Book 5 Chapter 1 Difficulty

[TheNewHorde]

I chose Lord Gunther as my ally for Chapter 1, and the most ridiculous thing happened.  Game time was around 5 minutes, when I'm still just building my footman, the enemy sent out a little party with catapult spiders and several nerubian warriors and the windwalk nerubian hero, all was well and all.

Until...  Suddenly the spider used its ultimate and SUMMONED everything from its base.  Death Knights and other giant monsters just suddenly got summoned into my base and swarmed both mine and Jenna and Count Zule's base in one hit.

What do I do against it?

[Theia_Loki]

Hmmm. All I can advise with this sort of scenario is this: Attack the Nightblade (Nerubian Hero) on sight, even keeping him from getting inside your base if possible.
Just make sure you have Magic Sentry researched for your towers as a precaution, in case the "sneaky bastard" tries to slip by.

[Davzz]

Yeah, just make sure you can see invisible units and squish him before he pulls off the ultimate. He's an agility hero meaning he's really easy to kill with nukes etc.

[TheNewHorde]

yeah, that wasn't possible at all.

magic sentry is tier 2, i need at least a Keep.

He attacked before like 5 minutes in the game.

But anyway, after MANY attempts, I finally beat that level.  Using different heroes each time.  I beat it with Zule and Gunther.

This is what I did, built like 15 towers at the entrance, and out of sheer luck he windwalked in my base and started the summon in the center of the towers.  I had all my footman SURROUND the area of summon and my 15 towers were backing it.

The moment the Crypt Lord and Death Knight amongst everything else was summoned, I used Gunther's ultimate and flame wall it hard.

[Davzz]

The footman unit can research uh... Owl Scout thing (sorry, can't remember the name, in melee games it's on the Huntress unit) so there isn't a need to use Magic Sentry.

[Drew]

  There's a goblin merchant nearby that sells Dusts of Appearances that can reveal the Nightblade when he attempts to windwalk.  But you have to get past a few kobolds to get to it.

[TheNewHorde]

ah, thanks Drew.

And no, you can't use sentinels, that's for elven footman.  Human footman is just regular defend.

You only get Elven footman for choosing Jeanna.

[Rui]

I always chose Count Zule in this first chapter. I think the Nightblade used that Dark Summoning spell with me as well, but units are not that hard to beat. After all, you've always got two Soul Powers with you. Just make sure you always conserve some mana. Try not using buffs because of the Sphinxes.