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Yes, when breaking through defenses. It's not good in the final stages, where each stack should be fully functional. If even in the final stages, early on, there's no way to hire these fully functional stacks, the enemy can just as easily separate a couple of Druids or someone else and quickly eliminate that couple of Knights.

And that's exactly what will happen. To increase the breakthrough ability of units by 50% that are near a Knight, I would, without a doubt, get rid of him first.

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I would also like to draw attention to two heroes who are mentioned the least - these are Myv and Rutger. Compared to Grok, he will be a little worse in terms of skills, but you can get the missing logistics skills early on, which will be useful, and that's a fact. Take the native lands and find boots, and you already have peasants with a speed of 7-8, who can practically reach the enemy, and the Knights run freely across the field with Griffons and Angels. Add "Path of War" to this, and you will be running around the map, covering huge distances, especially when there are many mobs around... Myv is also a very useful hero. At first glance, no, the skill is alarming, there's not much magic... I think this is the only Knight hero for whom both Light and Dark are a plus. When using Haste and Prayer, the initiative of Griffons and Paladins is about 30. Add Slow, and it will be something like an Agrael, but from human forces, very powerful. I'm saying that it's worth taking into account and appreciating such a parameter as speed, in which Axel, Dugal, Laslo, Ellaina, and others usually lag behind.

there, each stack should be fully equipped

If you retrain all the monks into Knights (and with Elaine, this is quite possible even without gold mines), it frees up space in the army.

If you retrain all the monks into knights (which is quite possible with Elaine, even without gold mines), it frees up space in your army.

I usually do that. Six decent stacks are more than enough to win, even without monks. It's important to train them on time. And if you develop diplomacy, you'll attract much larger and more serious forces (during one game, 500 latniks, 600 archers, and 23 angels joined me). That's pretty good, wouldn't you agree? In the end, you get more than you expected.

Miv

Miv is a ruler devoted to her people, working tirelessly to prevent her doomed empire from falling into the abyss. While trying to save the future of the crumbling Empire of the Falcons, during the defense against the infernal invasion, Miv could only rely on her own loyalty to the ideals of chivalry and unwavering faith in the Dragon of Light.

Specialization: The effect of the "Haste" spell increases by 1% with each hero level.

The strongest Hero, in my opinion, is **Axel** – the captain of knights. He has an excellent specialization: the damage dealt by knights, paladins, and Isabel's knights in the hero's army increases by 10% + 1% for each hero level. The damage from the "Vigil" ability increases by 1% for each hero level.

I would put **Dugald** – the commander of archers – in second place. His specialization: all archers and crossbowmen in the hero's army receive +1 to "Defense" and "Attack" for every two hero levels, starting from the first.