Demon invasion.

I won the second game at the end of the 6th month (stats) - after such a successful start, Nimues continued to crush everyone, and as a result, battles with the reds turned into something like this - . So, I managed to keep all the cities, and most of the troops were sent to Sigrif, who by the 4th month had dealt with the demons in Shio. The battle with Kha-Beleth wasn't particularly difficult either; I won on the first try without much effort - . Then I struggled a bit with Faidaen - I couldn't complete a single decent attempt without losing half my army and having to retreat archers, but Duncan was defeated with 1.5k gate-enhanced dogs)). I won the third game in 2.5 months - it required a lot of effort (stats). Standard leveling up through Devil's Strike was supplemented with navigation - as a result, I was able to save a couple of days on sailing, and on the 3rd week, I reached the purple territory, took both castles, and managed to distract Krag from his castle with a second hero. Sigrif barely escaped in the last moment and bought himself out in his home castle. I defeated Krag with Tilshek, then with great difficulty (the BDP stubbornly wouldn't let me), I defeated the orange Argath with one and a half hundred warmongers, and then Haggesh. I got some good artifacts, and Grobok with a small army was already approaching, but I couldn't win against him even in the castle - the AI was acting almost perfectly, constantly reinforcing the wyverns, which were destroying everyone outside the walls. In principle, they would have been defeated by a couple of hitranians, but there wasn't much time. I thought about breaking through to the brown territory using old blueprints, but I checked the map and noticed that titans were stationed on the portal to the purple territory - so that wasn't an option. I decided to go another way - I got a berserk in the guild, and I went back to the purple territory, took back its cities, defeating several orange orcs, and headed to the garrison in the orange territory. There, I got lucky - in the underground, I took the Lion Cloak from the devils, and the crown and collar had dropped from the orcs earlier - the garrison managed to carry them on the berserk and empathy:. Then I summoned some troops from the orcish castles and took all the cities of the orange territory, and with that, the existence of Grobok and his guys was over. And all that remained was to reach the brown territory; Haggesh had a solid army, but with attacking artifacts and Sigrif's buffs and spells, he had 20+ attack, so she was also destroyed.

colleagues, is it worth giving artifacts on the 2nd map? (you can hide it under a spoiler). And also, what is the point of the quest "don't give away 1 artifact"?

I didn't give the artifacts to the jinn; the reward is useless there, and losing the gnome's boots and hat is not ideal. And I didn't give anything to the mage either; it's impossible without the jinn