Magistar
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Version 1.6, hero difficulty
After easily completing the last two missions with Railag, I felt a bit more relaxed, especially since the first mission for the elves was a piece of cake. But then I encountered a problem. Not an unsolvable one, but...
A rush strategy didn't work – from the very beginning, an Alastor with a decent army (a hundred imps, a good number of demon-cerberuses, plus demonesses and other units) roams around in the city above. This is more than enough to defeat my army, especially since this jerk likes to meet me right at the port, not even letting me take a step towards the Castle, and this has happened three times in a row.
I decided to develop a bit, and overall, it went quite well – by the second week, I had built ents and upgraded archers, plus everything else except dragons was upgraded, without a Citadel. However, my neighbor above also developed, and even better than me. Demons were peeking out from the left with a not-too-large army but didn't attack me. I spent a couple more weeks exploring the dungeon, and at the beginning of the second month, I went to war.
And from that moment on, I played three times. In the first attempt, after gathering some strength, I headed to the northern Castle (the central one was packed with demons). I somehow managed to defeat Alastor from his Castle, the losses were significant but not critical. After that, I went to my western allies and even defeated one of them... But then one of their heroes ran to the central Castle and wiped out the army there. In total, he had over eighty demonesses, 50+ upgraded horses, twelve archdevils, 400+ imps, ~30 cave lords, and other stuff. And almost two hundred cerberuses for dessert. I had... well, something around fifty archers, thirty upgraded druids, fifteen upgraded ents, and everything else in smaller numbers. In short, I managed to capture the southern city, but this army simply crushed me.
In the second attempt, I attacked the central Castle. But I didn't have enough skill for that.
The third attempt was to attack the southern neighbors. But one of their heroes still managed to run to the central Castle, and then the first scenario repeated.
Faidaen with advanced leadership and luck, light magic, and expert logistics + standard ranger skills.
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You're lucky if you manage to upgrade skilled light magic and find resurrection in the tower of mages in the first mission; otherwise, it's difficult. Trying to capture the central Castle right away is almost useless; there are tons of armies there. It's better to capture the Castle in the upper right corner first; the army is usually weak there at the beginning. But you need a good army to attack the other Castles; sometimes, I even had to include demons in my army and weaken the enemy with secondary heroes. I took the Castle in the lower left corner second, and the central one last. In general, it's better to play quickly here; the opponent is initially ahead in construction.
I last played without resurrection, so I also struggled. I upgraded attack, defense, logistics, light magic, and luck.