so, why isn't this demo up on Impulse? the game will be available here, so why not the demo? or am I just blind/too impatient?

Yeah the demo has been leaked.

The game is awesome, I'm gonna buy it, once it's out.

Downloading it as soon as I arrive home!

Took me 4 times to be the second mission.

You beat the 2nd mission? Jesus...yeah, those damn bear man..one of my lvl 15 warriors strayed over there and a bearman (lvl 20) ate him in about 3 seconds.

thre are a ton of ways to beat the scenario.  rushing to dwarves and building a couple of those towers where the bear men come in, a wizards tower, and one guard tower fortified me from them just fine.   Priests of krypta are bad to the bone.  Particularly if you recruit them from the northern and south eastern temple plots, as there are lots of undead there for them to turn.  the dwarves themselves are very tough.  I did build one temple to agrela, but I didn't find it all that usefull on this map other than for the resurection spell which makes leveling wizards a lot easier.  And yep, don't even bother recruiting wizards IMO until you can afford to research the ice bolt spell.

I've also beaten it ignoring guard towers and hero spamming, and going the elves route.  I like that about the game, there are quite a few ways to do things, even for the challanging level.

I'm downloading the demo.  Never played the 1st one, but I'm hearing lots of good things. 

The first one was good, I didn't think I was going to get this one but the demo is pretty good.  Anyone know good pre-order deals?

Oh just made a post about this....didn't see this

Is the demo multiplayer?

Edit: Actually, I was wrong. IGN have posted their review and made special note of the punishing difficulty level. Personally, I think it's high time games started being challenging again - I've grown tired of games where seeing the end credits is a right, rather than something you need to try for.

Yeah the 2nd mission is hard as hell but I'll def play it til I beat it and then probably some (since I'm getting this game for Christmas maybe)

I've made it to the waves of 4 ogres at a time before it did me in.  An early marketplace and blacksmith to make money from my heroes and give them potions and new gear seemed pivotal.  My best so far was focusing on just warriors and clerics.

The problem I really have late game is getting my heroes to stop just walking around and actually go attack the enemies slaughtering my buildings without spending the entire treasury.  Taking out a few of the spawning grounds also seems really important, but the balance is tricky as they have that mob explosion when you finish them off that can waste your early heroes.  I haven't been too impressed with the rogues, but then again I haven't used them very much yet.  I really think next time I need to get rangers faster to backup my warriors.