Cav's Place

Nasty today, waking up the second time around 11:10 AM without feeling like I was about to piss myself, so wasn’t quite sure why, but figured it out when I went to the toilet anyway and heard my mother talking loudly with someone in the kitchen, leaving me stunned for a moment due to the fact that someone else was here. And after that phones were ringing, she was talking loudly on the phone, then started making something in the kitchen too… Managed to catch some more bits of sleep and eventually only got up around 1:30 PM, so I may have actually slept more than I otherwise did in recent days, when it probably was between four and five and a half hours or so, but I’m not sure how much this very fragmented part that got added on top of the five hours and a bit counts.

So here I am now, writing this before getting back to Disciples. Not sure how I’ll get myself out of the current situation though, no matter how many times I’ll reload a save. Just barely managed to somehow find a way out of the first bad situation in this fourth Undead scenario yesterday, reloading that save and trying small changes in strategy until I could get the AI to do what I wanted it to in order for me to just barely win that battle, using all the useful potions and scrolls I had found before then. And the problem is that I can’t reload an earlier save, because I’ve been overwriting the same one, and also can’t load the save it makes at the start of a scenario, because my hero gained a level after the last battle of the previous scenario, resulting in the screen to pick the new ability showing up at the start of this one, but it would appear that the save it automatically makes at the start of the scenario doesn’t register this, because I tried to load it again and had the hero at level 7, but no screen to select a new ability and the effects of the ability I had selected weren’t applied, so restarting that way would mean losing that 25% damage bonus I had selected.
Then again, the one brief guide I found does mention that the Undead campaign is the most difficult and the units and heroes are also likely the weakest, which I of course wasn’t aware of when I picked it as the second one to try, after the Empire one, which that same guide says is clearly the easiest thanks to healing. And I also had two scares in the previous scenario as well, one at around the same turn as now, when I also thought I was going to lose, and another one much later, after finally figuring out how to get through that initial moment and then slowly gaining control of my part of the map, when I was pinned down by wave after wave of relatively weak armies sent my way, which couldn’t defeat the two I had but which required them to stay exactly where they were and me to use all the generated death mana just to defend, ending up losing any new armies or heroes and also cities if I tried to move the main ones or save mana. And yet I did eventually manage to find a way through, even if just barely, and then actually had to abandon a city to an enemy so I won’t win too quickly, allowing me to explore the rest of the map and eventually win in style, attacking a capital for the first time and winning, without any need to reload saves. Did take three battles though, the maximum battle length being reached and my units automatically fleeing twice before I could finally kill that thing, despite using all relevant items found over the course of the scenario.
So maybe I’ll figure out a way past this as well, but I’ll definitely need to abandon a city and therefore also allow the enemy to explore what had been my corner of the map, allowing it to then cast spells in that area as well. My main hero would have won this battle, but at the moment she’s some distance away, after I finally moved outside of that corner after defeating that first tough army, which included a blue dragon when I was still wandering around with just two level two units and one level three one in my hero’s army. So the other one I recruited is now facing another army, which this time includes a green dragon, which may be significantly weaker than a blue one but is still too much for a level two hero with level one units, when I don’t even have much mana to help either, nor useful items left. With this scenario seeming terribly unfair, with the AI obviously starting with powerful spells and plenty of resources while I had nothing, I definitely wouldn’t shy away from once again reloading a save and trying to trick it into giving me a chance until I somehow found a way, but there really doesn’t seem to be any way to do this with that hero, no matter how many times I’d try.

Otherwise, still say I really should start reading something, but so far still didn’t. Not unless you count my own story, I mean, because I do continue just reading that, still not making even the slightest edit. It’s going slowly even so, as I just read for a little while before going to bed, but I got to chapter eight at least.
Needless to say, I haven’t written anything other than these personal posts since I stopped writing in this story of mine… But at least, still only thanks to the “Books” category, I still have a buffer of 50 non-personal posts at the moment, so I won’t even really need to write another one of those for the rest of the year. Sure hope I will though, because otherwise next year I’ll also have to give up on the idea of having more non-personal posts than personal ones.