Hy everyone, I beet the game o couple of day ago and started on hard mode and figured out that it's ten times harder then normal mode. If your trying to beet the game on hard mode than maybe you could contribute some tips.

thanks;)

I had lots of problems on archers in Altena until I did this:

make 5 rabbites and have them harvest gaia south of your start, have 5 head north to the treant right outside the gates, start moving the Nightswam before the rabbites come back with gaia and move it to the anchor point outside of the gates. Have the gaia holding rabbites run up to where the nightswan will be anchoring. By the time the nightswan gets there you will have a fresh pile of treant and gaia to recieve.

send the gaia rabbites south to collect from the gaia there (it's slightly faster than the one to the west and the rabbites will slow the advance when units start attacking them).

Build a Heavy unit base and start spamming du'cates
...that's all...more and more du'cates. As soon as you can after that build a healing house then send all the rabbites after treant berries and summon as many du'cates as possible and plunk them south of the gate.

There are missle (1x:1x), ground (2x:1/2x), and missile (1x:1x) units on this level only, that means heavies are your 'safety' unit. Ducates have a better attack grid for holding things off, don't forget all you have to do is kill the general and not let anything through the gate. Use people like Alma with her tri-thrust using flame saber to inflict lots of damage and shut-down enemy attack ability.

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it out later today.