By staying near the coast, you'll improve your scout's life expectancy.

Avoid enemy ships by hopping one tile onto land. If you're careful with them, you can avoid some of the wandering monsters by going to into the ocean. It's a huge map and you're going to need multiple scouts.

Warlord scouts are cheap and they can walk on water. Scouting is vital and rewarding throughout the entire game. Don't forget there's an inn outside your capital if you need a quick emergency defender!ħ. Sometimes it's even worth it to wait a turn or two, saving up money to get a nice tier 3 units or some elven longbows. This makes them a lot more afforable than you're probably used to. With the partisan specilization, you automatically get a 25% discount on all units purchased from inns. There's one inn that is really good for restocking your army. With such a large map, your reinforcements will take a while to arrive from your home cities. When fighting the large enemy cities, you'll probably want 3 stacks of units to have even odds.Ħ. This minimizes losses and lets both leaders gain xp early on. Early on it's best to keep 2 stacks each led by a hero together. Your armies will be small and possibly outnumbered. Halfling units are pretty fragile, despite the lucky trait, and autocombat tends to kill tier 1 units that might not need to die.ĥ.

It can be tiresome, but in the early turns it's safer to keep both your armies grouped together and to do manual combat. Keep your early units alive by doing manual combat early. 1 large boat and 2 small boats was enough for me early to mid-game and then I built a few more later.Ĥ. If you level her up enough, she can get the awesome chain lightning with enough spell points to use it.ģ. Although she has to survive, make sure she gets in on the action. Don't forget to build walls and rabbit burrows as well.Ģ. Monster hunters and adventurers really pull their weight defending against monsters and killing nests. There's quite a few monster nests (and other things) near your starting position. Keep your cities well defended! Your cities will get attacked eventually. It is also a LARGE map! Here's some general tips to keep in mind.ġ. It forces you to play both defensively and offensively. This mission is a long and challenging one.

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