Posts from Wulfsten's Challenge - "Laslo" [Campaign 2, Mission 5]

Hmm... How much time passed by the time he amassed such an army?)) I just defeated him in an auto-battle.

For about two months, I was exploring the map with two heroes, and there were no battles with the AI at all. Then, for another month, I was running away from him. And now he's finally leveled up.

Did he get reinforcements? I don't see any incoming troops.
In my case, Wolfstan is in the castle with an army capable of defeating Laslo while he's still in the castle, but I can't hide Duncan, and I lose.

No, I'm having a lot of trouble with that part, and I'm even getting frustrated! I'm definitely looking in the right place! (The first time I played, the location was correct, I'm 100% sure!) But when I started replaying, Duncan couldn't find it in that same location! So, I don't know what to do. Has anyone else experienced this?

I initially got the locations mixed up too – they looked very similar, and two heroes spent about a month there before I finally figured it out...

Personally, Ashi was in different locations each time I replayed the game. Try taking at least one obelisk; maybe you'll see the same thing?

Personally, Ashi was in different locations each time I replayed the game. Try taking at least one obelisk and see if you have the same issue?

Thanks for the tip! I'll do that! And how can I fix the issue when digging? I mean, sometimes it says something like "she is northeast of here," and sometimes it just says "there is nothing here!" Is this related to a specific skill, or does it mean that she is buried very far away in another location?

This is when, as you get close to tears, they redirect you...

Thank you very much. I will try to complete it.

I replayed it several times, and the Tear was always in the same place.

I'm shocked! How does everyone manage to complete it? I've already memorized the map, but I can't even reach all four obelisks to find the Tears map! Laslo arrives in a month. By that time, I only manage to fully build the castle, and he has a troop advantage. And his phenomenal morale turns the battle into watching my troops, standing still, get slaughtered... How is it even possible to reach the enemy's territory when he arrives so quickly? I don't have time to fully explore the snow-covered area, even though I send both heroes in different directions to grab everything as quickly as possible and develop...

am I in shock? how do you all beat it?

Actually, it's not that complicated. You just need to develop rapidly, meaning build the town every turn and try to capture mines as quickly as possible (so you have resources for construction). If you are still short on resources, you can skip building/buying dragons (although they actually make the battle with Laslo much easier). Since the heroes are already well-leveled at the start, you can capture all the mines and creature dwellings almost without any problems with a small starting army. With this tactic, by the time Laslo arrives, we will have a fully built Castle (be sure to build the watchtower) and a quite capable army. If I remember correctly (I played it a long time ago), my army was quite comparable to (if not larger than) Laslo's. It is better to fight in the castle (I think it's obvious why), as Laslo attacks the castle regardless, even if he has a smaller army. Well, that's all, good luck.

Passed it on the first try; first, I used two heroes to grab all the nearest mines and resources while simultaneously building up my Castle. After capturing everything in my area, I moved toward the center and took everything there—and I got lucky in the mages' vault with a Town Portal spell, which helped. An enemy hero arrived from my side, whom I successfully routed, but then Laszlo showed up, and I couldn't defeat him in the open field. I had to cast a portal to gather troops (I recruited 5 Fire Dragons, I don't remember the rest; basically, the army wasn't very strong), tried attacking again, and he crushed me once more. Then I ran past him and quickly captured his nearest castle. Laszlo merged his forces with one other hero and came after me, attacking the castle... That is where he met his end.
I couldn't dig up the Tear of Ash because Laszlo was constantly hanging around the center, blocking the path for the hero from the prison. But that was probably for the best; I finished the mission faster.

I tried several different approaches. First, I captured the Castle, lost half my army, and Laslo showed up and gave me a beating; even the walls couldn't stop him. Then, I decided to attack Laslo directly, met him on the road to his second Castle – the result was the same. Although I defeated the garrison with undead and dark elves without any losses, and I barely lost any troops in the battles for the mines, plus I had dwarven artillery, but it didn't help me much. In the end, after defeating the garrison, I decided to retreat to my Castle, and I sent Duncan to some remote corner. Laslo entered my territory and headed towards Duncan, as he had a small army. But Duncan has a portal to the city, and as soon as Laslo was within a day's march of Duncan, I sent him to the city, and then I chased him back into a corner several times. I bought reinforcements twice during the week. Then Laslo got tired of chasing Duncan and ran towards the city. I already had a significant army, the city was fully fortified, plus an additional detachment of 700 mountain defenders. In short, I defeated Laslo without any problems, and then I gathered a small army and captured the city.

The Tear of Ashi is probably the only artifact that helped me in the walkthrough. As for Horncrest, I captured it without any losses. It only panicked when there was an unsafe distance between me and the city. Before capturing Horncrest, there was no guard, but when the turn ended, the city had a weekly growth (with the castle) from level 1 to level 5.