"Lend a Helping Hand" need walkthrough

[Bordeaux]

Hello,
I need a true walkthough for the mission "Lend a Helping Hand". I tried everything I can think of, and I cant see a way to beat it. At least a walkthrough for, let's say, the 7 first turns ?

Thank you to the kind person who'll answer.

[PhilD]

That's most likely the toughest mission in the whole game, in the Legendary campaign I never managed to remember a whole winning strategy.

BTW, your nickname is also the name of the city I live in. Any chance you're French?

[ichbinsehselber]

Turn 1: Move straight up on the city. Build nothing
Turn 2: Build Hag
Turn 3: move both units to free cities (you get hit then for the first time)
Turn 4: build a hag in the bottom (you get hit 2 more times for a total loss of 4 hp on the hag)
Turn 5: move the wounded hag to the top left. Heal it placing the healer in the wood. Place bottom hag in gold mine Build a unit in each of the top 2 cities (propose a leper and a plague bearer

[ichbinsehselber]

Turn 6; Time to kill now. 3 runners die. Make sure you stay out of the optimal shooting distance of the archers. And make use of optimal healing. We have lost no unit. And we got 4 cities. The enemy also has 4 cities. We have to leave the gold mine :-(

[ichbinsehselber]

We build a missiónary and a hag.
Turn 7: in the bottom an archer stands next to the gold mine. Move the hag back to the mine attacking the archer.
Attacking the top archer twice kills it. We cant kill the druid so we make her peaceful^^. The hag goes to the city, the archer wanted to take. I have got still the Plague bearer and the healer. The enemy has 2 more druids. So I place my units so that only one of them can attack me. I have still not lost any unit.

[ichbinsehselber]

Build 2 hags - one in the top city, the other either in the 2nd from top city or in the capital. I pick the latter planning to kill the bottom archer

[ichbinsehselber]

Turn 8: I see now 4 druids on the map - fear. But we got 4 cities like the enemy and we got 5000 gold. We do not kill the peaceful druid. The other druid has injured the missionary. We have to heal him.
After ending turn, the comp has 3 druids left and 2 sentinels. 2 units are peaceful. I do not buy units any more. We lose a leper, the missionary barely survives because he is in the forest.
Turn 9: Cleanup time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Bordeaux]

Thanx a lot, really ! I didn't check it out for a while, but I think now I'll restart to play.

And for the question about my nickname (Bordeaux), it just happens I live in Québec (et je parle français, hé oui !), but i visited the city in France recently, so I just took the name :-)

Anyway, thanx again Ichbinsehselber (whatever it means :-)