Specter of Power → To Build a Tunnel

[vil2]

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[vil2]

I cannot beat this mission at the moment. I tried dozen times, but it is so difficult.

I cannot take the two neutral towns AND the mines during the first week.

Even if I am quick, I get attacked by both pink and red players during week 2, and they have powerful armies. One of the red heroes even has a ridiculous 15 defense ! My level 10 Sandro is just useless against them. Needless to say, I cannot gather enough gold before the end of the mission.

Has anyone managed to beat this level with this guide ?

[vil2]

Finally beat this level.

I captured the second town asap but did not go south to take the third.

Oddly, the pink heroes did not come into my territory. In the end of the game, I tried to capture the third necropolis and the pink player immediately invaded my territory. So I don't know if there is some kind of script here, but I managed to beat this level quite easily in impossible difficulty as I just had to deal with the red enemy. Unfortunately I couldn't build mage guilds everywhere so my Sandro has no powerful spells...

[hirohn]

Following my build from the previous level, I rushed Sandro to take N1, N2, N5 while another hero with expert Earth and expert Wisdom rushed over to N3, another one went underground and the fourth hero flagged mines, I also recruited 2 more newbies to pick up loose resources.



Using the blitzkrieg tactics, I neglected creature generation buildings and focus more on city halls and resource silos.



My other hero took over O1a and N4 from N3 easily (the map was still on impossible!). However, when one of my heroes sailed over to take N6, I was unlucky that their hero was right outside the castle and pursuing the blitzkrieg tactics, I couldn't afford to lose any castle after taking, I had to gather everything on Sandro and teleported to N6 and fought him outside the castle in order not to lose my other hero since he didn't have enough movement and spell points to run away. And by "everything" I meant a mixture of weak, low level creatures such as centaurs, goblins, walking deads... since I neglected the creature generation buildings and it was mid-week so I couldn't hire any wood elves. I lost all those troops and won by a small margin and emerged victory after combat with 300-ish skellies, which I rushed over to O1b to eliminate the opponents from the map.



Make sure you have citadel for defense after taking their bases and if you manage to build castles, it will be even easier.
Edited on Mon, Sep 22 2014, 01:58 by hirohn

[Thheo]

you can rush the opponent with superior casting. the hall of darkness and the very convenient placed magic well will help greatly.