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a way to defeat enemies: some kind of secret path or means. There are constantly not enough resources, so the troops, which are rapidly increasing in the Castle due to events, cannot be bought. The player is too weak. And when enemies come and start pressing from three sides, there is nowhere to go. I got into a boat and sailed north, hoping to capture the 3rd Castle, but the monsters on the way and the guards are too strong, and I had to abandon this idea.
I read the comments on the map on that website with a translator, but I didn't learn anything important, except that some people were able to complete it, but I have no idea how. Maybe, if you set the difficulty to medium or even low, you can still become strong enough to face the enemies.
Ah, I just reread the translation of the comments: well, yes, the first player who managed to complete it used the well-known "tool against which there is no defense": he hired a Necromancer, collected the King's Undead Cloak, "bred" a bunch of Liches, and defeated everyone! If the map can only be completed this way, then it is disappointing: in my opinion, there should be a more normal way to achieve success.

Beat Dunkler Horizont on 200%, without breaking a sweat! Apparently, there is still a serious imbalance somewhere in the map's logic. I started with Orrin, rightly assuming that shooters would be the main damage stacks. On week 2, I took the second castle; on week 3, I got angels. On week 4, after buying everything I could afford, I went for the Barbarians. The main Barbarian hero had buggered off somewhere, so I captured both Barbarian towns with no trouble at all. After that, I basically did nothing for about a month, saving money to buy troops. By this time, a Necromancer showed up, captured the Rampart slightly above our starting towns, and dug in there for a long time. There was no further movement from the Necromancers at all (they never read the green tent)! In the end, after a couple of months, having amassed an army, I took out that Necro and then systematically cleared the entire map, practically without resistance. It even got boring. Moreover, the Necromancer towns had a huge number of unrecruited troops, which came in very handy later (5k vampires tearing through a legion of Azure Dragons with ease). Such passivity from the Necromancers is hard to explain.

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Yes, Gelu came in very handy

P.S. I didn't come across any Necros in the tavern, so it seems that player with the Cloak of the Undead King was cheating))

Could you provide a more detailed description of the walkthrough, perhaps with screenshots or save files?

I find this Necromancer behavior rather strange, as I frequently encounter Necromancers emerging from single-player maps in various locations, and they start taking over everything instead of just occupying neutral towns.

I almost have a review ready for the map "The Fall of Atlantis", which I finished to the end

Happy holidays to everyone!
It's been a while since anyone posted any walkthroughs here, so I'll post one, but I'll also allow myself to give some advice for map makers.

1. Savage Grin.
The map was taken from our forum.
I want to say right away that the map is very simple, there is nothing complicated about it. The author stated that you need to defeat the main enemy, Lucifer, in 666 days - the time limit is simply huge and impossible to meet, moreover, the enemies are killed one by one, and we will have a great opportunity to get snipers, wizards, and some types of dragons.
I started on the maximum difficulty level as Rampart with the hero Kirr. At the beginning, we already have a good army, but we need to capture the Rampart, which is guarded by a blue dragon and 2 wizards. To do this in the most optimal and best way, I advise you not to attack the city right away, but to give the passage guard the books of magic and earth, free the hero with troops in the dungeon, combine everything into one army, have the main hero attack the city, and have the freed hero scout.
All the battles with the 7 golden dragons at the beginning take place without losses and quickly, so you can quickly capture all the mines, resources, fully build your city, and another native Rampart, which we reach through a portal, and then easily defeat the blue (Castle), for which you could also choose a game.

it is best to talk about the bug and the unfair AI gameplay. Several heroes used the fly spell without having it. Maybe they learned it somewhere, but I highly doubt it, because after that I checked the map in the editor - globally, fly is not prohibited, but it has been removed from all cities and guilds of mages, i.e. it is impossible to learn fly anywhere, after defeating the brown one, I was convinced - he did not have angel wings.

Yes, this is the author's idea, to put smokehouses so that they block what there is no point in blocking (view of the land, plus observatories - and there is no point in the smokehouses).

And I had to keep a hero at each observatory so that it would be convenient.

Then there is another useless thing - the first quest (give the passage guard the books of magic, earth, and water), I completely did not understand its meaning, well, we give them, but none of the spells are used in the first week in battle.... What is the point of giving books and setting a quest? My opinion is that it was just put there for the sake of it.

And what is more frustrating is that only blue and red interact, and then the game becomes one-sided.

Advice for map makers:
look at this map so as not to make such nonsense

In order not to clutter the "The most difficult maps for you" topic with discussions of maps that clearly cannot be called very difficult, I decided to create this topic. In it, I will tell about different interesting author's maps that I have completed, and I suggest you do the same. Here you can discuss the difficulties that arose during the walkthrough, ask questions, etc.

Hello! Could you please provide guidance on how to complete the "paragon 2.0" map? I can't capture the castle within 7 days. I'm using the editor (marked with white checkmarks, indicating where to go), but I'm interested in the correct step-by-step order to gather an army and capture the castle within 7 days.

Is it possible to disable the catapult so that it doesn't launch projectiles from the castle, and then shoot them down with archers?