Posts from Sanctuary – “Crimson Tide” [Campaign 4 – Mission 3]

Hello everyone. I've started playing through Irina's campaign again. But this time, I'm playing on "Blood" difficulty. This mission is very interesting and large. One of the best.
The Barbarian will be furious when you rebuild his castle. I don't know about you, but when I played it last time, ORCS with a decent army were roaming the map. And before the rebuild, they just stood there like a statue of Lenin.
I defended the castles myself - I needed Blood points, and experience doesn't hurt either)))
Besides, I'm playing as a mage, and for personally defending castles, you get my favorite units - SNOW GOLEMS. Which, under the protection of a mage hero, become terminators! Unfortunately, this isn't the case for a warrior.
I'm thinking of taking on this unreal fleet of undead with five ships and hordes of units. Is this even possible?
Has anyone done it? Or is it just a scripted event?
I'm playing on "Difficult" as usual.

I completed the third scenario. This time, I used a completely different tactic than before. 1) I captured the upper-left Necropolis on the island. And I did it on a Sunday. The heroine, Luna, resisted fiercely. But in the end, she fell, and to my surprise, I saw that the castle was COMPLETELY BUILT – all the way to the green checkmark! I converted it into a Sanctuary! Beautiful! I made one mistake while playing. The task was to first free the captured orcs and then capture the castle. And I got so carried away that I didn't free the second group of prisoners, but immediately took the second city... And that was a mistake!!! When I rescued the prisoners, I wasn't offered either "Blood" or "Tears"! I was simply given the option to "join"... Disappointing...

So, what should I do with this Captain's Ghost? He's kind of vague. He says something and then disappears. He doesn't give anything, no money, no items. And he doesn't fight either.

Why would he need to fight? He is needed to connect the plot between different heroes, as the events of campaigns 2-6 happen simultaneously.

I'm crying again. Licensed version, and this is happening. As soon as I defeated the Necromancers – I captured the villages, in other words – and they showed a cutscene about a spirit that awakened and washed away the ships, my screen turned black, really dark, I couldn't see anything, only the lights on the map. The cutscene was already black, I couldn't see the spirit, only the sound and something moving in the darkness. It's IMPOSSIBLE to play on such a map. Restarting the game doesn't help.

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Yes, and this isn't just a "black screen" with a cursor, as they write in the technical issues on the website (I had that too, but not this time), but rather a strong darkening of the map. Glitches...

I complained myself, I figured it out myself, I'm writing the answer for myself – in case someone else encounters the same problem. After the darkening video and the screen blurring, you need to move the hero to the end of the turn, click "next day" (I have autosave enabled – simply saving and then loading didn't help), exit – IMPORTANT! First, go to the main menu of Heroes, and then – exit to Windows. I don't know how to explain it, but if you simply exit the game to Windows without going to the main menu, and then load, it will all be dark again, and if you do it this way, something seems to "click," the save is shown as dark, but the screen loads normally. And by the way, removing the "data movies" folder doesn't help, because this folder doesn't contain them – I have the latest version.

And the town to the immediate left, is it supposed to be a Sanctuary instead of an Orcish town? Is this normal, or is it a bug?

Is the town closest to the left, which isn't an Orc town but a Sanctuary, normal, or is it a bug?

It's normal.

What's the point, I took it. It's like, "Controls 1 out of 4 settlements." And at that moment, the Undead Assault sends 2 squads. I teleport Irina to the starting town because there's an empty Thangbo, and he's about to be overwhelmed. Irina, of course, defeats this squad of necromancers. And at the same time, the second necromancer squad quickly moves to the left town, takes it, defeating the orc who joined them at level 18, and game over – that's the 4th town... She doesn't have time to get back there.
I don't understand what the optimal order of playing this map is at the beginning. Maybe it's better to go north instead of west? And then, can you ignore the starting town, since it's not on the list of quest towns? Anyway, I'll have to replay it. :-(

Moander and Kamar had been killed 4-5 times by this point, and with such a large army, how many times will they be resurrected?
The order of visiting the castles was as follows: the castle to the left of the starting point, then the one in the northeast, then towards the center, and finally the northwest. The altars are not being activated. I completed the quest about the captive orcs after capturing the castles. Shalassa's fleet was destroyed as expected, but the "Undead Expedition" still exists (without any cities). No one has taken Ashtar's disks yet; I've only converted the Necropolis, which was captured last. And the game crashed at this point. :(:cool:

P.S. Rebuilding the orcish villages is a quest from the Path of Blood, as stated there, but if I'm following the Path of Tears, can I skip it?

The most difficult mission, but I managed to complete it somehow.

A pretty easy mission, it's completed quickly, and the army suffers no losses at all; there's a lot of growth in the city... it's kind of boring.
But I know what's coming next; mission 4 will be tough. I'll go prepare a fireproof chair and try to complete the last mission.

in the upper left corner is the town. My Irina already had a full level of tears by the beginning of mission 3. Blood can be produced just for fun. Irina traveled half the map, while she was training Tiangbo, and while he was leveling up, Irina only controlled the stubborn mosquitoes and other minor creatures. The mission is of medium difficulty, with tsunamis, lightning, meditation, and explosions; it was completed successfully. Tiangbo just had to run around for a long time.

WinnerBut for some reason, there was a catastrophic shortage of money in this mission.

It's a real problem!)) I can't buy all the troops for the fourth week in a row. There are resources on the map, I've upgraded the market for favorable resource exchange, and I've upgraded the hero to increase the amount of resources found by 20%, but I still don't have enough money. It all goes to construction, and that's with the fact that the secondary hero has a Builder of level 2 (improvements and rebuilding are 20% cheaper). I even take all the chests for gold, and I still have problems!))

PS But on the other hand, I'm not too worried about it, because playing as Irina the Sorceress, and even a Blood Sorceress, is just a piece of cake!)) I've upgraded her Meditation skill, which is truly a cheat perk. You cast it, and in the next turn, you get +20 to magic power. So, I've already run around half the map with 80 Kappa-Soyas, without losing anyone. It's a lot of fun! I defeat everyone with Chain Lightning. I have an artifact that gives +20% damage to air magic, and there's also a building in the city that gives +15% damage to air magic. And another cool thing is summoning an Earth Elemental. First, it's huge and occupies several cells at once, so you can block two stacks of archers with it. Second, it can cast Petrify. And third, of course, it restores itself every turn. So, playing as Irina the Sorceress with Meditation is extremely enjoyable! I go around and troll everyone with just Kappa-Soyas :D

It's a real problem! I can't buy all the troops for the fourth week in a row. There seem to be enough resources on the map, and I've upgraded the market for favorable resource exchange and the hero for a 20% increase in found resources, but I still don't have enough money. It all goes towards construction, and that's even with the secondary hero having a second-level Architect skill (20% cheaper improvements and rebuilding). I even take all the chests for gold, and I still end up in a difficult situation.

Check if you're building something that isn't too important at the moment. Then you can postpone the construction, and the money will accumulate.

Walkthrough of the "Bloody Tide" mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djtWWQ9HCiY&list=PLGpNWhdMwySfcOuZC0UcWOuU5Ov3Ag9kf&index=21