On the second mission you start with two settlers if I am not mistaken. Heal skills on your heroes in the main map go from highest tier down (left to right) so if a little guy on the right side needs a lot of HP remove your higher tier unit from the tile so the HP gain reaches the lowly, dying unit. Before the last kill, use up your heals and other skills. The hero who has them must be the leader of the team for them to work, though. Your hero skills that affect the whole team are great. Use quick save before fights! I have a button on my mouse dedicated to it. Until you become good, use Reskar's breakfast buff so the Gold Dragon does not fumble while you are neutral. Then, have him take the egg north to the dragons. If you need time to take that town have Reskar continue south through the one-way teleporter. Take the Goblin town to the left, then come back and into the underground, then head south. C4 is about chopping trees, biding your time, and machines don't have opinions. Commonwealth 3 is about military might and costs. Elven 3 is about converting bad guys to good guys and ganging up many weak units to take down a tough unit. Commonwealth 2 is about terrain and happiness. Elven 2 is about diplomacy and alignment. 1 Commonwealth is about building an economy to support your armies.
You might be better served to play 1 elven, then 1 commonwealth campaign map, then go back and forth. Make a builder early and get your economy going! Skills or techs can help later, but early on your units are likely to be in terrain they like, depending on the map obviously. Goblins also heal faster and can move better in wetlands. Goblins in blight get an advantage because they will not fumble as much as the other races. If you have the choice of attacking from plains or blight, choose plains, usually. Choose terrain that your race likes and your troops will get much quicker kills. Happiness allows you to crit (do double damage) a lot more often. Your class specific skills help those units a lot, too. Your class' specialty units really do help. Use your fast horses or four-legged friends that can go around their wall to reach their archers quickly, but again, it will usually be better to defend next to archers so they cannot shoot without moving first than getting in only one swing and making yourself vulnerable. When the wall reaches the opponent you can one-hit them. Shielded units march slowly like a wall while archers weaken opponents' HP by shooting over them. Once you start grouping your 6 into "teams" like this you'll find your favorite "formations". They will reduce projectile damage on the archer/priest/hero by 50%. Use defenders as meat shields/barriers especially for archers, priests and heroes. This helps your fast units get behind your opponent because when your opponent turns to try to advance towards your guy behind him, they'll get hit hard by an attack of opportunity from your defender. A 'get next to then defend' strategy will let you live a lot longer than wasting one swing and making yourself vulnerable to being turned around (flanked). Next turn they will not have enough movement points to enter defensive stance so will be much easier to kill (unless they have the Tireless skill, but Tireless comes later.) Use your defensive stance more. Or make a strong opponent that is in defensive stance waste their next turn by letting them retaliate only once on many of your troops. Your fast units usually have crap defense so waste a few hexagons on your approach so that you only hit them from behind once.
You have to flank your enemy that are not in defense mode.
Your cities are safe for the first 5 turns so you have an opportunity to explore and win some nearby resources. Some AI fuckery going on here? Different rules for the computer opponents? If I can't find a way to play this game where I can actually beat the first fucking campaign I'm going to fuck it off and buy Metro Exodus.
I don't remember AOW1 being this hard, it seems like whatever I do the enemy has a better strategy, better units, more units, more resources and the fuckers KNOW WHEN MY CITIES ARE UNDEFENDED despite not being able to see them. I tried holding back and building up, but the enemy just matches everything I do and then takes one of my cities! WTF!? I tried fighting all the monsters for XP and new units, but then nobody is defending my cities and I have to go back several turns AGAIN or, more likely restart, AGAIN. I tried being more aggressive, I lose entire armies attacking the second enemy city. It's getting so boring, but it's way too difficult to just charge thru it. I'm on the second campaign mission (I think, the one where you control Reskar Scapeshaper the Draconian), every turn takes about half an hour on average, after reloading seven or eight times.
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