Posts from Sanctuary – “Life in death and death in life” [Campaign 4 – Mission 4]

I noticed that water elementals are more durable than light elementals. And there are more of them thanks to the Tide Staff.

Light elementals have a better counter-attack. It deals much more damage to the enemy stack.

Light elementals have a better counterattack. They deal much more damage with their stack against the enemy.

That's true, but in my tactic, the main goal is to hold out for one or two rounds, and water is better at that. After that, when the stone skin and regeneration are active on the earth elementals, nothing is scary anymore; you can summon light elementals, or use the aura of retribution, and the enemies will still die on their own.

By the way, I just took a castle from Inferno. The enemy hero was deadly, and as a result, I only lost 17 Pearl Maidens, and that was only because he killed them with spells at the beginning of the battle, and I had nothing to resurrect the fallen corpses with.

I also cleared out both the orange and red factions. First, I defeated the demon, and then the red faction attacked me – I don't understand why. So, completing the quests without capturing their cities didn't work, but I think it's for the best. In terms of difficulty, this is the most challenging and interesting one so far. I'm playing on normal difficulty. I still don't understand why the red faction attacked me; I captured a medium-sized demonic castle, and then they came after me.

Yes, this mission is interesting and challenging, but it's also quite frustrating.
1. I don't understand why one of the missions failed. My Irina chose the Path of Tears and failed the mission "do not capture cities" after completing the task "clear the lighthouse of demons." And where is the logic in that? When the offended guardian asked for help, my Irina was offered a choice: attack (Path of Blood) or complete the task (Path of Tears). I naturally chose the Path of Tears, and as soon as I cleared the lighthouse, the Castle changed ownership, and my peacekeeping mission failed! That's how helping those in need works :smile04:
2. Orange is a real pain; he keeps attacking and attacking, and his main army is immortal. You kill one, and another appears with the same number. And where does he get so many troops?:confused:

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By the way, at the beginning of the mission, Kensi is shown in the northeast corner of the map. Send Tiangbo there; there are many recruitable warriors. You can reach that place quickly by using the whirlpool directly east of the starting Castle.

But for some reason, they aren't shown to me:smile32:

Yes, this mission is interesting and challenging, but also quite confusing!
1. I don't understand why one of the missions failed. My Irina followed the Path of Tears and failed the mission "do not capture cities" after completing the task "clear the lighthouse of demons." And where is the logic in that? When the offended guardian asked for help, my Irina was offered a choice: attack (Path of Blood) or complete the task (Path of Tears). I naturally chose the Path of Tears, and as soon as I cleared the lighthouse, the castle switched sides, and my peacekeeping mission failed! That's how you help those in need.

And for some reason, I don't see the smile32 emoticon.

If you want to complete the mission, don't pay attention to that task. Red is also not the most "peaceful" character; he will attack and get in the way, so it's better to capture his cities, and then it will be easier to deal with the demons.

As for the troops, that's a rhetorical question. And regarding reinforcements, just look for the vortex in the far south of the map.

No, this is just outrageous – my Irina is fighting demons, and the red player is treating them very nicely. So, they met, and each had a considerable army. I decided they would fight each other, but that wasn't the case. The red player moved a little to the side, and the other one ran past him. No, where's the fairness? It's not allowed for them to run past me with their army; they have to engage, but they don't touch each other! And the main demon hero even came out of his lair to settle the score with me, so I feel my time is up, and I need to start over.

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Exactly, it's time to start over. :(

Most likely, the danger was mutually "high" for them, so they didn't take any risks :). And I immediately said that red creatures should be fought the same way as orange ones; otherwise, if you try to complete that task, the mission will become much more difficult ;).

Restarted the mission. It seems to be going better than last time; I completed two quests – I captured a town starting with the letter E and killed the orange hero, the main demon, who challenged my Irina to a duel. I even reached the boss – the mother, the progenitor – but failed there, despite having a rather decent army. So, I decided to leave her alone for now. I defeated the demon thanks to the army I gathered on the island, where not only nagas joined me, but also snow maidens, shark guardians, and improved kappas. And, what's nice, this time the red and orange factions are fighting each other!

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Interestingly, I just completed the "Fisherman's Village" guardian quest – I cleared the lighthouse, and, as before, I received a castle. However, surprisingly, my "Come in Peace" quest didn't fail this time, as it did last time. HOW STRANGE! I did the same thing, but the result was different.

Hooray!!! I finally completed it! And I didn't waste time on the demon castles because they had really strong troops, and I would have ended up with nothing after winning. The main thing is that I killed the mother of nightmares, and then the duke. I didn't collect 200 Kirins; 80 was enough. When I was dealing with the mother of nightmares, I positioned all my troops behind her and attacked her from the rear – she didn't even turn around! In general, it was almost without losses; she killed a few archers, but I resurrected them.
I realized that the main task is to wait and build up a good army, and then everything will be okay.

When can I get the quest to capture the lighthouse?

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Never mind, the question is withdrawn.

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I tried to complete the mission – we came in peace, I only took a neutral castle, and I rebuilt the castle that became mine after capturing the lighthouse. Maybe I didn't complete the mission because I defeated the hero – the Wolf? And can I now safely capture the Wolf's castles?

I completed it on hard difficulty without any problems. First, Tyambo gave his warriors to Irina, and through the whirlpool located to the east of the starting city, he headed towards the northeastern corner of the map to recruit neutral units, but before that, he cleared the waters near the whirlpool. By the end of the week, Tyambo had recruited all the desired units. A tip: recruit the Snow Maidens last, otherwise they might start fighting each other. Meanwhile, Irina, using the Phoenix Summon spell, captured the resource mines – first wood, then stone, gold, and crystals. Then, she visited the stables and headed north to capture the Zschwick Castle. With the help of Phoenixes and Restoration, she defeated the Inferno hero and captured the castle. Before the end of the first week, she managed to capture all the resource mines near the two castles. At the beginning of the second week, Irina visited the stables again, went to the Gustav's Turn Castle, received the lighthouse quest, went to the lighthouse, where she met Tyambo, took troops from him, and cleared the lighthouse. By the end of the second week, she already had 3 castles. The rest was just a matter of course. Over the next 3 weeks, she developed the castles, cleared the lands around these castles, and repelled rare attempts by enemy heroes to penetrate her territory. After that, she easily captured the Rauchburg Castle, and since the "We Come in Peace" quest was somehow failed, she captured all the Wolf castles as well. This, along with clearing the territory, took another 3-4 weeks. Then, she attacked the Nebirias Castle, captured it, and went to the Dungeon. By that time, she had almost 200 Holy Kirins, so she didn't experience any difficulties with the Super-Matriarch, nor later with Gerhard. That's all.

I completed it on Hard difficulty without recruiting any neutral units.

Completed this mission without any problems. Led the hero to the northwest and captured a neutral town. Then, I gathered a sufficient army and captured Ashwink. I assembled a good army and went after the Inferno hero, defeating him. After that, I went down into the dungeon and defeated the Queen-Broodmother and then went after Gerhard... The mission was excellent.

Question: Is Fisherman's Village the town where you can complete the quest to clear out the lighthouse? If so, where is it located? Or is it in Gustav's Turn?

Yes, that city. The lighthouse is located south of the city.