The final campaign – “Even Angels Cry” [7th campaign – 1st mission].

Hello everyone! :) The first final mission is quite good and, surprisingly, the shortest of all in the Campaigns:D. I played through all the campaigns in order, constantly visited the forum, read walkthroughs for each mission, and saw messages many times saying that a certain mission was incredibly difficult to complete. Throughout all the campaigns, I only encountered a real problem in the last mission for the Orcs (I always played on normal difficulty), where I had to quickly defeat the mage heroes within the first week, otherwise, it would be game over. All other missions were completed without much difficulty. However, I spent about 2-3 days on each map (real time, not in-game time), with a playtime of about 4 hours. This is my longest playthrough in all the Heroes games. I simply like to complete a map fully, with all the side quests, collecting all the artifacts and skills. Perhaps that's why it takes so long, or maybe it's just because my computer doesn't have enough processing power, and the game runs much slower than it could, because I'm still using a Pentium IV:D. It seems that with each new installment, the time it takes to complete a map also increases, with the following proportions: Heroes 3 - 1st mission - 2-3 hours; Heroes 5 - 1st mission - 4-6 hours; Heroes 6 - 1st mission - 9-15 hours.:D

I finally took down Michael :smile44:! First, his protectors were defeated, and then him.
I was in the city of Metatron (it needs to be taken last, because after a week, Michael will visit you with his "entourage") with such an army (I bought all the troops from all the cities, the map is completely cleared):
Imperial Archers - 644;
Guards - 707;
Vestals - 549;
Imperial Griffins - 262;
Radiant Beings - 280;
Celestial Warriors - 123;
Solar Crusaders - 223.

I started playing Heroes 6 with Anastasia, and because I didn't know, I pumped her up for tears instead of blood, which, of course, backfired in the final. An unholy spell with 7k damage, as someone mentioned above, would have been very useful, and by the way, I didn't capture the city of Metatron, but Michael still attacked. The army was as follows:
250 skeleton archers
220 ghouls
140 ghosts
106 archliches
76 rotting lamias
71 higher vampires
47 Fate Weavers

Michael defeated almost all of my stacks in 8-10 rounds, he had about half of his health remaining, and I only had archers left. I reloaded to a save, retrained Anastasia for defense, health increase, mass healing, general stone skin, and ice armor, and also upgraded almost all combat spells. I didn't use petrification, but I defeated the guardians purely with magic power (98 power) and the physical strength of the creatures. And I won this battle purely because of Michael. With his "last wish," he dealt 12500 damage to all the guardians and to himself. I don't know if this is a bug or what, but after casting it on himself several times, Michael took about 45-50k health off himself. I finished off the remaining 50. At the end of the battle, I had all the archers, 70 liches, and 18 spiders left. Thus, yesterday I completed the first final campaign with a hero rank.

I bought a "General Drain" scroll before the battle - it came in handy :smile20:!

But my general drain was quite weak, only draining 12.5% health, so I didn't use it.

PS Here's a screenshot of how I had Anastasia leveled up before retraining