focus on your sovereign and champions. even without resources you can equip them properly. kill monsters that drop crystal to train anything else than militia (you wont face high armor nor swords to invest in spearmen and bash is always nice) and archers. core of your army should be hireable monsters so take influence whenever possible in quests.

Thanks for the replies guys...

Problem is [or solution] that I don't see anybody having any resourses, at least in the factions that have a border with me... And my two champions outside my soverin are already Path of Governor guys... Well, maybe if they don't have any actual Iron or Crystal since I don't see in their territory or on the trade screen, they might not have any great troops after all...

Question, does the "Defeat Delin, Pyre of Man" wildland quest is worth it? anybody knows its rewards? I have those wildlands fairly close to me and might be able to do them with my poorly equiped armies.

Also, I have a dragons cave within my territory and a demonshirl lair [stormwind specific, i beleive] within reach if a declare war to the angels and take one of their outposts, but no influence from quests or pretigious sites, and thats about it. Is it worth to build the missionary hall if I am not getting any other influence outside of that to recruit a few fallen dragon late in game? I'm on seson 95 already...

I've played a game on a no-resources map and thought it was great fun!  Just focus on what is available to you (light weapons and armor) instead of obsessing over the heavy weapons, mounts, and enchanted items that you can't build.  I get the impression that, although you may suspect it, you haven't quite realized yet that nobody has mines, etc., so this isn't placing you at the huge disadvantage you're assuming.  Those things simply don't exist on that map.

You can get yourself a little bit of Metal/Crystal income by using those governors to push some of your cities up to level (IIRC) 4, where you can spec Fortresses to produce 2 Metal/turn and Conclaves to produce 2 Crystal/turn.

If you're feeling short on Essence, taking out the wildlands is always a good choice, since they'll usually provide space for a pair of 2-3 Essence cities (or maybe 1-2 on a reduced-resource map like you're playing) when they rejuvenate themselves.  Plus, of course, the hero who leads the cleanup effort tends to get a ton of XP as well.

There's no reason not to build a Missionary Hall.  The Influence gain could be handy (grabbing that dragon lair and building on it would be very useful in any game, but especially in one where your opponents won't have heavy units to take the dragon down with) and it doesn't lock out any other buildings/resources.  I'd build it sooner rather than later, just to be absolutely sure I have enough Influence to build on the dragon lair the instant that Dance with Dragons research is completed.

Thanks a lot guys. Indeed, as nDervish has said and it was what i was meaning when I talk "[or solution]" in my previous post, with the exception of Altar who has the amazing amount of 7 crystal [seven, i mean, WTF?], none of my adversaries actually has any crystal or Iron, so they will probably have crappy units and monsters as well. I went with civilization and Im building the Fell Dragon Camp. Don't have nearly enough influence for the Demon Shrill lair right now. Is it worth it to Get both the Demon and Dragon lair, or should I just save for more Dragons? cause that's the impression I got right now.

One thing thou, doesn't archer with better bows require Iron? or should I just build groups of 7 with the inferior bows to go with my champ and dragons?

Anyway, will get a chance to play right now, probably gonna take some wildlands with one or two dragons and do a couple quests with Omiss before taking on the world, as the only one at war with me has yet to send a single unit my way, and its probably on the other side of the map.

Thanks again for great advice guys, very much appreciated.

Just finished the game, took the dragon and the demonshrill camp and beat on the angles that declared war on me and romanov[custon faction that i played before with wonderlust and henchman]. Could have easily beat on the rest, had double the power of the second place, but they loved and were paying tribute, so I just allied them up to finish the game instead of crushing everyone. quite nice that the three empires survived [Resonlyn with 4 cities, and Zentharim with 5, as well as a cowered Altar with a single city.]

thanks a lot guys, nice to see you can have a great win with no resourses, just level a couple towns for influence, hire a couple monsters and focus on spellcasting