Posts from Heart of the Night

I'm playing through the scenario as a Warrior. With a lot of cursing and back-and-forth maneuvering, I clear the starting location, and then I meet Greta. The heroes of the campaign split up and go in different directions. "Okay," I think, "now the parallel storylines will start to develop." I finish clearing the forest with Karlam, while also hiding from Baal on the secret paths. At some point, I realize that the Mage has nowhere else to go. "Well," I think, "that's how it's supposed to be. Now I'll fend off all the Necromancer's attacks with the Elf, and something will happen. Maybe they'll give me the brown key." I develop Greta into a Chaos hero without any artifacts (at one point, I realized that there just wasn't enough space), simply because I've wanted to level up an Elf Chaos hero for a long time. I barely fend off the first Necromancer; I fend off the second, trying not to break my teeth; I fend off the third – and my teeth break. The corpse of the previous guardian appears – I barely manage to defeat it, and I'm left with 23 oaks and a handful of unicorns. All this time, Karlam stands on the secret path, completely unconcerned. And no assignment is found for him. Despite my prayers, no assignment is found for him even after defeating the fourth Necromancer. "Okay," I think, "now they'll probably let Greta go out and explore around the Dungeon garrison." No. "What the heck is going on," I think, once again examining the map for any overlooked secret path (I had some problems with them, I won't lie) or... an ignored and unexplored branch in the Dungeon near the one-way portal on Karlam's path. The next day, Gil-Galad spawns... the fifth Necromancer. I fall face-first onto the keyboard in exhaustion. I accidentally type this text to her. Well, I was going to replay this map anyway with different builds.

Is the problem finding the brown key? It's located in this Dungeon:

Or is it something else?

No, no, I'm just sharing my adventures, impressions, and utter lack of attention.

brown, but the tent texture is crimson? What!?

it's like that by default in the game.

No, no, I'm just sharing my adventures, impressions, and utter inattentiveness)

it happens) you'll have to replay, of course, but if you progress quickly with Karlam, it will be easier to play as Greta, thanks to the increased reinforcements.

I played through this great map again, this time to clarify some points. I couldn't figure it out)
1) Is there an alternative way to obtain Sandro's Cloak? If you don't guess the password in the mini-artifact forge and lose access, Karlam still doesn't tell the mad scientist about it, and he continues to wait for mini-artifacts that we can no longer get. It seems that after 4 or 5 months after the battle with the forge guards, skipping turns (until I got tired), the security protocols were still being updated.
2) What determines when the "strengthening of the Eternal Night" event occurs, after which night falls on the fourth day instead of the fifth?
3) Also, I didn't quite understand why Baal sometimes chases the player in Turgal's dungeon/on the snowy mountain, and other times he cannot reach the player in these places. Tests with Karlam starting on day 5 in Turgal's dungeon/on the surface yielded nothing.

P.S. This map makes playing the Invasion from Hell campaign quite fun because Sigrif's hell wave is replaced by the overpowered Urgash's Hatred, with which he easily defeats everyone except emerald and black dragons, demons, and earth elementals)

I played through this great map again, this time to clarify some points. I didn't manage to figure it out)
1) Is there an alternative way to obtain Sandro's Cloak? If you don't guess the password in the mini-artifact forge and lose access, Karlam still doesn't tell the mad scientist about it, and he continues to wait for mini-artifacts that we can no longer get.
It seems that 4 or 5 months after the battle with the forge guards, skipping turns (until I got tired), the security protocols were still being updated.
2) What determines the occurrence of the "strengthening of the Eternal Night" event, after which night falls on the fourth day instead of the fifth?
3) Also, I didn't quite understand why Baal sometimes chases the player in the Turgal Dungeon/on the snowy mountain, but at other times he cannot reach the player in these places. Tests with Karlam starting on the 5th day in the Turgal Dungeon/on the surface yielded nothing.

P.S. With this map, playing the Invasion from Hell campaign becomes quite fun because Sigrif's hell wave is replaced by the overpowered Urgash's Hatred, with which he easily defeats everyone except emerald and black dragons, demons, and earth elementals).

1) There isn't an alternative; the idea is that the player won't be able to break through the forge's defenses if they answer incorrectly. And there is a hint about the correct answer right next to the portal to the mountain from the Turgal underground.
2) For the strengthening, half of the days until the full onset of the Eternal Night must pass.
3) I think it might be that the game can't correctly calculate the distance between heroes if they are on different levels of the map

How do you defeat the Guardian? I've already tried a bunch of different approaches...

How to defeat the Guardian? I've already tried a bunch of different approaches...

spoiler:

his elementals only die from his own spells (there's a hint about this in the message before the battle).

Thanks for the great map, even though it's quite challenging in some parts! I still don't understand if there will be a sequel in the form of a campaign?

Thank you for the great map, even though it's very challenging in some parts!
I still don't understand if there will be a sequel in the form of a campaign?

Thank you for your feedback.
Yes, the campaign will be released soon.

I can't download the map; it says there's no access to the site, etc.

Everything downloads fine, I just tried it. Maybe you're having some issues with Yandex Disk?

(I registered just to write here)

I started a playthrough with this hero (of course, I thought I knew how to play this game).

When the first Necromancer appeared, I didn't know what to do. Well, through some simple adjustments (having/not having war machines, building buildings in the town, deploying/not deploying units), I set up the initial battle conditions so that the archers could reach his ballista and disable it with the first shot. I simply underestimated the attack skill of the hero and only remembered about "Deadly Chill" after the victory (although there were still no cold spells in the guild). (Greta was level 15 - class skill + light (storm + protection) and education). Despite the lack of a ballista, he still overwhelmed me with numbers until, after a certain number of attempts, I somehow managed to defeat him, albeit with some losses - almost all the archers remained, half of the dryads, and more than half of the sprites (he amused himself by casting slow on the archers, and I cast haste on them in return - by the time I ran out of mana, the battle was also coming to an end).

Okay, then the second one appeared - by this time, I had cleared all the available underground areas and thought it would be easy. Well, it turned out to be, but only after the first 10-20 attempts - until I pumped up my attack, put an archer on an antimagic horse, and had the ultimate beast eat her. She amused herself by casting blind on the archer, and I removed it. (and also plague, etc.). With the third one, I also didn't understand at first - but the ultimate beast ate him too (I had just switched from luck with magic support to defense and back to mass evasion). The 4th and 5th ones were easily defeated by the antimagic on the archers.

Meanwhile, Karlam was running around peacefully, somehow defeated the Guardian and the Sorcerer in the dungeon, dug up a tear there - ran up to the garrison - and then, instead of "Radiant Beacon," I was given some Princess Adelina. (I probably shouldn't have discarded other maps in the map editor along with this one).

(in general, Baal still one-shotted me (except for the BDP) - I went to look at the forum and walkthrough videos, and then I lost interest in replaying everything and also rebuilding everything to fight Baal).

That's the story, basically.

I got the Radiant Beacon, reached the battle with Baal. I equipped the Staff of Sar-Iss, Sandro's Cloak, and the Radiant Beacon, but in the battle, Baal one-shots me. The initiative of each creature is over 70; it's impossible to defeat him, and my creatures don't get a single turn. What am I doing wrong?
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