Reports on victories and defeats in online games of Heroes of Might and Magic V.

I confirm the report of Vip.rus!

I was more or less lucky with the map — it was good (in terms of faction choice for me), and in the end, I got Castle. I was satisfied :) My hero was Laszlo. Also sitting in the tavern was Axel; I preferred the bald commander of the pikemen, knowing that under his command it would be very difficult to defeat the fanatic zealots, especially against a magic-oriented opponent. I cleared the respawn worse than I usually manage in single player, but what can you do. In the end, my opponent achieved a significant numerical advantage, played very skillfully, capturing resource mines early (which was clear from the long turns), and later had the opportunity to make minor artifacts, and also accumulated a bunch of gold — most likely, they bought artifacts and their attack and defense stats evened out with mine. When I found out about this in the tavern, I almost fell off my chair and decided I was doomed to a bitter defeat. By that time, I had already captured the mage town in the center. Seeing his army, I realized there was no chance, but surrendering without a fight wouldn't have been very interesting :) The battle began. I was lucky with Laszlo's skills — he had Darkness, with Mass Weakness and Mass Stone Skin from the Defense tree; as a result, the damage to my troops after two casts was very low. Not hoping for serious success, I brought 170 zealots out of the castle walls. A hail of shots flew at them, including a successful attack from 11 titans, plus a retaliatory attack from rakshasas. The zealots' turn: they kill 18 rakshasas. On the next turn, 10 titans out of 11. Then they finish off the mages and deal with the gremlins... Victory is close, but Izabel's knights, capable of catching up to the gargoyles, were already gone; only a hundred slow zealots and a few incs remained (initially, there were 5 adepts and 2x5 incs, which significantly empowered the key stacks with spells). The zealots would never have caught them with direct attacks — most likely, vip would have killed them before I killed his gargoyles. By the way, the hero's leveling was very unconventional at the start... Knowledge was the highest at a certain stage of the game, with Attack second. He took Education and Darkness early because of the hero's magical talents. A little later, the stat screen looked like this: 7;7;7;7 :) In the end, he reached something like 13;11;8;10

Skill setup:

Logistics (1): Pathfinding
Defense (3): Resistance, Shield Wall, Stone Skin
Learning (3)
Darkness (3): Master of Curses
Luck (3)
Leadership (2)

Level 18.