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I played on Veteran.
What can I say... The first time I played through the map, it gave me negative emotions. I didn't know how to get gold, I didn't know which faction to side with, and I found it difficult to adapt to the enemy armies being tailored to the size of mine. Somewhere after the fourth quest from the Dwarves, I realized that there was no point in continuing.
From the second time I played through the map, everything went smoothly because I already knew what tactics to use.
I chose the Forest Archers. I invested all my gold in them, and it paid off 100%. In the first playthrough, I tried using Spearman, but their 4 attacks compared to the Elves' 16 just didn't measure up. That was my mistake, which is why I had to replay.
The map is very difficult. I had to replay many battles several times. But everything is done with heart. The variety of quests is amazing. I got a huge amount of pleasure from the game.
The ending was a little confusing. I only found out that you couldn't sell the Shackles of Fate after I got the defeat message and decided to watch the Remix video. But it's not necessary to cheat and add this artifact to yourself in the console...
At the moment when Biara runs to the artifact, you can catch her with a quick press of the Bear button and attack her. And then it's just a matter of the right battle tactics.
Thank you very much to the map author!