New Shrapnel game

[The_Tauren13]

OK, well, I just played through the first three missions again.
As such, here are my thoughts/ramblings:
If you use the same strategy every time for the first mission, the orcs will behave the same way. I was able to win several times quite easily by leaving the fort on the first turn (after buying troops), and just charging straight for the corner. That leaves the yellow player behind in the dust so that you only have to worry about the green guy, who is quite easy to demolish, what with your orange ally sending all his troops up to help out, and with nearly the whole map being covered with forests and elves being far superior when fighting in them.
The second mission is, admittedly, absurdly easy. I was actually able to win by just ending my turn 12 times and watching my ally clean up. Probably, though, the first couple missions are intentionally easy so that you can get the hang of the game a bit.
Heres my strategy for the third mission: Have Delfador and about 5 fighters go hold the west side of the map while you continually build more troops and head them around the mountains down to the south. The computer will send most of his guys north to where Delfador is, who can easily hold them off, thus leaving his leader relatively unprotected when your other troops get there.

I do remember the last mission being incredibly difficult in that campaign, though. I tried about 100 times and kept losing, so eventually resorted to a cheese tactic: reloading the autosave 10 times and re-running the turn until my troops got lucky.

The Dark Hordes campaign was really easy. I might play it again on the hardest difficulty; it was hardly even a challenge on the normal setting.

Now Im playing the Son of the Black Eye campaign, and am on a really impossible looking mission. Can anyone whos beaten it tell me how the hell you are supposed to win the 'Saving Inarix' mission in 16 turns??? At the rate Ive been going, it would take me 30...

Ah, I love this game. Ive been playing it 10 hours a day for the last couple weeks and am still not tired of it.