King's Bounty: The Legend

- Prioritize doing the main questline at least until you get the chest of rage. Aside from dramatically increasing your effectiveness, its skills level up the more you use them.

-The difficulty goes Mage < Fighter < Paladin, from easiest to hardest. However, Mages have the hardest time in the beginning, since you don't have many good spells and you don't have a lot of troops. Usually by the time you get to the Freedom Isles, the mage starts growing exponentially. Beeline for Higher Magic if you play mage.

-Beeline for Reserves. It is the most important skill no matter what class you are. I usually fill said reserves with melee troops or other troops that have a high tendency to die/are really inconvenient to reinforce.

-Beeline the story missions until you get your first Spirits of Rage (you can get 2 pretty easily).

-Doing missions for people usually puts new stuff in their shop, or at least adds reinforcements to their populations. Doing story missions makes troops available in your main castle, sometimes at unlimited population.

-Don't have kids. They are usually worse than loot, but you can't discard them without divorcing your wife.

-There are some random patches of ridiculously increased difficulty, like the Magic Range. Quicksave before any endeavor!

-Experiment with troops. There's a lot of them in the game and they're all pretty unique.