Tactics for the Swamp (Fortress).

Leader1, Thank you for your answers. Regarding the excellent resource location, what about the money? The stash of artifacts is far away and well-guarded. Two hives are good, but again, there's no gold around. So, even if I successfully raid the hives, I won't be able to buy troops from the castle before the opponent arrives (the opponent has 14 cats, 2 angels, and 100 gr of traglads at the time of the invasion). But what about the hive guards? While I can ram through the mummy horde with minimal losses, the fly horde at the second hive would severely deplete my troops. Moreover, if the hives are at maximum level, it's a loss, and if they're at minimum level, it's also a loss because time is wasted, and no gold is gained since the land is extremely poor. I emphasize that there are only 2 or 3 small gold piles as free loot on the secondary map. Therefore, I decided to go to the neighboring treasure. I cleared the guard, but the treasure is just as poor; everything valuable is too heavily guarded, and there's no easy loot to be found. There isn't even enough money to hire scouts, so I had to scout it with my main heroes. The crypts on the swamp were minimal, meaning they didn't bring in much income. If the opponent's passage through the water elementals was justified, did I have the right to rush through them in the first week? Yes, I still couldn't decide on the main hero. Initially, it was supposed to be Verdish, but then I noticed the stash of basilisks and started to waver between Verdish and Bron. Given the current situation, which hero would be preferable to develop, Verdish (he has a scroll with an arrow) or Bron? And by the way, I did manage to break through to the grass and started collecting goodies there, but it was too late..