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I'm trying to defeat Xiedu and I've encountered an interesting feature. It's either a bug in the game or a bug in the map. Basically, Sir Mullich doesn't gain skills when leveling up, starting from a certain level. At the same time, there are 3 empty slots. What the heck is going on?

I played the third game manually for the first time.

if a stack controlled by the AI, under the Berserk effect, cannot reach the nearest unit, it will indeed simply skip turns until the spell effect wears off or is removed (see the same FizMig).

How can a stack fail to reach the nearest enemy if a Berserk unit is forced to attack the nearest one? Is it due to the force field or something else? Especially considering it's a flying stack.

Give me some advice on which race is best to play this scenario with? And what are the intricacies of manual combat? I only know about Necromancers so far, that skeletons give you rewards after a battle.

quick battles are no longer interesting

Regarding autobattle; it's strange that no one else responded; I'd like to know what dnaop-wr's horse thinks about it?! :)

However, the person who wrote this has such high morale - I wonder how they achieved it?

Yes, and I also wanted to note one feature of the auto-battle (I read about it somewhere): most often, its results are better than in a "manual" battle for a human player. Moreover, it was written that even the strongest players cannot achieve such results; usually, the losses are noticeably greater. The conclusion was that the auto-battle calculation algorithm is imperfect and does not take into account all the nuances - hence the difference. Therefore, the auto-battle (if we don't count "clearing" small neutrals to save time) can, in a sense, be almost equated to cheating. But I think that with experience, you will always prefer to fight enemies yourself. And win! Good luck on the battlefields!

Juristis, I don't want to get into an argument; this has been written about in detail, but I can't remember the source right now and won't provide a link. All complaints should be directed to the author of that material, not to me, because I personally did not verify this information. Moreover: except for one time, I have never used autobattle at all.
And that one time was special: the author of the map "Jedi story" wrote that one place can only be passed using autobattle: it's just that there the hero walks on water, and neutral creatures stand in his way; without autobattle, the game simply "crashes" in this place, because, according to the game logic, combat always takes place either on some kind of ground or on the deck of a ship, but there is water, and the hero does not swim, but walks on the water.
If anyone has more accurate information about autobattle or provides a link to it, I will be grateful.
But I completely agree with your opinion regarding the "stupid heroic AI" and distrusting it.

It has already been discussed many times! I discussed this topic with many authoritative players via ICQ. No one understands the nature of quick battles, so players share their observations.