DISCUSSIONS on “Rules for online games in HoMM3 and formulas for calculating player rating.”

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Ivanhoe

Sorry if this has been discussed already, I didn't find it in the thread. Doesn't the last sentence contradict the first?
Are respawn and territory different things?

I'm more interested in the question of when an opponent goes to a respawn, sees a guard (shifted), but there's a high probability that there was a guard on the road here, but the opponent killed it. Asking the opponent means giving yourself away (if they weren't there), but it's also unwise to waste, for example, penalty movement points through a swamp to break through a shifted guard if it turns out the opponent fought the guard here and the player can actually pass without breaking through. There was an example of exiting the underground somewhere on the forum, I think.
My second question is about the rules, because quite recently I encountered this in a game (playing against an opponent under HeroesWorld rules):

"5.2.1. All level 4 magic specialist heroes, as well as Tante (Animate Dead), may use their signature spells against an opponent in the following cases:
a) if the corresponding level of the Mage Guild (MG) has been built in any of the controlled castles. If these castles do not have the required MG level, then it is necessary to fully build all levels of the MG in any two castles that belong to you. Or capture an opponent's castle with the required MG already built (it doesn't matter how long the captured castle will be under control). Visiting this castle with a hero is not mandatory;
b) find and visit the "Shrine of Magic Thought" with the Animate Dead spell with any hero;
c) If any of your heroes receives the corresponding spell from a Pandora's Box, pyramid, after visiting a sage, or in a spell book (even if this hero does not have sufficient Wisdom skill to learn this spell).
Against neutral monsters, as well as against a computer (if such is present on the map), level 4 magic specialists and Tante may use their signature spell without the above restrictions."

In the game, my main hero took empty Pandora's boxes (I had no Wisdom, but I did have a spell book), and a couple of turns later I attacked the opponent's main hero with Solmyr and thinned them out with Chain Lightning. I can't know if the Pandora's boxes gave the entire 4th level or the entire 5th level, but not using a good opportunity to thin out the opponent's resources I also consider a crime against strong play.

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DISCUSSIONS on “Rules for online games in HoMM3 and formulas for calculating player rating.”