a very fun mission. I remember struggling with it when I first started playing Heroes 5. I leveled up a mage with dark magic, broke through the barricade with legions of demons, and then killed Agrael as soon as he appeared. So many years have passed, but I still have pleasant memories of it.
Posts from Queen – “The King’s Sunset” [Campaign 1, Mission 5]
Well, I don't know, I only installed 1.6 once in my life; I usually play on 3.1.
The only problems in this mission arise if you try to capture the garrison before the city and then defeat the Argil in your own city. The overpowered trainer Isabelle solves all problems with ease, allowing you to accumulate plenty of gold.
There's no need to capture the red city, nor the garrison before it. There's really no point, because you'll gain levels anyway, and the level cap is 24.
It's not necessary, but it's possible. So, the entire first campaign is too easy because it's more like an extended tutorial. You need to come up with some tactics somewhere.
And it seemed to me that the developers did this intentionally, making it a kind of tutorial. And in that sense, it's not bad.
Quite a strange tutorial. There's a very sharp difficulty spike between missions 1.4 and 2.3, especially before the patches with nerfs. Players who were used to being guided and to the fact that they could endlessly accumulate resources at home while the enemy army barely changed, were very surprised by that horde of elves. There were cases of people getting frustrated.
The King's Sunset... boring... I completed it without finding the obelisk... I spent some time in the city, defeated enemies in the open field... I attacked the garrison and that was it.
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*in the EVA version, demons spawn as heroes, but they don't attack.
*interesting... if you merge the main garrison and take the city... and no one dies.
*in mission 2.3, you need two heroes... (or one that has been "enchanted").