Posts from Wizard – “The Triumvirate” [Campaign 6, Mission 3]
He completed this campaign on Recruit difficulty:smile17::smile49:
There's generally a lack of difficulty in campaigns without special restrictions; almost all missions are too easy if you could complete them with a Hero at the Cultist level and one Khan with one clan, that would be interesting.
By the way, I had the same thing happen to me in the beginning: Rutger pops up and wreaks havoc. And they have a couple of other powerful heroes there, I don't remember who. I'm actually at that mission right now. It's funny that Zehir is level 20, but Chaos hasn't been offered to him yet. He has one free slot, and if it's not offered soon, I'll take Darkness. Otherwise, he has Air, Light, and Summoning, and he has Phoenix, Holy Word, and Banish, plus some general Light spells, so it should be fine. The only problem is his combat stats are weak.
My Zehir also has poor attack and defense, especially attack. After the 4th mission, I barely managed to raise his defense to 15, but his attack is only 11. So, no matter how hard you try, I don't think your stats will be much better. For a mage, everything goes into power and knowledge, and if you pump up his attack instead of defense, his army will be completely destroyed
Darkness is a useful ability; out of four heroes, three have it: Godric, Faelan, and Zehir. But I didn't use Darkness in the battle between Zehir and Biara; I simply didn't have time. I cast Banishment twice and Resurrection once, and that was it. But Darkness is useful in all other battles, so it's up to you.
I also have poor Attack and Defense stats for Zehir, especially Attack. After the fourth mission, I barely managed to raise his Defense to 15, but his Attack is only 11. So, no matter how hard you try, I don't think your stats will be much higher. For a mage, everything goes into Power and Knowledge. If you pump up his Attack instead of Defense, his army will be completely wiped out.
By level 22, it's already difficult to choose, because you can't upgrade skills later. And now, in the witch's hut, I got Darkness, so that's fine. And Zehir's Attack/Defense stats are generally 9-9, although these are base stats, without artifacts. Godric appeared in this mission at level 19, which is, I think, the level I left him at in his campaign. But, of course, he is stronger in terms of combat stats and also has Skilled Light and Chaos Development. Now I've saved the game at the moment of taking the second Turquoise castle and activating Faelan after visiting the Red Tree. Before this, Zehir had already defeated six Turquoise squads; how many are there in total? And Rutger wasn't among them yet.
Yeah, but what's the point of artifacts if they don't carry over to the next scenario? Which, by the way, seems a bit much to me.
In the last mission, they offer an artifact as a bonus, +3 to attack. In principle, if you managed to level up Zephira to at least 12-13 attack, it makes sense to take it instead of 6 Titans, which are neither hot nor cold. I took them, and now I regret not taking the artifact.
Do you mean you defeated 6 waves of enemy heroes? So, they systematically attacked you right after you captured the first Castle of Haven? Or were all 6 of them just hanging around nearby?
No, they all gather at the fork gradually, one by one, until you take all their castles. You can have a maximum of 7 or 8, but the computer can buy new units, and we can't hire anyone in this mission, if that matters.
After Rutger and Elia, only minor units were running around my castles.
Here's another thing, I'm not sure, but if you play as fast as possible, like in the walkthrough descriptions (as I did the second time around), Rutger appears with a very weak army, and only when the turquoise player has one castle left. And not like it was the first time, when he showed up while we were rebuilding Gryphonhill.
By the way, I remembered that I messed up at the beginning. I had Astral Gates, so I could have jumped over the garrison and immediately captured the town, but I went straight for Godric.
Exactly, to save time and troops. We do the same in the last mission before Biara: I was lucky that all the heroes had Portals.