Cph: bottleneck strategy seems unsuitable for Challenging

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=== Defend the Forest ===
* Objectives: Defeat Urugha, the enemy leader
* Lose if: Erlornas dies or turns run out
* Turns: 24
* Starting units: Erlornas and an Elvish Rider

This is a simple 'Kill the enemy leader' scenario. The main objective in the first couple scenarios in this campaign is to develop your shaman line recruits, so you should recruit a fairly even mix of fighters, archers, and shamans. Normally as Rebels you would recruit many more fighters, but in this campaign you can be assured of lots of forest, so you don't need quite as many of them. As always, plan your starting recruits so that you can get the most villages quickly (many require a quick archer to reach expediently, unfortunately).

The battle is quickly over. Watch for the enemy Grunts as they have the highest damage dealing potential, and some Wolf Riders may try to steal your village. Try to milk the enemy leader for XP at the end, especially on your Shamans. If he's slowed, he's not much of a threat, even at night. Finish early for a nice bonus.

=== Assassins ===
* Objectives: Defeat Ghalrsa, the enemy leader
* Lose if: Erlornas dies or turns run out
* Turns: 24
* Starting units: Erlornas and another unit
Hopefully you're entering this scenario with a good hunk of XP on your units, if not level 2s already. Your primary goal is to get a Druid quickly in this scenario - the AI uses Orcish Assassins, which will poison you. A Druid will make this far less painful than if you were relying solely on your Shamans.

It is up to you where to make your stand, but try to get the enemy to fight from the river. Even if you lose a unit or two, the return damage he will deal hitting them in the river is quite tremendous and will greatly weaken their forces. Especially on the higher levels of difficulty, consider recruiting quite a bit more than one castleful for this scenario as the enemy will have units aplenty. This enemy leader isn't quite so easy to milk so finish it as quickly as possible.

=== Wasteland ===

* Objectives: Defeat Gnargha, the Orcish Warlord
* Lose if: Erlornas dies or turns run out
* Turns: 24
* Starting units: Erlornas and another unit

This is an interesting scenario - no villages. Check your income in the top: it's all you're going to get. The next scenario is possible with minimum starting gold but painful, especially if you don't have leveled troops that you're willing to lose. This is slightly offset by the gold bonus you will (hopefully) get at the end of the scenario. This scenario is as much an exercise in gold management as anything else. Keep in mind that some troops may level and try to stay under your income as much as possible with your upkeep. Multiple level 1s may be better than your leveled units in some cases. A Druid, of course, is a necessity with the lack of villages.

Establish your units in the middle "island" of forest. With some healers behind your line you should easily absorb the wave of attackers then take out the leader.

When you finish, you will get a small gold bonus that was laying around the orcish camp.

=== Valley of Trolls ===
* Objectives: Defeat the two Troll leaders
* Lose if: Erlornas dies or turns run out
* Turns: 24
* Starting units: Erlornas and another unit

Largely regarded as the first truly difficult scenario by many beginners, this has stumped many by either waves of Troll Whelps or truly scary adult Trolls, depending on your difficulty. What may not be obvious to you is that the troll AI has been set up to NOT USE the two mountain hexes that border their caves, but only the path through the middle. Once you realize this it is far easier to setup a nice bottleneck for them.

The troops from the shaman line should make good use of their slow attack. A slowed troll is much more survivable.

Good luck! Try to eliminate the blue troll quickly so that the teal one will be a sole target.

[stupidjaguar] I agree with all of the above. The scenario becomes much easier if you use the Sorceress line and Elornas, because of the Trolls' vulnerabilities to arcane damage. Slow them with Shamen and Druids, then take them out with faerie fire.

[cph] Maybe the bottleneck approach above works for the Easy skill, but I don't think it's suitable for Challenging. Instead, it's a divide-and-conquer level. Send a scout west over the river to grab villages and distract the west trolls, and throw the rest of your forces in a quick knock-out against the east trolls. Remember to recall some L2 or near-to-levelling up units with good ranged damage: you want to be able to take out trolls in 1 or two turns. It would help to level up Erlornas before you get here, as he does more ranged damage at L3.

