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

SA is an ability located in the center of the skill wheel. To acquire it, you need to upgrade 3 general skills plus a racial skill. For Orcs, it grants +500 rage points at the start of the battle, i.e., level 2. For Mages, it grants all spells at the expert level. Zehir, instead of this, upgraded light, summoning, and almost a cheat-like empathy.

If Kujin wins, there's no point in waiting for UFOs. While you clear the map around your home castle, 4 stacks of level 7 monsters will multiply sufficiently. Just don't recruit them immediately.

The map is completely empty. Besides me and the Castle, there are no other monsters (except for reinforcements). What else should I clear?

In my opinion, the last campaign in the third expansion is the easiest; it's much easier to complete with a hero than, say, the previous one. And I won't even talk about the last mission because with the Warlock's omniscience, you can move mountains. I don't remember any difficulties in this mission because all the heroes have great abilities: Freya with her vengeance, Wolfsten with his unlock, and Kujin with her mega-ability, which is useful against demons. Perhaps only the final battle with Biara was a bit challenging. And the hordes of neutral creatures don't seem very serious.
P.S. I didn't see any green little men.

The map is completely empty. Besides me and the Biaara castle, there are no other monsters (except for reinforcements). What else should I clear?

Then, onward to Biaara! I first ran to Biaara's castle, looked at the monsters, and cleared its surroundings. That's why I had something to clear.

It's like you need to quickly click on the hero, and he becomes yours, then you take the troops, attack, and easily defeat them.

I also did that in 3.0. But in 3.1, this bug was fixed. I had to play fairly.

I waited for the alien ship to arrive. Against the Biara, it lasted exactly 3 turns.
I brought in reinforcements with Zehir (44 units each) + 120 Thunderbirds. It didn't work the first time; I used the wrong magic.
But the second time, I did the following: I created a magic mirror and made the Biara unable to act. I cloned the Thunderbirds. They missed twice (I got lucky). I used Dominate on the cave lords (the summoned ones). And now there are none of them at all. I used Blind on the demoness. And by the end of the battle, I had 65 of my Thunderbirds and 104 summoned ones. The rest of my troops fell before the middle of the battle. The eagles were completely useless.
And in the end, 2 multi-shots.

:smile45: Help! They're killing me!!! :smile16:
I wandered around the map with Zehir, quietly leveled him up to level 31, summoned Thunderbirds, and was wiping out everyone on the map who didn't want to join me...
After capturing the mines, a leveled-up Wolfsten (level 26) appeared with quite decent troops. He attacked Jezbeth's Castle, and the game showed that the danger was low.
Now!!! The Demoness crushed me in twenty turns, despite me actively using runes; she still had about four hundred demons and a dozen succubi left.
I scratched my head, restarted the battle, thankfully I had a saved game, and turned on auto-battle. The result was practically unchanged...
I'm replaying it for the fifth time, out of desperation, I lowered the difficulty level to recruit, save me...
I just don't want to replay the previous missions again...:smile05:
What should I do?

Added after 10 hours 27 minutes
After a couple more defeats, I went to sleep.
In the morning, I shed a tear and decided that I would replay everything... (sighs)

I maxed out Wolfenstein's level with the "Can Always Act" (CA) ability. I don't remember what the maximum level is. I just left the capital unguarded and waited for the enemy to capture it. Then I took it back. That's how I leveled up Wolfenstein. Otherwise, it's impossible to gain experience in the open field because the enemies immediately flee the battlefield.

Wolfenstein easily defeated the demons. The most difficult battle was against Kujin because in version 3.1, they fixed the ability to stop heroes.

I played through the campaign as a hero.

My capital has the Tear of Ashi – it’s a shame to give it up…
Yes, I have version 3.0.

I took Askh's Tear with me on the next mission. If the difficulty level is below Veteran, it's not necessary to give up the town, as the enemies don't run away even in the open field. But they do run away from the hero, like rabbits. In 3.0, you can stop Wulfen and conduct an artifact review. Maybe he's wearing some random junk, while useful artifacts are lying in his inventory. And in 3.1, heroes shouldn't have extra artifacts – only what they need in battle. I left him with a full dwarven set and something else, I don't remember what.

so, does that mean that whatever equipment he had in the previous mission carries over to the next one?? :smile07:
Then I really messed up – Zephyr collected all the artifacts... :D :smile35:

In the game’s campaigns, all parts of the assembled artifacts and Tears of Ashi are carried over to the next mission. Moreover, if a hero has multiple artifacts for one body part, a random one is equipped. Therefore, Fulphsten, Kujin, and Frida should not have any extra artifacts.

*rubs hands together* Now I'll give them a hard time....

Help me, how do I beat the Wolfenstein battle? I'm using runes and magic, but I still can't win. They keep beating me.

Koketochka, be more specific. What level is Wolfsten? What artifacts does he have equipped, etc.?

Added 1 hour 18 minutes ago
Uff... I killed Jezebeth... In the previous mission, I somehow managed to level up Wolfsten to level 27 (I gave him the Enlightenment Chainmail). Towards the end, I gave him a full Dwarven armor, a Rune Axe, a Dragon Eye Ring, and a Sar-Issa Ring. At the very beginning of the battle, Stone Skin and Dodge were automatically cast on my units. On the first turn, each unit received Immunity to two random elements. Jezebeth constantly cast Weakness; it needs to be dispelled as soon as possible with Dispel. But as a result, I was left with almost a full set of troops (the 40% resurrection rune helped). As a surprise, I got a good set of artifacts from the Dragon Strength set and a lot of spells. The result is 41,000 experience points... I'm awesome!:smile44: :smile14: :smile49: :smile13:

Added 4 hours 28 minutes ago
I destroyed everyone, except for the last Castle. Several times during the game, I was almost killed; now I'm sitting with fifty Thunderbirds and waiting for the Martian. The troops in front of the Castle consist of 49 units. It's sad. With all this, Biara defeats me very quickly, despite being of "medium" difficulty...:smile05: By the way, I bought a mask from the artifact merchant that equalizes the starting characteristics of heroes. Is it worth using it if Zehir is level 32, Biara is level 35, and my mage has the Dragon Claw Crown and 4 other Dragon artifacts?:smile32:

Added 24 minutes ago
I waited for the Martian and was disappointed. Those who drew this clearly had a good sense of humor. In the first mission of the first part, they drew a tank, and in Lords of the North, they depicted a burning plane, and this...:D Okay, now I'm going to beat everyone...

Added 41 minutes ago
Well, it's all over - and without the help of the Martian =)
By the way, the increase in those troops is not equal to 100% - 4 units each week.
In battle, you need to actively use the Phantoms spell and not overcrowd the gates...

Siana, I finally saw what a Martian looks like. I had only read about it before. I was too lazy to wait for it.

In 3.1, this mission will be more difficult because you can't stop the heroes. The weakest link is Kujin. It took my hero three attempts to defeat her. The others had no problems. They were all maxed out and equipped with artifacts. Zehir had Empathy - a terrible thing in the hands of magical races (except for Necromancers).