Posts from “Ashes’ Will” – “A Sad Journey” [Campaign 2, Mission 2]

I don't quite agree that 3 schools of magic are too much for a Necromancer. Actually, in this campaign, we are playing against heroes who are very skilled in chaos magic – wizards and demons, so my primary goal was to weaken the enemy's magical attacks as much as possible. So, you can develop your character effectively as follows: take defense, level up the reflection perk (-15% of enemy magic attacks), then take wizardry, level up to "Secret Knowledge" and get the undead protection from magic perk, which is another 20% reduction in enemy magic attacks, and here is where chaos magic comes in handy, where we level up to Storm Lord and get the magic depletion perk, which is another 20% reduction in magic attacks, so in total, we get 55% less damage from any offensive magic, so choke on your magic wand, you lousy mage:D
PS By the way, alternate-greyed skeletons have 25% magic resistance, so under all these perks, the skeletons become almost like golems, which magic doesn't affect at all).

No chaos is scary when everything is in one stack under the Celestial Shield.

And in general, nothing is scary for a well-developed Necropolis in this Campaign.

This means you need to take and deploy 1 unit, for example, vampires. The other army just gets in the way. All the dark energy should be spent on them. At the end of the battle, it will be easy to resurrect and continue without losses.

There's also a ring that reduces luck by -2, which can also help.

Well, I don't know) but the computer always attacks you with vampires) Anyway, I guess I haven't mastered all the tricks of the game yet, so there's room for improvement=))

With scattered units, archers won't shoot, fast stacks can be controlled/blinded, and vampires will flee from slow ones. And it's even easier to place a stack in a corner, cover it with a phoenix and a wall.

Well, I'm currently playing through the 3rd map with alternative, upgraded skeletons and Arantir, and I'm managing thanks to summons and berserkers. Plus, I summon the Avatar, and that's just insane! It deals an average of about ~700 damage. Of course, Darkness is the key!

Does your Avatar get killed often? I don't use it at high hero levels because of this probability; I don't want to waste mana.

That's exactly the point, at high levels, the Avatar hero has a considerable amount of health; I think it was around 740 last time. In general, before this map, I only used the Avatar a couple of times, on the second map. There, it had very little health due to the hero's level.

I meant high-level heroes, i.e., when opponents have huge armies. And there, dealing a thousand or two damage is a piece of cake. For example, I'm currently playing a map as Kujin; she's level 29, and her army is so strong that Fury of the Horde deals 3500 damage, and she always goes first (Sharp Mind, Enchantment). So, if a low-initiative Necromancer with that Avatar is against her, she'll destroy it immediately, along with all the mana and about 200 points. That's what I mean.

I meant high-level heroes, that is, when opponents have huge armies. And there, dealing a thousand or two damage is a piece of cake. For example, I'm currently playing a map as Kujin, she's level 29, and she has such an army that Wrath of the Horde deals 3500 damage, and she always goes first (Sharp Mind, Enchantment). So, if a low-initiative Necromancer with that Avatar is against her, she'll destroy it immediately, along with all the mana and about 200 points. That's what I mean.