=== Linaera the Quick ===
* Objectives: Defeat the enemy leaders
* Lose if: Erlornas or Linaera die or turns run out
* Turns: 24
* Starting units: Erlornas, another unit, Linaera and three Mages

This is a fun scenario lending you a very handy unit, the Silver Mage. Be careful not to lose her and use her as a surprise attacker. The AI does not understand that a Silver Mage can appear from any of your villages, so when she's not teleporting around the map grabbing more villages for you keep her on a village so that she's handy to aid in a strike on an unsuspecting AI unit.

You may start off with low gold after last scenario, so start off slow, especially on higher difficulty levels. Let them come to you instead of you rushing them. You have plenty of time to take the rest of the map once the first wave has pummeled you.

=== A Detour Through the Swamp ===

* Objectives: Defeat Keremal the Lich
* Lose if: Erlornas or Linaera die or turns run out
* Turns: 24
* Starting units: Erlornas, Linaera and any surviving Mages

Pretty simple 'kill the enemy leader' scenario again. This campaign has a lot of them. Be careful of the undead at night - they pack a serious punch, but they're much less scary in the daytime. Your best unit will be your Mages. The final boss is a toughy. The only thing you really have that can hurt him is your Mages, with Linaera being by far the best as a Silver Mage (she resists the Lich attack quite a bit!). Get in a gang around him and then try to finish him off in one turn. If that fails, try again. You'll probably have heavy casualties finishing him if you're new to fighting Liches, and beware using melee attacks on him (he'll heal when he hits you), even if his ranged attack is truly terrifyingly powerful. Again, slowing the Lich will help a lot.

[comments by scorchgeek]
Erlornas and Elvish Sorceresses also do heavy damage to undead. I sacrificed all my mages in the previous scenario and at first thought I would have to go back and repeat it, but as I had 2 Sorceresses, I did fine in the end.

=== Showdown ===
* Objectives: Defeat the Orcish Sovereign
* Lose if: Erlornas dies or turns run out
* Turns: 24
* Starting units: Erlornas, Linaera, another unit and 4 Elvish Rangers

Another kill the enemy leader, but with a twist: you get 4 loyal Rangers to sneak around the backside for an assassination! If you have any rangers of your own, send them along to and use the rest of your forces as a diversion to the southwest. If played well you can actually just destroy his army at the moment, but it's always fun to pop out of the trees and surround the bewildered AI.

[[Category: Campaigns]]

Liberty

2008-07-12T12:00:03Z

Cph: /* Glory */

=General Strategy=

Footpads are the core unit for this campaign. High defence, mixed attacks, and cheap makes them handy in all events. You get Harper in all scenarios, plus two loyal footpads; level these up, plus any others you recruit with good traits.

The main problem in this campaign is finding units to deal damage; footpads are great for swarming and pinning enemies, but even swarming an enemy from all sides they might take less than half its HP off in one turn. In daylight, or even at dawn/dusk against enemies with resistances, none of your L1 units cause much damage. It's important to level up a couple each of thugs and poachers; you then use these as first strike against an enemy unit, followed by the footpad swarm to finish them off or at least pin them so you can finish them next turn. In particular, you want a huntsman by scenario 7 so you have decent marksman damage for busting enemy commanders.

=Scenarios=

=== The Raid ===

You have enough troops to beat the goblins in a straight-up fight;
your problem is luring the leader to attack you rather than running
straight up the board and into the village (if this happens you
lose!). This means you need to dangle some units in his engagement
range. Spend your loyal footpads, you won't get to keep more than two
of them after you leave the village.

Running Harper and one other footpad north works well; provided the other draws the goblin leader off of his run north, Harper can then either join in fighting him, or complete the run north (where you get a couple of thugs for free) and return with them, depending on how far north you get before he breaks his run.

=== Civil Disobedience ===

Bunch up all your fighters and use them to swarm single or paired cavalry units. Use houses for cover. Remember to keep recruiting in those early turns, even if you have to forgo attacking enemies from good cover to make the space for the recruit to stand.

