Four Lakes

Initially, I chose the wrong hero in the Castle, but with the new possibilities I've seen, I could probably improve my result by 1 day, maybe 2, but that would be harder.

And who did you choose? As you saw, I took Mayveda in the Dungeon, and in the Fortress, I bought a Nature hero. Why? Because many combat tactics are based on the idea that one Chaos hero blinds, and the second blasts from a flamethrower. The Nature hero has the summon fairies magic, and he also summons actual fairies into his army during the turn transition, which can be split up one by one if he summons more than one. That's why he can handle the slow units alone. And if he acts together with the Chaos heroes, the fairies can be used to block not only the ranged units but also the monsters attacking the Chaos heroes. In other words, there's plenty of room for maneuver :) In a worst-case scenario (the absolute worst), you can cast a couple of blinds per round, summon fairies, and fly them forward in front of the monsters so they don't make a full move toward the heroes — they won't bypass the fairies; they'll attack them and lose their turn. Plus, there are still single fairies and 4 Goblins on the heroes' defense :) Practically all the most difficult battles were built on this scheme; this includes the guard of the Evil Eye spawn and the final battle against 2 Nature heroes who had 3 Gargantuas in their army and other miscellaneous riff-raff :) However, there were two other difficult battles — specifically when, after the Evil Eye spawn, I had to split the heroes into two squads. Two Chaos heroes went for the Order fortress, and the Nature hero went to the Life fortress alone. On the way, they had to discard the Evil Eyes taken from the spawn from their armies, because they slowed down the progression of the heroes who were riding fairies. For this very reason, the Nature hero didn't buy catapults for his army, although I think I placed a flag at the spawn for them, just in case I didn't have to replay later — I thought if I couldn't manage to take the fortress, I'd have to bring the artillery to the fortress manually. But thank god there were enough bottles :) Leshy, when you were watching the movie, did you press pause before and after the attack on this fortress? You can check out of curiosity how many bubbles and mana I spent on this battle, though there was more than enough mana. By the way, in this battle, the Nature hero DIED!! But before death, he managed to summon Fairies several times. And one real living one was also running around there; it wasn't hit. But I think that even without it, the fortress would probably have surrendered to the grave ??? I should check. By that time, all the enemies' arrows had run out. And the remaining enemies were finished off by the summoned fairies. Therefore, the battle was won. And the fortress became mine — because it revived the hero. This is a feature — units with a grave in their pocket CAN capture an enemy fortress, and the grave comes back to life. And the two Chaos heroes had to struggle a bit to take the Nature fortress.

By the way, this might not be significant, but with the Wizard Mayveda, on the first day, I beat the berserkers at the wood mine :o

Well, didn't I destroy the berserkers at the wood mine on the first day too? Only, as I recall, the Nature hero took them out with Fairies DURING the turn transition from 1 to 2. That is, the Nature hero positioned himself at the end of the 1st turn so that the berserkers attacked him themselves.

I have a question for IronAxe. Is it possible to look at the saves from the start of the battles when capturing castles and the approximate tactics? I just can't wrap my head around how You wiped them out.:smile34:

Yeah :) , I understand you. I think we should stick to those 4 battles I mentioned (including the fortresses) — they are the most difficult and they aren't repetitive — so I have plenty of saves from them, unlike battles where I was wiping out the Glade, Trolls, or other slow units with Fairies (I'll report on those regardless — but does anyone actually need those battles?). I'll provide saves for the start of each of the 4 battles mentioned above. Try to fight until Victory. Maybe you can win some, then they'll be filtered out. And then we'll see which battles need more saves, or maybe I'll draw the sequence of actions in pictures and provide a description. In short, for now, I'll prepare the saves for the start of each of the 4 battles and post them in the same format as the saves for the end of each day. I'll post the link here once I'm done.

P.S. Congratulations on a well-deserved victory:smile49: :smile49: :smile49:

Thanks. Seems like no one is asking anything else. That means everything is clear :) And thank god for that :)