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As promised, I played through the map twice: as a Warrior and as a Hero. Regarding the difficulty: as a Warrior, there was only one difficult battle (against Jessica); as a Hero, I can't adequately assess it, as things turned out rather strangely, as described below.
As a Warrior, the walkthrough went like this: I played focusing on fire arrows, and also took light and defense skills. Ter-Gelat came to me on his own; he has Berserk, so I only deployed dragons and used Holy Word to destroy his army (I killed the wolves with ballistae), losing 2 dragons. Then, I captured the Eastern Rampart, and Jessica appeared with a high threat level. For some reason, she refused to attack Kolger in the Castle, so I had to fight in the field. It was an interesting battle, but I only won on the second try thanks to runes and Vengeance. Then, I went on the offensive, easily captured two cities, and killed Vittorio. After that, I ran around the map, preparing for the battle with Kirdan: I gathered a dwarven set, obtained the hammer, and instead of machines, I chose darkness (I learned the spells from Lorik, who bought them in the library); I also fought Tashlak. I defeated Kirdan on the first try.
As a Hero, I took the same skills as the Warrior (fortunately, I got everything I wanted), and this time, Resurrection was available in the guild, but I bought Holy Word in the library. But from the moment Ter-Gelat appeared on my territory, something went wrong. He chased after my secondary hero, killed him, and then... captured the Eastern Rampart! During this time, I took the Fallen Belged from him and assembled such an army that he started running away from me. Eventually, the battle took place; the tactics were the same as with the Warrior, losing 3 dragons. Then, I took the Eastern Rampart from the green player and decided to move forward immediately. After capturing the first city, I saw Jessica with a large army, but she again didn't attack the Castle and ran towards my territory. I decided to continue the offensive. Jessica reached the Eastern Rampart and... just stopped, not moving any further. I avoided a confrontation with Vittorio (high threat level); he ran to Jessica, gave her his army, but she still remained standing. I defeated the other blue heroes and repeated my actions to prepare for the battle with Kirdan (this time, I didn't bother with Zoltan and Tashlak). In the end, I decided to kill Jessica after all, without any losses, with one unit of Jarls. I defeated Kirdan very easily: knowing that he has Vengeance, I tried not to attack him with my troops, but to inflict the main damage through Berserk and Subdue.
Overall impression: the scenario is interesting; I definitely enjoyed playing as a Warrior; the Hero is more memorable for the strange behavior of the AI. It's really an absurd situation, difficult to predict, and it's not your fault as the author. It reminded me of "Two Sisters, Rolf killed the Necromancer." Why do such stories happen to me?
The map's strengths for me:
1) The plot is detailed, and the cutscenes are well-made. I watched an interesting film about "love."
2) The map is memorable for its unusual ideas: the battle with Tashlak, the dwelling of wolves, new artifacts, the necromancer hero with runes, the dwarven Castle where you can hire undead (but both times I transformed it into a normal Castle).
Results in terms of the number of days: Warrior - 117, Hero - 156. Considering that the battle with Kirdan is quite easy with the right tactics, it can definitely be done much faster. I took the picture from the Hero walkthrough.
Thank you very much for the map!
Walkthrough
As a Warrior, the walkthrough went like this: I played focusing on fire arrows, and also took light and defense skills. Ter-Gelat came to me on his own; he has Berserk, so I only deployed dragons and used Holy Word to destroy his army (I killed the wolves with ballistae), losing 2 dragons. Then, I captured the Eastern Rampart, and Jessica appeared with a high threat level. For some reason, she refused to attack Kolger in the Castle, so I had to fight in the field. It was an interesting battle, but I only won on the second try thanks to runes and Vengeance. Then, I went on the offensive, easily captured two cities, and killed Vittorio. After that, I ran around the map, preparing for the battle with Kirdan: I gathered a dwarven set, obtained the hammer, and instead of machines, I chose darkness (I learned the spells from Lorik, who bought them in the library); I also fought Tashlak. I defeated Kirdan on the first try.
As a Hero, I took the same skills as the Warrior (fortunately, I got everything I wanted), and this time, Resurrection was available in the guild, but I bought Holy Word in the library. But from the moment Ter-Gelat appeared on my territory, something went wrong. He chased after my secondary hero, killed him, and then... captured the Eastern Rampart! During this time, I took the Fallen Belged from him and assembled such an army that he started running away from me. Eventually, the battle took place; the tactics were the same as with the Warrior, losing 3 dragons. Then, I took the Eastern Rampart from the green player and decided to move forward immediately. After capturing the first city, I saw Jessica with a large army, but she again didn't attack the Castle and ran towards my territory. I decided to continue the offensive. Jessica reached the Eastern Rampart and... just stopped, not moving any further. I avoided a confrontation with Vittorio (high threat level); he ran to Jessica, gave her his army, but she still remained standing. I defeated the other blue heroes and repeated my actions to prepare for the battle with Kirdan (this time, I didn't bother with Zoltan and Tashlak). In the end, I decided to kill Jessica after all, without any losses, with one unit of Jarls. I defeated Kirdan very easily: knowing that he has Vengeance, I tried not to attack him with my troops, but to inflict the main damage through Berserk and Subdue.
Overall impression: the scenario is interesting; I definitely enjoyed playing as a Warrior; the Hero is more memorable for the strange behavior of the AI. It's really an absurd situation, difficult to predict, and it's not your fault as the author. It reminded me of "Two Sisters, Rolf killed the Necromancer." Why do such stories happen to me?
The map's strengths for me:
1) The plot is detailed, and the cutscenes are well-made. I watched an interesting film about "love."
2) The map is memorable for its unusual ideas: the battle with Tashlak, the dwelling of wolves, new artifacts, the necromancer hero with runes, the dwarven Castle where you can hire undead (but both times I transformed it into a normal Castle).
Results in terms of the number of days: Warrior - 117, Hero - 156. Considering that the battle with Kirdan is quite easy with the right tactics, it can definitely be done much faster. I took the picture from the Hero walkthrough.
Thank you very much for the map!