Two More Ranger Adventures

[Angelspit]

<img src="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/homm5/ ... ummonB.jpg" align=right vspace=10 hspace=10>Today we publish two additional walkthrough articles for all campaign players out there. <a href="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/583">The Emerald Ones</a> and <a href="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/584">The Defense</a> were written by a new contributor, Maltz, and edited by Psychobabble. The Emerald appears to be giving headaches to a lot of players, based on the number of requests in the forums. If you're one of them, you should read Maltz's advices for the skill choices, check out the large minimaps and, well, try again. Feel free to add comments of your own at the bottom of the page -- there is certainly more than one way to complete each scenario.



The remaining Sylvan walkthroughs will be available in a few days, while the Dungeon series is still under construction. All other campaigns are done, so visit <a href="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/119">this section</a> if you need any help.

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
https://www.celestialheavens.com/583

[Orfinn]

Oh thanks so much for this guide, its a hard map even on normal and easy!

[asandir]

very good work guys, well done

[farquit]

Excellent piece of work you have done here. May be worth mentioning that you can't recruit any of the 20 required Emerald dragons from your town. You have to collect them via the obelisks.

[maltz]

> You have to collect them via the obelisks.

Thanks for your encouragement! Actually, in my games I could hire my own dragons after defeating the red player.

[farquit]

>Actually, in my games I could hire my own dragons after defeating the red player.

I could recruit them but found they didn't count as part of the required 20. Is that right?

[maltz]

They count. In both my runs I only got 3 dragons from the obelisks, and the rest through hiring.

[sm.art]

Thank's for this help!

[maltz]

Just did this mission on patch 1.2 heroic. Patch 1.2 has made the mission slightly harder by making the AIs hiring all units available. I've adjusted the walkthrough content to suggest an alternative attack route.
Edited on Wed, Aug 09 2006, 22:52 by maltz

[magerette]

I played this mission successfully prepatch pretty much the way you've outlined. Since 1.2, as you note, the NE Inferno town has become much more well defended- sev. Arch Devils,12 Nightmares,18 Pit Lords, 115 Horned Demons, 50 or so Succubus Mistresses, etc--I was slaughtered with my 2 weeks worth of troops. I assume the alternate plan is to take out the SW town heroes as you sail that way,capture it, then come back to the middle town? Anyway, the walkthru is still very sound and helpful and your work is greatly appreciated.

OOoops-this mission actually worked just fine taking the NE town about the third week--since the second time thru I remembered to Summon Creatures!!! Makes a huge difference. Thanks again!
Edited on Sat, Aug 12 2006, 09:25 by magerette

[ironbeard]

Played this patch 1.2, and after the first battle took Findan on the road east and first purple hero was there and second right behind them, so he took them both out and then a switched his troops back to the fort, but kept the dragons.



I then followed your walkthru. After I freed the two heros I lvled one to 20 and the other to 16 and then sent one back to the main fort to get xp defending it. As soon as he entered, the mission ended, even though he did not have exactly the army called for, his was stronger but only have 9 green dragons, but had 4 emerald. Anyway, mission accomplished.

[sylvanllewelyn]

I'm playing this mission right now, and I never struggled with a mission this way before. I tried attacking the NE castle as you said in the walkthrough, but the defense was far too formidable, and it only gets worse. The only time I could manage to take out that town was day 7 of week ONE, but then, there's no capital and they only had a citadel and the first six un-upgraded dwellings, with the mines around my Sylvan town unflagged.



I then tried to take the dragon, the inferno creatures, and bee-line my way to either town. Lo and behold: both the middle and the SW town was defended by, only 5 AD's, but 25-ish pit lords. I give up until I feel ready to get raped by demons again.

[NickMP]

Like Orfinn I found this one tricky even on Easy! I tried following the guide on Hard but the central town was heavily defended by the time I got there no matter how much I hurried. On Easy, I hurried and still met a superior force in the underworld on my way to the central town. So instead I took it more slowly, and the underworld enemy in due course appeared out of the dungeon on my home island, heading for the first Sylvan town. By that time I'd had extra production saved up, so Findan could pounce on him and then head back through the dungeon for the central town, which still proved hefty but manageable.

[NickMP]

BTW, there's also a planetarium in the NW dungeon for another +1 knowledge.

[Pave]

OMFG that's gotta be bad joke. I spent three ours chasing the red, and after that I found out that there are only 14(!!!) dragons on the map. Together with the five I've recieved after finishing off the red I now got 19 dragons and thats all.... I guess I'm pretty fu*ked...

I'm gonna have to start over and hope in better luck next time (

[Pave]

Oh now, I've read it here all again and noticed that after killing the red I can built the dragon altar.....thanks goodnes I was really begining to think I'd have to go through this mission again )

[casdragon]

On heroic, You're better off going underground and taking the middle easy inferno town first. You don't need to "hope for the best" with a first week blitz as outlined below. Your Sylvan town should be safe for awhile, provided you don't provide the Inferno troops any unoccupied ships to steal.

[Phate]

I was so lucky on this scenario, I kept running into the enemy at his weakest!

[Angelspit]

What a boring mission once Red is dead...

[akaihane]

I improvised the rush by taking both ore and wood mines first and proceed to kill Alastor outside or inside castle , it wouldn't matter. This can be easily done if you just restart until you get ossir to hire. Give all troops to Findan to clear the ore mine then move Ossir and take all troops from findan to clear the wood mine. Move Ossir back to give all troops back to Findan. Findan then get on the ship. 3rd hero cap the 2 mines. All these done on Day 1.

You shouldn't lose any troop for the ore mine with findan , Ossir might have a few blade dancer lost depending on the amount of familars but thats not a big problem.

If your Findan is well built and had all stat booster in mission 1 , Alastor will be very easy. I had 31 total stats on level 12. I lost 2 war dancers 2 blade dancers and 2 pixies all together. I used my ressurrection once on 6 pixies lol. Alastor had 9 succubus , 13 hell hounds , 30+ horned overseers 10+ horned demons, 50+ familars. The key here is to have your 1 pixie block the succubus for just 1 turn so that your hunters can clear out the succubus easily. My hero used imbue decay to clear out the hounds and overseers.