Игры HoMM3 for fun

05.11.14 MetallEater (red, rampart, ivor, gunnar) def Makiavelli (blue, tower, solmir, solmir) 6lm10a 143

The respawn turned out to be rather poor; I couldn't build naga on week 1 due to an absolute lack of wood. After that things improved more or less. Solmir got Earth and Air magic, took a couple of beehives and a Pandora's box, then unsuccessfully over-expanded into a hundred dendroids (on turn 9 the oil ran out and they chased down the nagas and wyverns with high morale on their home turf; consequently, those units were left lying there). On turn 142 I met the opponent; on turn 143 I scouted Gunnar with a lich — he had 12 angels, many shooters, but only 3 spell points. I decided to attack Gunnar with Solmir (4 giants, 200 gremlins, 20 mages, plus master genies and golems) despite his superior army — my hope was in oil and a chain dealing 600 damage each — but the opponent had a Necklace of Swiftness... In the end, the final fight — no losses))

Thanks for the game!

I rejected all the restarts, so I played what was dealt. The respawn is very small, but there were 5 crypts from the start. On turn 114 Gunnar arrives; the main hero issue was resolved when he got Earth magic. On turn 117 I took my own secondary hero Cita; plus there was an external dwelling on the adjacent tile. In his corner village, Gunnar gets all of Air magic from a Pandora's box — fortunately, as if I knew, I had Wisdom after level 20 from the previous fight. I enter a super treasure chamber and see 4 Portals of Glory, and a Book of Air behind black knights — in short, a freebie). In the end, on turn 136 I take 2 of them, and with 12 angels I go to clear further. I free Enova at level 20, and also get 40 master archers, 20 master monks, 25 griffins, and 20 (or 25) crusaders from Pandora's boxes. Here on week 4 the opponent appears. Quickly with the meat army I take a level-3 Dragon Utopia on turn 142 and set up a chain toward the second one. But the opponent went for Cita with non-Solmir and lost a ton of gremlins there. By the way, the Dragon Utopia gave a Necklace of Swiftness. So I go to kill the opponent — I abandon the Utopia — but Gunnar is a couple of steps short of the two-way monolith. The opponent thought this was his chance and attacked... With expert Tactics and a Necklace of Swiftness, Solmir had no chance). Thanks for the game.