Dobrev: Its easy in mid-late game .. begining isnt that easy. Winning an item figt even on level 20 was imposiible .. iwas nuked downs and slowed by gremlin before i even moved. Later on with power of darkness and adrenaline it was nice ^^ 9 init 4 sppeed blackies owns xD
Kingsbounty hunter : its not that bloody

. IT became bloddy only becasue i decided to move tonameles//shettera after rusty. IF i wuold go in proper order its no problem at all. I had 12K leadership black nights facing armies having 150-200K leadership there. Normal units were easy. But heroes were insane hard.
The battles were quite qucik .. most of them a few turns .. some took like 20 rounds but not much of them ..
My total game time was 18Hours real time .. compare time to yours :p