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Well, here we are at the final mission of this campaign. To put it briefly (about the mission), it's good, but there was no real "wow" moment — it felt like it didn't quite reach the overall level of the campaign, in my personal impression. Let's go through it in order.

Mission 5 — The Darkness Gathers
- Lore-wise, we're pursuing Menilag who stole the runes right from under our noses, and we use a portal to chase after him, but since Andrias isn't skilled with portals, he ends up who knows where. No matter — a local priest tells us there's a local mage city, saying go there and find out...

Which is exactly what we do — we arrive at the city and think we'll talk things out peacefully, but that's not what happens. The mage gets aggroed, and on top of all that "goodness," he even summons demons — what a little bastard. Andrias vs Faiz  But that would be fine, except these guys use demonic magic and steal XP (similar to Zehir's army stealing or city teleportation)... It doesn't seem critical, but it dumped the mentorship that was needed to make good cockroaches. Oh well. Of course, you can replay the map and get a different outcome, but it's fine — let's move on.

Consequently, another quest appeared — to find a way to protect against this magic. But here everything is simple enough. We find a prophet who tells us we need a scroll (which, roughly speaking, is at the starting location) and something else, but I just took the scroll and that was enough — he taught us how to fight against it...

At first, questions arose — namely, fairly strong mages plus warlocks (and what are they doing here anyway?) were a bit annoying at first (especially the League, which chokes with a single cast), and they keep coming through the portal, not letting us stretch our legs much. But after some running around and playing cat and mouse, we get the desired results... The battles against various folks here...

Andrias vs Razzak

Andrias vs Galib

Andrias vs Vayshan

I was pleasantly surprised by a small but nice bonus in the underground — namely, a good stack of Squires and a portal with +3 levels. Although the main character couldn't get there quickly, still, I'm glad I grabbed the Forgotten Hero's Armor from there, which helped quite a bit)


Overall, I tried to move through the map more or less systematically — namely, I dealt with the mages first, then took out the League (although that wasn't really necessary as I understand it).

Overall, there were two, let's say, "difficult battles" — one was against the League's second castle where Yrbeth is



And of course Menilag himself, although the fight against Yrbeth was more painful (you can get a little preview of what awaits us at the end)


And if we're talking about the ideal scenario — if there were no border guards and the keykeeper who's only at the League's castle, we could have gone straight to try and take out the mage, but no...

About Yrbeth — I actually didn't understand something. "Armor of the Dwarven Kings" blocks the ability to cast Implosion, but Yrbeth didn't care about that at all. How does that work? Anti-magic doesn't help either. Yes, I understand the League has Unstoppable Magic, but with full damage... that raised questions... But nevertheless, I managed to take her out in a couple of tries (both victorious — one with bigger losses, one with smaller)

Andrias vs Yrbeth (1)

Andrias vs Yrbeth (2)

As I said earlier, right next to the castle there's the keykeeper — we take the key, assemble the army, and go put out Menilag)




He seems like a serious guy, at first glance — although he didn't have an eagle, he probably has the central perk since he has the Master of Machines ability... What I DIDN'T LIKE is that no matter how many tries I did, he still takes control of the BALLISTA, and since we're, roughly speaking, specialists in that matter, it nerfs the hero quite a bit (although it didn't cause any problems, still). Here everything is simple — kill him faster, fewer demons he summons, and all good) I left the log because I stupidly forgot to visit the mentor before the finale)

Andrias vs Menilag

After defeating Menilag, we return the elemental runes, and they run off — and that seems to be it, or maybe not?...

Well then, let me sum up the campaign as a whole. Everything is great, I liked everything — the green troops are imbalanced in my opinion (although in the last mission I didn't take Elrath's Archangels). Everything looks logical, plays through fine, and overall there are no complaints. Though the final mission, in my opinion, isn't as good as the previous ones, and there's no "wow" ending. Like, we returned the spheres and that's it, but there's a hint that we should dive into the unknown... Overall, I had a great time and I'll play through the last scenario of this chain, and then I'll probably take a break from Haven because there's just too much of it already))

And a small bonus — if you overlevel the hero a bit and take a bit of extra army (although overall it's not necessary), but it's doable, so if you want to win with relatively small losses, here's how it turned out for me...



