Completed Orc campaign as well now.
Starting as orcs is much harder. As humans, you get healing spell pretty early, allowing you to preserve your units. With orcs you get… skeletons.
Also funny how with orcs you sent to assassinate chieftain’s daughter, because she ran off with an ogre.
When I played this game as a kid, I didn’t appreciate spiders at all. Now I do. They are a great way to take out enemy catapults, and if they manage to get into the city, they do surprising damage to buildings.
The mission where you need to rescue Garona? Brutal! I did manage to complete it on my first try, but still, lost most of the units because orcs can’t heal them.
A nice trick that AI knows I wouldn’t notice if not for some YouTuber mentioning it, is that human opponent would cast Invisibility on a knight, then send him to hunt peons.
The last two missions are very similar to the Human campaign: survive until you can summons demons, then overwhelm the resistance.
