MrMishania
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I completed the mission right away, or rather, I'll be honest, on the second week I realized I had started incorrectly and restarted because I saw an unclaimed Castle nearby. And then a purple player came at me with deadly force. After restarting, I immediately captured the Castle and continued playing. This mission is the most interesting and challenging of the first ones! So far, I've only completed the second mission with Necropolis; I haven't played with other factions. I'm curious, were there any players who managed to gather a large number of dogs by the end of the game? I realized my mistakes, and I'm sure I could complete it easily the second time, but this is the only faction where I couldn't accumulate a specific type of unit (dogs) and didn't feel like a god on the map. I didn't bother with many of the neutral creatures. I especially regretted it when I attacked a Necropolis, where vampirism doesn't work. In my opinion, it's the weakest faction, but I still want to play with them again, find the best upgrade path, and replay the mission as a mage. If anyone doesn't know how to complete it, it's simple. First, capture a Castle, don't waste units on neutral creatures that guard not very useful things and aren't much weaker. Build up your army, gather gold, not experience, or a 50/50 split. And then go and conquer a Castle on any edge of the map. I first attacked the purple player, not caring about my first Castles. The most important thing at the beginning is to build up your army. And then, I went back and attacked the orange player, retaking my Castles along the way. But I lost a lot of troops. And at the very end, when I arrived at the last Castle, I was simply amazed. I didn't attack; I retreated to a fort. The entire map was mine. I just fast-forwarded about 5 weeks and then went to attack. As for the boss, it's simple: I lost the first time and replayed it more strategically. Run away from the dogs and lure them onto your own units. Deal additional damage to each of them once; it will last throughout the battle, and then run away. The hero will respond with attacks, so you don't need to attack anyone directly. Run away and cast a mass fire attack and lure the dogs. The skills are not in the spellbook but are his own, like the healing skill of witches, etc.