heroes III campaign help

[greenchylde]

i am stuck in a campaign and was wondering if anyone had any tips. i am playing Dungeons and Devils in Restoration of Erathia and i am on the last leg of it. i need to destroy a town in 3 months. the town is guarded by 2 magical gates that are hevily fortified and dont allow magic use. i can get through the gates but lose most of my army only to find an UBER powerful hero guarding the castle. im talking 30-40 crusaders, 150 pikeman, enough archers to kill my 3 arch-devils in one hit etc. every unit has an obscene amount and in 3 months i just am not able to grow a large enough army. i have good magic but its not enough to put a hole in their defenses.

there must be some tactic i am not thinking of in order to do this. i can manage to compile about 2 full weeks worth of troops but these get devestated by the border guards and by this time i only have 1 or 2 weeks until time runs out. ive tried this 3 times now and keep failing. ive only been playing off and on about 2 years now and im not a great player but im learning. any help would be most appreciated!

greenchylde@yahoo.com

[DaveJame]

Get a Dimenzon door from the prewios maps and use the heroes skil ad the basick units to atack the Dragon lair near your Dungeon town. dont ocupai any other Dwelwings and buld the Portal of sumaning and then just tech (u will hav 4 Black dragons week) the best way is to load the Dungeon map and tech all the mage guilds amd learn the sples.... then choase the Dungeon heroes and use the spels to destroy the early units (dont forget to seperate the traglodits ore the Dragons will roste you)

thats my way to do this map... personali I playd Harder cumpians (like the Dagonslayer or Palyin with fire)

[DaveJame]

Ohh and the defending hero is going out every week to colect the wathermills.. use this time to atack

[Polaris2013]

Is this the Steadwick map?

If so, one of the patches fixes this map, so get the patch and restart the map. (I'm not sure if you have to restart the whole campaign for the patch to take effect; but if so, then you can take the castle while the hero is not in it if you wait or draw him out)

[Pitsu]

go with 2 heroes. Leave one so far from the final castle that he can reach it next turn, another, "decoy" hero move closer. Gen. Kendal will come out and attack decoy and usually does not go back (forgets or does not have enough movement). Next turn you can walk into pretty much unguarded town.

Apologizes if this is not the map you were talking about...

[greenchylde]

davejame and Pitsu: i had forgotten about the dragons down there. i will give that a try. thanks! ill also try to attack when he is away. this crossed my mind but i hadnt tried it yet. im glad i am sorta thinking on the right track.

Polaris2013: yes this is the steadwick map. which patch are you referring to? i have a few already. it may just be my poor tactics keeping me from winning but if there is a patch i need id definately like to DL it.

davejame: i have played a number of scenarios and now am trying to muck my way through the campaigns since they seem more of a challenge and i feel more accomplished if i can finish them. the armeggedeons blade ones really scare me because almost all of them are on hard setting. ill have to post more if WHEN i have more questions.

thanks again for the help everyone. you have restored some of my confidence. we wary Steadwick i will prevail!

[Polaris2013]

The update was in patch 1.1. If you have that version or greater the map should already be fixed.

From H3Update.txt
"Steadwick's Fall Camp(Evil 1C) - Reduced difficulty level."

[greenchylde]

sweet. i just got updated to version 3.2.0 last night. i had reinstalled and forgot to put in my patches. thanks! http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[TheImmortalKing]

Originally posted by greenchylde:
i am stuck in a campaign and was wondering if anyone had any tips. i am playing Dungeons and Devils in Restoration of Erathia and i am on the last leg of it. i need to destroy a town in 3 months. the town is guarded by 2 magical gates that are hevily fortified and dont allow magic use. i can get through the gates but lose most of my army only to find an UBER powerful hero guarding the castle. im talking 30-40 crusaders, 150 pikeman, enough archers to kill my 3 arch-devils in one hit etc. every unit has an obscene amount and in 3 months i just am not able to grow a large enough army. i have good magic but its not enough to put a hole in their defenses.

there must be some tactic i am not thinking of in order to do this. i can manage to compile about 2 full weeks worth of troops but these get devestated by the border guards and by this time i only have 1 or 2 weeks until time runs out. ive tried this 3 times now and keep failing. ive only been playing off and on about 2 years now and im not a great player but im learning. any help would be most appreciated!

greenchylde@yahoo.com

In the first scenario, there is due to all the green dragon an insane ammount of experience avialabe, level all the heroes you can to the max lvl, when you carry over with 8 lvl 12 heroes, you can quickly conquer mines and such - and really I've completed that campaign loads of times, and I've never had any trouble with too few troops.. Don't know your playstyle though