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Walkthrough of the “Galtran” map in the Blitz-3 tournament by Dmitry_A_S.

Hello, dear Ekaterina Matv…

Ugh, hello dear Heroes fans!

Kyle was 100% right when he mentioned the ring, although I told him, I told him – don’t tell others about it, there will be an uproar. Well, never mind – let him deal with it now. Now, let's get down to business…

The primary task on the map is to gather the largest number of skeletons. The largest number of them is achieved by adhering to the golden Avicenna's mean:
- “stuck” undead on the map are destroyed with minimal losses (taking into account 10 skeletons at the start) and with a greater number of them being reproduced after the battle;
- castles with black magic enhancers are captured with minimal losses;
- the first two points are performed with an eye on the quests, taking into account their time limit.
So, on the first day, among other things, we need to open the passage guard 27-13 (mage's ring). To get the mage's ring, you need to kill 10 dragons 17-16. In addition, you need to learn fire magic from the scholar 23-15, so that later you can open the Pandora's Box 14-19 without losses (using the Berserker). This task is only possible if Galtran moves towards the Haunt Wind town, visiting the stables. This is what we will do on the first day.

Day one (terrible).

Galtran.
1. Skeletons 5-5. Mana 12. Cloak disassembled. Point 20-9, kills 20 skeletons without losing troops or mana (I will only mention losses in my army and the use of mana when they occur). + 6 skeletons.
2. Skeletons 8-8. Cloak disassembled. Kills 10 skeletons. + 3 skeletons.
3. Skeletons 10-9. Cloak disassembled. Point 19-9. Kills 30 skeletons. +9 skeletons.
4. Skeletons 27-1. Cloak disassembled. Point 21-10. Kills 20 zombies. +5 skeletons.
5. Skeletons 32-1. Cloak disassembled. Point 20-10. Kills 30 zombies. + 12 skeletons.
6. Skeletons 44-1. Cloak disassembled. Point 19-10. Kills 40 zombies. + 18 skeletons.
7. Skeletons 61-1. Cloak disassembled. Point 16-9. Kills 20 skeletons. + 10 skeletons.
8. Skeletons 72-1. Cloak disassembled. Kills 30 skeletons 16-10. + 15 skeletons.
9. Point 15-9. Cloak disassembled. Kills 10 skeletons. + 6 skeletons.
10. Skeletons 94. Cloak assembled!!! Point 15-10. Kills 25 zombies. +7 liches.
11. Skeletons (hereinafter S) 94, Liches (hereinafter L) 7. Kills 35 zombies. +11 liches.
12. S94, L18. Kills 50 zombies. +17 liches.
13. L35, S89, S1, S1, S1, S1, S1. Cloak disassembled!!! We take the Agony town. -3 skeletons. + 60 skeletons. We leave all our skeletons in the castle, a total of 151.
14. L35. Cloak assembled!!! We kill in turn at point 21-11: 30 guards; 19-11: 50 ghosts; 20-12: 50 guards. We get 52 liches in three battles. (you can get 53 if you kill 30 guards first, then 50 ghosts, 50 guards).
15. L 87. Point 21-13. We kill 50 vampires. + 33 liches. We learn fire magic from the scholar. We visit the stables, the mana well.
16. L124, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1. We kill 100 vampire lords. -3 liches. + 69 liches.
17. L 179, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1, L2. We kill 100 Death Knights, we take the Haunt Wind town. -15 liches. + 70 liches.
18. L241. Point 21-13. We kill 50 liches. – 10 liches. + 40 liches.
19. L271. Point 20-13. We kill 60 vampire lords. + 48 liches.
20. L157, L157, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1. Point 19-13. We kill 200 vampire lords. -2 liches. + 160 liches.
21. L477. We kill 50 liches 18-14. – 10 liches (can be -9 liches). + 40 liches.
22. L507. We kill 150 liches 19-14. -37 liches. +120 liches.
23. L590. Point 19-14. We kill 50 Death Knights. + 38 liches.
24. L628. Point 18-15. We kill 70 liches. -13 liches. +56 liches.
25. L333, L1, L1, L1, L1, L333, L1. We kill 10 dragons. -2 liches. +8 liches. +2500 gold. For now, there are 677 liches. Galtran still has moves left, but we will continue moving after the night, as there will be an opportunity to place a black magic enhancer in Cassian.

Moner.

