Posts from Necromancer – “Assassination of the Ruler” [Campaign 3, Mission 4]

Where can I hire dragons? I don't see them anywhere. (

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I go to Cyrus with 16 Bone Dragons, 5 Shadow Dragons, about 800 Archers, and 9 Death Knights. I don't know what to do, he keeps defeating me. (((

Please explain where you got 5 Shadow Dragons and 800 Archers; there aren't that many there! :confused:

Ganebal, you can buy dragons in their lairs. I can't say anything about the archers, as I don't remember how many I had in version 1.5, and I haven't reached that mission yet in version 3.0. But I can't understand how Cyrus can defeat Markel, who has all the dark magic spells and summoning abilities. IMHO, this is the easiest mission in this campaign.

Please help me, I'm stuck on this part and haven't been able to progress for three weeks. I'm running out of energy, please help if you can.

Kis@, what’s the problem? IMHO, this is one of the easiest missions among all the campaigns. Of course, if Markel is maxed out and has a full set of dark magic and summoning spells. If he doesn’t have the spells, I advise you to replay the 3rd mission and get them in the treasure chest and pyramid. Without a full set of spells, it’s very difficult to defeat Godric in the next mission if he’s maxed out.

If the game version is not lower than 1.4, you need to capture the skeleton dwelling at the very beginning. In the end, you’ll have to pass by it anyway. There will be several hundred of them accumulated there during the playthrough.

I have the same problem as many others – my army isn't strong enough when I face Cyrus, because I lose a lot of units on the way there (and even if I don't lose a single dragon and buy three more, it's still not enough against Cyrus). Maybe someone can advise me: do I need to accept all the units I encounter on the way? If I accept some, there's no room for others. For example, when I wanted to hire dragons in the towers, they were highlighted in RED (meaning I couldn't hire them). And do I need to collect all the gold and artifacts on the way (there are sometimes losses there too)?

bonchik, if you have a complete set of dark and summoning spells, you can defeat all neutral creatures without any losses. I defeated them all. It won't be possible to recruit all of them due to the lack of slots. I declined zombies and I don't remember from whom else.

Thanks, everything worked out; I just needed to “explore a bit” and gather dragons and skeletons. I didn’t buy a single ghost because I had accepted neutral creatures earlier, and they occupied the available slots (but this really turned out to be the easiest mission so far:smile01:). I just have one question: I’m playing all the campaigns on the “recruit” difficulty level – should I move up to the next level, or should I finish the whole game first (since I’m playing for the first time, but the game is like a DRUG)? They’re going to kick me out of the house soon:smile52:).

The mission is easily completed with the help of a single summon. The main thing is to learn the phoenix summon in the previous mission, and for battles (for example, against titans), deploy, for example, 20 dragons. Then the phoenix calmly flies forward and destroys 7-8 titans per turn, and the hero, if necessary, revives the dragons. The situation is even simpler if you have a celestial shield.
I didn't level up dark magic because there wasn't enough space (Summoning, defense, leadership, unfortunately, spellcasting, and luck were chosen!).

bonchik, I played through it for the first time as a Barbarian. Then as a Knight. The Barbarian doesn't differ much from the Recruit. At these difficulty levels, the computer can't use spells higher than level 3. In general, the difference in the difficulty of completing campaigns doesn't quite match what is written in the difficulty level manual. Thanks to scripts, some missions as a Knight are many times more difficult to complete than as a Veteran. The first 4 missions can be easily completed by anyone on Knight difficulty.

It's difficult to complete the 5th mission on Knight difficulty without Subdue and Berserk. With them, any neutral creatures can be defeated without losses in units and without mana costs. It's better without Luck (IMHO).

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I leveled up Darkness, Summoning, Defense, Sorcery, and Leadership. I cast Subdue and Necromancer's Mark on the largest stack, and then raised the dead. I summoned Phoenixes rarely - only in the most serious cases. And in Heroes 3, you can also immobilize enemies with Hives.

Could you please tell me which spells are best to use? And how long does it take to complete the game optimally? I've tried twice, but Cyrus still defeats me.

check out the available walkthroughs – if anything remains unclear, then ask.

In the end, I collected all the skeletons that had accumulated. And I still had money left.

But do units accumulate in buildings?! Mine don't :-( What should I do about this mess?!

The player was using version 1.4, or even a later version. I think it's possible to do it there.

Hey, I was playing on my laptop, and I maxed out Markel in the previous mission (I also found the Ring of Sin artifact there). A cutscene plays, I choose the bonus, and after the start, within a second, another cutscene begins, showing what happens when you win. O_O Why is this happening? Version 3.1. P.S.: I know I'm a cheater, body and soul, but seriously, this is too much...

I have the same issue. A mod for the old campaigns caused a bug. Basically, the entire problem is that Cyrus is missing at the start of the map. And the scripts think he was killed, so the map ends.