Walkthroughs for custom maps.

Regarding the fact that you went through something similar to the third battle, I would be interested to see it. If it's not too much trouble, I wouldn't refuse a link.

It's been over 10 years, and there was a detailed discussion on a Chinese forum around that time.

Regarding the time spent on the battles. You guessed the first battle correctly.

I didn't guess; I just wrote how long it took me to successfully complete each of the battles. I'll add that for the first battle, I didn't look for a tactic; it was obvious right away. For the second battle, I spent half an hour, then read your message again, and when I saw that I could lose 1 Vampire, the solution came to me immediately.

It seems to me that without them, it will be either too difficult or completely impossible to overcome the established level of difficulty in the Heroes community, called hardcore.

I agree with you in the context of the work done to prepare the battles. Indeed, it's more interesting to play with minimal, but tactical, elements. However, I think the battles could be made a little shorter and easier; they would only benefit from it. In the first one, divide the stack size by 4; in the second, remove the attacking magic from the computer; it doesn't add complexity, but it greatly reduces the chances of implementing the tactic.