The second stage of the "Van Kanighem" tournament.

All my material is based solely on PERSONAL experience ;)
P.S. Proper scouting doesn't take much time. ;)

:) Well, let's go with personal experience. I haven't played the second game in a while, and I don't know how well or poorly I did with the second stage of the Walkthrough. But let's reveal the data allowed by the rules; I completed the map almost once :) with the following scouting: I simply don't know the cheat codes in the second game, and I would be interested in knowing two codes - to reveal the map and to quickly win a battle, so the scouting was done one turn ahead each turn, that is, I simply moved the heroes around where possible and looked at what and where I could defeat. And, of course, I looked at the map editor a couple of times to see the location of enemy Fortresses and the approaches to them. Why am I writing that I played it almost once? First, I took one enemy Fortress, and immediately abandoned this option and started another, starting to eliminate the computer players from the other player. And I played this option to the end. The final save is ready. How are things going with you? Then we'll compare the results after the Tournaments ;) Maybe someone else is interested in participating in this, that is, before the results are announced, you need to write how many times you replayed and improved your version.

As far as I know, in the third game, Tournaments are held on random maps. I don't understand why the second game is worse.

Where is this done? Randomness is such a thing that, in my opinion, it is not acceptable for a serious tournament :) Who knows what randomness might throw at you? It can скорее be called an amateur tournament, because I agree that playing on a random (map that you haven't seen yet) is more interesting, but figuring out who is better in a serious tournament on a random map? Who knows? ;)