The idea with Arcomage is not bad, however, and this can be bypassed, because our phoenix goes first, and we can manage to cast something to kill that phoenix, but if you give a firebird or even a fire elemental, then that's fine, but you can still come up with different things - starting from redeeming Thorgrim and leveling him up, ending with a simple resistance of 15%, and there is a high probability that one unit will survive, and then acceleration, prayer, etc., and the enemy's phoenix will die. Therefore, it is necessary to disable the ability to learn resistance, disable all heroes with resistance, or remove their resistance in the hero settings.
The only hero with a boat summon is Gem among the elves.
An alternative trick is to take Mullich, give him a cloak of speed - it will be exactly 21 speed for rusty dragons, like for phoenixes ))) therefore, this should also be excluded.
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