Posts from for a real artifact.

This time, the Portal is hosting a special event and offering special prizes!

The winner of the tournament will receive a "Mana Amulet" (inspired by the game "Heroes of Might and Magic III"). The player who comes in second place will receive a 20% discount at the www.mastenarium.ru store.
The player who comes in third place will receive a 10% discount.
But that's not all! All tournament participants will receive an additional 5% discount at the store during the tournament!

Rules for this tournament:

• The goal of the tournament is to score the specified number of archmages as quickly as possible, i.e., the main criterion for winning this tournament is the number of days.
• In case of a tie in days, the second criterion for winning is the sum of the primary stats of your strongest hero (based on EXP) INCLUDING equipped artifacts.
• In this tournament, both fiefs and mines are awarded, as in other Portal tournaments. The game time on the map is limited to 300 days.
• The current version of HotA on which this tournament is held is 1.3.8. If a new version of the add-on is released during the tournament, DO NOT update until you have sent your winning save! The tournament starting save is made on the Russian version.

It is highly recommended to launch the game through HD-Mod (with a 32-bit true color setting) to prevent game crashes during turn transitions and other problems that may occur if you play without HD-Mod!

The participant must also be registered on HeroesPortal.net so that their nickname appears permanently in the "Heroes Portal Hall of Fame" and receive additional prizes from the Portal (in-game Portal currency - "@" and land plots - fiefs).

❗ SAVES FROM PLAYERS NOT REGISTERED ON HeroesPortal.net WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED!

Winning saves should be sent to the Horn of the Abyss version offline tournament host, Sir Ermelloth, at logan@heroesportal.net.
You can discuss the tournament here: Official HotA Tournament Thread.

We wish all participants good luck!

This topic was created in the wrong section. I will move it to the offline tournaments section later

The tournament is over, and all the winners' results have been verified.


Congratulations to the player from Poland!

Funny, though...
As usual, I checked all the heroes, but somehow I missed the fact that the pirate's stats were significantly inflated.
Someone must have cast a temporary blindness spell on me, I guess ;)
As for the results, the winner achieved 57 stats in 15 days, which isn't a record for a pirate hero!
It was quite easy to get 58 stats, and I think it was even possible to get 59...
Unfortunately, it was impossible to increase the stats of the hero I was using beyond 55 (that was the limit).
Next time, I'll cast a dispel or healing spell on myself before studying the map, so I don't lose so comically ;)

I have a feeling that achieving a result in 15 days was quite easy.

I got the feeling that achieving a result of 15 days was very easy.

That's exactly how it was! It was easy to achieve 15 days. But it was impossible to achieve less.
Only the second criterion could have influenced the outcome.
And even with that, it wasn't that difficult... the only catch was with the Pirate... that's all...
Since I didn't notice the Pirate, I even created a third criterion for myself - gold ;) (Mephala had higher starting parameters than the others (except for the Pirate, whom I didn't notice), and she was good, so no troops were required for the altar).
If I had noticed the Pirate, of course, the gold would have been at zero, as he is a neutral creature, and in that case, I would have spent everything on building Castles and buying troops, in addition to gathering experience from monsters on the map and artifacts. I would also have tried to figure out how to get the computer to switch to the Pirate on the transition to the next week so that before buying, I could defeat him with several heroes... that would have been a bonus...
Of course, in that case, I would have had to play around with the computer, taking and giving the Castle back without killing it...
I would also have had to struggle with the refugee camps, generating not only mages but also archangels

Rules of this tournament:

• The goal of the tournament is to defeat all enemies as quickly as possible, i.e., the main criterion for winning in this tournament is the number of days.
• In case of a tie in days, the second criterion for winning is the sum of the primary stats of your strongest hero (based on XP) INCLUDING equipped artifacts.
• In this tournament, both fiefs and mines are contested, just like in other Portal tournaments. The game time on the map is limited to 300 days.
• The current version of the Horn of the Abyss add-on, on which this tournament is held, is 1.4.2.

As in the previous similar tournament, the Winner will receive a "Mana Amulet". The player who takes 2nd place will receive a 20% discount at the www.mastenarium.ru store.
The player who takes 3rd place will receive a 10% discount.
And all participants in the tournament receive an additional 5% discount in the store for the duration of the tournament!

Tournament topic: http://heroesportal.net/tavern/?id=413023

Tournament Results: