Kash
Auto-translated
Yeah, and I'm kind of a newbie too. But there are such veterans gathered here that I don't want to get knocked out in the first round.. I'd rather just play a season, improve my skill, and next time we'll see who's who!
Actually, newbies in Heroes 3(!) is a curious phenomenon in itself :-))
To Erdem
Do you happen to remember the author of this excerpt, and which tournament it's from.. :)
Describing game day 124: Halon takes a chest and a scroll, goes to Stracker (standing near the Dwarf Cottage), on the way kills 34 boars without losses (haste on the skeletons), transfers the army to Stracker, who hits the gogs with a loss of ~14 skeletons, takes the max Dwarf Cottage without losses. Runs down to the capital, doesn't quite reach it. I buy Gunnar in the tavern (38 troglodytes, 4 Evil Eyes, 5 harpies from the start), he takes the troops from Stracker, returns to the capital, converts the troglodytes and zombies into skeletons, upgrades them, buys 11 vampires, transfers all the troops to Geon, who transfers them to Galtran. Total Galtran's army before taking the Griffin Conservatory by stacks: ~220 skeletons, 1 harpy, 15 vampires, 1 harpy, 1 harpy, 4 Evil Eyes, 1 harpy. First round: I haste the skeletons, which hit the top left stack of griffins, ~8 remain, 3 single harpies fly right and hold 3 stacks of griffins and die, vampires hit the top left stack (4 remain), Evil Eyes go down to the bottom left stack and die there, the surviving griffin kills 1 harpy. End of round 1: three right stacks are almost in place, bottom left is in place. Wait with skeletons and vampires, slow one of the right stacks of griffins (the closer one). Griffins fly, skeletons and vampires almost kill the bottom left stack. Round 3: bloodlust on the skeletons, wait, take out another stack, in round 4 shield on the skeletons and they attack the last one without waiting. After that it's just technique. Result: losses of 30+ skeletons, 7 vampires, i.e. I end up with 184 skeletons and 8 vampires + 45 skeletons received from the "necromancy" skill. I'll clarify right away - this is an approximate description, not exact, minor inaccuracies are possible, since it's hard to remember everything perfectly at 3 AM, but I think the algorithm is clear. I tested it again today, it turned out better: lost 34 skeletons, 2 vampires, and full regrowth
Every season I say at the very beginning: allow me, the organizers themselves will figure out roughly what level the upper cap is at :)
There simply is no lower cap, but if you lower the upper cap too much - the tournament will lose its meaning and any value whatsoever. It's unlikely that "complete newbies", playing against Stingers, will immediately learn to play better. But playing against other "complete newbies" - they won't learn anything at all, they'll just keep running around with one hero and complaining that the opponent takes a whole 10 minutes (what a cheater!). Why bother if the opponent plays weaker than you.
Nothing stops you from improving - reviewing and analyzing other people's saves, watching VODs, checking out Fizming, etc. Any filowandel can easily become a Neverminder if they want to. And that same Neverminder will help them too :)
So.. don't panic here
Dogbas, SanDRo_, filowandel, soulist80114522293, R55Max - registered, don't forget to check in before New Year's.
13v, NekroB - first let's sort out your old/new nicknames.
Having a clone is forbidden by the forum rules.
13v, why did you create a clone? Write me on ICQ