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Currently, I'm playing on the same map. Level 200%. I arrived at the same result as Bes – the need to access the blue tent, but through a different method. The main army consisted of Humans, with whom the main heroes of the purple and red factions were destroyed. Meanwhile, Dessa leveled up on secondary heroes, after which, gathering the aforementioned "cap" mentioned by Bes, he reached the blue tent, providing the Humans with access to the center. Next, 4k Elementals, and the destruction of the purple faction. I haven't figured out what to do next; I can't spend a week on the game. The main thing in the game is to act quickly and aggressively.
At the very beginning, it is necessary to:

to Malych,
Looks like he's not a noob; he's playing on Impossible difficulty, and he has the cloak at the very beginning; I checked in the editor. But I put it on for the first time before the ice elementals, and I raised 1200 skeletons. Now I have about 12,000 of them, after destroying the green heroes.

Since my last message, I found a path to the towers, but I lost half of my behemoths, and it seems I've locked Dess up until I find the dark blue tent. I guess I'll have to go down into the dungeon.

Cool. On Impossible difficulty, I could only make it to the blue tent with my gut (intestinal fortitude). I guess I don't know how to play as Stronghold...

strange that you only made it to the blue tent. When I took it, I was already more or less unafraid of both red and purple.
In general, there are two General tips:
1) Be sure to level up a mage with Expert Earth (I used Ingham for this role, due to his innate eagle eye). Give him one Archangel and send him after strong heroes. In one turn, you can wipe out ma-a-any creatures with Meteor Shower (and later with Implosion). Against red, I'd leave them with only naked Black Dragons this way.
2) As soon as you feel you can crush 4K Ice Elementals (virtually) without losses — rush like the wind, after gathering the cap. Even if you don't kill purple, it's better to trade Strongholds for Necropolises.

And at the end of the game, I ran into the problem of how to kill the Big Bad. When forces are equal, he dismantles me like a Lego set. Painful, isn't it!

Antimagic will help you. His tactic is to bring you down with slowness, weakness, and other negative effects. First, I used water elementals to remove the spells, and then I used Berserk or Blessing to improve the situation. You need to take units that are 1-2 turns slower than the Crystal Dragon, but not vulnerable to magic, like a green dragon or someone else.
This is how I did it when I was playing on a medium difficulty level.
By the way, did you kill the Azure Dragons before entering the main Dungeon?

Everything!
Yesterday, I finally gathered my willpower and completed this map. The presence of archangels, fanatics, stormbirds, and vampires in the final battle was a given. However, I experimented with the remaining three army stacks. While building my army, I used Dess to explore the dungeon and bombard neutral units with the King of the Dead's cloak. I encountered packs of 4,000 wolf riders and griffons. In this way, I raised my skeleton count to almost 30,000. I also decided to include ghost dragons and black knights in the army. First, I waited in front of the castle to accumulate mana. Then, I paid a visit to Deemer for a cup of tea. He didn't put up much of a fight: mass slow (on me) and mass player (on him), his shooters with spitting attacks kill my fanatics (there were about 4,000), and he stays in the castle. My skeletons and black knights act as spectators. Damn! I need to change something!
I decided to add archers and good flying units to the army. For the black dragons, I took titans (there was an option to take liches, since there are twice as many Necropolises as Towers + a cloud of smite could affect three units at once). And to quickly remove the initial effects, I took golden dragons, due to their immunity and high speed. I waited a long time to accumulate enough money to buy the entire army. In the end, the army composition turned out to be: 1200 golden dragons, 800 titans, 800 archangels, 800 ghost dragons, 7,000 stormbirds, 7,000 fanatics, 7,000 vampires (I'm writing this from memory, I might be wrong). I equipped items that give +morale, +speed, an artifact that "disables" luck, accumulated 8 mana (4 restored per day), and went into battle. As expected: I removed the initial buffs with mass dispel in the turn of the golden dragons. I attacked the medusas and harpies with them; in response, the enemy's infantry took them down. Manticores flew at the fanatics - they were quickly defeated. In the end, everything was going towards my victory, if I hadn't overlooked the fact that I was standing on dead earth (I can't cast spells above level 1), while the enemy could. He blinded as many as he could - archangels, stormbirds. And then he effectively cast "sacrifice" on the defeated units and restored minotaurs. For the rematch, I accumulated more mana, equipped the "three-liter jar of petroleum jelly" artifact, and went all-in. He defended himself, cast clone on the minotaurs, called his mother for help, displayed messages about a critical Windows error, but he was still defeated. And it couldn't have been any other way.

