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The strategies and information you've read up to this point are applicable in multiplayer or single-player games. The knowledge you have on town and unit strengths, as well as the best uses for magic and the nuances of hero skills, will doubtless carry you to victory. However, that's not to say we're going to leave you high and dry for the single-player campaigns. There are six campaigns (seven if you count the secret campaign), and we thought we'd offer some reconnaissance and a few hints for each campaign scenario. You'll do fine if you are armed with the advice from the preceding sections, but a little extra help won't hurt, especially with Erathia's peace on the line.
Objective: To find and kill the Gold Dragon Queen
Starting notes: Your heroes are limited to twelfth level, but your eight strongest heroes are available to you in the final scenario of evil campaign one. Only level, primary and secondary skills, and experience carry over. Troops and artifacts do not. Bonuses for starting hero
(you can pick one): Starting town: Inferno Starting resources: 30W, 15M, 30O, 15S, 15C, 15Ge, 29000G Other towns: There are five towns for the taking. The closest is an unguarded rampart town close by your town, about one day's ride to the southwest. The way will be guarded by a band of low level creatures, but the castle itself is unoccupied. There other four towns are a castle town in the southwest corner, another castle town in the middle of the map, and two rampart towns, one in the northwest corner, and another on the far north side of the map. All of these have either a village or town hall and no fort, and only the rampart town in the northwest corner can build additional buildings. Notes: The Gold Dragon Queen is hiding in an underground cave in the middle of the map. Aside from the dragon guardians in the underground lair, you will only face opposition from one enemy nation, the elven kingdom of AvLee, which controls a few castle and rampart towns on the surface of this map that will give you only token resistance. You can choose either starting bonus. The 100 imps are extremely helpful because they allow you to attack wandering monsters immediately and take mines and treasure chests quickly. If you don't take the imps, you might have to wait a few extra days to get recruit enough troops to take on those same wandering monsters. The slayer scroll seems useful, but by the time you are ready to take on the green dragon guardians of the underground, you are probably strong enough that you don't really need it. As for the armor, it will help from the beginning of the scenario, but not as much as the 100 imps. You start in the southeast corner of the map. Recruit two extra heroes at the beginning of the scenario so you can explore more of the map and take mines faster. Because your heroes are limited in their level in this scenario, you might want to simply take the gold instead of the experience when you find treasure chests. Despite your large sum of starting gold, you will need a lot of it to build and upgrade your town and recruit troops. Your heroes will have plenty of other opportunities to gain experience throughout the scenario. In order to get to the dragon
queen's underground lair, you'll need to first get past a green border
guard by visiting the green keymaster's tent in the very southwest corner
of the map. The actual border guard and subterranean gate are in the north
of the map. Once you bypass the guard, you'll see the gate guarded by
a pack of green dragons. If you can get past this, the scenario is practically
won. Once you enter the gate, you'll find the dragon queen to the south.
This underground region is very small. If you want some experience, there
are treasure chests to the west and east, guarded by packs of green dragons.
When going south to the dragon queen, you will have to go through a few
green dragons first. The dragon queen herself is but a regular gold dragon
(27A, 27D, 40-50dmg, 250hp). You'll defeat her with laughable ease and
win the scenario.
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