Posts from Necromancer – “Invasion” [Campaign 3, Mission 3]

Thank you very much, it was very helpful:):) :smile01:

Oh, what should I do? All the boxes are checked, but I can't enter the portal, and that's it.

Try again. He seems a bit strange; it didn't work for me right away either.

So, I don't know what to do, or should I go back? I've already taken everything I could.

I don't mean to try in that sense, but just click on it (the portal, I mean) and try that way, in case everything else, including completed quests and 20 dragons, is already done. For some reason, it's difficult to enter. It took me four or five attempts to succeed.

Sometimes, there's a trick: when you hover the mouse over a portal, it seems like it won't let you through, but you need to be quick and click, and the portal will open.

Okay, so I didn't take the last city and went straight to the portal. Here's how I did it this time, but before that, I took the city and then the portal closed.

Alright, here's the plan. Have Isabel stay in Necropolis at all times.
Once you have 50 Skeleton Archers and 30 Spectres, move Markel east, then north.
There you'll find a land (it's guarded by mages), defeat them. Then there will be hellish lands, and to the right of them, a mine and a portal.
Send Markel there, and only Markel, to attack the Skeleton Archers guarding the portal (they will follow you).
Then go through the portal. After the portal, head right. When you're in the desert, go south (there's one town there).
Then go home and build up your army.
Then build a ship on the right and sail up with it. When you disembark, go north; almost immediately, you'll find a town, capture it. There will also be a monastery; send Isabel there and complete the mission.
But be careful: if you capture two mage towns, a huge elven army will attack you.
There's another mage town further north. Capture it.
Then accumulate 100,000 gold. Once you have it, visit each mage town and click OK everywhere; all the towns will start producing undead.
Then build up 1000 Skeleton Archers and attack the elves.
Then build 20 Enhanced Dragons and head northwest.
There will be 3 garrisons. Overrun them. Then you'll find the town where Cyrus lives.
As soon as he sees you, he'll run to the portal; follow him there, and your mission will be complete.
Under no circumstances should you lose your heroes.
Good luck!

I also want to add a few words: I didn't see any Godric on this map, nor did I see Agrael :smile11:, at least they should write correctly :smile29:! I leveled up Markel and Isabelle as much as possible, and gathered armies for both of them until the end. The most difficult thing for me was to get Isabelle away from a strong enemy, as she also traveled a lot on the map, gathering supplies at sea. The "Teleport" spell came in very handy, and I periodically used "Resurrection" to keep her army at a decent level. As for Markel, the main spells for him became "Battle Madness" (when strong enemy units kill their own, although it doesn't last long) and "Resurrection" (for skeletons). When possible, I also used "Phantom Creation" to increase the number of bone archers and ghosts. After I managed to get Isabelle into the Sanctuary, I continued to supply her and Markel with army supplies. I did this until my island was captured by an elf. The first time, when I made an excursion from the Sanctuary over a long distance, and there were no enemies nearby, I led Isabelle to the treasure chamber, right opposite her Sanctuary, and grabbed the "Summon Phoenix" and "Heavenly Shield" spells there, although I couldn't teach them to Markel, and Isabelle could only summon (initially) 1 phoenix in later battles. When I built Ziad (the castle opposite Markel's Mythgard), after turning it into a Necropolis and raising the guild of mages, I think, to level 4, I was able to teach Markel only one useful spell, "Wall of Fire," which was greatly helped by a former enemy hero, raised by the previous owner to level 21, i.e., he was able to learn the spell in the guild of my castle, and when he met Markel, the latter, i.e., Markel, exchanged spells with the mercenary, for this, my Markel had "Training" in advance, in order to share spells and train his comrades, if possible. In the pyramid, unfortunately, I didn't find anything good for Markel in terms of new spells, and I don't even remember exactly when I got the "Suggestion" spell for him :smile32:. I never managed to reach the Sphinx between the captured castles; Isabelle guarded the portal exit, waiting for Markel with his army. Then, when he arrived, they switched places, and Isabelle went to level up, training on defeating orange garrisons - for this, it was enough to break through the first weak garrison, capture the mine, and defeat the lion-rakshasa. When I saw titans in the second garrison, I decided to change my "ram" to Markel with his magnificent bone army. Closer to the last enemy stronghold, Markel already had 34 bone dragons, 6 ghost dragons, 3000 skeletons, 550 ghosts, and 106 archliches. By the way, it wasn't particularly difficult to protect the bone dragons. I was able to raise both heroes to level 26, and the most difficult thing for Markel was to repel the attack of the human castle and defeat the first strong enemy who came to conquer my lands. I never managed to fight the elf; since he captured the human castle, he sailed the sea, then actively began to recruit comrades, dived from one whirlpool to another, searched sunken ships for loot, and disdained Mythgard, not capturing it until the very end, and he and his friends could be easily defeated by Markel, and then I could even profit, replenishing my own army; Markel just didn't have time for him - he was conquering castles and turning them into Necropolises, and then guarding the exit from the portal... I think I've described everything, I never used autobattle, I'm playing on version 1.0, difficulty "Warrior". I want to replay the end of the mission and capture the last stronghold of Cyrus; maybe I can find some new spells there. I'm already convinced that different tactics and strategies in the game lead to different spells being taught in the guilds and treasure chambers :smile08:! I replayed the end of the mission - in the Al-Safir castle, I found the following spells: "Wall of Fire; Summon Phoenix; Chain Lightning; Earth Shock," unfortunately, Markel still couldn't learn "Summon Phoenix" because, at the time of conquering the castle, he had not yet mastered "Expert Summoning." Then I moved Isabelle to this castle, who immediately learned the "Wall of Fire" spell, and Markel managed to teach her the "Summon Elementals" spell. After conquering and learning the spells, I led Markel to the portal to Cyrus.

please help, I can't seem to access the portal

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I've already tried everything.

I think I've covered the basics, I've never used autobattle, and I'm playing version 1.0.

I recommend patching it! :D

Guys, can anyone help me?! I have a task – to destroy Alaron's troops that came to help the mages. And my Isabel has absolutely NO troops! What should I do???

Try to destroy them with Necromancer troops. Ideally, he should have one of the required artifacts.
That's how I managed to do it.

Guys, can anyone help me?! I have a task – to destroy Alaron's troops that came to help the mages. And my Isabel has absolutely NO troops! What should I do???

What to do, what to do – start the mission again!

I'm having the same problem now. I provided excellent troops for both Isabel and the Necromancer (I don't remember his name). Isabel is stationed in the first Necropolis castle, "Mythgard." She's just sitting there, guarding it. You never know what might happen! I used the Necromancer to kill the elves. It just happened that way. So, I captured two NECESSARY castles, the ones with the staff and the cloak. But where is the third one? I can't find it. I've searched all the portals, even the one-way ones. Nothing... And another question: do the thousand skeletons have to be warriors, or can they be archers?