United Front

Quest/Objective

Eliminate your enemy.

Map Details

Difficulty: There are serious obstacles.

Map Size: large

Next Map: For King and Country

Total Castles: 9

Underground: no

Heroes

You start with your 8 best Heroes from the previous scenario. Effectively, you will not need any more good Heroes, nor should you try to develop such. However, you will find it useful to have a few more fetch-and-carry leaders. This is a BIIG map. Note that Nimbus is reset to level 5, knowing no magic, and having just a few secondary skills, including the useless Eagle Eye.

The enemy starts with 4 Heroes, each about level 5.

Maximum Heroes: N/A

Maximum Level: Your 6 best Heroes pass on to the next scenario. You can arrange to bring them all to level about 15-20. You can also arrange that Nimbus is not one of them, which you want to do because he is forced to have inferior attributes.

Starting Options

You start with 35 upgraded level 3 units from one of your 3 allied factions. The archers are the most powerful pick; the golems are the least useful.

Tips

• The first obstacle you have to deal with is that you have almost no wood or stone, and you will not find any lying around unguarded. Therefore, you must immediately start fighting to secure resource production facilities with all your leaders. You also have little in the way of troops, but your leaders are quite powerful, so as long as you start this process immediately, you will do fine. Eventually, you will get 28 resource production facilities in your home area, which is a lot.
• There is a Hill Fort near your Human city; you should find it on turn 1. There is also an external Stable, so your Human cavalry upgrades for free.
• There are 9 external troop production facilities in your home area.
• Do not fall into the trap of overproducing troop production facilities. You will only be able to finance full troop production in two of your cities.
• The second obstacle you have to deal with is that your enemy can combine all their troops into one army. Yours will be split among 3 factions, which means your armies are individually weaker. Your enemy also has the central position, which facilitates this process.
• The third obstacle you have to deal with is that you have insufficient leaders to do all the work that needs to be done on this large map. The best solution to this problem is to abandon collecting troops from the external troop production facilities once you start advancing into enemy territory.
• The fourth obstacle you have to deal with is that your initial offensive will be unable to actually hold any cities you capture. Therefore, you will only be able to raid until you have degraded your enemy's combat power. When you capture a city, you will find a lot of troops that the AI was unable to hire. Scoop them up and bring them home with a fetch-and-carry leader.
• The final obstacle you have to deal with is getting the maximum upgrades for your leaders before the scenario ends. This means that you will need to keep your enemy alive somehow until you are quite done scraping all the experience out of the map.