Finally, you can use a spell like poison to kill off the melee troops inside the castle, since poison doesn?t require line-of-sight. You can use it to summon or create temporary troops, and then use those troops as fodder to charge the gates. You can use it to attack the ranged troops since they can?t retaliate against magic. You can use it to disable the enemy ranged troops or push them off their turrets. * - * * Sieging Castles * * - * Magic is the key to sieging castles. So when you group heroes together, try to get one to learn tactics and the other to learn scouting.

If two heroes have tactics skills, for example, only the highest rating of the skill is used to determine the bonuses, so it?s a waste for two heroes in the same army to have the skill. Other non-magic skills should be parceled out so they don?t overlap. More troops, more gold, and more resources are all good things, but diplomacy might be the best secondary skill of the bunch since the creatures you buy only cost half as much as they would otherwise (and you?ll often be facing your own creatures in the campaigns). If nothing else, it makes them much more difficult to kill. Anybody who can play on the more advanced settings probably doesn?t need a guide.

(But feel free to mail me if you think I?ve made a mistake.) Lastly, I wrote the walkthroughs using the intermediate (default) difficulty setting. If you notice anything terribly wrong with the guide, it might be due to the differences between the version you?re playing and the versions I used for the guide. YES NOon the 1.0 (retail) release, while the others are based on the 1.2 release.

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