Please offer some advice.

I've been hooked on Heroes 4 lately, but I'm only playing single-player and I'm really bad at it... I can't seem to manage battles at all:(. I'm trying to play maps for online duels - it's brutal, my brain is just fried:smile04:, how can anyone play those?:eek: Is something like Plains of Despair 1.6 a playable map:confused:? There, 2 paths are blocked by neutral heroes with armies of 20-49 level 4 creatures, i.e., taking them down will be harder than in offline mode:smile32:. And yet, with a starting army, for example, playing as a Barbarian, half of the army is wiped out on the very first mine with the weakest guard - and what then, the heroes haven't even leveled up at all?!... In general, the moral of the story is: you need to create several Water Elementals, even just a couple, if someone experienced isn't too lazy to do so... Please:)! P.S. And in Iron Man mode, everyone gets some kind of gloves on the second day, while I don't even see them:D... That's what being a noob is all about!..:rolleyes:

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And in general, I have a lot of questions:
1. How to develop properly, because the rules of the third game definitely don't apply here?
2. What are the Expert and Advanced difficulty levels - maximum and pre-maximum? In my version, they seem to be called Champion and Magister...
3. When starting with "no money," do you really have to have the heroes collect chests in a zigzag pattern (as I understand from the reports)?:confused: :eek: and where to get the bare minimum for the first buildings to clear the guards and treasure chests? and why waste movement points like that?
4. Is Necromancy (collecting skeletons) completely useless here - :smile18:? Is it not at all like in the third game?
5. How do you even play as this Barbarian?:D without magic...
6. Does it make sense to buy various potions/armor in the first 1-2 weeks if you're short on money - and what should you buy first?

And there are many more - these are just the ones I remembered right away...