If I had just saved all the strategy stuff I posted on the forum it would be easy 
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Main strategy: Pop down a city on every damn spot you see asap, cities are so worth spamming.
Dont build cities next to monsters, and as long as your city borders doesn't enter monster territory, that city should be good to go.
Keep a steady supply of militia handy during the early phase of the game, they are good at defending cities and standing meatshield for your heroes to level off bigger monsters.
For militia, dont use clubs, they are rubbish, go in and design a militia using the researchable "Spear" or just use staffs.
Dont use maces, they are rubbish, same goes with axes. (for trained units). Heroes should use the best available, just be vary for huge initative decreases or significantly low damage.
Low initiative will have you depend heavily on lucky hits, and usually deals less damage than high initiative weapons/heroes.
Low damage will have a hard time to penetrate heavily armoured monsters and soldiers.
Note: abilities like "Double Strike" always hits (in the current version). So no matter how much they state they lower your accuracy, they will hit for sure.
Sincerely
~ Kongdej