We hire Moner in Agony. Through the fire pillar, we visit the seer's hut 21-8, we take the mage's ring, we open the passage guard 27-13, we visit the stables. We spend the night at point 19-10.
The day is over.

Day two (sad).

Galtran.

1. We build a black magic enhancer in Cassian.
2. L671, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1. We kill 30 dragons 19-16. -1 lich. + 27 liches.
3. L703. We kill vampire lords 17-13. +90 liches.
4. L787, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1. We kill 400 Death Knights 17-13. -6 liches (can be -2 liches). +360 liches. We get angel wings.
5. We put on the wings and fly to point 12-14. We put on the cloak and kill 100 knights 10-14. + 90 liches.
6. L1197. We take the Blackkwater town, destroying the defense in the form of 100 vampire lords. -1 lich. + 90 liches.
7. L1326. We put on the wings. We visit the well. We open the passage guard 12-8. We put on the cloak, we disassemble it!!! We open the Pandora's Box 11-8. +3000 skeletons. We get a clone and teleport.
8. L1326, S3000. Point 16-10. We kill 50 skeletons. +50 skeletons.
9. We kill 100 zombies. Point 17-11. We kill 150 ghosts. +250 skeletons.
10. We get a shield. +500 skeletons. Total: L1326, S3800.
11. We kill 400 vampire lords 16-13. +400 liches. L1726, S3800. We get a golden bow.

Moner.

He takes the shield from Galtran. He attaches a phoenix, opening the passage guard. He picks up cursed armor, also opening the passage guard. He gives the phoenix and armor to Galtran, takes the skeletons.

Galtran.

12. He kills 400 liches, 50 knights, point 16-15 kills 150 liches, kills 399 dragons (clone 1 time), stands in their place and kills 100 knights, kills 400 dragons 14-16 (clone 1 time). + 1499 liches.
13. L 3225. Wings. Flies to the box 17-21. Cloak. The box explodes (clone 1 time). +2800 liches. We get a dimension door, berserker, vulnerability medal, 500 drachmas. Stands at point 17-21.

Moner and Kaitlin.

Moner picks up the scroll of walking on water, 100 gold. Runs down to the town, stops at point 22-13.
We hire Kaitlin in Haunt Wind. We take the skeletons and the scroll from Moner.
Kaitlin goes to the stables. Walking on water. Takes liches and phoenix from Galtran.

Galtran.

14. He takes Rave Raven without losses, killing 100 drachmas. + 100 liches.
15. Dimension door 19-16. He kills 400 dragons. + 400 liches.

Kaitlin returns the liches to Galtran.

16. Galtran casts dimension door twice and opens the passage guard 7-12. Spends the night 7-13.

Kaitlin leaves the skeletons and pikeman in the town. Spends the night at point 14-21.

Day three (more or less).

Galtran (L6525) puts on the wings and goes to the well. Two times dimension door and opens the passage guard 28-11. Door to point 24-16. Exchange wings for a town portal. Portal to Rave Raven. Cloak. Box. + 7000 liches. Door to point 18-15. We clear everything that remains (do not forget to disassemble the cloak on two groups of guards). At the finish, we get 14925 liches, 70 skeletons. Galtran stopped at point 15-12.

Moner runs to Haunt Wind, hires 412 skeletons, opens the box 27-10 (2000 pikemen), picks up Armageddon's Blade, runs to Agony, hires 412 skeletons, takes 151 skeletons from the town, combines. In total, he has 975 skeletons, plus 2000 pikemen. Moner takes a step down – he runs out of moves.

Galtran takes the undead, pikemen, and Armageddon's Blade from Moner. Jumps to Rave Raven. Transforms non-skeletons into skeletons. Hires 412 skeletons. In total, Galtran has 22683 skeletons. Jumps to Blackkwater, hires 412 skeletons. In total, 23095.

Kaitlin casts walking on water, takes the skeletons from Galtran, improves them in the fortress, and gives them back to Galtran.

Galtran gets 23095 skeleton warriors.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely, Dmitry_A_S.

P.S. And the ring is really not simple…;)

Well, after so much training, don't you know what to do in this case? Hire the hero you need and see who follows him. If he's already been dismissed, load the save and hire again, and keep doing that until you get the desired result. Or – which is much simpler – use the hero digger. A small number of heroes dig very quickly...

