Tactics for the Castle.

He concluded that the only cool thing about Castle is Archangels. It's also nice to quickly run around stables in the second week, but there are plenty of downsides. So, without Archangels, blue Castle is roughly on par with red Inferno, or even weaker.

That's unfair, Pash, you're wrong... Castle with a starting Val'ka, I think, on SOD (смке), blue should dominate Inferno. I don't really like him myself, Ramp seems nicer – not so dependent on wood, and with two strike stacks from the start, plus with speed boost for horses at least 6 speed. But in one game, I only once managed to easily take a fat tree at the start of week 2 (after minimal cons) exactly as Castle – I'm still a noob in that regard:D. Strangely enough, Val'ka and similar heroes get mostly the right and proper skills:) – Orrin all 3 times when he was my main in online games took Logistics as first level-up. Archangels – no comments, horses are great 6th-level units, also Crusaders are magnificent, and Marksmen in terms of usefulness in the first 1-2 weeks are definitely among the top 10 units of all towns – hordes of walkers up to 5th level are actually wiped out by them alone:cool: .

I once messed around in single player with the infinite movement cheat - started all random on 8mm6, got some Castle mage, minimal archers, their external dwelling was found, but not immediately, took Yog the Barbarian from the tavern as my main; killed the built-in computer fairly easily, and then until the end of the first week without adding cheated troops, purely from map resources - ate almost all of it on week 1, ultimately taking a small Dragon Utopia on day 116 or 117 with minimal losses, and before that there was a dwelling-3 with mass oil - without losses (there was already 1 Angel), 50 upgraded demons without oil and without Angel, 2 horses + the rest (Marksmen and small fry) - without losses, 78+16 upgraded eyes (expert Tactics) with an army of about 28 Marksmen, 2 horses, a bunch of pokemons (around 40), 1 Angel, 3 Pegasi from the external dwelling and some other small fry, maybe swords - lost only the extra Pegasi:eek: , I was just amazed by the combat capabilities of the native Castle army!!

Oh, and by the way, I noticed a small quirk about blue Castle: it always has external dwellings (at least those I've seen, blue Castles) - at least 2nd or 1 + a bunch of cons (trees). I can't figure out why this is, apparently Vikk did research on colors, but for me regardless of whether I play as it or against it, it's consistently been that way:confused: .