[Richard BrightBlade]

Ranged attacks always work well, If you have 4 or 5 bowmen shooting at once you can pick off all but the toughest of monsters before they hit you.

If you use a summon, monster/Animal spell, scroll, and or wand or just a raise dead spell you can slow monsters from reaching you and you can pick them off.

If you are attacking a mage always have a bow trained on him, if he is hit before his spell is cast it fails and is usless, I like to have one character with arrows of dispelling and throwing axes. I use the throwing axes (or just melee weapons) on the lesser creatures and keep on ruining spell with the arrows (i use this tactic only in areas i know spellcasters are about,and i don't waste arrows, those dispelling ones are expensive)