Originally Posted by Drip

?-8 seems simpler than ?-7. Roughly one out of four tries should be successful.

Top left tent: 2 medium speed squads
Top right tent: 1 slow team, just fast enough to hit the switchnode before the other two teams reach it
Bottom two tents: 1 fast team in each tent works better for me than placing both in the bottom tent. For some reason, knights have a strong habit of taking the same direction in random nodes. Just observation, but I still don't believe the random nodes are pure RNG. If they are, then the randomizer is of quite crappy quality.

This is a great strategy. It only took me 2 times on ?-8 with this squad placement to get 3 medals.