Posts from Discussion about the Stronghold faction.

Furies are weak and only good against slow units. There's no need to even talk about regular harpies. Orcs have much scarier units like Crushers, and especially Demolishers. This unit, in skilled hands, can break through almost any unit, even elite ones. The only difficulties might arise with archers and slightly with flying units. All ground units are easily controlled with goblin traps, which prevents neutral creatures from focusing on anyone. Demolishers simply take out enemy stacks one by one.

At the start, you get one stack of Crushers (which are upgraded as quickly as possible) and the rest are single goblins + the main goblin stack. Then you add Snatchers, which increase the mobility of the attack stack, or reduce the mobility of neutral creatures, allowing you to control them even more effectively.

I don't understand one thing - why divide the goblins into single units and a main stack?

But this is with the Dynasty weapon.

The main feature of the trap is not to deal damage, but to slow down the enemy. And for this, even 1 goblin will do.

Which version are you playing? In version 1.2, even a stack of goblins can't stop anyone anymore. It seems they've made the ability trigger like it does for trappers in the fifth game. That is, the probability of the ability triggering depends on the ratio of the goblin stack's strength to the neutral stack's strength.

What if you take the "Wizard" specialization, which gives +40 to mana?

This will only delay the mana drain. It doesn't regenerate on its own, only through artifacts.

There's a severe mana shortage, seemingly only in the beginning, but later, as levels and army size increase, "Reinforcements" should be sufficient, except in rare cases. By the way, Drain is cheaper in mana than Healing and Restoration and is often more effective.

Where did I write that draining is always more effective? Why are you explaining obvious things to me as if I were a complete newbie? :smile51: And if I lose 1-2 brutes (which is usually the case at the beginning), why would I cast a "more effective" restoration spell (I almost never take healing), when I can use draining to resurrect the fallen comrades and save 5 mana.