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Currently, I'm playing the Chinese map "The Lord of the Rings." I'm facing a problem. After killing the Eye of the Fortress, I go for the Blindness and Resurrection spells. After that, I can't figure out where to go next because I need a white key everywhere. And it's impossible to kill the heroes with Magog and Hydra, even if I use Blindness. Then, a hero with 800+ Magog appears, and Blindness doesn't work on him. What should I do?

A hero with Magog and Hydra units can be defeated with 400 harpies and the Blind spell; you just need to find the right tactic.

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I can give you a more precise hint if needed.

The hero with mages and hydras can be defeated with 400 harpies and blindness; you just need to find the right tactic.

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I can give you a more precise hint if needed.

But can he be defeated without harpies? I just got rid of them during a battle with the AI from the Rampart.

Doubtful.

A hero with mages and hydras can be defeated with 400 harpies and blindness; you just need to find the right tactic.

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I can give you a more precise hint if needed.

Although I messed up, I can attack him before the player and the Rampart appear, but I don't understand how to kill him with harpies. He kills them in 2 attacks, and their splash damage sometimes interferes.

Harpies on this map are our main attacking force, appearing somewhere in the middle of the playthrough.

Okay, I give up, how do I kill it? And one more question. How do I kill a hero with Mind Blast without taking damage?

I don't remember having any difficulties with the hero from the Rampart; I just checked, and the resurrection was already in place for the fight against him. The hero with Magog and Hydra can be defeated using the main strategy: a stack of harpies + 1 harpy. The harpies are placed in front of the blinded Hydras, so the Magogs don't shoot. As the number of Magogs in the stack decreases, they may change their minds and start shooting, so we switch to the "attack - blindness" tactic. The hero with magical elementals can be killed with black dragons and a small, fast-moving unit. You can remove two retaliators, but it's best to take a faster unit than the one I used. For example, griffins.

Thank you very much. It's a pity that I'll have to replay because I lost too many days and didn't have time to get the resurrection spell before the player appeared.

Nat12, you're welcome, feel free to ask if you need anything. It will be much more difficult from now on.

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Nat12, are you by any chance a streamer from LC on YouTube?

No) I'm just a spectator.

Let's clarify: are we talking about this map: Lord Rings or this one: Lord of the Rings 3.0? It seems to be the first one, it's in Chinese, and the author is Season.

It's a pity that I'll have to replay because I lost too many days.

Nat12, that's why it's useful to make regular saves! To avoid taking up too much space, I only keep saves for the beginning of the first day of each week and the beginning of the last day when victory is achieved (for storage), and saves for the last few days while I'm playing. Sometimes, it turns out that you have to replay, and it only becomes clear after a few days.

That's why it's useful to make regular saves! To avoid taking up too much space, I only keep saves from the beginning of the first day of each week and from the beginning of the last day when victory arrives (for storage), and saves from the last few days while I'm playing. Sometimes it happens that you have to replay, and it only becomes clear after a few days.

Please excuse me, but on difficult maps, only drug-addicted masochists do that. Sometimes, even 20-30 saves per game day are not excessive, especially when battles last more than an hour in real life (hello, Dandy).

Having around fifty saves per day is also a fairly common occurrence.

I didn't go into too much detail, as everyone has their own habits, but on most maps, I make 2-3 saves per game day, sometimes more often, especially before important/difficult battles – it's a must, because sometimes you do everything right, but suddenly some random event happens, like the special abilities of enemy creatures or even a simple misclick. Time is more valuable than disk space, and I always clean up the unnecessary files later. As a result, I haven't had any fatal errors in all these years that would force me to start a walkthrough from the beginning (only once did I unsuccessfully choose a faction, and as a result, I started over with a different color; I wrote about this, see the report on the "Boundaries of the Empire" map).
But that's all trivial compared to what I once read. A person installed the HD remaster of "Armageddon's Blade" (which, like the original, still doesn't have autosaves!) and then complains on the forum: "I played all day, and suddenly the power went out, and I didn't make any saves!" - He's just a malicious Pinocchio!
And here's the most recent illustration of the need to save regularly: the day ended well, and suddenly at night, an enemy heroine with a decent army attacks me from the darkness!
I had removed the Angel Alliance for the night to put on the Boots of Swiftness. With the Angel Alliance, she wouldn't have bothered me (I'll check this now). I thought: "Okay, I'll beat her anyway." I did, but I was a little short on mana and lost 35 griffins. But when I rode on, I saw another enemy heroine, allied with her, also with a decent army. And then the cunning plan of the enemies became clear: to make me waste all my mana so that they could easily defeat me afterwards (there would definitely be big losses). Therefore, the AI is sometimes quite cunning. And a fresh save will allow me to replay and start the next day in a way that is beneficial to me, not to the enemies.
I replayed the night with the Angel Alliance equipped – no one attacked me; on the contrary, both enemies fled.