HOMM 2 : Strategy on "Price of Loyalty 6" (Aurora Borealis)
Sebastien Patenaude
Please keep in mind that your objective is finding the Anduran
Artifact... You DO NOT need to conquer the red barbarian player to win
this scenario. In fact, the description of the map doesn't recommend it.
Being a somewhat sadistic fellow, I decided to beat up the annoying red
barbarians anyway just to prove my strategic superiority :-) I finished
in 40 days (Month 2, week 2, day 5).
1) Pick the Traveller's Boots before beginning the scenario.
2) Logistics, Wisdom and Pathfinding should be your favorite secondary
skills.
3) Buy a spell book for your knight
4) Buy all troops in the castle
5) Hire 2 more heroes on the 2 first days and give their troops to your
main hero.
6) Split your Archers in 2 stacks and kill the Rogues protecting the
nearby gold mine.
7) Go roughly east, kill the boars and then go north towards an
Observation Tower (it's probably safer to go north by staying near the
mountain range : less chance of getting caught by a red hero)
8) Avoid the Red Barbarians, you're not srong enough to meet them yet.
9) Capture the yellow castle at the end of week 1.
10) Do not leave it undefended or the red and/or yellow heroes will come
to take it back.
11) Go north (from the previously yellow castle) with your main hero
until you reach the red barrier.
12) Open it and get the scroll. It's Dimension Door, a powerful spell
you will definitely need to win.
13) You can use Dimension Door (on a scroll) even though your knight
doesn't have expert wisdom.
14) Use Dimension Door to bypass protectors who are guarding free
resources and items on the western side of map.
15) Pick more orcs from the free dwellings and upgrade them to orc
chiefs in your barbarian castle.
16) With around 90 Orc Chiefs and other barbarian troops, go east and
conquer your first red castle.
17) At around the same time, a big knight army (from your starting
castle) should cross the isolated snowy "canyon" between 2 montainous
passages which borders the southern frontier (This 2-army attack is
around month 2, week 1).
18) This knight army should arrive in the southeast corner, deep inside
red territory.
19) The red barbarians are now flanked on 2 sides. Dimension Door
between the red castles, use guerilla tactics and destroy the annoying
enemy heroes when you feel ready.
20) Concentrate on taking castles before killing the several powerful
red heroes. Let them retake castles so that they split-up their forces.
21) When red is totally eliminated, cast "Dimension Door" and reach the
northeast volcanic island.
22) ALTERNATIVE OPTION : You might decide to "ignore" the red players...
In this case, still get the Dimension Door scroll, form the best army
possible, cross the isolated snowy canyon and rush north while avoiding
the red heroes. When you reach the sea shore, teleport on the volcanic
island.
23) The "Anduran Helm" is in the possession of the green necromancer,
who like a stupid moron, will stay inside his castle, waiting for a hero
like you to annihilate him...
24) If you have the Elven Alliance, you can pick up some extremely
useful Grand Elves stacks near the Necromancer castle and on a little
northern island.
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