Poachers are useful for getting damage into the enemy cavalry and have decent defence when in your castle or in villages, and then use footpads to take positions in the open (they have good defence in the open) to wrap around enemy units. Ideally you want the enemy to wrap cavalry around units in your keep, and you then wrap around the ones behind your keep with poachers and footpads. The enemy commander is a tough fight, since he often meets you in daylight and has good melee and ranged attacks; ideally get him next to your keep so you can have your commander and two poachers hitting him from relative safety, and then put a footpad or thug on the other side to pin him there.

=== A Strategy of Hope ===

The orcs don't make a lot of archers, so swarm them with footpads and
outlaws firing slingstones. Detach one or two footpads to go on an
extended village-stealing run in the north of the board while you're
doing this. Your allies are a little better than evenly matched
against the saurians, so by the time you finish the orcs you should be
able to run northwest and take the leader without too much trouble.

=== Unlawful Orders ===

Detach two footpads to grab villages, one in the town (Lord Maddock isn't going to use them all
anyway) and one to the north. Move your commander onto Lord Maddock's keep at the first chance you get, so you can recruit more & closer to the action.

Lord Maddock's throws his troops away early. Your force should be a few thugs, a couple of footpads and perhaps 2 poachers to hold the south bank of the island; let the enemy come to you here and fight from in the water. Then send an outlaw and footpad strike force out the east gate and down, which will swarm enemy stragglers and late recruits and then hit the enemy commander.

=== Hide and Seek ===

The moment you get within visual range of an enemy it will attack, and in 1.4 all the other enemies wake up also. What saves you is that Harper can see farther than they can. Don't run ahead with him, you need Baldras to the exit point; Harper scouts the way, he follows.

The safe route is south-east, using Harper to eye a way between the soldiers. Head between some others through some mountains and head all the way across to the east edge of the map. Then head south through a lake and then SE until above the exit and down. Also avoid the temptation to grab a village. This will trigger an attack even when not in range of a soldier.

=== The Gray Woods ===

This is a fairly easy search-and destroy, with lots of relatively weak
undead so lots of leveling-up opportunities. Grab Helicrom's
villages, he starts with a ton of gold anyway. The bad guys are at the SE,
SW, and NW corners. There's a holy ankh in the south center of the
board that will give the unit that finds it an arcane attack.

You could almost ignore the SE village, Helicrom's troops will take care of it; just send say an outlaw and a footpad to maybe sneak some XP, and to scout and grab villages below the SE enemy. Your main force, footpads plus a few thugs/marauders should head SWish across the bridge and have a quick fight with the green lich's forces that have made it out. Continue on to kill him, and then head south to the other lich. It is an excellent place to level up some footpads to L2 or even L3. While I am not over judicious with my use of the "fodder" units, I still came out with about 8 or 9 L2+ units.

At the end, choose to have Helicrom join you in battle. It makes the last scenario (while frustrating because your allies get in your way) pretty easy.

=== The Hunters ===

The trick in this one is that your outlaws fight better in mountains than
heavy infantry do. So bean them with missile weapons from the mountains at
the north edge of the road, then clump your guys and go west towards the
keep. Swarm the cavalry units as they hit you; they probably won't
concentrate enough to be more than a nuisance to L2 and L3 characters.

=== Glory ===

The only genuinely difficult puzzle in Liberty, because the Wesnoth army
is tough to beat if you have to try to take them inside their fortress
(and they get reinforcements every afternoon). You have to lure as many
as possible out of the fortress -- dangle bait just within their
engagement range. It's the final scenario, so don't worry about money, just recall all your L2 and L3 recalls and recruit until you are out of gold.

If you chose to have Helicrom join you in battle, he appears in a camp to your right at the start. While his troops get in the way a lot, they do kill some units and help if only by diverting some of the opposing forces.

March them straight N and hang out around the first village there. It will be a nice pitched battle for a few turns, but eventually your numbers will overwhelm them. Then you can split your forces a bit to the West and South entrances. Remember that your Outlaws and above fight a lot better in the mountains then your opponents (offsetting the garrison bonus).

