Arkkard
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Ugh, I finished playing the "Hammers of Fate" campaign with the EWA mod in Heroes. This mission, like the previous one, looks tough, but it's not that difficult in reality.
By sending out Ilay and Isabelle, I destroyed the "red siege forces" without any losses for Ilay. Where the Auto-Battle showed losses, I used 6 black dragons. And, of course, magic :D
After repelling the attack and seeing 5 heroes and a plan for the game ahead, I developed the following scheme:
Frida gets the entire human army, waits for 2 weeks (accumulating it in the capital), and runs to capture the red castle on the right.
Wulfsten, with his army of dwarves (which he doesn't mind losing), captures the red mines, each of which is guarded by a garrison. The troops aren't a big loss; the Auto-Battle will handle it.
Ilay runs down to the Demons and captures their cities. I got lucky, and I'll explain in more detail why.
I tried to defeat the demons the first time before repelling the Horncrest Siege, after reaching the surface and completing the "reach the city in a week" quest. Well, I reached it, the time ran out, and I could have even gone to do some errands :D
The main Demon (Marbas) was in the first castle, with a strong army. I managed to defeat him, but with losses (because there was a siege of the castle), and without an army, I wasn't particularly interested in continuing the game (I didn't know what would happen next), so I loaded an earlier save.
Now, after taking the Siege, Marbas was far away, and I captured the first demon castle (with symbolic losses, because I was too lazy to replay it on Auto-Battle - the dark elf army, as I thought, wouldn't be very useful later). And then Marbas arrived - but this time, I was in the castle. Besides Marbas, the Demon didn't have any other strong heroes, and, by creating a hero in the tavern, I captured all the mines with him, and brought Ilay up.
I left Isabelle in Horncrest; she was busy retraining monks into paladins.
Duncan was standing AFK somewhere on the side; he wasn't leveled up and was generally useless.
So, after capturing the demons, the second red castle, and all the mines, I built everything that hadn't been built in Horncrest, spent the rest of Ilay's army on breaking through the garrisons, and saw that Alaric had fled. Okay, I thought, and brought Ilay back home. After transferring the entire human army, I attacked the King of the Dwarves.
The battle was easy. I didn't have legions of troops, but I had 92 paladins, who, in essence, almost single-handedly won. They also tanked well and dealt a lot of damage. I also want to note the Archers - they cut down the archers and those whom the paladins didn't finish off. And Ilay, with his luck, killed a large part of the enemy army.
In the end, I had a huge army (Alaric should have stayed - I could have defeated him too :)), and regret that I won't see such a powerful Ilay again (or if I do, it will be in the next campaign, and he will be weak, without overpowered stats).