Wow, I actually just beat Lord Basse's hard version on STANDARD Difficulty today, the version that I hadn't been able to beat for a long time. It took alot of tries and tricks.
I followed a couple tactics:
- Go in to attack with each wave of green allies unless an enemy is going after you.
- Then after each of your ally's waves is destroyed, run back out of the city with a few enemies following you. Lead those enemies into the small mass of your green allies who are waiting by the SW edge of the map and who include special units like axe throwers and the Teutonic knight. When those enemies switch direction and go to attack your allies, turn around and attack those lone enemy units.
- Engage the enemy heroes one on one when you have enough HP to win a fight with them and when they don't unengaged enemy units near them who could fight you. It's good if the enemy heroes are in the process of fighting your allies when you attack the enemy heroes.
- Give priority to attacking enemy bowmen and second priority to attacking light cavalry.
- If enemy swordsmen are going to attack you during the fights, run away until they switch direction and go to attack one of your allies. Run out of the city if needed to flee to safety.
- Avoid getting into fights where enemy swordsmen attack you. Instead, attack enemy units when they are engaged against fighting your allies. One reason is because when you are not getting attacked, your HP recuperates. You want to have strong HP when attacking the enemy heroes, and the way to get this is by recuperating after fighting them. You need to spend time recuperating because you have only 600 HP and they have a combined total of 1200 HP among them.
- In between waves of your ally's troops, send your lone hero unit into the city to get a few enemy soldiers' attention so that they follow you. Then lead them out of the city and attack them while they attack your allies outside the castle. This way you will always be leading soldiers out or attacking soldiers while they are not attacking you, except for attacking archers and maybe at times enemy light cavalry.
- Don't be very scared to fight enemy light cavalry one on one if no one else is coming to attack you, but it's better to avoid it. This is true also of fighting enemy swordsmen who deal more damage against you than cavalry would.
- Save often, especially after you have defeated each of those 4 heroes.
[This message has been edited by rakovsky (edited 05-08-2021 @ 05:01 PM).]