[Comments by cph] At hard, I played it a bit differently. Helicrom's units throw themselves at the south gate and clog it for a day or so; the riders attack the west gate and tie up the enemy there. So I marched my entire force into the woods SW of the fortress; once both gates were clogged by the allies, I moved my forces closer to both gates, and then lunged into the fortress with all the footpads, outlaws and fugitives I could fit in. Fugitives on good defensive tiles are great for holding the flanks of the thrust, and footpads are expendable. Bash away throughout the night on all the enemies you can, moving as much as you can into the fortress; seize the central fort with outlaws, and rush footpads to the 4 towers as soon as you get an opening. The orcs went down the east side of the level, so they ran straight into the reinforcements, and I didn't have to fight either.

=== Epilogue ===

Storyline only, no combat.

[[Category:Campaigns]]

Liberty

2008-07-11T21:35:55Z

Cph:

=General Strategy=

Footpads are the core unit for this campaign. High defence, mixed attacks, and cheap makes them handy in all events. You get Harper in all scenarios, plus two loyal footpads; level these up, plus any others you recruit with good traits.

The main problem in this campaign is finding units to deal damage; footpads are great for swarming and pinning enemies, but even swarming an enemy from all sides they might take less than half its HP off in one turn. In daylight, or even at dawn/dusk against enemies with resistances, none of your L1 units cause much damage. It's important to level up a couple each of thugs and poachers; you then use these as first strike against an enemy unit, followed by the footpad swarm to finish them off or at least pin them so you can finish them next turn. In particular, you want a huntsman by scenario 7 so you have decent marksman damage for busting enemy commanders.

=Scenarios=

=== The Raid ===

You have enough troops to beat the goblins in a straight-up fight;
your problem is luring the leader to attack you rather than running
straight up the board and into the village (if this happens you
lose!). This means you need to dangle some units in his engagement
range. Spend your loyal footpads, you won't get to keep more than two
of them after you leave the village.

Running Harper and one other footpad north works well; provided the other draws the goblin leader off of his run north, Harper can then either join in fighting him, or complete the run north (where you get a couple of thugs for free) and return with them, depending on how far north you get before he breaks his run.

=== Civil Disobedience ===

Bunch up all your fighters and use them to swarm single or paired cavalry units. Use houses for cover. Remember to keep recruiting in those early turns, even if you have to forgo attacking enemies from good cover to make the space for the recruit to stand.

Poachers are useful for getting damage into the enemy cavalry and have decent defence when in your castle or in villages, and then use footpads to take positions in the open (they have good defence in the open) to wrap around enemy units. Ideally you want the enemy to wrap cavalry around units in your keep, and you then wrap around the ones behind your keep with poachers and footpads. The enemy commander is a tough fight, since he often meets you in daylight and has good melee and ranged attacks; ideally get him next to your keep so you can have your commander and two poachers hitting him from relative safety, and then put a footpad or thug on the other side to pin him there.

=== A Strategy of Hope ===

The orcs don't make a lot of archers, so swarm them with footpads and
outlaws firing slingstones. Detach one or two footpads to go on an
extended village-stealing run in the north of the board while you're
doing this. Your allies are a little better than evenly matched
against the saurians, so by the time you finish the orcs you should be
able to run northwest and take the leader without too much trouble.

=== Unlawful Orders ===

Detach two footpads to grab villages, one in the town (Lord Maddock isn't going to use them all
anyway) and one to the north. Move your commander onto Lord Maddock's keep at the first chance you get, so you can recruit more & closer to the action.

Lord Maddock's throws his troops away early. Your force should be a few thugs, a couple of footpads and perhaps 2 poachers to hold the south bank of the island; let the enemy come to you here and fight from in the water. Then send an outlaw and footpad strike force out the east gate and down, which will swarm enemy stragglers and late recruits and then hit the enemy commander.

=== Hide and Seek ===

The moment you get within visual range of an enemy it will attack, and in 1.4 all the other enemies wake up also. What saves you is that Harper can see farther than they can. Don't run ahead with him, you need Baldras to the exit point; Harper scouts the way, he follows.

The safe route is south-east, using Harper to eye a way between the soldiers. Head between some others through some mountains and head all the way across to the east edge of the map. Then head south through a lake and then SE until above the exit and down. Also avoid the temptation to grab a village. This will trigger an attack even when not in range of a soldier.

