Posts from Walkthroughs for custom maps.

The battle with Arthur is the most difficult on the map. The author created the map about 14 years ago, in the early 2000s, and clearly didn't know how to maintain the difficulty throughout the game.
This is one of those maps where sitting and accumulating creatures is pointless, as the enemy will keep coming.
I remember constantly replaying the battle.

Before the battle, it is advisable to visit all the objects for luck and morale, and also double your mana.
You can also replay the battle each time until the archangels don't get morale on the first try; this really makes a difference.
And understand the AI's algorithm, which spells it casts for speed buffs and when it casts completely different spells.

Complex and diverse battles in terms of tactics are one of the main advantages of the "Jedi Story" map.
I dug up my save where I already reached Camelot, but haven't defeated King Arthur yet. I'll try to remember how to act. I remember that I tried to attack him several times, but I had to return for reinforcements: the enemy turned out to be stronger. Aha, it seems that you need to block the gates, clone archangels, and use the clone to alternately resurrect the dead or attack enemies. The enemy relies on archers and stays in the castle.
Yes, I managed to defeat him from that save now. Another small but important trick: you need to separate one archangel into a separate stack so that you can immediately place him in front of the gates. He will die, but the gates will remain closed, blocking the enemy champions and crusaders in the castle!

Complex and diverse battles in terms of tactics are one of the main advantages of the "Jedi Story" map.
Aha, it seems that you need to block the gates, clone archangels, and use the clone to alternately resurrect the dead or attack enemies. The enemy relies on archers and stays in the castle.

In my opinion, it's easier to download the DF-2 assembly of SoD from the forum without any modifications and restrictions - it works perfectly http://narod.ru/disk/43126025001.3aaf1862e0caa415f3b5d3dd1f8a4b03/HSoD.rar.html. Post on DF-2 http://forum.df2.ru/index.php?showtopic=26464&view=findpost&p=514317
I threw all the WoGs, TE, and VT into the trash (I didn't even try Era).

Arthur attacks; he doesn't hide in his Castle like the neighboring Prince.

The lack of a city portal is exhausting.

Could you provide more details about the clones?

Our hero must attack it himself when it's in the city! You need to plan your turn carefully and use the Water Walking spell.

That's where I made my biggest mistake: having the Boat Summon and Water Walking spells, I could have already retrieved the Tome of Earth Magic, which is located behind the Dungeon Gate in cell 65,50.
Besides, after loading further saves, I saw that I was stuck for a long time until I defeated King Arthur. I'm glad that my skill level has improved significantly since then.

A feature of the game: any clone has the same abilities as the original stack at the beginning of the battle. The Archangel clone revives, the Archer clone has a full supply of arrows, etc.
Maybe I should record a video of this battle for you?

In my opinion, it's easier to download the DF-2 assembly of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death from the forum without any modifications or restrictions - it works perfectly http://narod.ru/disk/43126025001.3aaf1862e0caa415f3b5d3dd1f8a4b03/HSoD.rar.html. Post on DF-2 http://forum.df2.ru/index.php?showtopic=26464&view=findpost&p=514317
I threw all the WoG, TE, and VT mods into the trash (I didn't even try Era).

Okay, following the instructions in the PM exactly, I reinstalled SoD, the game, and the same-//all set :smile54:, only the installation requested Service Pack 4, downloading now... Thank you so much! I'll let you know when I finish the process.

This leads to a simple question – what operating system are you using? I've been using Windows XP for 15 years (and wrote everything for it), and it only had Service Pack 3 officially, with Service Pack 4 being just a collection of all subsequent updates. I know that later versions of Windows sometimes have problems installing "older" games.
Windows sometimes has glitches where it suddenly starts requiring additional software for installation, even though it didn't require it before and won't require it later.

37053 silver pegasi! Have you read that in "Heroes 3," if the number of creatures in one stack exceeds 32767, "something terrible" can happen: an overflow occurs, and the number "goes negative"? If you save the game often, it won't be a huge disaster; you'll just need to return to the last save with a positive number of creatures. But in general, such a quantity of creatures is overkill—it's scary to imagine what kind of armies are opposing you!
But the main thing is that the game itself is fine now.

it caught my husband's attention

The game is advertised as difficult, but in reality, it's the opposite.

Useful information, we'll keep it in mind. ;)
And does your husband play "Heroes"? If so, did he start playing before you and introduce you to the game? Do you play against each other?

Useful information, we'll keep it in mind. ;)
By the way, do you always choose normal difficulty at the start, or do you just not change it? On expert or maximum difficulty, it's harder because you have fewer/no resources, and the AI players have more.
Here are two more tips:
1) When starting a new game on a new map or restarting the same one, always do it from the main menu, but never use the "Start Over" button to avoid the known bug with the keymaster's tents (they appear to be initially visited by AI players, which allows them to go anywhere, disrupting the intended course of the game).
2) It's best to set gold as the starting bonus for all players, but not resources or artifacts: this can also have unpleasant consequences if an AI enemy gets a particularly important artifact for them for free (enhancing necromancy - for necromancers, etc.).

I play on medium difficulty; expert is too hard. ... I usually choose resources or gold, rarely artifacts (as a rule, the weakest ones are given at the beginning of the game).

Did you really think that as an alternative, you could get a relic for 500-1000 gold? :D :D Only a level 1 artifact. Nevertheless, some of them can be very useful. It's just that sometimes you can't enchant them in any way.:(

From the start, this hero has all the artifacts, an unreal army, the task is simply to kill the helpless opponents.

There was no upgraded hero in it. Someone hacked the map and re-uploaded it.

Different ways to complete it are possible with any race.

Xaart, I also wanted to ask you about the map "007 chases Dr No". Did you complete it? How many months did it take? Was it difficult, did you have to restart from the beginning? Today I went to HeroesPortal, and it turned out that there is a newer version of the map than the one I downloaded earlier: the description of that one says "V.13/2011", and before it was "V.12/2006". What's also interesting (pay attention, those who will be playing it): in the discussion there, some people write that it's a "modified" version of the map by someone, where the player's main hero already has cool artifacts at the start, and winning is guaranteed:


The last thing - another sign that it was modified by someone else: in the original, you can only play as Blue and start only with Inferno.
Yes, that's right, when I launched it, I saw: the version I downloaded from there today, V.13/2011, has been modified: the human player is only Blue, but he has a second heroine, Daremyth, and she has 1000 Archangels, 100 Phoenixes, Wings of the Angel, Tome of Air, and another 15 of the strongest artifacts! I'll try to write a letter to the administrators of the portal to fix this mess.