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I would like to mention one thing that made me replay the game so that I could prepare a hero from the tavern for one single battle!
THE BATTLE WITH DEIS for the diamond gates, before freeing Vael and fighting Peplokryl.
Deis has a stack of several thousand minotaurs, and when I arrived, he had almost 15,000 of them, but that's not the main thing; the important thing is that it's all on CURSED LAND, which means spells above level 1 are prohibited!! We don't have ballistics, and we don't have enough troops to take down 15,000 minotaurs before breaking through the defenses....
Therefore, I found only one solution in this situation: hire Uland in the first few days (a Rampart hero, specializing in healing, with starting Wisdom and Ballistics), teach him shooting, water, earth, and defense, and increase all his available stats as the game progresses (essentially, he was a booster and a support for the main hero).
Then, in the battle with Deis, I broke through his defenses in an hour: I equipped the Might of the Dragon Father to prevent the troops from attacking with ranged attacks, bought expendable ranged units (lizards, orcs, cyclops, gremlins) that I wouldn't mind losing, a sniper bow, a wagon, and a stack of a couple of dozen crossbowmen for the gate blockade (we don't play with them, so it doesn't matter if we lose them).
In the end: catapult - defense. Crossbowmen - to the gate (the towers attack the crossbowmen, which is beneficial because ranged attacks are more important there), and then I kept pounding the minotaurs...
It took a very long time, but I defeated Deis...
I can't figure out how to beat him without losses, especially with Mogrein: in 2-4 rounds, there's a 100% chance of a breach in the wall, the minotaurs come out and inflict heavy losses that can't be resurrected, but this way, I can win without losing even one unit from the stacks I used, although it takes a very long time, and the experience goes to the wrong hero...
If other battles when attacking a castle are won with magic, then I think the only option here is a hero with ballistics (controlling the catapult).
I'm currently playing through the Paragon map, it's an amazing thing, kudos to the author and lots of good karma. I couldn't help but register when I saw this post.
I stopped with Mogrein one tile before Deis's castle. I used disguise, and he attacked me himself :smile26:. In an open field, he can be easily defeated - just put on the Cursed Armor to slow him down and take the Sphere of Inhibition (red orb) so that he doesn't cast spells or try to haste. That's it. Then, just run away from him with a flying unit across the field, and shoot him down with ranged units.
Another point: it's worth equipping the Spirit of Inhibition so that his morale doesn't suddenly drop.