Haven – "Everything is mixed up, truth and falsehood" [Campaign 3 – Mission 2]

Help me with the walkthrough for mission 2. I can't seem to complete it, no matter what I try.
I completed the Necropolis campaign without any problems, but here, in the second mission, I'm completely stuck.
The problem is this: by the end of the first week, I capture the Necromancer's Castle, and by the middle of the second week, I capture the first Castle of the Order faction, located just across the river. And that's where the problems start: I can't get past the two bridges – either enemy heroes attack (and the first one attacks just two days after I capture their castle), so I'm constantly fighting them off, or the main objectives always have the "deadly" status (their troops grow rapidly).
I'm playing on the normal difficulty level.
Thank you in advance.

I'm also playing on the normal difficulty level; I tried to clear the controlled territory without losses, and of course, I saved before each battle :smile43:. As soon as I headed towards George, we had a serious conversation, and he soon freed his castle for Anton. Immediately after that, the paths across the river and down into the Dungeon opened up.
I decided to go down; there's weak undead down there. I just went down to take a closer look, and from above, towards my second castle, the former ally of George, who fought with him in the first mission, also weak, rushed in.
I want to eliminate the undead from the lower castle and then deal with the neighbor :smile10:.

The undead turned out to be level 12, and Anton was level 10, but we managed to capture the fortress from her with Anton! I leveled him up to 11; he's now a Paladin! We went up with him to our castle, the former castle of George; the neighbor has a low level, but if we stay in the castle, we'll defend ourselves, and we'll also take back the second castle across the river.

I replayed it – I first defeated the neighbor, built a "raising" structure in the first castle, and captured the second castle without any losses! I decided that this is better, especially since the undead lady is sitting in her castle below, and the neighbors are always trying to capture territory. I'm going to take the neighbor's castle.

Regarding the "raising" structures – I built them in both castles just in case, but I never used them! Thank you for mentioning "Reinforcement" in time – it helped a lot; about 50 extra archers dealt with the griffins, not giving them a chance to attack!