=== The Gray Woods ===

This is a fairly easy search-and destroy, with lots of relatively weak
undead so lots of leveling-up opportunities. Grab Helicrom's
villages, he starts with a ton of gold anyway. The bad guys are at the SE,
SW, and NW corners. There's a holy ankh in the south center of the
board that will give the unit that finds it an arcane attack.

You could almost ignore the SE village, Helicrom's troops will take care of it; just send say an outlaw and a footpad to maybe sneak some XP, and to scout and grab villages below the SE enemy. Your main force, footpads plus a few thugs/marauders should head SWish across the bridge and have a quick fight with the green lich's forces that have made it out. Continue on to kill him, and then head south to the other lich. It is an excellent place to level up some footpads to L2 or even L3. While I am not over judicious with my use of the "fodder" units, I still came out with about 8 or 9 L2+ units.

At the end, choose to have Helicrom join you in battle. It makes the last scenario (while frustrating because your allies get in your way) pretty easy.

=== The Hunters ===

The trick in this one is that your outlaws fight better in mountains than
heavy infantry do. So bean them with missile weapons from the mountains at
the north edge of the road, then clump your guys and go west towards the
keep. Swarm the cavalry units as they hit you; they probably won't
concentrate enough to be more than a nuisance to L2 and L3 characters.

=== Glory ===

The only genuinely difficult puzzle in Liberty, because the Wesnoth army
is tough to beat if you have to try to take them inside their fortress
(and they get reinforcements every afternoon). You have to lure as many
as possible out of the fortress -- dangle bait just within their
engagement range.

*addition: This scenario was relatively easy, assuming a few things. First, you chose to have Helicrom join you in battle. While his troops get in the way a lot, they do kill some units and help if only by diverting some of the opposing forces. Second, it is the final scenario - so who cares about money anyway? Finally, you should have a fair number of leveled up units (10 or maybe more), but if not never fear because you can recruit L2 units. Don't worry about money, just recall the L2 and L3 units you have to start. March them straight N and hang out around the first village there. It will be a nice pitched battle for a few turns, but eventually your numbers will overwhelm them. Then you can split your forces a bit to the West and South entrances. Remember that your Outlaws and above fight a lot better in the mountains then your opponents (offsetting the garrison bonus).

=== Epilogue ===

Storyline only, no combat.

[[Category:Campaigns]]

Liberty

2008-07-11T21:26:44Z

Cph: /* The Gray Woods */

=== The Raid ===

You have enough troops to beat the goblins in a straight-up fight;
your problem is luring the leader to attack you rather than running
straight up the board and into the village (if this happens you
lose!). This means you need to dangle some units in his engagement
range. Spend your loyal footpads, you won't get to keep more than two
of them after you leave the village.

Running Harper and one other footpad north works well; provided the other draws the goblin leader off of his run north, Harper can then either join in fighting him, or complete the run north (where you get a couple of thugs for free) and return with them, depending on how far north you get before he breaks his run.

=== Civil Disobedience ===

Bunch up all your fighters and use them to swarm single or paired cavalry units. Use houses for cover. Remember to keep recruiting in those early turns, even if you have to forgo attacking enemies from good cover to make the space for the recruit to stand.

Poachers are useful for getting damage into the enemy cavalry and have decent defence when in your castle or in villages, and then use footpads to take positions in the open (they have good defence in the open) to wrap around enemy units. Ideally you want the enemy to wrap cavalry around units in your keep, and you then wrap around the ones behind your keep with poachers and footpads. The enemy commander is a tough fight, since he often meets you in daylight and has good melee and ranged attacks; ideally get him next to your keep so you can have your commander and two poachers hitting him from relative safety, and then put a footpad or thug on the other side to pin him there.

=== A Strategy of Hope ===

The orcs don't make a lot of archers, so swarm them with footpads and
outlaws firing slingstones. Detach one or two footpads to go on an
extended village-stealing run in the north of the board while you're
doing this. Your allies are a little better than evenly matched
against the saurians, so by the time you finish the orcs you should be
able to run northwest and take the leader without too much trouble.

