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Well, if you have all 7 creatures from different Castles, and even undead, then even expert leadership won't help. Moreover, such an army cannot be replenished - unless you capture a similar Castle. And creatures of level 6-7 almost never join. Also, neutral creatures often require astronomical sums to join. The question is - by the time you develop expert diplomacy and find creatures willing to join, enough time will pass for the AI to develop well and, if not destroy you, then at least significantly weaken your mixed army. Of course, on the "pawn" (easy) difficulty level, every other monster will join without diplomacy. But I prefer to play on "rook" (hard).

to AmberSoler
I don't understand from your posts whether diplomacy is a useful or useless secondary skill, according to you. If it's useless, then give me an example of an ideal hero, in your opinion, with 8 useful secondary skills, and I'll try to replace one of them with diplomacy.
I personally consider diplomacy to be a kind of hidden, yet powerful skill.

As I understand it, AmberSoler meant that the importance of diplomacy depends on your goal and development tactics on the map – whether you gather creatures in your own (or not your own) city, or you look at who is on the map, and your goal is to gather as many neutral creatures as possible.
P.S. My opinion is that you should definitely try playing with diplomacy just to know what this skill is, and whether to take it further or not is up to you.

I remember that at first, AmberSoler was categorically against diplomacy. It seems like he started to compromise gradually.

There is a special artifact for diplomats – it’s called the Spirit of Despair. With it, morale is no longer a problem, and you can mix even 7 factions. And I don’t like leadership; it just takes up space.

Just adding a bit for completeness.

1. The difficulty level of the map does not affect the joining of monsters.

2. 90% of the players on this forum play at the "queen (or king?)" - "extremely difficult" level.

I don't know. But I've repeatedly noticed that at a lower difficulty level, monsters are more likely to join on their own than at higher levels.

I'm very happy for 90% of the players, but the computer doesn't get any smarter above "Bishop" difficulty. Then it just starts reducing the player's resources and increasing the computer's resources. In my opinion, it's a pointless challenge. But this is already off-topic.

but before the battle, you can almost always check if it's worth putting on these chains, or maybe you'll end up making a fool of yourself)))

And the puddle resulting from what you saw might very well be of your own making.