Posts from Walkthroughs for custom maps.

Yes, but only there, if I'm not mistaken, you can and should travel by water, not by landing on a ship.

The new version has been uploaded to Heroes Portal. It includes:
- All bugs found by me during this time have been fixed.
- All critical cells are protected from monsters appearing on them.
- A lot of typos and errors in the texts have been corrected (I won't risk saying that all of them), and the dialogues have been revised according to the rules of the Russian language.
- Events that were previously tied to the game time now react to the player's actions. The first "deadline" of 2.5 months remains unchanged.
- A number of quests have been changed/redone, in particular, the quests for collecting creatures have been simplified.
- One rather confusing quest has been added, related to the helmet from the Alliance of Angels.
- The ability to choose all the necessary skills at the start has been added. However, fire magic is not available on the maximum difficulty.
- The number of epilogue options and choices that influence it during the game has been increased.
- A number of battles that seemed too boring to me have been redone.
- Something else that I have already forgotten.

Well... at least start from the beginning:smile27:

As for fire magic and berserk, I don't respect it at all, and I'm more inclined to agree with many players that it's a cheat.

What's the difference? The effect is the same, and with the Admiral's Hat, you spend less mana and turns to reach the destination via ship.

Who says that? Or are you referring to a bug where creatures don't move at all?

If I'm not mistaken, I didn't spend mana there, but used the Boots of Levitation.

Mana isn't a big deal. I was trying to position the boat to see the maximum number of creatures on this island and have 2-3 free spaces after the griffins.

How can I simply insert an image here (directly from my computer)? Without uploading it to some service first? When I click "insert image," it asks for the image URL.

The only question is, did you have Attack and Ranged skills as secondary skills? In Paragon, the damage from Ranged attacks (50% + 10% bow + 15% fletching) plays a very significant role.

As I mentioned before, no, I played without ranged attacks, but with Expert Fire...
And even more importantly, I was weaker in stats compared to the computer, because I attacked the vast majority of enemy heroes while they were wearing the Cursed Armor (I attacked everyone who had a slow effect applied to them while they were wearing the armor). Basically, once I put it on, I only took it off a few times, so I was significantly weaker in stats – as a result, I used many times more mana...
But when replenishing mana, I would change the hero's equipment to maximize knowledge.

The new version has been uploaded to Heroes Portal. It includes:
- All the bugs I found during this time have been fixed.
- All critical cells are now protected from monsters spawning on them.
- A lot of typos and errors in the texts have been corrected (I won't risk saying that all of them), and the dialogues have been revised according to the rules of the Russian language.
- Events that were previously tied to the game time now react to the player's actions. The first "deadline" of 2.5 months remains unchanged.
- A number of quests have been changed/redone, in particular, the quests for collecting creatures have been simplified.
- One rather confusing quest has been added, related to the helmet from the Alliance of Angels.
- The ability to choose all the necessary skills at the start has been added. However, fire magic is not available on the maximum difficulty.
- The number of epilogue options and choices that influence it during the game has been increased.
- A number of battles that seemed too boring to me have been redone.
- Something else that I have already forgotten.

He was wearing armor, but this jerk liked to cast Mass Dispel or Healing, even if not at the beginning of the battle, which made the armor less useful.

For me, the armor was actually quite useful because the archers attack once, so slowing effects and other debuffs from "Slow" fall without spending mana or casting in the first round. Then, you can cast "Berserk" or something else useful for victory...
And also, the AI is dumb: if you cast "Slow" on it, but don't overdo it with buffing your own units or further debuffing its stacks, it acts very foolishly and doesn't dispel or heal everything...
It's also possible to win without fire magic and expert "Berserk," but I would still prefer to invest in intelligence rather than ranged attack.
Or, you could skip attack and invest in ranged attack, but I haven't tried that, as there are only a few ranged units at the beginning, and the focus is still on melee combat.

there’s no point in leveling up a hero with ballistics

As they say, the owner is the boss..., but I will still try to convince you - I am leveling up a warrior with water and earth magic on this map (you can’t do without them here at all). But the mana shortage was at its maximum only while I was fighting the first three cities of the purple faction, after that there were no problems at all (and with you, the fire magic constantly drains mana) and the battles are quick - the battle lasted longer than 5 minutes only with the dwarven king, who was hiding in the Palace-in-the-Mountain, and not for long.