In Chapter 8 i finally decided that it's about time i teach those pesky AI a lesson because i already had enough.
Because turnro hates me, he always put me in a disadvantageous situation
This time i have
no access to spellcasters at all. So i took the luxury of picking my own rules which is not having the AI attack my base at all. Sounds good right?
So how do i do it?
I leveled the entire purple base with just three heroes without going to the base camp. Owned. Because no matter how big an army is if you can find a choke point it is a small army. Just a little bit southwest of the barely "base" camp (because it is barely fortified by the time you arrive) there is a short path you can take which is covered with trees. Clear those trees with mortar teams and you will make it through the purple base.
The AI does not rebuild buildings. So actually your goal is to snipe buildings. But somehow you will take over that massive army. When you do, lure them to the choke point, have Nathan tank, Rowan heal, and Logan spam flame strike. Spam banish to frost wyrms and storm bolt them.
This sounds difficult but i find it much easier and fun-er (do i spell this right?) rather than having to defend your unfortified base once every 3 minutes, while having your hands full on teching up and keeping your weak tier1/2 units survive under fire from goddamn meat wagons and frost wyrms like the past 4 chapters (except chapter 6).
So now go there you savage, go for the offensive, a hard difficulty is nothing if the AI is not attacking
Edited : finished chapter 10.
Chapter 10 was a very easy map (besides the purple base siege) but unnecessarily difficult. Completely amazed by the lack of usefulness of the dwarves. I guess when you take casters, healers, anti casters, anti air, and cavalry what you get is a race which you can faceroll and still win the game, because all you can do is attack ground. At least that storm bolt is useful to... Nuke necros, right?
Just within 5 minutes i had Sylvanas' base down. After Arthas attacks i also had Mal'ganis' base down. I guess it could've been easier if the dwarves pack a real punch, they can't really defend their own asses. That's why I never bothered with the dwarves' offense. I only had them spam gryphons and mortar teams for taking down purple. Purple base was ridiculously difficult but it was Arthas who made it harder.
I seriously doubt purple base has 100 supply, it must've been at least 200. I had to attack in multiple waves while chipping the entrance towers. At this point this isn't about skill but persistence of save/load. Because if all of the purple's units came down through it's a fail. After all of them are down i attacked that base from 3 directions. I had red spamming dragon hawks, ballista, and casters. It's good that Rowan has ressurection since i lost a lot of units while attacking purple, but in the end it was over.
After all that i've been through that lich king was like a joke, i brought 12 mortar teams, 24 gyrocoptes, and 24 dragon hawks. I casted invisibility on all mortar teams, a knight and mass teleported Rowan to that knight. Rowan's divine shield should just be enough to tank all five heroes. Just make sure you put a cloud spell to the Lich King. Doesn't know whether it works, guy goes down really fast. I had figured turnro gave that Lich King a 1 minute divine shield but good thing he wasn't.