Four Lakes

A Dragon King was also attached in the center of the map; for 20000 and 8 gems, he would have served you faithfully, but as practice showed, it was possible to finish the game quickly without him.

:) That's funny - I didn't notice that 8 gems were also needed for him. And I had barely scraped together 20000. Simply put, in my walkthrough, if I had bought the Dragon, I probably wouldn't have had to give two chaos dweller graves to the Grove hero who was heading to the last fortress where the Gargantuas were. But it seems that wouldn't have improved my result anyway - it just might have been less of a hassle. Then, in reality, I got a bit lucky. I couldn't beat the last AI with the Grove hero. I used a trick. The Grove hero was moving on fairies accelerated in the stable (which he summoned himself during the turn transition). After the fairies visited the stable and are moving with the Grove hero
you need to make sure that during the turn transition he doesn't summon fairies, but summons wolves, which can simply be discarded/dismissed. Otherwise, a summoned non-accelerated fairy will merge into one slot with the one accelerated in the stable, and the fairies' move points will align with the one that is not accelerated. Then the walkthrough time will increase by 1-2 days. So
I gave the Grove hero two chaos dweller graves, and upon approaching the fortress, the Grove hero hid in a sulfur mine. Otherwise, the last AI's heroes would have set up a defense in the fortress and I wouldn't have taken it for the life of me :) But it seems that precisely because I hid in the mine, the stupid AI with all his shaman came out and moved away from the fortress. On the next turn, my Grove hero came out of the mine, reached the empty fortress, resurrected two chaos dwellers there, bought another Grove hero with fairy summoning, and they, gathering all available units, came out and crushed the last opponent, whose main forces consisted of 2 Grove heroes (one of whom was powerful) and 3 Gargantuas. The essence of the battle - never let the gargantuas shoot. For this, both of our chaos dwellers have blindness magic, the Grove hero has fairy summon to block the shooters, and there were a couple of natural fairies. That was enough. The mushumba was scary :)

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Can you show your walkthrough in movies :rolleyes:

Definitely. I just think it's easier than writing a detailed walkthrough. That way, anyone interested can watch the movies having saves from the end of each turn and, if necessary, ask specific questions about where and what they don't understand about how it was passed or how a battle was won. Let's discuss where to upload the saves. I think last time there were problems here with the saves from the 4th stage of the Kanigem Tournament, and I posted them on some file exchange whose address I've forgotten. Maybe someone can suggest where it's better to put the saves.
Imho, the hardest battle was for the Evil Eye spawning ground. It was defended by Black Horses and Minotaurs. I lost three fairies there, I think, not counting the summoned ones. By the way, the battle was not from the loop series.
And at the initial stage, the Grove hero bought in the fortress with fairy summon was greatly helped by the Ring of Speed artifact, to win tedious long battles with summoned fairies. From the prisons, a female chaos hero was chosen as an assistant to the main hero.
PS. Thanks to the organizers for holding the tournament!

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Dear SandroXXL, IronAxe, may I suggest that you test my map and evaluate it? The goal is simple at first - choose a hero and survive. And then try to win.

You can send the map to me at BigAxes@rambler.ru As for how quickly and when I'll test it - that's a question depending on actual free time.

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Can you show your walkthrough in movies :rolleyes:

You've bugged me a little. Did you use the tavern in the center of the map, which the dwarves guarded, AND the resurrection point near the Dragon King quest in your walkthrough? I don't think you did? Further, I saw three paths - this hero buys the Dragon King and deals with the last opponent himself with a bunch of bottles and artifacts, or he is given two chaos dweller graves, but as I already said, you need to be lucky here and the opponent must leave the fortress undefended. The third path is via the bridge and entering the gargantua spawning ground. You could hire one there. But this third path is the least preferable because one gargantua was not enough for this hero to defeat the last opponent, imho.