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

If you remove Shakti and the portal, will Dungeon have a chance, for example, against Castle with 1-2 ranged units?

It would be better to ask if Castle will have a chance against Shakti with a minotaur and 20+ of them at the beginning of the second week. And there are many ways to counter ranged units (tactics, for example), and you wouldn't even go into a Utopia with them...
P.S. For some reason, in the Might vs. Magic tournament, no one wants to play with "cheating" mages against the "non-cheating" Шахтёр.