If you know Pete Girly is going to betray you, you can make sure to give him as many abilities that don't have anything to do with combat, like scouting and pathfinding so that he's a pushover during the final battle. You can do this to yourself - in fact, if you like winning the game it's recommended - in the second last scenario of The Pirate Queen in IV.This is harder than it sounds, since wood and gold are frequently stolen from you, but if you think carefully and plan ahead, you can finish the scenario in eight days at minimum. "Independence", the last mission of the third game's secret campaign, requires you to build a Capitol in your home city.Despite being set to Expert difficulty, the two Necropolis towns you face are easy to defeat if you rush them at the first opportunity with Queen Catherine. "For King and Country," the final campaign mission of the third game, is this.To top it all off, the King doesn't have any unique stats himself he's completely identical to any one of the 100 Azure Dragons you just destroyed, meaning that you should have no problem dealing with him if you got past his guards. Before you're allowed to fight the king, you gotta get through his royal guard, which is a stack of 100 Azure Dragons.
This is repeated again in the expansion pack's campaign Dragon Slayer where the final mission is to slay the Azure Dragon king.Does that sound difficult? Not when you consider that she's just a single Gold Dragon, who won't pose much of a threat to you if you've fought your way through the dozens of Green Dragons in her lair. In the first mission of the Dungeons and Devils campaign of III, you're tasked with killing the Gold Dragon Queen.