=== Unlawful Orders ===

Detach two footpads to grab villages, one in the town (Lord Maddock isn't going to use them all
anyway) and one to the north. Move your commander onto Lord Maddock's keep at the first chance you get, so you can recruit more & closer to the action.

Lord Maddock's throws his troops away early. Your force should be a few thugs, a couple of footpads and perhaps 2 poachers to hold the south bank of the island; let the enemy come to you here and fight from in the water. Then send an outlaw and footpad strike force out the east gate and down, which will swarm enemy stragglers and late recruits and then hit the enemy commander.

=== Hide and Seek ===

The moment you get within visual range of an enemy it will attack, and in 1.4 all the other enemies wake up also. What saves you is that Harper can see farther than they can. Don't run ahead with him, you need Baldras to the exit point; Harper scouts the way, he follows.

The safe route is south-east, using Harper to eye a way between the soldiers. Head between some others through some mountains and head all the way across to the east edge of the map. Then head south through a lake and then SE until above the exit and down. Also avoid the temptation to grab a village. This will trigger an attack even when not in range of a soldier.

=== The Gray Woods ===

This is a fairly easy search-and destroy, with lots of relatively weak
undead so lots of leveling-up opportunities. Grab Helicrom's
villages, he starts with a ton of gold anyway. The bad guys are at the SE,
SW, and NW corners. There's a holy ankh in the south center of the
board that will give the unit that finds it an arcane attack.

You could almost ignore the SE village, Helicrom's troops will take care of it; just send say an outlaw and a footpad to maybe sneak some XP, and to scout and grab villages below the SE enemy. Your main force, footpads plus a few thugs/marauders should head SWish across the bridge and have a quick fight with the green lich's forces that have made it out. Continue on to kill him, and then head south to the other lich. It is an excellent place to level up some footpads to L2 or even L3. While I am not over judicious with my use of the "fodder" units, I still came out with about 8 or 9 L2+ units.

At the end, choose to have Helicrom join you in battle. It makes the last scenario (while frustrating because your allies get in your way) pretty easy.

=== The Hunters ===

The trick in this one is that your outlaws fight better in mountains than
heavy infantry do. So bean them with missile weapons from the mountains at
the north edge of the road, then clump your guys and go west towards the
keep. Swarm the cavalry units as they hit you; they probably won't
concentrate enough to be more than a nuisance to L2 and L3 characters.

=== Glory ===

The only genuinely difficult puzzle in Liberty, because the Wesnoth army
is tough to beat if you have to try to take them inside their fortress
(and they get reinforcements every afternoon). You have to lure as many
as possible out of the fortress -- dangle bait just within their
engagement range.

*addition: This scenario was relatively easy, assuming a few things. First, you chose to have Helicrom join you in battle. While his troops get in the way a lot, they do kill some units and help if only by diverting some of the opposing forces. Second, it is the final scenario - so who cares about money anyway? Finally, you should have a fair number of leveled up units (10 or maybe more), but if not never fear because you can recruit L2 units. Don't worry about money, just recall the L2 and L3 units you have to start. March them straight N and hang out around the first village there. It will be a nice pitched battle for a few turns, but eventually your numbers will overwhelm them. Then you can split your forces a bit to the West and South entrances. Remember that your Outlaws and above fight a lot better in the mountains then your opponents (offsetting the garrison bonus).

=== Epilogue ===

Storyline only, no combat.

[[Category:Campaigns]]

Liberty

2008-07-11T20:32:44Z

Cph: /* Hide and Seek */

2008-07-11T20:13:44Z

Cph: /* The Raid */

=== The Raid ===

You have enough troops to beat the goblins in a straight-up fight;
your problem is luring the leader to attack you rather than running
straight up the board and into the village (if this happens you
lose!). This means you need to dangle some units in his engagement
range. Spend your loyal footpads, you won't get to keep more than two
of them after you leave the village.

Running Harper and one other footpad north works well; provided the other draws the goblin leader off of his run north, Harper can then either join in fighting him, or complete the run north (where you get a couple of thugs for free) and return with them, depending on how far north you get before he breaks his run.

