The initial challenge is starting in between a number of foes. You’ll want to pack many powerful squads into the throne room and finish off as many as possible foes before they can act. With only three deploy squares at the south entrance, a little caution and much use of the single file corridors is advisable.

Centurions can ruin your squishy middle squads in a hurry. Given that there are no assassins this map, you could reorganize squishy mages and priests to the back line. Also watch out for the fire mage squads here. You’ll want to initiate into those instead of letting them attack you.

As you move to clear out the rest of the foes, be aware that many indoor corridors are shadowed and will enable ambush. The enemy swordmaster squads will make particularly good use of this terrain.

Interlude

I recruited a dark templar with 102 magic and the Bodyguard trait. Typically I value Bodyguard for front liners to make use of it on both offense and defense, but 20% damage reduction for a healer in the middle will be a huge boon in some squads.