Walkthroughs for custom maps.

The video is great, :) even though it's not about the same thing.

By the way, I've been wanting to thank you for the method of destroying an unnecessary (spent) clone of archangels using the Wall of Fire: before, I did this with the Ring of Cold, but this is more economical (6 mana instead of 9).

By the way, the most impressive thing is the small army that Chen wins this battle with, and there is also a strong dependence on random factors (especially: who and how the fairy creatures will attack).

Good afternoon. I was suddenly struck by a scenario from, attention, a standard(!) set of maps. It's called "Just A Visit".

How I found it – I accidentally saw mentions of difficulties on another forum, thought it couldn't be true, tried it – it's really tough.

I go through author's maps, like the Paragon discussed above, quickly, but here there isn't even a plan for the game if you don't generate a special layout with "needed" lairs and artifacts.

In total. M – size. Few or medium resources. 4 players. 3 have 2 castles each, earth, stone, snow, or grass of your choice. One – on dirt, and this is always a computer with three castles. In each castle of this computer, every week, +5 / 3 / 1 creatures of level 5-6-7 are generated.

If you play according to hw-rules at 200%, it turns out that you clear the respawn point in a week (if you calculate the battles correctly). You go to the neighbors with level 5-6, there is simply no more experience. You take the castles of two other computers with losses (there is no resurrection). Then the red computer comes with legions of creatures, and that's it...

You can probably generate a map so that there is a Town Portal and flight, and run away from the computer, pumping up a hero (but on what?), then use blindness or hit-and-run to reduce the army. But these spells are forbidden, and it is not a fact that they will be in the guilds at all.

There are no dungeons to rely on artifacts.

Starting with Necropolis is not an option – you won't have time to create skeletons (the map is small).

It seems worse than starting with skeletons, but maybe I'm wrong.

Diplomacy... I haven't tried.

Has anyone played? Maybe you can share a plan for the game? I'm looking at it purely as a chess puzzle. Under what conditions is the map almost guaranteed to be passed?

For example (I haven't checked, just thoughts)
1) If all the cities are of the same type, then the map is easy to pass.
2) If there is resurrection and Town Portal in the guild in the starting city, then the map is easy to pass.
3) If you start, say, with Tower, and the computer has a swamp, then it's also easy.
and so on

What do you think?