I'm asking in advance, I haven't tested it much yet. There are 18 of them in total; if I dismiss 12, I'll have 6 options left, but I'll need 7 or 8 heroes, what should I do then???

Anyone know what that blue orc is doing sitting in the bottom right corner?

That's Korbac:)

Armageddon's Blade had me confused,

same situation:(

And when I realized I needed to take the scholar, I didn't start over - I bought a second necromancer

:smile27: but how did you buy a second necromancer?? to have time to open the path to the blade and buy a 2nd necro, gold is tight...or am I missing something?

If I had expert berserker, I'd have won the battle without losses.

interesting interesting...care to enlighten?..
I myself only used him (the berserker) for fighting... while the local dragons were "bickering" my troops stood on the sidelines nervously smoking..
and then I went and lost a hundred dragons there((( why didn't I make stacks of 1 dragon((..idiot..what can I say

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8 BotINKi 17695+ 27570
11 Ley 21484+ 25070
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And a question to these comrades. Where did all that leftover gold come from? Didn't you buy skeletons in all the Fortresses on the third day? Please explain.

what's so special about that??? I had nowhere to spend the money...it was pointless to buy heroes, they're useless (without an army)
Personally, I bought all the skeletons in all three castles.. or did I miss something??... oh right:( I only took the southern castle on the 3rd turn:(
and how many skeletons did they give there?

P.S. Editorial aside:(
started like probably everyone else... although no..first went for the left skeletons, then right and so on to the mage...fought minimally to avoid leveling up too fast(:)first time for me)
Took that terrible mage and went to Hell:)...and then what got me for the first time... instead of porting, like a reckless idiot I went back through the thicket of these, to put it mildly, undead ******
Then hired Monere's servant and he started working for me like a good little guy...
opened quests as required...
regarding when to activate the Cloak of the Undead King, I didn't even guess...relied on my intuition..:(
and here's my second mistake:( I only built the necromancy amplifier AT THE END of the 2nd day:((I forgot about it) and so on the 2nd day I played checkers with the undead at only 90%
also on the second day I didn't take the southern town:(
and as a safety measure for the number of runs I gave Monere some liches to clear insignificant armies from the map(((...and I didn't really care much about losses myself...whatever happened happened, almost always...
completed the Pandora's box with 3000 skeletons at 90%..((
and at the end, heading for 7000, for some reason I split the dragons into stacks of 100 per slot. why?..I can't understand it myself...
In the end I ended up with such a meager number of skeletons:smile05:

P.P.S. Hope you enjoyed this comedy of errors, don't judge me too harshly:smile34:
P.P.P.S And will this count as a report?

I'm asking in advance, I haven't tested it thoroughly yet. There are 18 of them in total, and if I dismiss 12, I'll be left with 6 options, but I'll need 7 or 8 heroes, what should I do then???

Well, as an option, after you hire the last possible hero and he completes his turn, you can save and send your save file to the host... That will be your result... And what ELSE can be done here without violating the rules? Only optimize movement to have enough heroes... And we all already know how to do that... :)

I think this battle against 400 black knights will be interesting to many. I have 793 liches and 33 mana. Just to remind you, I lost 6 liches. It's possible to lose only 2! But that's a completely different and long story (I mentioned the inability to save during the battle mostly because of this fight). Good luck!

P.S. I hope you enjoyed this comedy of errors, please don't judge me too harshly.

It's a pretty standard comedy – everyone has played like that many times... It was just called scouting! :D And you did it perfectly! Now, it would be good to go through it one more time, avoiding the mistakes you mentioned... That's where you could get a truly worthy result...

Remembering your words about why you don't have much luck in offline mode, I'll say – OFFLINE is primarily about detailed scouting, which can only be done by playing through the map, and then – several clean runs... We take the best of them... and replay it again... :D

Otherwise, it's impossible... ;)

P.P.P.S. And how will this be considered?

I think it will be... Self-critical and easy to understand... Although, I think you need to describe in more detail how you managed to lose a hundred dragons in one battle... :) Just kidding. No one will believe it anyway! ;)

14. L35. The cloak is assembled! We kill the guardians one by one at point 21-11:30; 19-11: 50 ghosts; 20-12:50 guardians. We get 52 liches for three battles. (you can get 53 if you kill 30 guardians first, then 50 ghosts, 50 guardians).

