don't ask me why. So is best to have your opponents to have scorery, choas, life, nature books (at least 5 each), later you can get some books from the node, to make 3, 3, 3, 2 books. i choose to have only 2 choas books. Now, by getting those spells from your enemy + ruins, I eventually have all spells even very rare. Is abit tough before i get Suppress magic up. But once i got it up + detect magic, i basically have everything in control, since if my enemy cast global spells, i have a chance to dispel it, if i failed to dispel it, i reload the game.

But i recommend you to get 3 life (a must) in beginning with a reason, so you can get incarnation from ruin, once u get that spell, cast it and summon Torin. Then if u can Invulnerability second, after u have that, get guardian spirit with Invulnerability + endurance. Then you can have a assasin. To get incarnation first or Invulnerability first, up to u but these should be the first two spell you should get from ruin. How do u know if u will get this spell on ruin? The trick is, if u win by fighting in a ruin, it gave u a spell, eg. u have 3 life books. The ruin gave u a rare life spell eg. Stream of life, ie. this ruin will give u incarnation, why? because both of these spell fall under rare. If u don't get what u want, reload game.

There are too much to explain, you have to try out your own. I have tried many times and won using this method. But now i want to try something else. All i must say is it depends on much on your luck.