I found that all you have to do is spam spearmans and archers in one line. Some occasional tweaks may help, but this is the general strategy and it works all the time. (although I played only single games on Normal difficulty)
Yeah, agree, not Epic at all. Although I respect the author a lot, this one is step back. Epic War 1 was epic, 2 The Most Epic, 3 and 4 still keeping the good tradition. 5 kind of boring and not interesting.
Although, music is awesome as usual.
Norgrath: Agreed. For survival I took Warrior, Ranger, Conjurer, and Cleric. Both Conjurer and Cleric can revive party members and Cleric can remove curses and negative buffs with benediction.
Funny thing, that I've tried several times with almost the same party but Mage instead Conjurer. The highest waves I got was 29. In all cases Cleric was down first and the rest of the party quickly fell primarily because of curses. So I thought Conjurer would revive Cleric when he killed. But when I took Conjurer (with 15% resistance to party spell) I've reached wave 44 without any effort - no party member was even close to death. All revival spells was no use.
To kill The End :) (really like that name) I used lots of dryads, Forest Guardian, some hobbits and protectors, and, of course, swarm of arrows (arrow strikes). Again, the key is to hold it, hobbits and Titan units are best for it.