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BlueHeavenHero, I don't know who's giving dislikes here, but as I mentioned above: make sure everything is correct, and as Khottabych rightly pointed out, don't forget to add the option to disable the standard battle (if you haven't already), and then check the scripts in the game. We're waiting for your feedback.

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Hello everyone. I recently learned that it is possible to control the enemy army using scripts, depending on the difficulty level. How exactly can this be done?

StartCombat("ourHeroName", "enemyNameOrNil, numberOfUnits, id1, count1, ..., idN, countN, script, callback, arena, autobattle)

If any parameter is unclear or unnecessary, you can use nil. For example, a battle without a hero against a unit of swordsmen and archers is described as follows:

StartCombat("Hero", nil, 2, CREATURE_SWORDSMAN, 10, CREATURE_ARCHER, 17)

Instead of myArena, specify the path to the xdb file of the AdventureFlybyScene for the arena, and instead of MyScript, specify the path to the xdb file of the script.

It seems correct, but in the starting combat, the heroname is not defined, unless you declared it as a global variable beforehand.

How would I know? But the slashes in (/Script) and (/AdventureFlyByscene) are definitely forward slashes, not backward ones.

Well, basically it's easy. We reserve a Necromancer hero, create a quest to keep the main hero alive (OBJECTIVE_KIND_MANUAL) to control his actions through scripts. In the scripts, we'll write something like this:

NowNecromancer = 0 --Condition that we'll set when the hero becomes a Necromancer

function prim_save_gg( heroName ) --You can name this function differently; this is just for clarity
      if ( heroName == Duncan ) and NowNecromancer ~= 1 then --Duncan is used as an example. Insert the script name of your hero here
           SetObjectiveState("script name of the quest", OBJECTIVE_FAILED) --Fail the quest to keep the main hero alive
           sleep(10) --Give the player time to see the quest failure and realize that they've lost the main hero
           Loose() --Fail the mission, because our hero died before becoming a Necromancer
      elseif ( heroName == Duncan ) and NowNecromancer == 1 then --We lose the hero, but we have the condition that we are now a Necromancer, so we don't lose
           print("Everything is okay, the condition is met. He died, and that's that. Now I'm a Necromancer, maybe I'll go buy some skulls")
      end
      if ( heroName == DuncanNecro ) and NowNecromancer == 1 then --Our hero is a Necromancer, the condition that we made him a Necromancer is met
            SetObjectiveState("script name of the quest", OBJECTIVE_FAILED) --Fail the quest to keep the main hero alive
            sleep(10) --Give the player time to see the quest failure and realize that they've lost the main hero
            Loose() --Fail the mission, because our hero died after becoming a Necromancer
      end
end   

function TransformToNecromancer() --Here we'll specify what happens after the main hero becomes a Necromancer. Where it will be called from is up to you
--All sorts of things from the author, who knows what conditions he has?
      NowNecromancer = 1 --Set the condition so that the game doesn't fail after deleting the main hero
      sleep(2) --Just in case, give the game time to process the information
      DeployReserveHero("DuncanNecro", x, y, GROUND/UNDERGROUND) --Place the new main hero so that the game doesn't fail if the player only has one hero and no castle with a tavern
      sleep(2) --Also just in case, give the game time to process everything
      RemoveObject("Duncan") --Painlessly delete the main hero
end

Trigger(PLAYER_REMOVE_HERO_TRIGGER, PLAYER_1, "prim_save_gg") --Trigger to track the player's hero losses for PLAYER_1

Try it)

Okay, comrade Azgalor, I tested the script and have some disappointing news – the script doesn't work. If I write NowNecromancer = 0 at the beginning of the script, the rest of the script doesn't work.