Posts from Necromancer – “Ruler of Erathia” [Campaign 3, Mission 5] Auto-translated

Boris K I already defeated that Godric :D last week. Now I'm playing as Dark Elves :( I don't like playing as all Elves, and I don't like playing as Mages at all :smile18: ) I just want to advise those who have just installed the game and are playing this mission for the first time: immediately buy another hero, and give Isabel's troops to him, then your troops won't go to Godric, and it will be much easier for you in the final battle. This time, he, the enemy, only had 2 angels and 2 knights... And I immediately hid Isabel in the "Sanctuary", from where she would come out once a week to get 1000 in the mill and 500 from the dancing little man:p IMHO. Depending on the strength of your Necromancer, storm the dungeon, to get the "Wings of the Angel", with them the hero just dominates the map :smile40:

valleriv, just a quick thought: the difficulty level shouldn't be higher than Warrior. My Godric had hundreds of angels and paladins, along with legions of archers and armored troops. We took down the Phoenix with a single counterattack. Godric used antimagic against Berserk or Subdue. I had to replay the scenario. Godric is maxed out. He'll be very useful in the 6th campaign.

If you plan to play for a long time, I wouldn't recommend capturing Frida right away, even though Markel can defeat the angels and all other neutral creatures with his starting army without any losses. After capturing her, an enemy with a decent army lands on the island. Another enemy lands at a specific time.

The difficulty level varies greatly depending on the version. I never encountered billions of enemies in version 1.6, regardless of whether I played aggressively or defensively. As for Godric, the main goal is to survive until your turn. In my second playthrough, I didn't take the summoning magic skill and instead relied on the classic Necromancer strategy. I thought I would be overwhelmed, but then Markel started mass-cursing and weakening enemies. In the end, about 80% of the losses occurred before Markel started using his staff. A prolonged battle with Spiritual Link and Resurrection is a real advantage. By the end of the battle, you can resurrect half of your army. That's why I prefer a long-term development strategy. Many Angels and Knights? We have two castles – build troops in both and turn ordinary soldiers into various undead creatures in the castle. The result is a double Necromancer army, which is more than decent.

Arjien, with Godrick as the hero, the increase in angels, paladins, archers, and heavy infantry far exceeds the increase in troops from two castles. Also, you'll have to fight Markel in the 6th campaign. Therefore, it's not worth leveling him up too much in this mission. It's better to eliminate Godrick at the end of the first week.

I don't know, I don't know. I think it's more interesting this way. And it's difficult to complete this campaign without leveling up Markel. You'll end up leveling him up in the third mission, and also in the second, although not to the same extent. Plus, Cyrus's army in the fourth mission is superior to the Necromancer's, even if you rush through the dungeon. Cyrus is only defeated there because of magic. But I don't like leveling up weak heroes.

In the first four missions, I have Markel well-leveled. Otherwise, I don't even know how he would have managed to defeat the heavily upgraded Godrick as a hero. As I said, in this mission, he shouldn't be leveled up even more. And I didn't have any problems with Cyrus.

guys, listening to you, it's like you're talking about the "general staff"...
but in reality, you level up your hero based on how the map unfolds!! and even though **I** never rose above the "warrior" level, your conversations, frankly, are annoying...

valleriv, after being defeated in the 4th campaign, I decided to use a scanner for the first time to level up Raileg. The result didn't change – I was defeated even faster than without the scanner. And the leveling process with the scanner was almost the same as with regular leveling. I just wasted a lot of time. I won't use it again. It's more interesting without it.

And my Markel always had a good map layout by the 5th mission, even without a scanner. Summoning, Darkness, and Sorcery were always available.

However, I encountered terrible random events twice. The first time, Agrael in the campaign only got Darkness magic at level 24 or 25. And the second time – right now in the HotS, my Vaishan, level 15, still doesn't have Chaos magic. I'm afraid I don't have much of a chance against the Orc. The worst thing is that the Orc is a player who is better than me.

For me, it was very straightforward. Markel had three times the level of Godric. Godric is level 12 :mad:, Markel is level 28 :). I assembled a small army, and as soon as the time limit appeared, I immediately ran to fight Godric. My army was two or three times smaller than Godric's. The Phoenix helped a lot. I resurrected it once using Raise Dead, and it slowly but surely killed all of Godric's troops with the support of Higher Vampires, Archliches, and Bone Archers. Godric's human army consisted of: 5 angels, 2 paladins, 29 inquisitors, 1-2 dozen royal griffins, 2-3 dozen halberdiers, and about half a hundred militia. As you can imagine, for the Phoenix with maximum damage of 392, such troops are not a problem. The magical army was 10 times larger :smile19:.

Want me to tell you how it all happened? Okay, so I was playing as a hero. I dealt with Isabelle like this: I hid her in a monastery and left one knight there (so I would have someone to hang out with). I wandered around the map for 3 weeks. On the 2nd day of the 4th week, I reached Godric. My army consisted of 4.5 thousand skeleton archers, 3k zombies, 2k spirits, 1356 vampires, 600 archliches, 320 messengers, and 100 dragons.

Godric had 2 thousand armored knights, 1200 crossbowmen, 578 paladins, and 42 archangels.

Godric had twice as few magical troops as I had.

In the first battle, I won on auto-combat.

In the second battle, the archangels and paladins defeated the messengers... I cast a spell on the paladins and won the battle.

3 weeks?! You probably weren't counting in-game weeks. "4,500 skeleton archers, 3,000 zombies, 2,000 spirits, 1,356 vampires, 600 archliches, 320 messengers, and 100 dragons" - I don't think I've ever seen such an army, and you assembled it in a campaign. Even Isabel and Godric would be ready to commit seppuku.

But if I'm mistaken, go ahead and tell me more.

Okay, fine, I'll tell you. First, I had 7 Necromancers. But I raised undead creatures exclusively using the Mark spell. Second, to the south, there was an island filled with dragons (dead ones). I waited for three weeks, and for some reason, there were 102 of them! At that time, I was playing version 1.06. Also, I was playing with a hero, and peasants were on the road. 2,500 peasants joined me for 12,890 (the version was probably buggy). There were a lot of neutral units, and I turned them all into undead. I also had a guard of about 300 zombies. I subdued them. I modified some file with an increase in creatures; it was especially large for Godric.

Favorite of the Gods, you were lucky that Godric didn't have anti-magic. He would have quickly cast magic immunity on the angels and paladins. With a poorly developed Godric, it will be more difficult to complete the 6th campaign.

And at the end of the battle, he also liked to resurrect all the Paladins with the "Guardian Angel" ability...
That was quite a pain, although not in all cases...

Could you please tell me how to transform Isabel's army into Marcel's warriors? I don't seem to find such an option in the game (recruit level), or am I misunderstanding something?