Editing Tricks (section)

== The Admiral's Way ==
The [[Admiral's Hat]] negates the movement speed loss while boarding or disembarking a boat. For AI opponents, this is 'impossible', so you can trick them easily.
Requires: The artifact, enemy castle nearby water. This trick is very useful when you have to attack a well-guarded enemy castle.
Approach the castle (by boat). While enough movement remains, disembark and flag some nearby mines/dwellings. Before your turn ends, board and make sure
the enemy can't attack your boat from the shore. Since AI opponents think you need an extra turn to disembark, they will re-flag their mines/dwellings.
If they can't make it back to their castle, you can simply take it the next turn so you are the one defending the castle. You can also quickly refresh your
troops if you happen to have Town Portal and Expert Earth Magic.
You can combine this trick with Decoy (above): Instead of flagging mines/dwellings, pull him out with a decoy hero while your real hero waits at sea.

=== Grand Theft Boat ===
Related to the above, this is a hilarious tactic which involves stranding an enemy hero on a desert island. Tactics like having a secondary hero rescue the primary one are usually too advanced for the AI, so you can take a powerful army out of the game with this simple trick. There are several ways to pull it off:

1. A means of water-walking, flying or [[Dimension Door]] and either [[Scuttle Boat]] or the [[Admiral's Hat]]. If you catch an enemy disembarking on a small island, get to the island using one of the aforementioned methods, then either scuttle their boat and get away (usually only possible with Dimension Door), or grab their boat and set sail.
2. You can do this with just the Admiral's Hat: land on an island, let the enemy land to attack you, scuttle one boat and abscond with the other.
3. Same as the above, but with just Scuttle Boat: let the enemy land to attack you and scuttle both your boats, trapping the two of you. Then use [[Town Portal]], engage the enemy then retreat/surrender, or sacrifice your hero.

This will not work if the enemy has water-walking, flying, Dimension Door, Town Portal or (possibly) Summon Boat.