Challenge maps

The essence of the battle boils down to keeping the bottom row of lizards in check.

You need to maneuver around the battlefield while the lizards' ammunition lasts, and then position yourself under the bottom lizard. This becomes clear immediately after determining the damage dealt by its units. I couldn't think of any other options. The main difficulty is how to execute this. :confused:

but the path to this moment differs from both mine,

It's an ingenious strategy; I wouldn't have come up with such a complex plan. :smile07: If my bottom lizard started moving somewhere, I would have lost my mind. I was carefully timing my movements so that I could reach it just as its ammunition runs out and it hasn't moved far. This way, it can immediately return and block the gnoll. If I also had to move around the battlefield for it to get into position, I would probably have given up.
When I played with 2 gnolls, I reached the end one round later, and then the bottom lizard would move up, and the top one would move down accordingly. As a result, the top lizard would block me, but that, of course, was useless.

and from the author's version.

I completely disregard all the author's ideas. At some point, I even thought that the author's idea was to figure out how to remove the spirit of despondency (hello, Tazik) and complete the battle based on morale. I was even about to throw a tantrum, thinking that the author was forcing morale to be randomized. :D

But overall, you're making great progress, comrade!

No, that's enough for now. Out of pure curiosity, I tried this Pandora's box, but I need to take a break from Heroes for a while.

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scars of reality, Your initial moves are similar to Marlo's; he also started by maneuvering at the bottom.

I don't know what "maneuvering" means, but this is the only way I can get the gnolls to gather in a group. Even if you move one cell higher, they start to scatter in different directions in the second round.