ok, so i'm on the Dragons of Deepest blue level. i've taken dungeon towns to the northeast and southwest. i'm on the expert difficulty setting, and here is my problem: PC has Armageddons Blade and just nukes me every time... my best unit is 6 archangels that i tried casting antimagic on, but PC has 3 black and 3 azure dragons + misc other, so i just get walloped... anybody have a suggestion? Should i start over? any thoughts is appreciated!

Is it possible to work around that particular hero? Don't try to keep anything he takes, just get behind his lines and capture his stuff faster than he takes yours. Theoretically, that should eventually allow you to build up the forces needed to overwhelm him.

Also, do you have Fairie Dragons? I seem to recall those being available for purchase, but they are worth the cost.

My fairie Dragons get blitz in the opening armageddon, i have 3, but not enough gem production to keep them coming (20gems a week to buy, my production is only 7/week). Whenever i try to advance the PC moves out and nails me... i may have to abandone the castle and just pray he doesn' come through, because there is no way i can stop him. He now also has black dragons, so not sure how i'm going to take him out... it occurs to me that i can maybe restart, and either turtle, or just get the NE cast, push through the rust dragons, and strike in the middle before he can get to the dragon citadel...(where i suspect he gets the weapon of my demise)... or i suppose i could just focus on getting gold dragons ASAP bc they would be immune to armageddon... ugh... thanks for the response!!

Turtling is almost certainly not the best option. Assuming you've been spending the time to power up your carry-over heroes on each map, then you should give each one a couple of strong units and blitz the map. Use Town Portal to collect reinforcements for your super heroes occasionally, hire some extra heroes to collect the weekly stuff in the lands you control, and use movement spells (Fly, Dimension Door, etc) to move very, very fast. Based on my trip through the game, you should be murdering the crap out of most neutrals and hitting the AI before it can climb to things like Black Dragons (assuming it didn't start with them; I don't remember).

Get some Gold Dragons, Magic Elementals, Firebird/Phoenixes, Fire Elementals, Efreeti, whatever is immune to Armageddon and just Armageddon bomb the crap out of your enemies. When a hero runs low on spell points, then Town Portal back to a mage tower (or hit a magic well) for a quick recharge before getting back to your murder spree.