I don't remember exactly how it went the first time, but the second time it was like this:
1. Wolf runs around and explores the map near the city, Duncan – between 2 garrisons.
2. Laslo arrives, but the artifact hasn't been found yet, and the army can't get any smaller. Well, I thought, I'll have to replay, but I tried to distract Laslo from the castle with Duncan. There's a convenient loop to the west, remember? So, Laslo, ignoring the city, Wolf, and the imminent victory, rushes after Duncan! :smile03: I run away from him with the more mobile Duncan along this very loop, and Laslo, the idiot, doesn't even think to turn around. And while he's doing that, I dig up the artifact...
3. Laslo is still playing tag, and Wolf is already near the human cities. He captured Horncrest and the other city (I don't remember the name), but then Laslo finally understood the situation and rushed to the dwarf city. But it was still too late, because Horncrest had a portal to another city, so Wolf was still faster.
4. I shamefully lost the big final battle in the besieged city in the auto-battle, but in reality, defeating Laslo using runes turned out to be as easy as taking a candy from a baby (although the battle was quite long). The guy had nowhere to run, so he didn't appear a second time. Mission accomplished! :smile44: