Any tips for Story 3?

[Secretlemon]

I always spawn between karissa the red and cinren toliath and it feels impossible to do literally anything.

Their starting heros are level 13 and they have units that they literally cannot get by the point i encounter them, with tier 3 and 4 units (beserkers and warbeasts) some of which ive seen spawn at the highest rank.

Even if i do manage to kill their units in another 4-5 turns a new set of armies appears with 1.5-2k power, meaning i just cant manage to fend even one of them off consistently.

The only way ive found to survive is to have the starting city and not expand at all. Doing that has its own issues though as it means i have no real progression speed compared to others with 3 cities up.

So as it stands i cant expand via creating new cities or conquering the free cities as the ai armies are far to strong, and i cant just stay as a single city or its a slow and painful death

[~ Fabulous ~]

be evil and the only Godir you will need to fight is the demon prince, I make a tenticle hentai monster to drag Karissa to mageheaven without even fighting her lol

[Kref]

I finished it on hard from first attempt.
It was a long run. Karissa can be destroyed with a quest, and she should be destroyed with it. If you'll go on right with a scout, you'll be able to see another character who can be defeated with quest even before you'll finish Karissa quest. You can get a reward for defeating him which would be very helpfull with Karissa.

[Evil donut]

Yeah this map is tricky. Overall it was my longest playthgough i had from all the maps. I have played this map with an industrious race. I have chosen the trait which gives you 2 gold from quarries and the "better settler" trait for an additional + 1 city so could go getting 4 cities right from the beginning.

Since i played with an industrious race their perk are heavy defensive units. I went with the industrious tome line and the materium tome line.

I had a free city next to me on the right city and immediately took this city next to me, to get a second city.

I killed karissa with her quest. The rest was a long long grind against the other enemies. After 3 days of playing this map i have finally won a military victory.

(But you can simply go for completing all the quests, this is faster.)

[Darkfireslide]

Each of the players save one has a quest that allows you to kill their faction easily without fighting their entire armies. Then you can just annex their cities at will.