Well, it was your fault for attempting this quest at combat level 6. :)
Your best chance, I think, would be to wear some initiative boosting artifacts, and maximize your morale (replace Rally with Advanced Leadership). Then split up your griffins, and hope that one of them would trigger morale, allowing you to engage the gremlin engineers before they shoot.
This is the nature of the Vanguard of Wizard quests: the challenge is in protecting the merc archer. The enemies are otherwise pretty easy to kill, even for a level 6 character. Increasing the number of merc archers would kind of defeat the challenge. |
