Walkthroughs for custom maps.

there’s no point in leveling up a hero with ballistics

I only leveled up a hero with ballistics for 1 single battle!
the battle with Das – a specialist in minotaurs, he’s located in the Dungeon, we get there after defeating the brown and other factions...
he’s in a castle on cursed land with several thousand minotaurs...
that is, without shooting and without ballistics, we cannot prevent the main hero from leaving the castle, and there will be losses, and they will be very unpleasant...
and therefore, the hero Uland with ballistics was specifically leveled up only for ONE SINGLE battle...
so that with a caravan, cheap purchased archers in the Father of Dragons’ might (so they don’t hit us with arrows) and black dragons to block the gates and absorb the attacks from the archer towers, we can win this battle with almost no losses (for the diamond something there)... I didn’t use ballista anywhere else.
with shooting and artifacts that give a bonus to shooting – I don’t argue that it will be faster and without losses, but I played it differently

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As they say, the owner is the boss..., but I will still try to convince you - I am leveling up a warrior with water and earth magic on this map (you can’t do without them here at all). But the mana shortage was at its maximum only while I was fighting the first three cities of the purple faction, after that there were no problems at all (and with you, the fire magic constantly drains mana) and the battles are quick - the battle lasted longer than 5 minutes only with the dwarven king, who was hiding in the Palace-in-the-Mountain, and not for long.

the point is that even without fire, I would burn through mana incredibly quickly:
resurrecting losses to 0 is a very expensive thing in terms of mana, because we spend mana on strengthening our own, attacking the enemy, weakening the enemy, and then everything is resurrected, even through clones of archons - mana is spent very quickly and in large quantities...
the map can be completed in different ways and with different artifacts, my opinion is that it is easier to go with AoTD, if without fire, then with intelligence, so that there is enough mana (I don’t like to save it)