21. L477. We kill 50 liches at 18-14. -10 liches (can be -9 liches). + 40 liches.

4. L787, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1, L1. We kill 400 death knights at 17-13. -6 liches (can be -2 liches). +360 liches. We get angel wings.

Could you provide more details about these points?:smile09:
It's not very clear for us, the losers....

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Okay... I understand about -6 and -2...;), but what about the others?

Could you please provide more details about these points? :smile09:
It's not very clear for us, the "losers"...

1. Here, we get +1 Lich due to the different number of stacks of 50 ghosts in the two described scenarios. The calculation of the number of Liches raised is done for each stack separately, and it is rounded down. The more stacks there are, the fewer Liches.

2. You need to time it so that the Liches deal the least amount of damage. I managed to do it once in a messy playthrough.

3. Try to figure it out yourself for now...

The comedy is quite typical – everyone has played it this way, time and time again... It's just called scouting! :D And you did an excellent job with it! Now, it would be good to do a clean run, avoiding the mistakes you yourself pointed out... That's where a worthy result would come from...

Remembering your words about why you don't have much luck in offline mode, I'll say this: OFFLINE is primarily about detailed scouting, which can be done best by playing through the map, and then doing several clean runs... We take the best of those... and replay it again... :D

Otherwise, it's impossible... ;)

Ugh... no... :( unfortunately, my patience and free time were only enough for... scouting:smile04: ...and as a result, I realized... no, I don't want to be a scout...

I think so... Self-critical and easy to understand... Although, I think you need to explain in more detail how you managed to lose a hundred dragons in one battle... :) Just kidding. No one will believe it anyway! ;)

and this... this is terrible... it's such a tragic story... :(
In that battle of 500, I encountered a hundred of the bravest and most valiant ghost dragons on that cursed land... and what do you think they did??... they rushed into 7000 enemies... idiot! ...damn it... I told them, "Don't look at the 300 Spartans before the battle, that's a completely different story..." but they didn't listen :)
May they rest in peace... my save file:)

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3. Struggle a bit yourself...

It's not fair!!!!))) I'll cry:smile05:!!! I'll go complain to my mom!!!....))) and I'll get a spanking))

I take off my admiral's hat and salute AmberSoler for the Blitz-4 map. ;)
As always, it's interesting and informative!

I take off my admiral's hat and salute AmberSoler for the Blitz-4 map.;)
As always, it's interesting and informative!

I assume that all the map's features have already been figured out, and its considerable complexity gives hope that there will be no competitors... :D Did I guess right? ;)

I understand that all the map's features have already been figured out, and its considerable complexity gives hope that there won't be much competition... :D Did I guess right? ;)

You didn't guess right! I expressed my great gratitude for your tremendous work!
I'll work on the "features" tomorrow; I need to rest from Heroes.
Off the top of my head, I can say that the map hides a great many tricks.
Thank you for reducing the number of heroes to 18! Otherwise, I would have had to extend the game again.

P.S. There's really no need to rush to send the final save for this map; I completely agree with you...

Interesting, very interesting... won't you enlighten me?
And I only used him (the Berserker) to fight... while the local dragons were "arguing," my warriors stood aside and nervously smoked...
and that's how I lost a hundred dragons there((( why didn't I make groups of 1 dragon each((... idiot... what else can I say

I've already enlightened you. Read post N536 in this thread, which states that if you don't have a Fire Expert, to minimize losses in a battle with 7000 dragons, you need to take only liches, a phoenix, and 5 skeletons in stacks of one each. That's what 4500 Spartans were for :) We only lose the phoenix and 5 skeletons.

and what's so special about that??? I had nowhere to put the money... there were plenty of heroes to buy, but they're useless (without an army)
I personally bought all the skeletons in all three castles... or did I miss something??... oh, right:( I took the Southern Castle only on the 3rd turn:(
and how many skeletons did they give there?

The same amount as in the other castles.

Well then, I'll also share my description, since this time it's without pictures and quite brief:) There was very little time for both the tournament itself and the description.

