Firewall mission (Battles of Ardania campaign)

[Cat]

Seriously can't beat it. I finished the main game, the kingmaker and monster kingdom without any glitches at most I'd need to retry a mission a few times but this one I already tried 20 or more times and the furthest I ever got was to 4 out of 6 towers.

I tried tips, rushing dwarves and the northern towers, did not work.
I tried mimicking a youtube vid of the mission, the guy seems to do splendidly on the north towers with low level heroes but mine get wiped left and right and take much longer to secure the tower, even the building seems longer. I'm going to assume either my copy is faulty or they made this mission worse with an update. In addition I can't save the game as it apparently bugs out the game and makes spawns come earlier.

Really, I'm lost for ideas, if anyone knows a way through this, give me a shout. I wanted to finish all of the campaigns...

[Ariakan]

North towers first - to claim it build mage tower near one of them and bait minotaurs to it.
Avoid exploring multiple towers at the same time at all costs - its almost impossible to defend more than 2 spots at once.

BTW, how do you avoid authentification problem, man?

[Cat]

Honestly, I didn't have any problems with authentification. Dunno how. Maybe coz I got the game outside of steam then added it in? A

And thanks, I did figure that much out but next time I'll try the mages thing.

[biochimera]

I do it differently to Ariakan. I actively keep the heroes away from the north towers through a fear flag once the serpent nest has been wiped out. Instead I head east, making the SE towers my first objective, destroying all the lairs between my settlement and the allied settlement. Get those first two towers up, and take special care to wipe out the serpent nests near them. Also get heroes out to destroy the hell portal north of the allied settlement, plus hopefully the minotaur ziggurat as well. Then get the eastern pair built up, and laugh at the dragons trying to fly past them. With the trading post west of your starting position and in the allied settlement you have enough money, especially with spamming the orb. Try to grab another trading post if you can, but yeah, leave the north towers until last, when your heroes can hold off the bucketload of minotaurs. Also remember the dwarven settlement's tier 2 majesty spell can speed up construction as well as repair.

[Clive Bixby]

Credit to Fireman's Gaming for the video to give me the outline on how to beat it.

Build the marketplace to the west of the castle. Only build the warrior, ranger, cleric, and rogue guilds (x2 of each) at the beginning. Put the 2 warrior guilds to the north of the castle. 1 of the ranger guilds to the east of the castle and the other 5 guilds to the south. After you have about 3-4 of each type of hero, put a 100 attack flag on all of the dens of the enemies, starting with the ones closest. I would also recommend focusing on the 3 in the SW corner of the map, so that you can build the trading post. Don't worry about upgrading after the dens are gone.

Next, start working your way up to the north towards the minotaur den. I recommend putting a 500 gold flag on it, but make sure you have 1500 gold and your Spirit of Kings is up. Once the 2 towers are activated, put a 500 protect on each and pick a minotaur close to the towers to put a 500 flag on. This will cluster the heroes to kill and protect. When they engage, activate the spirit to distract the minotaurs. By the time it goes away, you should have enough heroes nearby to kill and protect.

Once these 2 towers are complete, just start exploring the
NE, kill the dens, then focus on the SE corner of map, working your way to the NE building towers and putting 200 gold on dens that you discover. This should make it easy to complete.

[edervspumuckel]

i usualy dont take part in discussions but i strongly feel like haveing to do it this time:
I tried to master this mission for days!
And yes: THANK YOU Fireman's gaming! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiLoNXaUTg
Do it like he does in his video and its easy. Worked for me in the first attempt.

i short:
The key in my oppinion was builing serveral guilds of each kind and "flood" the area with heroes. Didnt take care of them (like all the other times). But they will be fine cos there are great numbers. Only lost a few mages. then attack ever den you see. cleared the area clockwise: North , NorthEast, East, Southeast)

[Philly4eva]

The above video is with edited fps/hz making it a cakewalk.

If u wanna beat it without editing fps/hz:
Build a mage guild, northwest of your palace to reveal a serpents den. Build market + upgrade palace.
Train 3 mages.
Mark the 2 serpent dens with 100g attack flags.

Build 2 rogues guilds.
Use spirit of kings north on the mintotaur palace.
Build 1 mage tower next to minotaur palace.
Build magic bazaar.
Build 2 rangers guild, 1 warriors guild and 1 clerics guild.
Build a blacksmith.
Train all your units.
Place a guardtower slightly east of the north ancient guard tower.
Scout the trading post south of your palace, clear all camps.
Scout slightly east of mintotaur to find 1 more, there is a 2nd one slightly northeast of your palace. Mark both.
When first ancient guard tower finish, place a 2nd magic tower next to mintotaur palace.

Scout slightly east from the mintotaur palace to reveal two more towers. Build a guard tower next to the east one.
Scout northwest from the towers to reveal an undead camp, mark it.
When palace becomes lvl 2 upgrade blacksmith to lvl 2 and build a dwarf camp, upgrade it when u can.

Use spirit of kings to scout and fight the big dragon in northeast corner, mark all the camps.
Place 4 magic towers close to the 5th and 6th ancient tower.
If u are slow the ai castle might be destroyed but it doesn't matter. Saving it is easy to do tho by just marking more camps close to it.
Mark all dragon camps, with spirit of kings taking them out is easy.
Spam the spell from the dwarf camp to speedbuild any turret.

Use spirit of kings in the southeast corner, place a magic tower or mark the graveyard.
Fast forward the game, easy 8/8 towers built by day 50-60, win everytime.

[Hill]

I beat it first try with no guides pretty easily. Just building regularly without stressing it I had zero problems.