Posts from New threat.

Thank you, author, the map is captivating. There are no problems with the Walkthrough on the surface. It's a bit more challenging in the Dungeon, but Railag can help by defeating the dragons and capturing the Dwarf Castle on the surface. He can then research the portal to the city and enter the Castle in the Dungeon. Maybe it should somehow prevent him from entering the Dungeon, otherwise it becomes uninteresting?

In the new version (lite), the peasant's quest involving zombies doesn't work (50%, 2 groups - at the customer's location, a quarry and a greedy merchant - they start the battle as standard neutrals). Consequently, after defeating all 4 groups, the quest isn't completed...

Yes, I figured out what was wrong; the reason was incredibly trivial. Once again, thank you for pointing it out.
All it took was slightly shifting the region, and suddenly the quest stopped working. The hero reaches the zombies faster than the trigger activates. I was only testing the new features. But now everything should be fine because I haven't changed anything else...

Wow! Starting all over again!:eek:

Why would you need them? You know all the hints, so it won't affect anything.

Completed the map in 395 days.

After defeating an Elven Scout with Raileg, I decided to try to reach the Dwarf castle. The path to this castle was blocked by several groups of Lava Dragons, each consisting of several tens of thousands. I defeated all the dragon groups. At the same time, I leveled up Raileg to level 39. I entered the Dwarf city with Raileg and learned "City Portal". Using the portal, I sent Raileg to the Dungeon. I divided Raileg's army with Sigrif. And easily defeated all the enemies.
Without Raileg's army, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to cope. Perhaps I should have gone to the Dungeon earlier. But I don't even know how I could have done that. Sigrif moved very well for me. Skilled Logistics + Find Path + Path of War + Boots of Travel. And I never ignored the stables.
The computer handled the map well (Windows 7 32-bit, dual-core Athlon). Occasionally, it crashed when loading saves.

In the new version, this won't work – the Tower faction building can only be upgraded to level 2. The saddest part is that in the new version, the scout prevents you from completing the main quest – it immediately runs to block the road:mad: The mission becomes virtually impossible.
I'm surprised how you managed to defeat the scout – in the previous version, the computer clearly glitched in its favor – despite roughly equal skills, the scout's much smaller unit wiped out any of my stacks with a single blow...
With the most optimal logistics, you can complete the map in 10.5 - 11 months. So, everything is already ready at the bottom, and only Time Magic with increased resistance to the enemy's spells can help.

I completed the map in 395 days.
I entered the Dungeon on the 2nd week of the 13th month.
In the Dungeon, I encountered serious enemy units. My army was melting before my eyes.
After Railag defeated the elven scout, I decided to try to break through to the Dwarf castle. The road to this castle was blocked by several units of lava dragons, each consisting of several tens of thousands. I defeated all the dragon units. At the same time, I leveled up Railag to level 39. Railag entered the Dwarf city and learned "City Portal". Using the portal, I sent Railag to the Dungeon. I divided Railag's army with Sigrif. And easily defeated all the enemies.
Without Railag's army, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to do it. Perhaps I should have gone to the Dungeon earlier. But I don't even know how I could have done that. Sigrif moved very well for me. Skilled Logistics + Pathfinding + Path of War + Boots of Travel. And I never ignored the stables.
The computer handled the map well (Windows 7 32-bit, dual-core Athlon). It rarely crashed when loading saves. The enemies didn't lag with their turns. Saving also didn't lag.
I really liked the map.
Thank you very much to the author.

In my opinion, the author went too far with the Dungeon. For me, removing the option described by mvk made the map virtually impossible to complete. After dealing with the Inferno player (losing "only" the Dark Riders and half of the Furies - I got lucky!), I found a bunch of opponents - Dark Elves with legion-sized armies. And all this is in the "Light" version and on the "Warrior" difficulty level...
The idea of building an army by capturing enemy Castles seems doomed - the opponent's main hero makes excellent use of "Portal," moving to the Castle I'm approaching...
I reached the Dungeon in a "record" time - 10 months, but that was enough for the opponent to build up unimaginable armies from 6 (or so?) Castles + dwellings, and - somehow - level up their heroes to a level comparable to my main hero...
I'm not a hardcore player, but I have completed difficult maps before, and I know ways to defeat a superior opponent, but not when, for unclear reasons, their initiative is always higher than mine, and my stacks are simply wiped out before I even get a turn...
The author has uploaded replays of their battles in the Dungeon. I dealt with Marbas with fewer losses, but the Dark Elf opponents are significantly tougher...
It's a pity - this is the first map in a relatively long time that has really "hooked" me:(
P.S. However, in the final version, the Elf can be quite easily defeated by Raileigh.

You can defeat them if you fight them in castles and use Might and Magic spells. In open areas, your chances are minimal. Also, before fighting the strongest hero of the Tower, I removed black dragons and harpies from my army. + recruiting creatures in castles helps a lot. Thanks to this, I managed to gather a combat-ready army before one of the Tower heroes attacked me. The Tear of Ascha is given to you for a reason.

Yes, probably, you can defeat any opponent. Especially if you use cheats. My question was: why is the game version called "light" if only a very experienced player can complete it on almost the lowest difficulty level ("Warrior"), and even then, only with unlimited patience and incredible luck – the enemies attack me precisely when I'm in my Castle. By the way, I wouldn't be able to handle the main forces even in the Castle: 150 creatures will fly over the wall in one turn. Since I didn't see Sandro's Cloak anywhere, they would be enough... All I managed to do without completely devastating losses was to capture 2 (!) Castles. Of which, only one is fully rebuilt... And even then, as I wrote, Marbas immediately blocked my path to the Castles, which cost me all my riders and half of my furies.
Maybe I'll try it sometime on Recruit difficulty, but I suspect there won't be any difference in the Dungeon.
Besides, I was very surprised by the enemy heroes – their initiative is TWICE as high, even without any artifacts; luck and morale don't care about the Cloak of Shadows and the Ring of Broken Spirit, etc. Perhaps, after 20 years of playing HOMM, I'm still too bad of a player for this map:(