After reading many walkthrough posts, I decided to create a new thread with the tentative title: "Simple Answers to Difficult Questions." Let me explain. Most often, when someone asks a question about completing a mission or scenario, they receive an answer along the lines of, "Well, why are you worrying? I completed this mission in 10 minutes, easy." Or they answer in a special hero jargon that I don't always understand. I've only been playing the fifth game for two months (before that, I played the third and fourth), but I don't seem to grasp many things. Here are a couple of "difficult" questions as an example: 1. How do you conquer mines, without which you can't build anything in your castle, if the neutrals guarding them stand their ground? Seriously, in the fourth game, a newly created hero with 3-4 units could take mines, but in the fifth game, I have to spend three weeks building up an army just to conquer a lumber mill. 2. How does the opponent (AI) manage to accumulate a specific army, including black dragons, titans, and even pit lords, in the same 2-3 weeks and attack me with overwhelming force across the entire map, as if they had a vision that I was sitting there waiting for them? Do they not need to reveal the map? And I, exhausted from fighting for mines, can't fight back. These are the kinds of questions I have. If any of the veterans condescend to answer these questions, please do so in a clear and understandable way. Because I only recently learned that the "squares where troops are stationed" are called slots. At the same time, we can decipher this jargon for beginners. If it's not too much trouble. :) :rolleyes: