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I personally prefer strong warriors over weak snakes and wyverns. Maybe they're okay at the beginning, but later on, their speed doesn't matter much when you're attacking hordes of strong units or a large army.

That's exactly when strong, low-tier units become even less relevant.
Firstly, they slow down the army. At the beginning of the game, you just have a "tank" unit following you, but later on, a situation might arise where the main hero has control, but the tank doesn't. As a result, you can't regularly transfer the army, and it can cause slowdowns.
Also, the enemy can emerge from the fog and catch you off guard without an army.
Secondly, even the strongest dwarves and gorgons will inevitably die in the later stages. In this regard, only tanking with a 6th or 7th-level unit will be valuable. And while a 6th-level unit can still slow down the enemy, there are very few low-speed 7th-level creatures, and even those aren't completely useless (giants have a decent speed, for example).
Thirdly, high-speed units are simply _essential_ in some quantity. They're the first to cast spells!
All these units can only be valuable in the endgame... But that's only if you don't get replacements for them from various sources like treasure chests and secondary cities. Otherwise, you just slowly sacrifice them as cannon fodder.

I wish I could play Heroes on the Heroes forum right now, brr.

Warlords tournament

I would play.

It’s good that Vistrit is gone. There’s a chance to win now.

Don't even say it, Heroes fan. It's like it ended up in the section for the third game, haha.

The section about the trio has long left its viral mark in the neighboring thread. The quarantine was breached a long time ago.

That's precisely why those sturdy, low-tier units become even less relevant later on.

The key with the Lizardmen is that this very sturdiness allows you to amass a larger number of them by the late game. Archers suffer much more from retaliatory attacks due to their lower health and defense.

If you're fighting other archers, then you
1) either rely on speed, so your crossbowmen go first. And ideally, other units too. Then there won't be much resistance.
2) or you don't take crossbowmen. The Castle has griffins and knights for such battles, and angels from the conservatories. Plus, monks shoot well and don't have defense problems.
In my opinion, that's how it is... Also, it should be noted that there are fewer ranged units in the game.

There are different types of ranged defenses. And skirmishes with other players shouldn't be disregarded either.

duel Swamp vs. Castle

In short, you need to resolve your dispute on the battlefield.

As far as I remember, we had something similar before. I think I won or was close to winning that time. But when we played Fortress vs. Inferno, you won. Because instead of artifacts, I kept getting scrolls.

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But yes, I'm for the tournament. But it's better to play with random factions. So that I, like Aretz in Vesnot, can always attribute a loss to a weak new faction. Although, Aretz picked the Caliphate in Vesnot himself, and didn't randomize it.

Vesnot

Heh, after my impressive results in the last three (?) "random Vesnot" tournaments, it feels like playing chess.

Believe me, I understand you. In Spring, I at least made it to the finals. And I didn't lose too badly.

We need to conduct a poll regarding the tournament and organize it if there are enough participants. I don't even know which game would attract fewer players – Heroes or Warlords.