Posts from Tactics for playing as the Sylvan faction.

I saw somewhere that it's good for Elves to level up magic on a Phantom (if I'm not mistaken, it's a summoning skill), but then you lose СА or another useful skill. Is it worth doing? And if so, which skills will be useful for this magic?

Summoning an elf is not ideal because there are few of them in the native school of magic. In the campaign against Nicholas, a phantom helped me, yes, but against a human, I don't know, I doubt its effectiveness.

I saw somewhere that it's good for Elves to level up magic on a Phantom (summoning, if I'm not mistaken), but then you lose СА or another useful skill. Is it worth doing? And if so, which skills will be useful for this magic?

Well, if you're playing as Dyraell (she has summoning from the start, which allows you to learn Phantom, which you otherwise have to find somewhere). Playing other heroes with a focus on summoning or spellpower-wisdom skills doesn't seem very practical.

It would also be very interesting to know how much speed Elves need and how best to combine it: with skills (speed aura, tactics) + good stat-boosting artifacts, or good skills + speed-boosting artifacts?

Hmm, as for artifacts that increase movement speed, I only know about the boots with wings. Are there any others?
I don't see any difference between the two methods you described. Can you explain?

I just don't know how much speed the Elves need: +1, +2, or +3.

+2 is enough for all units to be able to catch up to the enemy, except for Ents (they need +3 speed).

And what should I choose for the +2 bonus (tactics, boots, aura)?

take everything, you won't regret it. Tactics can be ruined (an experienced player will definitely choose a tactic against Sylvan), so everything will come in handy.

Not only tactics, but also your much-praised aura with those boots.

Storm and a partial Necropolis artifact collection will significantly weaken the elf's first attack.

so it’s better to focus on speed.

so it's better to just rush everything.

And we'll be left without any fun.

And we'll be left without a support unit.

In my opinion, for Elves, the aura of speed, the Forest Commander, and Retribution are much better than Empathy.

In my opinion, for Elves, the speed aura, forest commander, and retribution are much better than empathy.

This is if the first strike is guaranteed (like Wingael's speed tactic, where the hero doesn't even have time to cast spells). If there won't be a first strike, sometimes hiding in a "box" and protecting the archers is more beneficial. And it also depends on the enemy race, whether they have evasion, scatter, whether we have charm removal, antimagic, etc. The unicorn aura can also save the day. Will we go into chaos or light? So, as usual: it all depends on the situation.

About the "ideal" build for attack, I wrote about it above:

The ideal is to get "shooting" and "retribution" (and it's through "BB"). But then there won't be empathy.

It's a pity that retribution cannot be taken with empathy.