Editing Campaign

{{campaign navigational box|roe=expanded|ab=expanded|sod=expanded|hc=expanded|hota=expanded}}A '''campaign''' is a set of scenarios which should be won one by one so as to complete the campaign. In the table of records, there is a separate ranking for campaigns, and winning a scenario itself doesn't count in the table. There are campaigns which give the player an opportunity to choose the order in which some of the scenarios are being played (e.g. in the [[Unholy Alliance]] campaign, you may complete first four scenarios in any order as you like).

Some campaigns are available at start and can be played in any order. The other ones appear one by one after you finished the starting ones.

'''Important:''' The game tracks your progress through the campaigns via a save file, not a game flag. That means that you cannot play the scenarios in a random sequence. Start with the first scenario of one of the first three campaigns. When you finish that scenario, you create a save file. You should probably name that file by some appropriate name. Start the second scenario from that file. When you finish the second scenario, you save again. You should probably make a new file for this. When you complete the final scenario of the first campaign, save again. So far, so good. But when you start the second campaign, you MUST load your most recent save file first, otherwise your progress through the campaigns is lost. Continue through the campaigns with this method.



==List of campaigns==
This list contains links to information about the different campaigns that are available in {{homm}}: background, heroes, strategies, walkthroughs, and the like. Campaigns unavailable at the start of the game are given in ''italics''.
===[[Restoration of Erathia]]===
* [[Long Live the Queen]]
* [[Dungeons and Devils]]
* [[Spoils of War]]
* ''[[Liberation]]''
* ''[[Long Live the King]]''
* ''[[Song for the Father]]''
* ''[[Seeds of Discontent]]''
===[[Armageddon's Blade]]===
* [[Armageddon's Blade (campaign)|Armageddon's Blade]]
* [[Dragon's Blood]]
* [[Dragon Slayer]]
* [[Festival of Life]]
* [[Playing with Fire]]
* ''[[Foolhardy Waywardness]]''
===[[Shadow of Death]]===
* [[New Beginning]]
* [[Elixir of Life (campaign)|Elixir of Life]]
* [[Hack and Slash]]
* [[Birth of a Barbarian]]
* ''[[Rise of the Necromancer]]''
* ''[[Unholy Alliance]]''
* ''[[Specter of Power]]''

===[[Heroes Chronicles]]===
* [[Warlords of the Wasteland]]
* [[Conquest of the Underworld]]
* [[Masters of the Elements]]
* [[Clash of the Dragons]]
* [[The World Tree]]
* [[The Fiery Moon]]
* [[Revolt of the Beastmasters]]
* [[The Sword of Frost]]

===[[Horn of the Abyss]] {{withhota}}===
* [[Under the Jolly Roger]]
* [[Terror of the Seas]]
* [[Horn of the Abyss (campaign)|Horn of the Abyss]]

{{user commentary|As every campaign is a set of scenarios connected together, there should be special tactics and strategy for playing campaigns, regarding that you will upgrade your heroes throughout the campaign and, in most cases, one or more heroes should be invincible, as their loss will make you lose the whole game. These are the tips how to play campaigns in the most effective way:

* '''Protect by all means the hero or heroes who should be invincible'''. Make sure they have a proper army and enough spell points, and avoid unnecessary combats. Remember that [[retreat]] and [[surrender]] is also considered a loss, so they have no right to do it.
* If it requires adequate time (both game and real life time), don't win easy scenarios until your hero or heroes who should advance to the next scenario get proper level. Take experience from [[treasure chest]]s, kill [[wandering monsters]] (not allowing them to join or flee), and visit all [[creature bank]]s so as to kill their guardians and get additional experience (moreover, some of them provide artifacts which can be sacrificed unless your hero is evil).
* If multiple heroes advance to the next scenario, upgrade them all so as to form a powerful team of heroes. Avoid using in battles the hero who has already hit the level limit and don't pick treasure chests by that hero. If you have a choice which hero will advance to the next scenario (like in [[Adrienne]]'s [[Playing with Fire]] campaign), choose the one with the best specialty and secondary skills.
* Visit ''all'' objects giving experience on the map: [[Learning Stone]]s, [[Tree of Knowledge|Trees of Knowledge]], [[Altar of Sacrifice|Altars of Sacrifice]]. For the latter, try to get as many artifacts as possible if your hero has good or neutral alignment (artifacts are usually guarded, therefore you will also get experience for winning combats), and sacrifice superfluous troops if your hero has evil or neutral alignment. Apart from getting artifacts on the map and in creature banks, you can buy them on [[Black Market]], from [[Artifact Merchants]] if the town can build this structure, or get them by saving [[Shipwreck Survivor]]s.
* On the last day of a month, reload the game until there is a month of a creature, preferably a one with decent HPs (e.g. [[Pegasus and Silver Pegasus|Pegasus]] or [[Serpent Fly and Dragon Fly|Serpent Fly]]), and kill wandering monsters appearing on the map by the heroes which need to get experience.
* Learn only those [[secondary skill]]s which are useful.
* Learn ''all'' spells there are on the map, mainly in towns' [[Mage Guild]]s (if a spell is lacking, consider visiting [[shrine]]s). Learn even spells which are considered useless or used rarely, as if a [[Scholar (Adventure Map)|Scholar]] learns you a spell you already have, you will get instead +1 to a primary skill which is way more useful.
* Visit ''all'' objects upgrading primary skills on the map, such as [[Mercenary Camp]], [[Marletto Tower]], [[Star Axis]], [[Garden of Revelation]], [[Arena]] and so on.
* Build structures which upgrade primary skills in your [[Tower]], [[Inferno]], [[Stronghold]], and [[Fortress]] towns, and visit them by all heroes who should advance to the next scenario.
* An easy way to get necessary spells and primary skills is [[Town Portal]] spell on Advanced or Expert level of [[Earth Magic]].}}

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