Walkthrough of the third blitz tournament, or Galthran – the superhero

I'll start by saying that after carefully reviewing the tournament map in the editor, as well as after 2 attempts at completing it, I concluded that to achieve a skeleton count as close to the maximum as possible, the following must be done:
- on the first day, capture 2 castles, complete the quest for the magician's ring, and open the guardian of the question that requires that very magician's ring to pass through, while minimizing skeleton losses, as well as potential skeletons in battles, and not killing everyone indiscriminately, but only as many as necessary (since necromancy on the first day is far from 100%). It is extremely important at this stage to learn fire magic from the scholar, otherwise the Pandora's Box with 7000 dragons cannot be taken.
- the second day is practically the most important and decisive – it is necessary to build the black magic amplifier in the starting castle (at the beginning of the day), capture the castle with the black magic amplifier, killing only those neutrals on the way that block the path, open two passage guardians (near the fort on the hill and the Pandora's Box with 3000 skeletons, which also needs to be opened), recruit Penicus, pick up the Armor of the Damned, take the Angel Wings, open the Pandora's Box near the lower castle, capture that very castle, kill 2 swarms of ghost dragons (those that give wood, ore, and gold), build the cursed temple in three castles.
- and on the third day, finish off the remaining neutrals, exchange the wings for the Town Portal, pick up 100 thousand gold, open the Pandora's Box guarded by 7000 dragons, open the Pandora's Box with 2000 spearmen, buy out all the skeletons, exchange all existing creatures for skeletons, and run to the fort on the hill to upgrade all existing skeletons to skeleton warriors.
Provided the above is accomplished, in my opinion, the maximum result will be achieved. Of course, losses in battles are inevitable, so I'll repeat – it is extremely important to minimize them.
So:
Day 1
1. Galthran moves two steps right through the pillar of fire, then down-right, attacking 10 skeletons – no losses, army increased by 2 skeletons. Total 12. I note that we do not assemble the Cloak of the Undead King for now.
2. Move one step left-up, then 4 steps left and one step left-down, attacking 10 skeletons – no losses, +2 skeletons. Total 14.
3. Move one step right, attacking 20 skeletons – no losses, +8. Total 22.
4. Move another step right, attacking 30 skeletons – no losses, +10. Total 32.
5. Move one step right-up, then right-down, attacking 20 skeletons that are under the pillar of fire – no losses, +6. Total 38.
6. Move one step left, attacking 30 skeletons – no losses, +12. Total 48.
7. Move another step left, attacking 50 skeleton warriors – losses 2 skeletons and 4 mana, +18. Total 64. At this point, leveled up – naturally choose advanced sorcery. I won't dwell on this further, as I upgraded existing secondary skills when leveling up. The last empty slot, as I mentioned earlier, is needed for fire magic.
8. Move 2 steps left, then left-down, attacking 25 walking dead that are on the left – no losses, +12. Total 76.
9. Move one step right, attacking 35 walking dead – no losses, +16. Total 92. Level up again – choose expert sorcery. Now we can think about liches (assemble the Cloak of the Undead King).
10. Move another step right, attacking 50 walking dead – no losses, +13 liches. Total 13 liches, 92 skeletons.
11. Move another step right, attacking 100 zombies – no losses, +40 liches. Total 53 liches and 92 skeletons.
12. Attack Castle Agony, guarded by 100 skeleton warriors – losses 3 skeletons (the towers got me). +60 skeletons, as the Cloak of the Undead King must be disassembled before the battle. Total 53 liches and 149 skeletons.
13. Run into the castle and leave all the skeletons to prevent them from being slaughtered by the towers and the sinister powerful liches that still had battles ahead. Also reassemble the Cloak of the Undead King.
14. Attack 40 walking dead – no losses, +14 liches. Total 67 liches. There is no point in raising skeletons, as Galthran is definitely intent on taking Haunt Wind, which is guarded quite heavily.
15. Move one step right, attacking 30 walking dead – no losses, +9 liches. Total 76.
16. Move one step down-right, attacking 20 zombies – no losses, +6 liches. Total 82.
17. Move one step down, attacking 30 guards – no losses, +12 liches. Total 94.
18. Move another step down, attacking 50 vampires – no losses, +33 liches. Total 127.
19. Move two steps down-right, thereby visiting the scholar and learning fire magic, run into the stable, then into the well, replenishing mana to 60.
20. Move one step left, attacking 100 vampire lords. The first rather difficult battle (I'll only say that you need to position the army correctly and move them skillfully. Formation – 121 liches and 6 stacks of 1 lich each. Losses – 3 liches and 4 mana, +69 liches. Total 193 liches.
21. Attack Haunt Wind with 100 death knights in the garrison. Again, you need to position the army correctly and move them. Formation – 181 liches and 6 stacks of 2 liches. Losses – 30 liches and 12 mana (the first significant loss, but I think it's worth it), +70 liches. Total 233 liches.
22. Move one step left, then left-up, attacking 50 power liches (divide the existing liches in half). Losses – 11 liches and 4 mana, +40 liches. Total 262.
23. Move one step left, attacking 50 guards – no losses, +24 liches. Total 286 liches.
24. Move another step left (staying in place), attacking 60 vampire lords – no losses, +48 liches. Total 334.
25. Move another step left, attacking 50 ghosts – no losses, +24 liches. Total 358.
26. Move one step left-down (but stay in place), attacking 50 power liches. Losses – 10 liches, +40. Total 388.
27. Move another step left-down, attacking 100 vampire lords – no losses, +80 liches. Total 468.
28. Move one step down (stay in place), attacking 50 death knights. Losses – 1 lich, +38 liches. Total 505 liches.
29. Move another step down, attacking 70 power liches. Losses – 13 liches, +56 liches. Total 548 liches.
30. Move one step left-down (stay in place), attacking 10 ghost dragons. Losses – 2 liches, +8 liches and 2500 gold. Total 554.
31. Move another step left-down, attacking 50 death knights – no losses, +40 liches. Total 594.
32. Move one step right, attacking 30 ghost dragons. Losses – 1 lich and 4 mana, +24 liches. Total 617. After the battle, enter the entrance monolith and emerge near the seer Blake's hut.
33. In Agony, recruit Monere (also an interesting point – those who only captured 1 castle on the first day need to buy Caitlin, otherwise the black magic amplifier cannot be built in the starting castle), run with him into Blake's hut, receive the magician's ring, run to the guardian of the question near Haunt Wind, open it, run to Galthran and give him the fairy, take the liches from him, and stop for the night over 150 ghosts.
34. With Galthran, move the remaining two steps left and stay for the night, remembering to remove the Cloak of the Undead King and equip the Boots of Speed.

