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I'm playing the map for the second time: the first time, I was completely stumped by Yorogos, again because he didn't attack castles, and I also wasted a lot of time beforehand. The second time, knowing the area, the necessary routes, and my previous mistakes, I got to him as quickly as possible, first leveling up tactics, and without losing any key units, I broke through the crystal dragon garrison and defeated Yorogos in the open field (I reloaded many times until I got lucky).
Do you really think the problem is with the too fast, unplanned timing? (While playing, I saw event messages that I had already passed a long time ago. But according to the script, the AI should attack forces that it outnumbers by a factor of ten.
I saved very often in the game, and each time, by loading the save, I exited via alt-f4 and loaded the desired save.
I started the game on a pawn, and I thought it was a very difficult map, and that I needed to start as successfully as possible, and I followed your advice to run and not lose a single "centimeter" of movement.
yes, i.e., there should be a plan of what to visit and when, what resources to collect, what peasants to bring in, and what else to collect and transfer - the looters can move without losses.
loading by exiting is not necessary at all, the main thing is that the first day is started with a "clean slate", and then any loads will be without glitches (especially if it is a normal multiple reload and replay)....
the point is that you need not just to rush to the enemies as quickly as possible, but as efficiently as possible, i.e., replenishing troops, getting artifacts, visiting upgrade locations, completing quests for stats/creatures/artifacts, again, at first (when limited in the number of required items) only for the necessary and essential ones, completely defeating all opponents in the area
yorogos, by the way, is far from the strongest and most dangerous in this game...
when I wrote about not wasting movement, not losing time, I meant that with the main hero, we gain experience on the map by killing everything that should be killed, capturing all the cities, defeating all the heroes, visiting quests, upgrade locations, etc., but if you rush too much, you simply won't have enough troops or strength to defeat him