Игры HoMM3 for fun

Meo (Blue Castle, Valeska, Müllich) def Rockmachine (Red Barbarian, Craig-Hack, Craig-Hack) 232, 2sm4d(3)

This was supposed to be a rematch, but the second game was similar to the first in many ways:

There were as many as three "cans" on the respawn — 1, 2, and 3, all with royal stacks.
On turn 121, I take out the first two; now, one should know when to stop, but the possibility of a beautiful start — boom, 6 angels in your pocket — pushed me to risk the third one right then. A single half-dead angel was leading the freed brothers out of it... That's some champagne. "Saving Private Ryan" )) They froze us and ate the marksmen) But 4 angels are still power; we play.
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On a secondary site, I found an ifrit dwelling, and by the first treasure zone I had a decent army, but seeing Craig there in time, I decided not to force events and split up for a trip to another treasure zone further away. It turned out to be decent — no less than 8 Pandoras, one medium artifact. They shoved two stacks of dendroids (graded and ungraded) at me.

Having fed up, I return to the first one (scouting showed that Craig left empty-handed, longing for the treats behind strong guards) and the Dragon Utopia with 3 blacks is mine. It gave stat artifacts. The last Pandora finally gifted a full level 5. Level 4 would have been better, but a 2k explosion is also not bad (that's what decided it), and I go straight from the treasure zone to the red player.

This campaign quickly turned into a rather comical sight due to the clumsy actions of the losers — how they both tried to prevent 20 dendroids (speed 3) from falling behind the main army. A winding, branched underground, poor scouting. It would have been easier to break through the ГО. And turning back halfway would have been doubly stupid. In parallel, a jagged chain was being built as a bypass from the capital (it was already the 2nd month, 3 castles, troops other than level 6 and 7 hadn't been bought yet... The losers are scurrying through the sands, then through the swamp... They never made it. In general, I wandered in the underground for at least a week until I came out to the dungeon, finding myself in the area of the barbarian's special operation to clear a rich treasure zone with hives. It was visible that he had only just begun and I arrived very poorly timed. Müllich stayed in the castle until the start of the week and first cleared the Dragon Utopia. Around him, like a disturbed hive, the enemy's minions flew about, trying to confuse me and lure me the wrong way. Acting more by intuition (there was no air view in 4 castles!!), I catch up with Craig. Almost ran up to him. But the barbarian was clearly on logistics; he zoomed past Müllich and attacked the dungeon! And there sat my favorite damage-dealer mage with "generous" artifacts (including a helmet +10 knowledge, +4+4 etc.) and a weak army. Craig really powered up!

232 A dilemma arose: either take the bull (meaning Craig) by the horns (ha-ha!) or continue clearing, since two Pandoras and an academy (+2 to everything) were nearby, and allow Craig to turn his pitiful mana remnants into a full 200. Common sense won.
The finale (siege of the dungeon with Craig inside) went like this: we, all under oil, hugged the edges and fired magic (I used explosion, the opponent lightning) — since the exit from the castle was blocked by dendroids. Müllich over-fired and at the end for the sake of propriety finally burst inside, quickly changed his mind and ended the battle in his favor again with explosions.
Thanks for an interesting game!