Please offer some advice.

CTPAHHuK, thank you very much! Yes, I messed up with the difficulty level, I started with the hardest one... :) I've read reports from different championships, and I have a rough idea of the pace, but it's hard to imagine the algorithms for difficult battles (like battles with neutral creatures of level 4 in the first week). I have a general idea of which creatures to recruit, which spells to look for, and which artifacts to find, but I'm stuck on how to fight – I'm being too cautious, and I'm still losing troops...:rolleyes: With whom should I fight the guards at the exit of the starting area and then the guards of the second castle on Iron Man mode (where, for example, there might be 20 ballistas or 20+ mages)? No one will survive there:(, and the heroes are still weak anyway... Okay, I'll look for videos of Barbarians and learn:smile01:!