The ninth stage of the Kanigem Tournaments

1. Why didn't anyone level up the archer in his direct specialty? My archer had Shooting at level 5 and passed the Nightmares easily, didn't even pick up fields.

There can be many tactics, but we come to the conclusion that there is little meat and leveling on respawn. Therefore, it's easier to level up useful specialties for several heroes to level 3 than for one or two to level 5. You, knowing roughly how the map was completed in 7(6), and assuming it could be done in 6(5), can you claim that the option with leveling the archer can complete the walkthrough of this map in the same timeframe?

2 IronAxe - why did you also take Scouting

Well, I only took it for one hero, I think. Firstly, it was given for free in a hut; secondly, based on movement for that turn, the hero managed everything, so I didn't mind spending a couple of movement points to step on the hut. Considering the points, this can affect the points given for the percentage of map territory revealed.

3 Is there any calculation that a hero (heroes or with a certain army) can defeat specific neutrals?

These same questions always torment me while playing. Sometimes I rely heavily on life experience and intuition, but there's nothing better than Scouting. And with Scouting, it's a real pain. That is, you need to somehow simulate such a battle. One option is to use cheat codes to get to the unit whose battle interests you. Look at the leveling and skills you acquired in battles before that unit. Then, quickly whip up a map in the editor for the battle of your hero against that unit. Now, in the editor, you can add/remove some troops, artifacts, and potions to check what you might roughly need in reality for a clean walkthrough for such a battle.

Or it's just life experience. Sometimes you fight some group and after about two hours realize that you were short of a "0.5 liter" healing potion or simply didn't have enough magic.

Ah, that's also a joke :) I described how I almost messed up with the Regenerator who had 0 mana left and couldn't push further, but there's no time to replay :) You also get an adrenaline rush in such a situation :) solving the problem of how to get out of such a situation without replaying. This time I was lucky with a Slow potion. Sometimes this is solved by spending minerals and money; for example, if not Slow from the Barbarian, then I probably would have had to try to build an arsenal to buy potions of Immortality. But I could have taken those potions in advance, right? :) I miscalculated :(

PS IronAxe. Can you give me a save before the battle with the Nightmares?

Let me send two or three saves:
1. before the attack
2. roughly the start of the battle - also check if from the save before the attack you get exactly the same field as I did???
3. a save from the middle of the battle - well, when the third group of Nightmares is already charging.
Wait, they're coming.

Anyway, here I found three saves, but there are nuances:

1. What's good about a save before the attack? When I pick up a field with an external dwelling, I don't pay attention to the positioning of my troops. Let's say I liked the field. But now I see that with this positioning of my troops, I still can't win. What to do? I need to load the save before the attack, rearrange the troops as needed, and immediately attack that point on the map without making additional save-loads, then you'll get the landscape of the same battlefield, but the troops will be rearranged. This works almost always.
2. List of saves:
d_04_03_Koni_X7.h4s - before the attack
d_04_03_Koni_X7_b01.h4s - start of battle with correct positioning
d_04_03_Koni_X7_b33_С.h4s - control save (one Nightmare group killed, out of the second group only one horse has been killed so far).
3. Rename the archive Koshmar.zip to Koshmar.7z and extract it with the appropriate archiver.