What was your first castle in Heroes 3?

I played as Rampart for the first time. And after that, I kept choosing it as my starting faction for a long time. It's a very positive faction! :) I "took a risk" and immediately started playing on the second difficulty level, i.e., on "expert." Then, gradually, I switched to "hard" and thought that was the limit of my dreams. I never even thought about "impossible"... :)

But over time, the computer started playing more and more stupidly... :D And then the game was forgotten for a long time. And I returned to it as if it were chess - the interest lies not in the gameplay itself, which takes up too much time, but in the "post-mortem analysis" and calculating the optimal line of behavior based on a random starting point.

As a result, a decision was made to bring all the discovered dependencies together... :)