Posts from Warlock – “Cultist” [Campaign 4, Mission 3]

I can’t seem to beat this mission. I’ve replayed it about 50 times! At most, I can capture 2 castles, and then I get attacked from two sides, and my heroes lose. I tried building up one city as much as possible, capturing all the mines, and then taking a second city. Then I tried capturing 2 castles in the first week without capturing the mines, so I would have a larger army, but it still doesn’t work. And those red ones keep coming. What should I do? Please help!

The same problem. The enemies are too strong. I capture one town, but lose a large part of my army in the process, and then strong heroes (~level 18) start attacking. I barely managed to deal with two of them, and now I have very few troops left, and there's also a hero from the second castle running around. There are still a couple of days left until the end of the week. I'll try again in the evening.

How is it only half? Both castles can be captured in 5 days without any losses. But still, the mission is very difficult at the beginning, and then it becomes easy.

Hmm, maybe my hero isn't leveled up enough (most likely that's the case). And the difficulty is set to Veteran.

The entire campaign was played on the veteran difficulty. And throughout the entire campaign, I never got a luck bonus when leveling up my hero. Grrrr, I was incredibly annoyed. In this particular mission, my main hero was accompanied by a large group of Minotaurs + Hydras and 5-10 Fury Assassins, used to eliminate the initial volley of magic-shooting enemies. I killed everything with magic; I had boots that provided a +50% damage bonus to earth spells. The rest of my troops stayed in the castles and held the defense (quite successfully). Towards the end, I added a few Black Dragons (around 5), but only because they were already in a captured castle, had been built, and I didn't want to waste gold.

Ah, I don't like how my hero is developing; I'll have to replay this campaign from the beginning, but thankfully it doesn't take too long.

and I capture two castles in 5 days, defeat the red player, and then the blue players come and defeat me with such ease, as if I were level 1.

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Does anyone know how many blue castles there are?
Because I capture the third castle and don't have time to attack from the other side before the end of the week, and my army is at zero.

does anyone know how many blue Castles are there?
because I'm capturing the third Castle and can't make it to the attack from the other side by the end of the week, armies are zero

I've attached a map and marked with numbers the order of capturing Castles that I used. Played on Veteran difficulty
Demons btw. always (at least in my case) go through the second Castle; I intercepted them for the first time with my main hero, then due to the fact that the number of Castles was large and I didn't take units from the first two, the second hero had an impressive army and, although with difficulty, fended off the red aggressors.
Also, you must always remember two things:
1) Do not delay capturing Castles. The best option is a blitzkrieg at the beginning when the enemy hasn't strengthened yet; the defense of 3 or 4 Castles was not very strong (to put it mildly) when I captured them
2) Intercept enemy heroes. For example, as soon as I noticed an enemy hero (blue), I immediately rushed into pursuit of him.

Good answer. The only correction is that the red Inferno heroes run to the castle they can capture. In my case, they always ran to different castles.

The first time I captured my second Castle, demons immediately attacked it, and then the Blue faction took the Castle. The second time I captured my second Castle, demons attacked it right away.

My walkthrough on the hero level. Russian version 1.1 Immediately, I rushed with two heroes upwards. From above, along the way, the first hero ran towards me (I defeated him along the way), and a slightly stronger one was to the left (I defeated him while staying in the upper Castle). Next, I went to capture the empty Castle on the left. Another one ran in from the upper teleport – I defeated him. The demons came for a visit :) ... then a hero ran in from the left teleport, and... I defeated him, but with significant losses. Here, I tried replaying the level several times, and eventually, I returned to the original approach and decided to do the following. I ignored the hero, the one I was defeating with significant losses, as well as the two Castles that I had acquired with great effort, and went to the upper teleport. After exiting the teleport, I decided to simply scout the map and sent my main hero upwards, and the second one to the left. Two Castles were encountered – I captured them (I think it was good that I sent my main hero upwards – the Castle there was strong, and I gathered an army). The hero, whom I was defeating with significant losses, followed behind, and when he exited the teleport, he always followed the second hero (perhaps because he was closer). Therefore, I had to have my strengthened main hero meet him. And then, miraculously, that enemy changed his mind about going to the weak hero and rushed to meet the main hero, and paid the price for it. Here, I decided to check the tavern and see who was now the strongest, and what I saw filled me with delight – they were selling defeated enemies there, and when another week passed, the enemies started putting themselves up for sale again and again. In general, all the difficulties of this map ended here – no one chased me anymore. Going counterclockwise around the map, I captured the remaining three Castles, and then reclaimed everything I had acquired with great effort at the beginning of the game. Yes, I almost forgot, the demons came for another visit :) Well, that's all!!!

I don't know what the problem is...
I captured all 7 cities, but the mission isn't completed.
Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
HELP

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In the worst case, could you upload a save file for mission 4?
I've already replayed mission 3 twice, but it's still the same.
The cities are captured, the blue player is defeated, and the demons aren't attacking.
But I don't know what to do next... the task to capture the cities remains uncompleted in the list of objectives.
Please help!!

I don't know, I don't know, but my hero has good stats.

How about you share the save file then, since you didn't encounter any problems with it.

Hello, fellow sufferers! I have the same problem – I can’t complete this mission! On behalf of all the frustrated players, I ask – please tell me how to complete it.