Posts from General spring online Tournaments HL, HP, HW

I'm signing up. My nickname on all platforms: yasnikov. ICQ: 426139099. And right away, a question. Where can I get the maps mentioned? Because I (and I think not just me) only have the standard set of maps from the Bukovska version.

I haven't played Heroes of Might and Magic II online yet, but I've wanted to for a long time... I submitted an application for internet service, and they should install it within 15 days, but they might not make it. So, for now, I'm just a potential participant.

I can only play on small, fast maps, and not always. If that works, sign me up.
My nickname is Qwerty on all three forums.
I have ICQ, 288-316-097, but it only works in the evenings and on weekends, and even then not always. You can arrange a game in advance via private message on any of the three forums.

Guys, there will be maps. Just pay attention to the size – some of them require a lot of endurance. Spider and Winterlands take a considerable amount of time. Good vs Evil – you need to check the version; I know the classic one, and I held the first official competition on HeroesWorld using it.
If we play with a free bracket, it will be easier, but how do we determine the results? So, let's try to play somehow. I don't know what to do about the map vetoes. If all my small maps are vetoed, that's it. Well, okay, we'll figure it out.

Once Brennan is loaded, I'll be the judge – is anyone against it?
And another off-topic question: can anyone keep track of the online ranking for the second Heroes game? They seem to be doing a good job with the third one...
And all the players will collectively thank the person keeping track of the ranking...

Basic rules:

Tournament rules:
General rules:
1. The host is always right.
2. If you think the host is wrong, see point 1.

Registration rules:
A player who wishes to participate in the tournament must submit an application indicating:
Nickname:
Convenient time:
ICQ (optional):

Tournament version: Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Gold, English or Russian.

Anyone who uses any cheat code or bug will be severely penalized.

Game rules:
1) Two players agree on the date and time of the game.
4) Players choose the map themselves, but the victory condition must be standard.
5) The difficulty level is always medium.
6) Castle selection: one player chooses 2 castles, and the second determines which castle they will play. The castles can be the same.
In the first game, the right to choose belongs to the player who finished worse in the previous tournament or is a newcomer, and in the second game, they switch places.
6) The winning player must publish their result in the following format:
winner_nickname (color, castle, main hero) def loser_nickname (color, castle, main hero); Map on which the game took place; Game duration (month, week, day); What number this game is in the series against the same opponent.
Below is a brief description of the game.
7) The losing player must confirm the winner's words and write their own description.

Prohibitions:
It is forbidden for a redeemed hero (after escaping or being ransomed) to attack the opponent during the turn of redemption (whether it's a human or a computer player). It is allowed to move with such a hero.
It is forbidden to join units, either through diplomacy or without it. If a request is received to accept neutral units into the army, it must be refused, and a battle must ensue.
When entering the Demon Cave, a battle is mandatory.
It is forbidden to recruit spirits.
It is forbidden to visit abandoned ships, graveyards, and sphinxes.
It is forbidden to use the spells Dimension Door and Teleport.
It is forbidden to dig up Artifacts without revealing the entire puzzle map.
It is forbidden to visit pyramids.

Battle rules:
If an opponent attacks and cannot win or lose (for example, they have an Iron Golem, and I have a Sprite), the attacker must retreat.
Host rushing is prohibited - Attacking the second player on the first day of the week with the creatures recruited this week.

- A rule has been added prohibiting the use of Anduran Armor as a single random artifact. Its components, both individually and assembled, are allowed.

I'm not complaining about this new rule, but trying to understand if it has been adopted. The ban is mentioned in the main post, but not in the basic rules. (and I also managed to get 30 characters).

? Let me clarify, I'm not complaining about this new rule, but trying to understand if it's been adopted or not? This ban is mentioned in the main post, but it's not in the basic rules. (and I also got 30 characters in).

Adopted! As you can see, Qwerty just copied the rules and didn't add the item. :-)

Archive with maps (583,600 bytes).

Indeed, the enthusiasm of the HW players is impressive; towards the end of the registration period, they were even getting tired of clicking the button to boost morale, not to mention filling out the application:smile18:

So, here's the draw:

Group A:

old_ufo (47023950)
Freza (442-870-588)
Deep Mike (120572999)
Lovelass (263209575)
PReDS (394777828)

Group B:

oxygen (415519790)
Kama (34016679)
Dust (324-998-452)
Qwerty (288-316-097)
yasnikov (426139099)

The finalists from the previous tournament, i.e., myself and Mike, have been placed in different groups. The rest were assigned randomly. Contact information for players (who don't have it listed) can be found in the corresponding threads on the forums.

Just a reminder that each player must play one game against every other player in their group, meaning a total of 4 games in the group stage. The top 2 players from each group will advance to the semi-finals and play as follows: 1st place from Group A against 2nd place from Group B, 1st place from Group B against 2nd place from Group A, and the remaining players will be matched according to their placement in the group! The deadlines are not yet set! If there are delays, specific deadlines will be set for each pair! 8)

