Second Heroes: A joint tournament of three forums / a tournament in honor of Van Kanegem.

A few words about the Tournament. It's no secret to me that in some versions of the game, Tournaments are held that can be completed in one day. It's also no secret, and there's not a very positive attitude among some players towards the use of third-party programs: primarily hero editors and hero stat calculators. In addition, there's another aspect that irritates some of the Heroes community: the computer's action generation. Based on all of this, I conceived and created this map. It can definitely be improved, although I don't see the point in doing so: the puzzles have been solved... Naturally, those who have read my authored instructional materials on the second Heroes game (as a reminder, Qwerty has written more about the second Heroes game in Russian than all other authors combined) immediately understood where to go. 16 halflings and 5 pigs – in one of my latest works, this combination was analyzed in detail. The system for dealing with gargoyles, which I once applied in practice and won a Tournament with, was one of the key elements, and, as I unreasonably thought, a practically necessary element for winning the Tournament. Practice proved otherwise. I believe it's clear that I thought the Sorceress Castle would be taken in a similar way. Next, a well-developed hero (thanks to the suggestion to make this one of the elements of the Tournament, expressed once by one of the Tournament winners:))) simply takes the Event – gaining those much-needed skills. After that, there's a small test of keyboard skills:))). The rest is clear from the hint... Did I expect such a result? No, I didn't. The incredible density of the results, a real thriller in the fight for third place (the growth of Sir Lord of Death – I won't even dare to pronounce your other name – is simply fantastic... By the way, if you simply retreat with dwarves in the second round when attacked by a hero with gargoyles and centaurs, you can cast Chain Lightning in the third round – the dwarves will resist...). Thank you very much to everyone who participated. Glory to the Tournament winners – Tolikandro, Thundax, DR28/Reanimator!