Day 2.

1. Build the black magic amplifier in Cassatione.
2. With Galthran, move 4 steps left and stop right over Monere, with whom pick up the fairy and give the liches to Galthran.
3. Move another 3 steps left, diagonally open the guardian of the question (I don't know why I did this, as I didn't take the Pandora's Box immediately and returned to it later that same day).
4. Move one step down, then left-down, then right-down, attacking 30 guards – no losses, +26 skeletons (yes, indeed skeletons). With Monere, take the skeletons from Galthran.
5. Move one step down, attacking 150 vampires – no losses, +134 liches. Total 751.
6. Run into the well, then attack 100 death knights (my route to them was: one step right, then left-up). Losses – 1 lich, +90 liches. Total 840.
7. Attack Blackwater with a guard of 100 vampire lords. Losses – 1 lich, +90 liches. Total 929. Finally, the necromancy limit has been reached – 100% recovery rate (4 black magic amplifiers – 40%, sorcery skill – 30%, and Cloak of the Undead King – 30%). Now we can destroy everything in our path.
8. Move one step right, then right-up, attacking 100 power liches. Losses – 20 liches, +100 liches. Total 1009.
9. With Monere, step one step right. With Galthran, run up and open the Pandora's Box with 3000 guard skeletons. No losses, +3000 skeletons and a very good spell "clone". Total 1009 liches and 3000 skeletons.
10. Move one step right-down, then down, then right-down, attacking 40 ghosts – no losses, +40 skeletons. Total 1009 liches and 3040 skeletons.
11. Move one step right, attacking 150 ghosts – no losses, +150 skeletons. Total 1009 liches and 3190 skeletons.
12. Move one step right-down, attacking 200 vampire lords – no losses, +200 liches. Total 1209 liches and 3190 skeletons.
13. Take the shield of lion's bravery, killing 500 guard skeletons without losses. +500 skeletons. Total 1209 liches and 3690 skeletons.
14. Move one step right-down, attacking 400 vampire lords – no losses, +400 liches and golden bow. Total 1609 liches and 3690 skeletons.
15. With Monere, take all skeletons from Galthran (becomes 3716 plus 149 in the castle) and the shield of lion's bravery, run to recruit Penicus, then pick up the Armor of the Damned, and run back to Galthran, giving him the armor and Penicus.
16. Move one step down, attacking 400 power liches – no losses, +400 liches. Total 1 Penicus and 2009 liches.
17. Move one step right, attacking 400 death knights – no losses, +400 liches and angel wings. Total 2409.
18. Move one step down, attacking 150 power liches – no losses, +150 liches. Total 2559.
19. Move one step right (stay in place), attacking 200 death knights – no losses, +200 liches. Total 2759.
20. Move another step right, attacking 200 death knights – no losses, +200 liches. Total 2959.
21. Move one step down, attacking 400 ghost dragons – no losses, -24 mana, +400 liches, +15 ore and 5000 gold. Total 3359.
22. Equip the wings and move 5 steps down, then one step left-down. Diagonally left-up open the Pandora's Box – no losses, -24 mana, +2800 liches, +500 ghost dragons and Pandora's Box treasures, the main ones being the dimension door, berserker, and medal of vulnerability. Total 6159 liches, 500 ghost dragons, and Phoenix.
23. Attack Rave Raven. Losses – 1 lich, +100 liches. Total 6258.
24. Cast dimension door left, right up against 400 ghost dragons, and kill them without losses by moving one step right (staying in place), +400 liches, 15 wood and 5000 gold. Total 6658.
25. Move another step right, attacking 100 death knights – no losses, +100 liches. Total 6758
26. Move one step right (staying in place), attacking 399 ghost dragons – no losses, +399 liches. Total 7157.
27. Cast dimension door right up to the guardian of the question near the fort on the hill and open it on the last step. 6 mana remaining. Again, remember to equip the Boots of Speed.
28. With Monere, run into Agony and leave the skeletons there, making it 3865, and run to the guardian of the question near the scroll with water walk and gold, but his turn ends under the pillar of fire, where we camp.
29. In Blackwater, recruit Tyraxor, take the liches from Galthran with him, and camp near the remaining undead stacks.
30. In Blackwater, Agony, and Haunt Wind, build cursed temples.