Please duplicate the reports on all 3 forums in the corresponding threads. Good luck with the start! :)

yasnikov (blue, Necropolis, Necropolis) def. Kama (green, Necropolis, Necropolis, host) Hot Spot, 1-3-6. Sir Kama offered the map and Castles, kindly granting me the right to play as blue. This helped me, as I have a poor understanding of the tactics for playing as green. The start was average. On one side, the heroes are 2 Necromancers, a Warlock without Gargoyles (8 Centaurs), and a Wizard (6 Halflings, 2 Boars). After clearing the mine (thieves), there were no Centaurs left, and after clearing the stone quarry (faeries), there were no Halflings left, meaning there was nothing left to clear. Although I considered clearing the sulfur mine (many Zombies), I didn't risk it. The rest of the guards are Archers. So, for the rest of the week, I ran around collecting chests and resources. In this regard, everything was not bad - all the chests contained gold, and there seemed to be only 1 minimum chest, and the resources were also good. In addition, in the Witch Hut, I received (how do you say that in English?) Estates, which I then learned for all my heroes. On the 5th day, feeling that Dragons would probably not appear, I built a Thieves' Guild with the aim of getting Vampires. As it turned out, I was right. Dragons did not appear (the sulfur mine was not cleared in time), but Vampires did appear. On the second turn, after buying Vampires and Liches, I tried to break through to the red Castle, but seeing that the passage was guarded by many water elementals, I changed my mind, fearing losses. And as it turned out, I was right. At the end of the game, my opponent admitted that breaking through to the red Castle was a mistake, as he was attacked and severely damaged. I, on the other hand, cleared the gold mine and the Nomad tent, and also defeated the Demon servants in the cave, and then turned back. By that time, I had already built Dragons. As a result, on the 3rd week, after buying all the available units, except for Zombies, and also Nomads from the tent, I headed to my opponent's Castle. On 1-3-5, I attacked him in his Castle. He had all the towers built + a Coldray, but in terms of troops, I had a significant advantage and a slight advantage in stats. As a result, at the cost of losing 3 out of 4 Dragons and almost all Liches, the Castle was taken. After that, a message about the surrender followed, as my opponent had no army left. I think that my opponent was probably unlucky, as I didn't play too well. Thank you for the game and the experience!

Hello everyone! I'm glad that the tournament has started successfully, although the players’ activity is not encouraging. Let's hope that this time at least everyone will play in the tournament ;) To be honest, I don't understand, Qwerty, why you copied the basic rules directly from Maximix, even though here: /topic/4261/ there are edited rules where I fixed all grammatical errors and made them look a little nicer. They are right there in plain sight in an important topic, and everyone can easily read them, so this copy-paste was unnecessary. By the way, should we set some deadlines for the tournament to prevent it from dragging on for months? Because I haven't seen any information about deadlines anywhere.

Deep Mike: "Deep Mike (red, wizard, wizard and warlock) def. Freza (yellow, sorceress, sorceress), Beltway, 1-3-4 The opponent chose the Beltway map and selected my "signature" race and starting location – yellow. Remembering two recent games with Preds where he decided to test a red wizard against my yellow, and it turned out to be a very interesting option, I decided to follow his example. It turned out that without direct contact with the opponent, this is a very promising strategy. In the first week, I built two gem mines, captured a resource, and giants appeared even without exchanging resources, although I sent one hero to the external market. On the second day, I hired six heroes, but the power hero appeared only as the seventh, so I dismissed one warlock at the end of the week to hire him. On the second week, the wizard with the army of the first week went to the teleport in the snow, appeared at the bottom of the map, took two djinns, a gold mine, and captured two good artifacts. I upgraded to titans by 1-2-4. I missed the resource castle, didn't notice the opponent arriving, and gave it up without a fight. But at the end of the week, I bought back a fleeing hero and sent the warlock with four titans to recapture the castle, killing the unicorn with archers inside. The wizard returned home, sacrificing a djinn, and at the beginning of the third week, with three titans, he went to the opponent from the west, while the warlock went from the east with four titans; both had very good stats. The opponent tried to attack the hero with three titans, but his stats were too low, and he had magic with him. Four phoenixes and other creatures couldn't cause significant damage, and he surrendered. Thank you for the game." Freza: "Confirmed. I didn't start very well, only built phoenixes in the second week, and I didn't level up my main hero properly, so Deep's victory was only a matter of time. Thank you for the game and the subsequent analysis." Deep Mike: "Deep Mike (purple, wizard, barbarian) def. Lovelass (red, warlock, barbarian), Spider, 2-3-7 At the end of the first week, I took a neutral knight castle through a teleport and built horses there. In my home castle, I built wizards, only finding the necessary resources on the 7th day. In the second week, I built mines at the secondary castle and built giants in my main castle. At the same time, an attempt to go down from my castle with a bought reinforcement ran into a green resource, which killed the entire native army. Later, the resource softened me up many times, the green one didn't let me go down, and even killed a hero with two titans. And the orange one was even scarier; with power stats of 13-12 and lightning up to 300 damage, it kept trying to come to me with hordes of swordsmen and pikemen. The first time, I managed to distract it back with a weak hero, but later it took my castle, although by that time I had accumulated and taken out enough titans from it. Gradually, I defeated the yellow resource and went to the opponent from it. The warlock didn't build dragons at all, and I took the castle easily, but the opponent fled through his teleport and blocked it, and it was impossible to go to the upper corner from my castle due to the resource. I had to go with titans on foot across the top, so it was a very long journey. Just in case, I also built black dragons so that the resource's scary magic wouldn't work, although they were only useful for local wars with the resource for the former yellow castle. In the end, I took the opponent's last castles at the top; his main hero was trying to take my starting castle at that time, but the green hero who was in charge of it defended it." Lovelass: "Yes. It was difficult for me against purple. I didn't manage to build black dragons. Thank you for the game."

Oh, thanks, you beat me to it! I was just about to do that today :)

Chameleon on the Heroes League created a tournament table.

There is activity, but no connection:mad:. Yesterday, we tried to connect with Lovelass for about an hour, but it didn't work.