Posts from "Escape to Salvation" - "Magnificent Retreat" [Campaign 4, Mission 4]

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Kujin can be stopped because Gotay has many cyclops. After their armies are combined, you can attack with any hero.

Frida should only be stopped when Duncan is better developed. You can transfer her army to Duncan and attack with him. Otherwise, there's nothing to gain from attacking him.

Someone here mentioned that to stop the heroes, you need to click on the icon. I stopped them (to rearrange artifacts) by pressing the spacebar. :smile49:
P.S. I read somewhere that an alien (Plate) appears in this mission.
In my game, he appeared in the 3rd mission when I exited the dungeon (it was the 2nd week), and in the 4th mission on the 4th week. In both cases, it was during the 1st month. :smile28:

For some reason, I didn't have any aliens. Also, I didn't see tanks or airplanes in the original game or in the Hammers of Fate expansion.

For some reason, I didn't have any aliens. Also, I didn't see tanks or airplanes in the original game or in Hammers of Fate.

I also didn't see the airplane – I didn't play through the Hammers of Fate campaign, but I did find the tank in the original game for the human faction.
And the alien is a bit awkward – his summoned creatures appear. Once, I didn't think it through and assembled a powerful army of dwarves (40+ dragons) for the alien in mission 4, and then summoned rakshasas. The entire army just vanished. But his stats are amazing – at level 26, he has 24 in magic and attack, and around 20 in defense and knowledge ("Mentorship" skill).
As for his appearance, maybe it depends on something. For example, in both cases, I switched from another hero to Zehir on the 1st day of the week after the message "Are you sure you want to...?" appeared. Maybe that's why?

I'll tell you how I completed the battle with Biara. Zephyr had Arcane Knowledge. I leveled up Plate's Elemental Fury, education (Scholar), and Chaos. Zephyr learned Armageddon. By the way, there's an unclear bug here – messages like "Plate receives 'Call to Arms'" appear. But the spell doesn't appear in his spellbook. It would be interesting if it did. I take gargoyles for the alien – they're not needed by Zephyr anyway, and 6 gremlins. The gargoyles stay in one slot, and the gremlins – 1 in each. I move to the castle (the enemy's), move through "reinforcements," and attack. As soon as the hero's turn comes, I use enhanced Armageddon. And I do this several times (with each summoning of thunderbirds, the alien appears with the same stats). In one week, I killed 180 demonesses, 10 devils (in one stack), etc. In general, in the 3rd month, Zephyr easily takes the castle.

I'm having problems with Biara. There was no reinforcement for Zehir in the form of a flying saucer, but there should have been, as I understand it. What should I do now? It's impossible to build up a suitable army in the castle! Biara has a much stronger army. There are about a hundred Archdevils there. For comparison, Zehir has about forty Titans. What should I do? HELP!!!!!!!!

I don't know... I didn't get the saucer, although I saw it, and I killed Biara easily. The trick is this: if you know the "Dominate" spell, use it to control the summoned Archdemons (Devils) and use them to defeat the enemy. When you defeat them, the summoned creatures will die on their own. They don't count at the end of the battle.

It was easy for the Gnomes and Orcs to take the castles, but they are simply well-leveled in my game. But Frieda... When you cast light magic, Divine Retribution is inflicted, and it often kills random units (usually the hero or a veteran), hitting the weakest or summoned units!

To be honest... I expected more from completing the final mission... Although I did enjoy it. Frida caused the most problems (her attack was 16, defense 18), I had to replay it about 10 times. I liked the final battle the most! If it weren't for the blinding and mind control, I wouldn't even know how to fight such DARKNESS and such a HERO. There were no problems with the others...
Well... thanks to Nival for the enjoyable experience, but there are some noticeable flaws. For example, there is a complete lack of balance in the hero levels when capturing Inferno cities. If people knew that all the heroes provided to them in the scenario would participate in the final mission... there wouldn't be any problems at all. As it is, some people had to replay half the campaign just to properly level up a hero for the finale... Nival's motto "Let the player have a beautiful experience" didn't quite work here...

LYRIK, I always try to get the most out of each mission to level up my heroes. That's why, in the last mission, all my heroes are super-killers. If Frida is weaker than Duncan, you can stop her and transfer the troops to Duncan. I did this in the Kujin-Gotai pairing.

Who figured out under what condition the Martian appears?

I can't capture the castle with the Orcs. If Kujin loses, the mission fails, and I can't seem to win the battle... Maybe someone can suggest a tactic?

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I think heroes should always be leveled up to the maximum. Before playing, I read forums and websites on the topic. And even so... I replayed the battle with Kujin 5 times. The rest I passed without any problems. The final battle... Well, I leveled up Zehir to master light magic + blessing + protection + some skill that guarantees that a spell (slowing down instead of speeding up, for example) may not work. I learned Divine Retribution (I didn't find any resurrection spells in any library). Divine Retribution helped a lot.

The most challenging part for me was the battle against the orcs. But unfortunately, in version 3.1, it became impossible to stop the heroes, and they also took away Gotay's cyclops =)). As a result, I had to replay the mission three times before I realized that I shouldn't eliminate the Archdevils immediately...

However, the mission itself doesn't present any major problems. I captured the Claw in three stages. The first stage involved a "plate" formation with Dark Elf troops, and the second stage involved Nazir with the entire Academy army that couldn't fit with Zehir. As a result of these stages, both stacks of devils were destroyed, and the rest also suffered significant losses... In principle, I could have captured the castle without these "stages," but I needed to find a use for the remaining army ;) Then, with Zehir, I cast Chaos on my enemy (although I could have just attacked directly)).
Zehir had the following artifacts: golden horseshoe, 6 artifacts from the dragon set, tome of power, sandals of the saint... I gave the tomes and low-quality artifacts to the "staging" heroes.

I don't know, I didn't see any aliens, and Zehir (with a super ability) easily defeated everyone on the first try. There are plenty of troops, and the cyclops didn't do anything useful. The wizard's spell blinded both devils, and then everything ended quickly and easily. Difficulty: Hero, patch 3.1.