Skip to content

Reports from the HoMM IV online Tournaments "Sultry Season"

User Avatar
#28
Auto-translated
I confirm my defeat. Well, what can I say? The first restart was great, but the opponent took their chance, and everything went downhill:rolleyes:
Oh well, let's keep playing. The generator isn't giving me any attacking spells, and it didn't even give me Confusion, just Mana Burst, Sparks, and Misfortune – not much else to mention. But that's okay, the worst happened a little later. After placing 50 Thieves on Ice Demons, I got Snowshoes and headed towards the Castle. I was one tile short of taking the secondary town on the third day! And I decided that I could take it with just Sparks. So, I removed 44 Orcs from my army and, with two heroes and 22 Thieves, I went for the Castle. I failed miserably, but when I realized I couldn't take the Castle, I was very upset and didn't even retreat with my heroes (I just froze). I got very angry....
I set up a Castle on day 6, it's a shame it wasn't on day 5, then I would have had two. I waited for the opportunity to buy a Tactics skill and rushed with one Castle to the town. I swallowed it whole (day 9), if the Prison Guards had a turn on that same day, I would have had the Gloves too, but I only got them on the next day (day 10).
Then I just started crushing everything with 1 Castle. One positive thing is that I got the Shield of Order (although the Aura doesn't work on the Castle:( ) but at least it gives +30% to defense. I took out the Shield Guard (3 Bone Dragons and Ice Demons) without even noticing (I summoned 2 Ifrits, and their Fire Shields did a lot of damage, and the Castle finished them off), and on the same day, I took out the Birds, using the same method as with the Bone Dragons (total, day 11, Gloves and Mine). The next day, Lee takes the Mine.
By the way, the secondary town was decent. I hired a Priest there.
In general, I started clearing the map. Oh, if they had given me an Archangel in the Guild in the middle of the 4th week, I would have rushed to Lee, but I was afraid to go to the Portal. As a result, I went to take the third Castle (somewhere at the end of the 3rd week) (Lee already took his town a day ago). I took two Djinns, and luckily, the Altar on the map gives Lightning, so I happily ran to the Castle. I took it without much trouble, losing only one Djinn.
Then I continued to level up my heroes, focusing on Attack Magic and Tactics.
The Castle's stats are 78 Attack and 84 Defense.
Then, again, I made a mistake by rushing. When I went to take the Portal, I didn't give the Chaos Sorcerer the Shield of Chaos, and as a result, they were defeated, and I lost about a week on resurrection! Well, I somehow recovered and was already ready to attack, when suddenly, the scout notices Lee with 7 Dragons!
I got scared and ran back to the Castle. The opponent was afraid to attack, and summoned another Castle. In the end, I had 5, and he had 10!
But all of this is actually not a big deal because his Tactics hero was developed in Warfare, and his Castles were weak.
BUT in the battle, I made two mistakes, the first one was big, but not terrible, and the second one was fatal.
1) I placed the Priest (with Resurrection) right next to the wall - as a result, he was taken out immediately. But at least I saw what my Castles are capable of. When I attacked through the wall, my Castle lost about 150 HP, and 2 of the enemy's Castles died. Since all the heroes were leveled up for Armor and Magic Resistance, my Chaos Sorcerers were not very useful, and I calmly watched as they were taken out, waiting, and destroying the Castles one by one with Medusas. And now the Chaos Sorcerers are dead, the opponent has 4 Castles left, and I still have 5.
I move towards him. I kill a Chaos Sorcerer, he is resurrected thanks to the Shield of Chaos. And then...
I clicked on my only hope (the Tactics hero, thanks to whom my Castles were virtually invulnerable) to hide behind the tower, I guess I didn't click quite right - he climbed ON TOP OF THE TOWER!!! And then....Dispel and Suffocation:( The Castles become weak, and the result is defeat:( It's terrible, of course, and very frustrating:(
That's how the game went.

Thank you, Lee, for the game, and good luck in the future.;)


Барон
"Vampires"

Отдай свои прошлые сны,
В сомненьях себя обрети,
В бешеном танце душа кружится!
Не думай, что будет потом,
Здесь и сейчас мы живем,
Стань хоть на миг сам собой, слышишь!