Having a hard time with Heroes VII

[Dark Wombat]

I am trying hard to like this game but I am having some issues.

I am playing this game on EASY and still find myself getting STUCK on campaign levels if you don't make the exact perfect moves. It seems like through trial and error, I am able to get a little further only then to have reload from a previous save or go back and restart the map.
For example I am stuck on the Sylvan campaign Map 2, Perils of Waves and War. I have tried everything including using the guide here:

https://guides.gamepressure.com/mightandmagicheroes7/guide.asp?ID=32135

and every single time Thrall (sp?) comes through with an army and just wrecks me. I have tried 5 different strategies and nothing works. I cannot amass an army big enough to take him out. And then the one time I though I was almost there, he shows up on my island extra early this time (by random)?

This is completely frustrating. Should I just play random maps and enjoy the game that way? I don't like being railroaded into one strategy and I think that's what the campaign wants you to do. Yes I get it, campaigns are supposed to feel a different feel, but never in any other Heroes game do I remember having to reload and start maps over and over again...
Thanks!

[Talana 💃]

Hi - I had trouble with this campaign, too. So I went to YouTube and looked at some playthroughs, because the guides didn`t help.
Try checking this out :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcS-nbcSCJM&list=PLtzgP48ATFJDFIjFX0e6xxpbC0xe-LDAz&index=45
Good luck

[mercedesfans]

I had the same situation
With necropolis mission
The difficulty was set to lowest ,even then it was impossible for me to do some moves in world because of academy owerpovered npc
I tryed many times ,try watever you want ,you will lose

Activated cheats
Hit the google and you will find

I was impressed how impossible was made this mission
Even with biggest army, i fought that NPC who hummiliated me ,
treath level was low
But then guy started trow at me chain lightning every turn
almost died ,again ,nonsense how the ubisoft created this game

So sad that these heroes don't give the same expiriance ,happines ,fun like it does 3 ,4,5

[Antalyan]

Sometimes the missions require a different approach than 'go and kill them all', you have to hide etc. Previous games had this too (do you remember for example Raelag's Offer in H5?

[henpara]

Hey guys,
well i always play on hard difficulty and I really dont understand, why you have such huge problems.

Yeah, sometimes the ennemy comes early with big army. Just see that you get your army on a good level and outplay him with for example teleport (teleport sceletons near his range units, so that he destroys his own units with chain lightning)

[Qiox]

Originally posted by mercedesfans:

But then guy started trow at me chain lightning every turn
almost died ,again ,nonsense how the ubisoft created this game

So sad that these heroes don't give the same expiriance ,happines ,fun like it does 3 ,4,5

You are not meant to fight that hero. He has 50 spell power. His Chain Lightning will wipe you out no matter what.

It is not hard to avoid him and win the mission without getting into a fight with him.

[Burlokk]

i thought i was alone and just sucked at the game.
As a veteran from HoMM2 (one of my first own purchased PC games) i thought highly of myself after spending thousands of hours across most HoMM games, i have extreme difficulty in this one, and struggling to find the fun in restart map to perfect my turns.

[Engren]

That map (Sylvan 2) was FRUSTRATING INDEED. Red has 3 towns, 4 nearly maxed heroes with initial armies (one of them has pretty big) and even if you defeat heroes, red can still hire them again in tavern (like seriously?). I maxed Wysloth from previous mission, but my girl was level 5 (yeah I know, that bad). I just completed mission by clearing initial island, and taking elven castle early (northern one), then developed and went out for obelisks. Lots of hide and seek was involved and few smaller fights with red. I know, that this map was designed in a way, that you need to avoid fights with red, but casual players, who just enjoy story could be pissed, because no matter difficulty (same OP heroes, same big armies), this map will always be HARD.