Magnificent
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I completed this scenario on Hero difficulty.
Enemy heroes (demons, necromancers, warlocks) were roaming the map, but only the resurrected Ravenna dared to attack the castle (an easy battle, losses: 1 militia, 2 archers, 7 pikemen); the others were afraid. Alaric's skills: Light, Darkness, attack, defense, education. Later, I replaced attack with logistics. On the 52nd day, Alaric learned the portal spell to the city; now, I could move away from the starting city, but I often returned. I couldn't find vampirism, regeneration, or resurrection
. Because of this, I had to choose the strategy of "not rushing anywhere and accumulating archangels."
All enemy heroes had very low or low difficulty. There were sometimes losses, but the troop increase was much greater. I lost archangels only against Grok (1) and Sorgalla (4). I spent a lot of time chasing enemies, capturing cities, having them taken away, and recapturing them. I killed Ishkibal for the first time on the 95th day (very low difficulty, no losses); after that, I always agreed to an autobattle against him: the losses were insignificant, and manually, there was an unpleasant script. On the 138th day, I defeated all active enemies.
Then, I roamed the map and finally found regeneration (if I had known earlier...) and resurrection. I removed logistics from the mentor and took leadership. The astrologer's guard joined Alaric (109 bone dragons). I defeated Deidre without losses and learned vampirism. Next, I need to defeat Naadir. Because of what will happen to Alaric after the battle (the scenario is so well-known that I already knew about it), there is a funny situation where it is more advantageous for us to lose more troops, and for winning with minimal losses, the author will punish us
. The battle is easy to win, but it takes a lot of time to kill your own troops. Obviously, this is done by raising them, but there, the counterspell often triggered. In the end, I won against Naadir, remaining with only one squad of inquisitors. The next battle is a very easy victory without losses; the scenario was completed in 222 days.
For me, this scenario turned out to be not difficult. In the first month, it was important to play correctly on the strategic map, but after that, there were no problems. The final part of the scenario is more time-consuming than difficult, if you know the rules of the game in advance. If I hadn't known them, I probably would have had to replay the battle with Naadir once.
Walkthrough
The start wasn't very good: on the eighth day, Ishkibal appeared with medium difficulty, and a week of festivals was announced. I distracted Ishkibal with an additional hero, but on the 15th day, he approached the city; if Alaric stays there, he attacks. I gave him the city, retreated a bit, Ishkibal ran away in another direction, and on the 18th day, I retook the city. On the fourth week, Ishkibal and Ravenna were already near the city, both with medium difficulty. I killed Ravenna in the field (losses: 3 militia, 1 archer, 31 pikemen), and Ishkibal didn't attack and ran away somewhere.Enemy heroes (demons, necromancers, warlocks) were roaming the map, but only the resurrected Ravenna dared to attack the castle (an easy battle, losses: 1 militia, 2 archers, 7 pikemen); the others were afraid. Alaric's skills: Light, Darkness, attack, defense, education. Later, I replaced attack with logistics. On the 52nd day, Alaric learned the portal spell to the city; now, I could move away from the starting city, but I often returned. I couldn't find vampirism, regeneration, or resurrection
. Because of this, I had to choose the strategy of "not rushing anywhere and accumulating archangels." All enemy heroes had very low or low difficulty. There were sometimes losses, but the troop increase was much greater. I lost archangels only against Grok (1) and Sorgalla (4). I spent a lot of time chasing enemies, capturing cities, having them taken away, and recapturing them. I killed Ishkibal for the first time on the 95th day (very low difficulty, no losses); after that, I always agreed to an autobattle against him: the losses were insignificant, and manually, there was an unpleasant script. On the 138th day, I defeated all active enemies.
Then, I roamed the map and finally found regeneration (if I had known earlier...) and resurrection. I removed logistics from the mentor and took leadership. The astrologer's guard joined Alaric (109 bone dragons). I defeated Deidre without losses and learned vampirism. Next, I need to defeat Naadir. Because of what will happen to Alaric after the battle (the scenario is so well-known that I already knew about it), there is a funny situation where it is more advantageous for us to lose more troops, and for winning with minimal losses, the author will punish us
. The battle is easy to win, but it takes a lot of time to kill your own troops. Obviously, this is done by raising them, but there, the counterspell often triggered. In the end, I won against Naadir, remaining with only one squad of inquisitors. The next battle is a very easy victory without losses; the scenario was completed in 222 days.For me, this scenario turned out to be not difficult. In the first month, it was important to play correctly on the strategic map, but after that, there were no problems. The final part of the scenario is more time-consuming than difficult, if you know the rules of the game in advance. If I hadn't known them, I probably would have had to replay the battle with Naadir once.
Of the things I liked most about the scenario, I can note the interesting scripts, the well-designed map, and the beautiful cutscenes.
Thank you very much for the map!
