So, I finally beat map 3. I cried and suffered, but the experience from the previous two maps suggested that there should be a way out. When I lost faith, I would open Nicksan's stream; without looking at the build or anything else, I would just fast-forward through the battle, see that it was actually possible, and try again. My first defeat came from Godrick; the infantry got stuck and killed Yarl. But that was just carelessness; who knew he had 15 attack, 15, for crying out loud! We played more carefully and won. A pretty good start, light/summoning, I even thought about going to the center, but I didn't know that capturing the left town would aggro a nice hero from the humans, so I quickly captured it (more towns, more warriors!), but in reality, more towns meant more problems. Restart. We clear everything, ignoring the town; undead attack. I think, "easy opponent, the vampires aren't leveled up, the dragons either, SALABON, COME HERE." He casts Berserk = exit to Windows. I realized that you can't fight in the castle; with his mana and Berserk, a prolonged battle is in his favor + I was having flashbacks from Giovanni, I was afraid to exchange armies, I thought he would come in half a day with a pack of x3 units. I cried, I suffered, restart. I cleared everything with one Yarl, I remembered all the skills I acquired in the Railag scenario (RUN, FURY, RUN). The undead attacked, killing, killing, killing. Our scientists developed a tactic: "the galaxy." I aggroed the undead with my twins towards the left castle, and I ran with my hero and captured his castle, after which I chased him back and forth for two or three weeks (hoping he would disappear after a week without a castle, but not really, I already understood that you're a pain in the ass). Then I just beat him with brute force; he doesn't even cast Berserk because I destroy packs in the first few turns, and he naively resurrects them. We gather an army, we gather, a hundred Erls! It's time to give that nice guy a taste of his own medicine; we capture the left castle, we run at him, we meet 450 horses, we cry, we load, we get upset. I won't lie here; I looked at the stream again. There, the guy just ran past her, and she didn't catch him, moving only 4 squares on the map instead of 30 (WHY IS THAT? Streamer favoritism, obviously...). I naively tried the same trick and got my ass kicked. I turned to our scientists again; according to old blueprints, I aggroed the nice guy towards the central castle, and I slipped through from the left, capturing 2 human castles, while the woman captured my farthest castle (why she didn't like her starting castle is a mystery). I ran to the last boss, because I didn't find an army anywhere, I thought it would be big. I met 2 heroes from the Alliance; with medium difficulty, he just passed by! "What a fool!" I thought, but he knew the truth...
*At the psychologist's office*
-The numbers 40, 45, 40, 40 can't mean death.
-Numbers: Can.
What are the stats of the final boss; it's just crazy, I fought him 15 times, and nothing helped (my hero was level 25, and I didn't collect all the artifacts from the map, I just ran). The option of gathering an army for another 456789 weeks depressed me; I thought I would watch a YouTube walkthrough and calm down. I started it two hours later. Our gnomes found the most ancient and great rune, which contained the wisdom of the ages. "Level up Subdue, you idiot, and it's an easy win." And the puzzle came together. I have a Necromancer, level 28, right near the spell shop, where Subdue and Berserk are sold. I did that dirty trick again. The Necromancer's path #2. I beat the woman in defense, then Vittorio, then I cleared the whole map because blue is AFK, I gathered 300 Erls, 100 dragons, legions of bears, I took Subdue, and I went to kill the king; the battle was long, with his armor, but not difficult. How you tired me out, author, these days, it's just awful. Nicksan was cursing and whining on the stream, and I understand him; it's just a bunch of absurdity that, after overcoming it, seems like a shell. You're a good guy, but I'm sending you to the bathhouse, 8/10 because I don't like gnomes; these guys don't have normal archers; how are they supposed to live? Anyway, Subdue solved the problem again; without it, I probably wouldn't have even passed it, spending half an hour picking off horses behind walls, that's just awful. But with Subdue, 4-5 resurrections from summoning, and the guys have 1-11 HP. By the way, I've never seen anyone abuse resurrection on enemies to reduce their HP; am I a genius, or is it just stupidity? Or am I just not watching enough...
