Posts from Demon invasion.

For those who don't play hardcore, the maximum they can get is a Barbarian with no skills reduced.

It’s a pity that the description contains very little artistic detail =(

For those who don’t play hardcore, the maximum is a Warrior with no restrictions.

Hmm, but the bug didn’t repeat. I didn’t save before the battle with the last demon, so I had to replay from a little earlier. However, the scenario unfolded slightly differently – when the bug occurred, I was defending in the Castle and he attacked me, but the second time I was already besieging his Castle. In my opinion, this is the difference – when I attacked, I was then taken to the top after the cutscene, my artifacts were taken away, and the remaining movement points. And only the next day were the skills taken away. But the first time, everything was taken away at once – maybe that’s where the script glitched.

I finally found the time to play through the second mission, so here's some feedback (I'm a veteran player). I was a bit hasty in saying it's impossible to complete with the reduced spell selection – it is possible, but only if you strictly adhere to the conditions and have some luck. First, you need to get some decent artifacts for magic skills on the bears at the beginning, preferably a tunic. The bears break through in the very first turn, regardless of losses (I had 1 imp left). After this battle, with a bit of luck, you'll have 6-7 magic skills, and almost all the other neutral creatures will be defeated without losses. You can also find the Trident of Titans (it was in one of the treasure chests).

Next, focus on development. Summoning to get the Wall of Swords, defense with bonus to defense and protection – a must-have to kill the Necromancer and Phoenixes guarding the Robe of Sar-Issa. Plus, perks that give free magic skills, like Secret Advantage or Secret Keeper. Through the latter, you can try to go into Empathy, which theoretically looks very powerful, but I didn't get lucky with that. Machines are also good for the first part of the game.

In Shi'o itself, the battles are actually more difficult than before, for example, two and a half hundred Manticores on a portal. In general, after the beginning and middle of the game, where you really have to replay each battle, the last battles for Sigrif are quite easy. On the surface, everything is simple; the lack of resources is compensated by 4 markets and a lot of gold, so you can easily develop 2 castles (the starting one and the lower right one) before the first enemies arrive, after which the attackers have almost no chance. In general, like the first mission, this one has a very hardcore and even random start and a slightly boring ending (maybe because I've already played it in single-player). And now it's time for the missions that I've never played, and knowledge of the map won't help me in completing them...

P.s. There's a small feature in this mission. If you learn the Call Reinforcements spell in the Necromancer's castle, you can summon troops from the surface castles with Sigrif, which makes it easy to clear all the neutral creatures in Shi'o before meeting Kha-Beleh without much effort. I don't know if this was intended by the author or not.

How difficult was the battle with Kha-Beleth?