I should give it a try, because right now I'm playing on a different map, and the situation there is not very pleasant...

Alright!
For the match rematch, I accumulated more mana and equipped myself.

I don't understand the point. There should be plenty of mana, considering you're only casting level 1 spells.:confused:

The first time, I only had 8 mana. The first dispel came immediately, and my opponent responded with a mass slow. The next turn, another dispel – he blinded my archons. And that was it; I couldn't respond with anything. The second time, I fought with 32 mana units. That was enough.

According to updated information, the army composition was: 771 titans, 9242 vampires, 1305 goldens, 1173 archons, 1583 ghost dragons, 4861 birds, 9837 fanatics.

It's interesting, with such an army, on what day or month did you play?
Regarding mana, there's a loophole. You are released with mana when you pass into the last and main castle. You can stand there for a couple of months and restore your mana, or you can do it another way. At the top, there are buildings for recruiting units (black dragons), and the land is cursed, so the teleport spell won't work. Therefore, before the portal (on normal land), cast the "fly" spell and enter the portal. After teleporting (the spell is still active), fly to the castle and attack. As a result, you have a lot of mana, the hero's luck is high, and the morale is not low.
It worked for me... Good luck.

here's another good map with "Night Watch" heroes and more:)

Name: Bad Fellas
Size: 108x108 (L)
Language: English
Number of players: 4 players/computer and 1 computer
Description: Downtown, a place of commerce, politics, and money; a place that makes and breaks careers; a place of such concentrated power, it is said to be the key to this metropolis. In essence, he who sits upon its financial throne controls the lives of millions. Can you accomplish that feat?
-Maneater
Author: Unknown

I really liked it!

Has anyone actually completed this map and won? I personally haven't been able to – I've won a couple of battles, but those bastards with their magic are getting on my nerves – as soon as you move away, they jump around and capture a couple of castles, you run back, and they jump around again and run away. And you can't garrison every castle – if you split up your army, you won't be able to cope with anyone, because the guys running around there are too strong. If there was at least a town portal, it would be easier, but as it is...

Looks like I'll start over.

Kid, please help! I've reached the Cyclops Island in the First Blood 2.4 map. I didn't have Dessoy learn scouting, so now I can't see the island! I prepared another hero, with scouting, logistics, and pathfinding, but he can't even reach the transition island, even with speed gloves. I don't know what to do ((((( Do I need to go through the island now to continue?

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Thank you for your feedback! :)
It took a long time to create, as there were some "accidents". :) With large breaks over about 10 months... The actual work took about 2 weeks. )) Halfway through, the file was accidentally deleted... The balance was refined for a long time (for an obvious Walkthrough), although it was never fully balanced (those who fought the last enemy will understand why). By the way, VDV_forever, did you manage to find an alternative Walkthrough?
Sincerely, Dim. :)

Yes, Dim, I found an alternative way to complete your Podarok map: Sir Babich, Krasavchik, Gami - I don't remember all the characters on this map - they are all vulnerable in one thing: if you don't interfere with them, they go through a one-way portal to Irburg, then to the nearby outposts with white and black keymaster tents. While you are taking Irburg, the guys die on their own. In my specific example, Babich sailed away on my ship and didn't return, Gami and Pelageya died without cities after capturing and leaving Irburg, and Krasavchik glitched on his own lands - you capture the poor city, buy all available troops, and put any noob in Sanctuary near the city... Krasavchik was in a daze for a long time, bumping between two cities, and then he managed to not capture a single one in a week...

May I ask if that was your intention?

Hey everyone! Does anyone have any quest maps? Please share a link!

I reinstalled Windows. I also bought more RAM and a new hard drive for my computer; the old Windows started malfunctioning after installing the new devices, so I had to install a new one. My problem is that I've completed all the campaigns in The Restoration of Erathia, except for the last one. If possible, please provide a save file. I'm mostly worried about having to collect 2500 skeletons again and complete the mission for Inferno (I really hate them). Thank you. P.S. I'd be happy to play with anyone. skit13@ya.ru