Bonus battle with Menilag

P.s. Maybe someone will need it, or someone will want to fight with that crazy army assembled in mission 4 — here are all the saves from missions 1 through 5

Flame_Haze, your walkthroughs, if not all, then almost all, involve an incredibly drawn-out gameplay. In the key final battles, it's not about intelligence, tactics, creature abilities, or the hero's spellbook, but rather about using autobattle without any losses. Perhaps this is a special kind of enjoyment.

A small request for the author. I saw in the picture that the Angels of Erathia now have an icon for the "Resurrection of Allies" ability. My friend, RedHeavenHero, could you make it with a gray border? After all, this is not a Light Magic spell. ^→ You can download the ready-made dds file here. I periodically replay this wonderful campaign and, taking the opportunity, I want to thank you for such skillful work.

Imperial Archers (...) shoot with an arc and sometimes shoot with an arc twice.

In fact, the combination of "Arc Shot + Double Shot" works in a strange but predictable way. If, when shooting with an arc, there is a creature in the central cell of the selected 3x3 area, then a second arc shot will follow. If it is empty, then there is only one shot, and the archers don't even turn to their target and can shoot with their backs. Ordinary (unimproved) archers can also shoot with their backs. :)

It's quite naive to expect updates from Red Haven regarding this campaign.

Flame_Haze, your Walkthroughs, if not all, then almost all, feature an incredibly drawn-out gameplay. In the key final battles, it's not intelligence, tactics, creature abilities, or the hero's spellbook that matter, but rather auto-battles without any losses. Perhaps this is a special kind of enjoyment.

It sounded a bit ambiguous, but I won't draw any unnecessary conclusions; I'll just say thank you for the compliment.

In reality, the combination of "Arc Shot + Double Shot" works in a strange but predictable way. If there is a creature in the central cell of the selected 3x3 area when using Arc Shot, a second Arc Shot will follow. If it's empty, there will only be one shot, and the archers don't even turn to their target and can shoot with their backs turned. Regular (unupgraded) archers can also shoot with their backs turned.

Thank you very much; I didn't know, this is useful information

That's strange. The EU_units.bat file appeared, I ran it, and... it didn't delete anything. I opened it in Notepad, deleted all the files listed there. But it would have been better if the script had deleted everything automatically.

Maybe the console didn't have enough permissions?)
By the way, what operating system are you using?

Maybe the console didn't have enough permissions? By the way, what operating system do you have?

Windows 7, 64-bit OS.

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Oh well... It's good that there are people like Flame_Haze. If I don't want to play through a map, or don't have time, but I'm still interested in the story, I either watch videos of the map or look for Flame_Haze's commentary on that map, where a lot of details are described.

Ah... It's great that there are people like Flame_Haze. If I don't want to play through a map, or I don't have time 😌, but I'm still interested in the story, I either watch videos of the map or look for Flame_Haze's commentary on that map, where many details are described in detail.

Haha, thanks for the kind words!

What should I do? I enter a building, and it gives me archers, but it's impossible to do anything. The same thing happened with the peasant building. There's only a picture in the file.

I played this campaign a long time ago! I really enjoyed it! I just wanted to praise it now 😁

Hello everyone!
I don't know if this is a bug or not, but I found a hero named "Alexander" in the tavern who has the Aglaia special ability but no biography!
I'm playing the second mission. What should I do? I have one Andreas with a decent level (14), and Varens is lazily smoking in the corner. If I attack the nearest Elven town, I'll capture it (and then, of course, I'll present it to Irollan on a silver platter), but I'll lose a lot of soldiers! And also, what's the best way to level up heroes?

This is one of the green heroes that the AI will use in the fourth mission. Maybe that’s how it was intended, since green units are also available to the player in the second mission.

This is one of the green heroes that the AI will use in the fourth mission. Maybe that's how it was intended, because green troops are also available to the player in the second mission.

Haha, I didn't think they would be available here. Besides, they don't have much of an army, so this hero is a l m o s t useless.

However, Red Haven could have accidentally assigned them to a player. Because in Echoes of the Void, there were a couple of extra heroes in the pool of available ones at release.