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Campaigns are multiple scenarios with a common storyline,
played against the computer in single player mode.
Once you have won a campaign scenario, you progress to the next.
Keep in mind the following points.

||Recalling units||

The main difference between campaigns and individual scenarios
is recalling units that survived previous scenarios.
This is an important advantage that balances out
later scenarios in a campaign being more difficult than early ones.
Later in a campaign, you should usually have several high level units
available to recall.

||Go back and redo||

If you are struggling in a campaign scenario, perhaps you should go
back to an earlier scenario and try to win it more convincingly.
If you lose all your high level units and your leader barely survives,
or you use up all your gold, then later scenarios in the campaign
are going to be very difficult to play.

||Balance your army||

Most campaigns call for a range of units.
Especially when playing the campaign for the first time,
you don't know what types of terrain or opponents you are
going to face later in the campaign.
Some scenarios are mostly open grassland,
some are underground, some have lots of water, or lots of mountains.
To succeed in completing a campaign, you will usually need to recall
level 2 or 3 units of several different types.
Keep this in mind when choosing what types of units to recruit.
For instance, if your army has lots of mages,
consider recruiting and levelling up some melee units in case you
meet some Dark Adepts.
If available, consider developing healers early in the campaign,
you will probably need them later.

Once you have mastered a campaign,
it may be fun going back and replaying it with an unbalanced army.
But doing this when playing the first time is probably
just going to be frustrating and not much fun.

||Exploit your last moves||

When you are about to win a scenario, it is worthwhile maximizing
the experience your units gain before you clinch the win.
Normally you have to worry about counterattack by the enemy,
but if you win the scenario the enemy won't have a chance to!
So, on the last few turns, it is worth aggressively attacking enemy units
as long as your own units do not die while attacking.
On the last round, attack that Paladin with your Lich.
You don't have to worry about the Lich being surrounded and killed
next turn, since there will not be another turn.

||See Also||
* AdvancedTactics