Day 3.

1. The castles spawned skeletons – 400 each.
2. With Galthran, run into the well, move 2 steps right. With Tyraxor, give the liches to Galthran.
3. Move one step right-down, attacking 200 death knights – no losses, +200 liches. Total 7307.
4. Move one step right, attacking 400 ghost dragons – no losses, +400 liches. Total 7707.
5. Move one step right-up, attacking 150 power liches – no losses, +150 liches. Total 7857.
6. Move another step right-up, attacking 200 vampire lords – no losses, +200 liches. Total 8057 liches.
7. With Monere, open the guardian, pick up the scroll and 100 thousand gold.
8. Cast dimension door to the seer's hut with the town portal, enter it and exchange the wings for the town portal.
9. Cast dimension door to the guardian of the question near Armageddon's Blade, open it, take the Pandora's Box with 2000 spearmen and the blade.
10. Town portal to Rave Raven, leave the spearmen and phoenix there.
11. Attack 7000 ghost dragons guarding the Pandora's Box – no losses, -96 mana, +7000 liches. Total 15057 liches and 500 ghost dragons.
12. Jump clockwise through the castles, starting with Agony, and buy out all the skeletons. In Rave Raven, convert all into skeletons. Jump to Blackwater, buy out the skeletons there, and run to the fort on the hill, where we upgrade our skeleton warriors.
13. In total, I scraped together 23071 skeleton warriors.

That's basically it, Game Over! Unlike last time, I didn't indulge in screenshots, as my description would have taken up about 10 meters, and I also didn't describe the battles, due to lack of time, and I don't think a meticulously detailed description is beneficial, as I believe that if a person struggles themselves for a certain amount of time to defeat a particular army with given forces, they will learn it much better. And when everything is already laid out, you don't have to think for yourself, and it turns into – looked, read, and promptly forgot (IMHO).

Best regards, Radik.

P.S. It's a shame there was no time to improve, as I think that if the first day were replayed, 20-30 more skeletons could be gathered.

It is extremely important at this stage to learn fire magic from the scholar, otherwise you won't be able to take Pandora with 7000 dragons.

How is it impossible to take it? :) Stop embarrassing me :) I don't think losing six skeletons when taking Pandora with 7000 dragons is a big loss, even without a fire expert. Instead of fire, I had a pathfinding expert, although it didn't help me in this round :)
Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for the descriptions. To those who didn't win, I wish you not to be discouraged, cadets :)