Posts from "In honor of our fathers" - "One Khan, One Clan" [Campaign 3, Mission 2] Auto-translated

Actually, Warmongers resemble combat griffons much more. They retaliate. And it's quite difficult to kill enraged, buffed Warmongers at the end of a battle. And there are few really good archers in the game, and they gave Cyclops the ability to throw goblins just for fun.

And somehow, they don't throw very effectively. Cyclops in Heroes 4 are a completely devastating unit, with an area-of-effect attack.

I played on Recruit difficulty and lost my first two castles as soon as I sailed away on a ship. Oh well, I moved on and sailed towards the green castle. I had enough troops to defeat the main Dark Elf on the shore. I'm now in the only green castle, slowly building up my army. Meanwhile, Blue has completely taken over my former territories, and Purple has sailed in to join him. And then the battle for power began! They took castles from each other, fought, and in the end, Blue won. With the army I had gathered in my last castle, I completed the mission. Of course, I could have acted more cautiously, but the war between Blue and Purple was amusing :D :D :D

I did pretty much the same thing, except I upgraded Assassins to Executioners. I used them specifically for melee combat; they are very powerful in that role. As for upgrading Shamans, I definitely agree with upgrading to Daughters of Heaven: essentially, the hero gets the Chain Lightning spell for free, and with a free movement point to boot. But I still think Centaurs are best upgraded to their second tier.

The hero has about three times more troops than the veteran on the turquoise side. By week 6, there were about 400 centaurs, and they were the ones holding the entire defense. Shamans are good at spreading speed/slow effects, and goblins are purely for horde rage and mana for the shamans. I didn't take wyverns or cyclops because they are expensive and just stand around doing nothing, and the cart carries them. The opponent doesn't know how to approach with their cyclops and shamans to sacrifice to the goblins, so if you scare the goblins away from these stacks, they won't do any harm. We kill/scare the centaurs immediately, the infantry is not dangerous, and everyone attacks the harpies together. It is also useful to destroy the opponent's catapult. I didn't upgrade the machines because, seeing an army of 60 cyclops and more, they don't do much good.

Well, the AI always has the largest army on Hero difficulty, but after completing the original game on Hero, I decided to play on Veteran because, for some reason, the AI starts to become less effective and acts very passively. I haven't tested this theory in Lords of the Realm, as I don't want to waste time. On Veteran, the AI starts to put pressure on you gradually, especially when it has a 2-3 times larger army. As for the shamans, what prevents you from using Sky Daughters to speed things up? Of course, I couldn't buy all the Cyclops and Wyverns, but I did buy most of the Wyverns. I used them to defend my castle, mainly as a distraction to draw enemy troops away from my Centaurs, Daughters, Assassins, and Cyclops.

Actually, I was just thinking, if the AI used Chain Lightning, it would be much harder to fight against it! But no matter how many times I've played, it always uses Earth Daughters. And as for the catapult, yes, it's true. During a siege, it destroyed my city gates with two hits, using Chain Lightning.

Well, in close combat, if you're not defending a castle, then of course, Executioners are the key) but otherwise, they're useless. And why are you upgrading Centaurs to the second tier?

I didn't notice any particular passivity in this battle. Starting from week 6, armies came regularly, "with no chance" of winning. Cyclops threw goblins if they were standing nearby, but they weren't deliberately positioned to do so if they were scared away. So, a lot of time is spent on speed-ups/slow-downs, because the enemy shamans recast them.

[Earth shamans can also debuff wyverns well, and the damage from lightning at the start (when it's most needed) is low.

I didn't quite understand about the wyverns, how exactly? Do they have a spell that increases attack?

And regarding the quick lightning, I'll give you a tip on how to use it quickly. Position the leader close to the daughters, then use them to attack the daughters, so they move faster, sacrifice a goblin to them, then use the leader to speed up the daughters again. With this procedure, you can manage to cast chain lightning even before the start of the second turn, because the leaders have good initiative and often go first.

The thing is that lightning gets stronger with blood, and it's best up to the second blood upgrade, but even then, it's not very effective. It's better to use speed and slow spells instead, and the leaders should be pushing their units forward, as they provide much more benefit.
As for the speed of the shamans, here's the thing: if the AI goes first, you can use your shamans to cast speed/slow spells on their units. But if a player goes first, they will receive the opposite effect.