What is the easiest campaign in Heroes IV?

[Metathron]

I'd say the Might and Death campaigns are on the more difficult sides. The easier ones are Nature and Life.

[DaemianLucifer]

Yes difficulty level is of great importance in the begining maps.I remember that in second map of life,on champion,I needed about two months in order to pass the first quest gate.Later,I got sanctuary and it became a lot easier.And after that,divine intervention made it pretty simple.

And about creatures I usually use them just as end fights in campaign.

I managed to max out my heroes(level 70)in draconic.

[cherko]

Easiest campaign - Life. And the barbarian campaigns, totally über-easy after you beat the first map. Same goes for all of the tGS campaigns. Only the first map is difficult, except for Bobh the Archmage, his campaign is really difficult because you don't have combat OR any real opportunity to max out any magic except Nature.

A tip for noobs, Combat skills are IMBA. GM Combat + GM Melee + Potions of Immortality = killing machine in 9 cases of 10.

[gravyluvr]

Easiest campaign - Life. And the barbarian campaigns, totally über-easy after you beat the first map. Same goes for all of the tGS campaigns. Only the first map is difficult, except for Bobh the Archmage, his campaign is really difficult because you don't have combat OR any real opportunity to max out any magic except Nature.

A tip for noobs, Combat skills are IMBA. GM Combat + GM Melee + Potions of Immortality = killing machine in 9 cases of 10.

Just finished the Bohb campaign and I had both Nature and Order GM, but I played the game with Order and Nature as my chosen skills. Everytime Order cam up (other than Charm) I took it. Hypnotize and Blind were just too good to pass up. But I ended up using Anti-Magic, Summon Phoenix, Wasport, and FDragon a lot.

[Banedon]

csarmi - I'll tell you why it is starkly impossible to win with Mongo without either a sizable force, or without very many hit-and-runs. Outside Rylos there is a garrison where there's stationed (if my memory does not fail me) about 100 Catapults, backed by a GM Tactician with a Robe of the Guardian and a Bow of the Elf King. See?

I would continue to argue regarding the words "every" and "never" and so on, but in this case I will not.

[csarmi]

Is that army able to kill you twice per round? Cause if not, all you do is wait till catapults are out of shots.

[Banedon]

We should say the Catapults kill you with each shot, and they shoot twice a round.

[csarmi]

We should say the Catapults kill you with each shot, and they shoot twice a round.

Shoot twice a round? What for?

[wimfrits]

Shoot twice a round? What for?

Bow of the Elf King.

I'm pretty sure I won that fight without creatures though. If I recall correctly positioning Mongo somewhere where the catapults did less damage allowed him to survive 2 shots, possibly with 1 or 2 buffs. Then all you need to do is hope the champions don't come out.

[Elwin]

Yeah, Draconic is the map where you get heroes who could take on 300+ Black Dragons all by himself, I never felt the glory of heroes until that and the life campaign. The fourth scenario I had about 40 Champions at the end, though blue was soo annoying, also because sir lysander had no magic he had trouble deeating Sir Worton. The Might and Chaos campaign are hardest, Might makes you start off with a weak party and playing champion just makes it impossible, while Chaos is just plain annoying with the swamp terrain and all those enemies, not to mention lots of sea sailing and the size of the maps are like, large. The Gathering Storm maps were pretty annoying, while WOW kept me busy for a while, I had to cheat the second Death campaign scenario, because I couldn't find a way to complete it even after defeating everyone else, and for the LAST BASTION I chose Mysterio as my conquerer....pretty fun overall. Easiest campaigns are Price of Peace and Elwin and Shaera, Half-Dead had a great story, but it was very hard.

[Caius]

Hi all,
Thanks everyone for your help so far. I figured I'd use this thread instead of starting a new one, since some advice on specific campaigns has been given here. I finished the life, nature, order, and might campaigns. I'm getting stuck on the third map of the death campaign.

This is the one where you have to tag the points of power. I guess where I'm getting stuck, is there are very few mines/resources in this map. Near the starting town there's a portal exit, and in the center there are two garrisons leading to the two other colors. Because of the lack of resources, I'm not being successful building up an army capable of taking on the AI towns. My main hero is GM death across the board and basic life magis, that's it--so he's not really doing it on his own, either. Any tips for this map will be appreciated!

Caius

edit: liberal use of the hand of death spell got me through it...even though I think using that spell is a little of a cop-out

[gravyluvr]

BUMP

Death campaign I haven't played for a long time... Maybe someone else can help???

[ThunderTitan]

Death campaign I haven't played for a long time... Maybe someone else can help???

Didn't he just say he finished it? Anyhow... GM Combat is always a good ideea.

[Slayer of Cliffracers]

So far I've found the Death Campaign hardest.

[Lunar]

In Homm4 original - True Blade was the easiest (what doesn't mean easy! ).
In TGS - Gathering Storm campaign (sixth), five powerfull heroes... pwn ^^
WoW - First campaigns with Chaos army ^^

[Gaidal Cain]

In Homm4 original - True Blade was the easiest (what doesn't mean easy! ).

I don't know; I think a case could be made for Academy, as the infamous second map of the Haven campaign has stopped quite a few would-be heroes.

[Omega_Destroyer]

Haven was the easiest for me. I found Chaos to be the toughest mainly because I always got stuck on the 3rd map because of an annoying computer who constantly tried to take my castles.

[Metathron]

I agree that the Emilia Nighthaven campaign (Order) is the easiest out of all of them, even on impossible, whereas most of the other campaigns will pose quite a challenge on that difficulty.

In WoW, the Spazz Maticcus campaign (Chaos) is the easiest (again, speaking of the impossible difficulty level).

TGS, Bohb's or Agraynel's campaign may be the easiest ones, whereas the might campaign might be pretty tough to plod through in the beginning because of larger neutral stacks.

[ThunderTitan]

I found Chaos to be the toughest mainly because I always got stuck on the 3rd map because of an annoying computer who constantly tried to take my castles.

For me the 1st map was the most trouble, had to play it on easy to pass it. The annoying part was that i couldn't change the difficulty for the rest of the maps, so they were way too easy.

[Metathron]

I think the first map of almost any campaign tends to be the toughest, since your hero is pretty weak and un(der)developed, and especially if the enemy has a sizable force at his disposal. I love the Tawni campaign so recently I decided to replay it on hard, but gave up on the first map, because the barbarian player was just too strong, despite my having built the dragon cave. Yikes!

P.S.: Most of the walkthroughs for the HoMM IV expansion campaigns are missing from the site. We really should put them together some day.