2 VladL
Don't worry so much. Remember your own experience. Do you recall those unpleasant ranged units standing between the mountains, and you had to wait until the fourth week to break through, and even then, you had to use angels to defeat them? Here, many people play online, and if you don't clear the paths to adjacent zones, the opponent will do it themselves and become very strong, eventually winning. So, to defeat these strong ranged units, you really need a good strategy. There are, of course, other methods, which you undoubtedly know: using quick combat, or a powerful army consisting of 5 Gogs from Octavia, etc. And Valeska is a good hero, especially for the start, no one disputes that.