Posts from Lecture Discussion

Why was that thread closed? Was it to prevent valuable comments like "Titans are cool" from overshadowing genuinely important advice?

I would also keep a couple of lectures. I just don't know how to play the third game...

As for the second game, I think Qwerty might be able to help. For example, you could look at the world map using cheat codes.

The topic "Helping Beginners" is good and useful, especially for me, as it is important for me to improve my gameplay (which is quite low) in Heroes of Might and Magic III. And the idea is quite well-thought-out, especially if people from the portal participate in it, who are really willing to share their skills in playing Heroes of Might and Magic III. It's a pity that there are very few lectures so far.

maximula wrote in the lectures:
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-It's best to use a specific standard in the name of each save file. For example, the standard could be as follows:
turnamentWM_1_2_6_000, where turnamentWM is the name of the tournament, and the three numbers represent the month and day of the week, respectively. The last '000' digits indicate that this is the first save file for that turn.
That is, the second save file for turn 1, week 3, day 2 would look like this: turnamentWM_1_3_2_001.
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This is a very useful tip. I would only add that you shouldn't be afraid of long names. You can even make them more elaborate :) For example:
turnamentWM_1_3_2_001_Gargon_Bat
turnamentWM_1_3_2_002_Gargon_Win
turnamentWM_1_3_2_003_Aleksandretta_Building

It will be easier to sort through the saves later :)

Building on what AmberSolder said, I'd like to add something.

So, as you may recall, the process of scouting in Heroes, as described by Amber, involves taking the starting save, saving it as StartingSaveTEST, reading the cheats, and viewing everything on the map. Then, we plan the walkthrough. If something needs to be clarified during the game, we load this test save and see what interests us.

This scouting process can be improved:
We can get updated scouting data each turn: having a save from the beginning of the day, save1.gm, we perform the same operation - save it as save1test.gm and read the cheats. Having up-to-date information about the opponent at the beginning of the turn is probably a very useful thing... then - we return to the working save and continue playing without cheats.

[my humble opinion on this topic]
What's the point of all this fuss?! :D What's the difference between cheating by looking at the map during a tournament run and looking at the map every day while making an extra save, which is then deleted from the run? ;) The result is the same! The map is visible! Conclusion: it is necessary to allow this type of cheating, such as revealing the map. Let's make life easier for tournament participants :), because they are coming up with all sorts of workarounds :)

You need to save after each hero movement, moving them the minimum distance (one cell on the game board).