Posts from Racial ability: "Preparation".

Here's an idea: upgrade your army to champions, and instead of spending the remaining money (if any) on building structures for angels and then the angels themselves, invest it in upgrading the units' special abilities for the Sylvan faction.

I'm building dwellings for angels, but I'm not in a hurry to buy them. I'm using a residual funding principle. The main thing is training. If there's money left, I buy angels. I try to level up the hero-trainer – skilled in counterattacks and an experienced commander. It's also good for the trainer to have the ability to gather troops. In Heroes of Might and Magic V, there was no need to train trainers. Isabel is the best trainer in the world. Moreover, she became an experienced commander with skilled counterattacks and the ability to gather troops in the first four missions.

Hmm... Why not? Unupgraded Angels aren't particularly powerful, and upgrading them is quite expensive. Therefore, if you're not aiming to amass huge armies of 10-30 level 7 creatures, this approach can be quite effective. A particularly useful method is to maximize the skill that reduces unit training costs and focus on the creatures your hero specializes in (archers, heavy infantry, or paladins). If your hero has a different specialization, you should base your decision on your financial situation. If you've captured a lot of gold mines and looted several Utopias, then knights and paladins can be the main backbone of your army. However, if you haven't had much luck with gold income from overseas, but your city and its loyal taxpayers provide a stable income, and you also have a good income from nearby lands, then the most reliable and optimal approach is to upgrade heavy infantry to inquisitors, thereby transforming slow, albeit formidable, warriors into a significant ranged force, and in large numbers. But if luck has passed you by, and your city is experiencing a serious crisis, and you're barely making ends meet, then there's no point in opening a training hall. Otherwise, when at least some money remains, you can train peasants to stop paying modest taxes, give them conquistador helmets and crossbows, and send them into battle. :)

But if luck isn't on your side, and your city is experiencing a serious crisis, and you're barely making ends meet, then opening a gym is out of the question. Otherwise, if you have at least some money left, you can stop the peasants from paying modest taxes, give them conquistador helmets and crossbows, and send them into battle.

But if you don't open a gym, how can you turn peasants into crossbowmen?

I think this tactic would be more beneficial to use in the first five Heroes games, where you can train as many units as you want as long as you have the money. Gather 1,000 archers, train monks into paladins, and you can roam around peacefully. Ah, those were the days...

Tieru, before version 1.5, I would accumulate peasants. And after building the castle, I would turn them all into crossbowmen. There were fewer of them than the Necropolis skeletons, but not in terms of firepower. There was no need to train anyone else. If there were no angels, I would split the crossbowmen into 2 stacks.

But if you don't build a training ground, how do you turn peasants into crossbowmen?

I already wrote: give them helmets, crossbows, and send them into battle! :D
Of course, this can't be done without building a training ground. The word "otherwise" also indicated this.

To be honest, it's a strange question. I remember building and buying Angels in one of the games in the series. I just don't like the Tier 7 units in Heroes of Might and Magic V. Maybe it's a psychological factor. When a hero kills seven Giants with a single blow, making that heart-wrenching "krraaaag!" sound and breaking their skulls, it's unpleasant.
So, I prefer to focus on infantry. If I'm going to buy Tier 7 units, I'd rather get them from other castles.

Level 7 units in the 5th installment are quite expensive. It's not like in the 3rd game, where you can already have level 7 units by the 1st or 2nd week with 160% growth. And they aren't always that useful. However, having a group of 3-5 Inquisitors for casting spells, or Adepts for casting spells and removing positive enchantments, is very effective :) But when you become a wealthy and powerful tycoon, you need to acquire a special elite force to remain competitive, otherwise, your rivals will overwhelm you :)

However, when we become a malicious and wealthy oligarch, we have to acquire a special elite in order to remain a competitive oligarch; otherwise, rivals will overwhelm us.

Then you can have angels, but they won't save you from everything!
And that's only if you've gotten really fat! :)

Training is quite expensive, but ten Paladins will help.

Generally, I don't use this ability very often. Except when training monks to become paladins. I allocate funds for this between building and upgrading the Angel Sanctuary.

The spell was nerfed in the second expansion pack. And indeed, it forces you to abandon the practice of upgrading a crowd of peasants into crossbowmen and switch to monk-champions.

P.S. although before, the "vatniki-griffons" were more popular.

They nerfed the spell in the second expansion pack. And indeed, it forces you to abandon the practice of upgrading a group of peasants into crossbowmen.

Speaking of the "Tribes of the East" expansion, the upgrade system is a complete...! Increasing the level for a maximum of 20 warriors per week is utter torture!:mad:

20 Paladins per week – that’s ridiculous, right? :D