Could you provide more details? How can I help the Druids? As far as I understand, the nearest Ent grove isn't involved. But if I need to go to another valley for the Ents, how will the Druids understand that the hero intends to help them and will they assist during the assault? By the way, the beginning is quite challenging. I watched Remix's playthrough, and it seems that you can indeed explore freely there. I didn't watch it for long, just in snippets, but in the stream, there was 1 Archangel in the city, while I have 3 of all types. There are almost no buildings in the city on my hero (even with very scarce resources), but in the stream, it's like you can just move in and live comfortably. And so on... I was lucky to find a way to deal with the Necromancer relatively early on – he mainly focused on raising the dead.