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Vengeance of the Undead is a H4 scenario in the Contest Maps Folder.
As you might expect, you play a death theme. I played on expert, very busy map but pretty easy. Your opponents are all barbarians. You start with 3 towns and two accessible neutral Necropolises. Your opponents start with 4 towns and 2 accessible neutral Strongholds. You start with 2, L1 Necromancers, well separated. While I would normally embark on a strategy of hiring many Order Lords, for gold and resources, early and often, with 3 starting towns that seemed less urgent so I hired a death knight to support the large army of small creatures I expected to employ. I joined my heroes using the poor man's town portal (attack a army near your town and retreat). The early tactic was to send in a single or summoned creature first and follow with my main units. The summoned also served as targets or decoys so my permanent units didn't take as much damage.
You get one ship for the game so guard it well. Bring it in and swap the ghosts for an imp or skeleton. the boat can gather stuff in the water. There are 8 whirlpools but they will never kill your last creature. The ghosts are useful as singles to age opponents. Aging is the only "slow" spell that will compound with the other "slowing" spells. One necromancer concentrated on necromancy whlie the othe ingored it. Once I could use necromancy to create ghosts, I retired the skeletons so I could move faster.
Around the beginning of M2W2, I hired another necromancer and death knight. The Main army now was using bone dragons, vampires and ghosts so there were a lot of smaller creatures unused. The main purpose of the second army was to clear caravan routes and take on some easy battles the main army wasn't nearby for. At M2W3 I started taking out the strongholds. They didn't put up much of a fight but did try a couple of counterattacks. I took the last two strongholds on M3W2D1. My 3 main heroes were L16 and the other 2 heroes hit L9 at the end. I had 11 Order Lords to support my economy. The main army reached 13 bone dragons, 105 vampires, and 213 ghosts.