=== Civil Disobedience ===

Bunch up all your fighters and use them to swarm single or paired cavalry
units. Use houses for cover.

=== A Strategy of Hope ===

The orcs don't make a lot of archers, so swarm them with footpads and
outlaws firing slingstones. Detach one or two footpads to go on an
extended village-stealing run in the north of the board while you're
doing this. Your allies are a little better than evenly matched
against the saurians, so by the time you finish the orcs you should be
able to run northwest and take the leader without too much trouble.

=== Unlawful Orders ===

Detach one footpad to grab villages; Lord Maddock isn't going to use them all
anyway. Bunch up your fighters and run them towards the enemy keep while
he's distracted fighting Lord Maddock's troops.

*additional hints: as the story progresses, you have little need for harper to be leveled so using him to grab the villages is a good strategy. using footpads and thugs is recommended here, as you will see once the scenario progesses. i pretty much ran my troops out the east gate (the right hand side) and down. effective use of your troops can get you some leveled up guys.

=== Hide and Seek ===

The moment you get within visual range of an enemy it will attack, and
it's likely you'll be swarmed by its buddies, so attack only isolated
units. What saves you is you can see farther than they can. You'll
need to run down the west edge of the board, then through the center
of the city to the signpost at the southeast corner.

*addition: This is a tough scenario. Just grab your one recruit and head down the west (left side of the map). Once you get around town, be careful to fight the defenders one at a time. It takes a little patience, but is doable. Watch the health of your two main troops here.

*update: for 1.4 all the enemies will attack as soon any see you, so the route down the west does not work. There is a route to the east. Go east then bear SE below a couple of soldiers, head between some others through some mountains and head all the way across to the edge of the map. Then head south through a lake and then SE until above the exit and down. Also avoid the temptation to grab a village. This will trigger an attack even when not in range of a soldier.

=== The Gray Woods ===

This is a fairly easy search-and destroy, with lots of relatively weak
undead so lots of leveling-up opportunities. Grab Helicrom's
villages, he doesn't actually need them. The bad guys are at the SE,
SW, and NW corners. There's a holy ankh in the south center of the
board that will give the unit that finds it an arcane attack.

*addition: You can pretty well ignore the SE village. Helicrom's troops will take care of it, and unless you try to race them down there it is a waste of time and turns. Just head SWish across the bridge and have a quick fight with the green lich's forces that have made it out. Continue on to kill him, and then head south to the other lich. It is an excellent place to level up some footpads to L2 or even L3. While I am not over judicious with my use of the "fodder" units, I still came out with about 8 or 9 L2+ units. as an aside, have Helicrom join you in battle. It makes the last scenario (while frustrating because your allies get in your way) pretty easy.

=== The Hunters ===

The trick in this one is that your outlaws fight better in mountains than
heavy infantry do. So bean them with missile weapons from the mountains at
the north edge of the road, then clump your guys and go west towards the
keep. Swarm the cavalry units as they hit you; they probably won't
concentrate enough to be more than a nuisance to L2 and L3 characters.

=== Glory ===

The only genuinely difficult puzzle in Liberty, because the Wesnoth army
is tough to beat if you have to try to take them inside their fortress
(and they get reinforcements every afternoon). You have to lure as many
as possible out of the fortress -- dangle bait just within their
engagement range.

*addition: This scenario was relatively easy, assuming a few things. First, you chose to have Helicrom join you in battle. While his troops get in the way a lot, they do kill some units and help if only by diverting some of the opposing forces. Second, it is the final scenario - so who cares about money anyway? Finally, you should have a fair number of leveled up units (10 or maybe more), but if not never fear because you can recruit L2 units. Don't worry about money, just recall the L2 and L3 units you have to start. March them straight N and hang out around the first village there. It will be a nice pitched battle for a few turns, but eventually your numbers will overwhelm them. Then you can split your forces a bit to the West and South entrances. Remember that your Outlaws and above fight a lot better in the mountains then your opponents (offsetting the garrison bonus).

=== Epilogue ===

Storyline only, no combat.

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