Crimson Caldera?

[Celestaux]

Am I doing something wrong? I can not get past this one level regardless of what I try? I play defensively and the AI auto wins around turn 70ish through magic tower victory? I play offensively and Karrisa the Red keeps steamrolling me... she consistently has 6stacked armies pumping out every 3 turns it feels like... not only are they 6stacked armies every couple of turns but they are not tier 1s either but mostly tier 3s?? What can I do to get past this ho? This one level has turned me off from the game and made me take a couple month long hiatus already from frustration.

[utilityguy]

This one level has turned me off from the game and made me take a couple month long hiatus already from frustration.

Because of this quote, I recommend you play Crimson Caldera on Easy, if you are not already. The challenge from normal and above is not worth that type of burn-out.

[Terrkas]

Its fine to lower the difficulty. Ais in tbs games get already quite strong economic boni on normal most of the time.

For crimson Caldera its important to keep the berserk effect in mind. A full army of Meeles for example might hurt each other, because they cant reach your enemy.

Doing the quests also is an easy way to deal with most ais.

[~ Fabulous ~]

do the quest, give Karrisa to tentacle hentai monster and it will be easier.

[Azunai]

4 of the 5 opponents on that map can be defeated through the quest you get early on without actually having to fight their armies and siege their cities. There's an achievement for conquering them without using the quest, but it's not required for winning the map.

A defensive strategy will likely fail. Your opponents start stronger than you and you won't catch up unless you play aggressively.

When I replayed the map to get the achievement, I went with high culture and order tomes. Late game once you get the angelize transformation, your troops become immune to the berserk effect.

[Gregolution]

oops I just bumped this up to hard because I thought the 2nd story realm was too easy. maybe I should restart.

[Sifer2]

If you want to make it silly easy you can play a Industrious Dragon lord. So many Mountains to prospect for free items you will end up getting hundreds of gold a turn from Dragon hoard.

[Gregolution]

How are you supposed to settle any cities in this when most of it is barren land scape? Is that where you need those land terraforming spells?

[Terrkas]

Originally posted by Gregolution:

How are you supposed to settle any cities in this when most of it is barren land scape? Is that where you need those land transmuting spells?

In desolate provinces you also can replace hits with special prpvince improvements later.

But terraform surely works too.

[Celestaux]

Originally posted by utilityguy:

This one level has turned me off from the game and made me take a couple month long hiatus already from frustration.

Because of this quote, I recommend you play Crimson Caldera on Easy, if you are not already. The challenge from normal and above is not worth that type of burn-out.

Already was on easy 🥲
But at least it seems I'm not crazy that the ai do start off stronger. The Barbarian ho below me just demolishing my area by turn 16 just feels suck though. I think the frustrating part is I've done other similar games (strategy/turn based) with no issues 🙁

[Midas]

Originally posted by Celestaux:

Originally posted by utilityguy:

Because of this quote, I recommend you play Crimson Caldera on Easy, if you are not already. The challenge from normal and above is not worth that type of burn-out.

Already was on easy 🥲
But at least it seems I'm not crazy that the ai do start off stronger. The Barbarian ho below me just demolishing my area by turn 16 just feels suck though. I think the frustrating part is I've done other similar games (strategy/turn based) with no issues 🙁

Do the quests. They let you circumvent rulers entirely if they are too much trouble. The difficulty of the map almost definitely factors around this.

[79of96]

I'm stuck. I'm on turn 84. Killed everyone on my part, done all the mind reading skill or whatever it was, how do I win the scenario? I can't come to the enemy because of the lava.

[TyborPL]

You are supposed to find weaknesses of those leaders by casting a special spell and complete a mission to exploit related weakness. Very simple. Do not fight them head on (except one last). I've done this mission on hard difficulty without savescumming and had no problems.

[TyborPL]

Originally posted by 79of96:

I'm stuck. I'm on turn 84. Killed everyone on my part, done all the mind reading skill or whatever it was, how do I win the scenario? I can't come to the enemy because of the lava.

Lava is in the center. You can go around. You can also walk over mountains.