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I would like to mention one thing that made me replay the game so that I could prepare a hero from the tavern for one single battle!
THE BATTLE WITH DEIS for the diamond gates, before freeing Vael and fighting Peplokryl.
Deis has a stack of several thousand minotaurs, and when I arrived, he had almost 15,000 of them, but that's not the main thing; the important thing is that it's all on CURSED LAND, which means spells above level 1 are prohibited!! We don't have ballistics, and we don't have enough troops to take down 15,000 minotaurs before breaking through the defenses....
Therefore, I found only one solution in this situation: hire Uland in the first few days (a Rampart hero, specializing in healing, with starting Wisdom and Ballistics), teach him shooting, water, earth, and defense, and increase all his available stats as the game progresses (essentially, he was a booster and a support for the main hero).
Then, in the battle with Deis, I broke through his defenses in an hour: I equipped the Might of the Dragon Father to prevent the troops from attacking with ranged attacks, bought expendable ranged units (lizards, orcs, cyclops, gremlins) that I wouldn't mind losing, a sniper bow, a wagon, and a stack of a couple of dozen crossbowmen for the gate blockade (we don't play with them, so it doesn't matter if we lose them).
In the end: catapult - defense. Crossbowmen - to the gate (the towers attack the crossbowmen, which is beneficial because ranged attacks are more important there), and then I kept pounding the minotaurs...
It took a very long time, but I defeated Deis...
I can't figure out how to beat him without losses, especially with Mogrein: in 2-4 rounds, there's a 100% chance of a breach in the wall, the minotaurs come out and inflict heavy losses that can't be resurrected, but this way, I can win without losing even one unit from the stacks I used, although it takes a very long time, and the experience goes to the wrong hero...
If other battles when attacking a castle are won with magic, then I think the only option here is a hero with ballistics (controlling the catapult).

Hello everyone!
I'm currently playing through the Paragon map, and it's amazing. Huge respect to the author, and may they have lots of good karma. I couldn't resist registering after seeing this post.
I stopped Mogrein before Deis, one tile before the castle. I used Disguise, and he attacked on his own :smile26:. In an open field, he's easily defeated – just equip the Cursed Armor to slow him down and take the Sphere of Inhibition (red orb) to prevent him from casting spells or trying to Haste. That's it... Then, just run away from him with a flying unit across the field, and shoot him down with ranged attacks.
Another tip: it's worth equipping the Spirit of Inhibition so that his morale doesn't suddenly drop.

I didn't even think that after my description of the Paragon map walkthrough, there would be such a lively discussion and mass playthrough.

On HeroesPortal, the map is confidently in the top best, and it also has a lot of comments. It definitely sparked interest in the offline mode. Exceptionally detailed story and geography, bright characters with their own personalities and destinies, etc. But the difficulty is also high...

That's absolutely right. I mean exploiting the infinite turn bug. With this bug, you can actually complete the map quickly... Although, in my opinion, it will still take 20+ days.

When he runs out of mana, just hire another one. In my opinion, it's boring and uninteresting, because the enemy's troops mainly appear through events.

undoubtedly, the author almost managed to hide the stupidity of the AI.
It would be interesting to read the author's tips on how to create a map so that the AI not only behaves as the author intended, according to the plot and design of the map, but also creates difficulties for the player, masking the main shortcomings of the offline mode (the AI's stupidity).

Perhaps it would have made sense to hide each of the 10 mages behind a red tent so that no one would eat them before their time?

Dear Rince, while analyzing your map in the editor, I noticed the following. In one of the quest guards near Ivinson's castle, it says that Ghashra is ready to help Wael and is waiting for him near Ghashrashor. In the editor, she is indeed waiting (in my playthrough, I killed her a long time ago because I couldn't bring myself to give away 30 archers), and her name is Brissa. She tells the hero to go to the source, etc. There is indeed a quest guard at the source who can give 1000 hydras, but he is waiting for a player named Bron, although he should be waiting for Ghashra, i.e., Brissa. Could you please tell me if this is intentional?
Thank you!