Your strategy for playing as Necropolis. — Necropolis

Мугайс

19 years ago

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The main thing is to make a quick advance towards the Vampires, and then towards the Death Knights. And during the first week, it would be good for the hero to develop Necromancy and learn how to raise Archers. Then you can survive (as undead?).

AnTotti

18 years ago

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Necromancers have an advantage over other factions in the early game, specifically during the first 3-4 weeks. Strategy: Focus on developing necromancy. Gather skeletal archers; for the first two weeks, you can manage with just zombies and archers. Zombies are particularly effective when you have several groups of them. After each attack, the damage effect increases, so use them to protect your skeletal archers. (In the first week, buy a second hero, give them all the troops from the first hero, and capture everything you can.)

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Kitsune

18 years ago

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What's there to think about? In the first week, you build a tavern, a blacksmith, and a market, and develop skeletons up to bone archers. A couple of ghosts or zombies. Then, as a rule, you have less money. Therefore, you need to go somewhere. In the new week, you buy those you've developed and go to explore. Occupy mines, look for gold. And by this time, your hero should already be able to summon bone archers. ...Well, after that, everything is easy and simple.:smile24:
Vampires, Messengers, dragons... and victory is in the bag.

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Alex Ghost

18 years ago

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AnTotti;109808

Strategy: Develop necromancy. Gather skeletal archers; for the first two weeks, you can manage with just zombies and archers.

Dear user, you should have installed patch 1.5 for the original game and 2.1 for the expansion pack a long time ago – they significantly nerfed necromancy, and it becomes very difficult to build an army in the early weeks...
The best thing you can do is to upgrade Spiritual Link as soon as possible and use Resurrection until the enemy is almost dead... This allows you to make good progress against moderately strong enemies... The main thing is to build ghosts and vampires as quickly as possible – ghosts for their immateriality, and vampires for their vampirism – 5-15 vampires are already a force to be reckoned with!
Upgrade attack and, if possible, defense – choose special necromantic skills – Cold Steel, Haste, and Grave Chill – and your undead troops will start performing wonders :)

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Александр Г.К.

18 years ago

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Alex Ghost;111054

Dear friend, you really should install patch 1.5 for the original game and 2.1 for the expansion – they significantly reduced the power of necromancy, and it becomes quite difficult to build an army in the first few weeks...
The best thing you can do is to upgrade Spiritual Link as soon as possible and use Resurrection until the enemy is almost dead... This allows you to make good progress against moderately strong enemies... The main thing is to build Ghosts and Vampires as quickly as possible – Ghosts for their incorporeality, and Vampires for their vampirism – 5-15 Vampires are already a force to be reckoned with!
Increase attack and, if possible, defense – choose special necromantic skills – Cold Steel, Haste, and Grave Chill – and your undead troops will start performing miracles :)

Approximately the same... Personally, I always believed that there are three things you need to do when playing as the Necromancer: gather 10,000 Skeletons, 300 Blood Drakes, and overwhelm everything alive on the map with the "leave no trace" tactic... In short, eliminate everything on the map within the first month (within a certain radius)... sometimes I only returned to the main city with the main hero at the end of the month (in Heroes 3)... Ah... It's a pity that necromancy was nerfed in Heroes 5... :smile01: :smile52: ":smile30: - turning Zombies into Skeletons..." Unfortunately, this was also nerfed... :smile15: But it's more fun to accumulate Skeletons... And drain life with Blood Drakes... :smile52: :smile43: :smile01:

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Inquisitor

18 years ago

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Hmm... maybe I'm just not smart enough (IQ=142), but I've never managed to get more than 1500 skeletons on any map. Theoretically, it's possible, but in practice, after clearing the entire map (size - large and very large) and losing a maximum of 100 skeletons, I usually end up with 700-1300 skeletons (we're not discussing the difficulty of playing as a Warrior or Recruit here).

Boris K

18 years ago

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Inquisitor, I managed to get even more than 1500 in campaigns, even in version 1.5. For example, in the 3rd mission of the 3rd campaign, I didn't get any spells in the treasure room or pyramid at the beginning. And only a kamikaze would send a hero to fight Godric, who is already heavily upgraded, without a phoenix, berserker, or the Dominate skill. I had to wander around for several months.

And in the 5th mission of the 5th campaign, I got even more from six Necropolises. I had around 200 dragons there.

Kitsune

18 years ago

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I love skeletal archers. Vampires are just amazing. :smile24: If they're at least level 70, you can send them out for scouting. And with vampires... life is just a fairy tale.
Within a week, you can create something worthwhile – a hero, a castle... and even build up an army. The surrounding neutral undead almost always join you.:smile24:

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Inquisitor

18 years ago

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Boris K;111165

Inquisitor, I even managed to get over 1500 points in campaigns, even in version 1.5. For example, in the 3rd mission of the 3rd campaign, I didn't get any spells in the treasure room or pyramid at the beginning. And only a kamikaze would send a hero to fight a heavily upgraded Godric without a phoenix, berserker, or the Dominate skill. I had to wander around for a few months.

And in the 5th mission of the 5th campaign, I got even more points with six Necropolises. I had around 200 dragons there.

Let's leave campaigns and editors aside :) I was talking about regular scenarios where the goal is to develop and destroy opponents.

Lord Vampire

18 years ago

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My entire strategy revolves around using vampires (10-15) or skeletons (50-70). If those aren't available or are occupied by other heroes, I can also rush with 30 zombies. I don't use anything else.

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SEMVMII

18 years ago

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So, who is better to recruit? I heard that if they offer Liches and Vampires, it's better to refuse and save the Town Portal for raising Skeletons.

Darkness_Knight

18 years ago

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Hmm... In Heroes of Might and Magic III and V, it's different! In Heroes of Might and Magic V, first, turn skeletons into archers! And develop the Necromancy skill for the hero to the point where archers are available! Otherwise, it's all the same old scheme, only I don't really like their dragons! But archliches are awesome! And in Heroes of Might and Magic III, I usually don't have enough sulfur (but otherwise, everything is great!).

Dr@g0N

18 years ago

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I always start by recruiting archers... In the town, I try to get vampires and liches as quickly as possible... I focus on ranged units... Dragons are my last priority...

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up in smoke

18 years ago

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at first, I just spend a day upgrading archers and only then go to eliminate something or someone...
in 1 week, I build up my economy, +50% growth, upgrade skeletons, zombies, ghosts, and, if possible, increase skeleton production...
in the following week, I definitely increase the growth to x2, if possible, and upgrade something from vampires/liches/deaths...
dragons can be put aside for better times, as they are useless =)
I upgrade units either quickly when needed or for later... I just try to upgrade vampires and liches as quickly as possible...

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Mefisto

18 years ago

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Here's how I level up: Week 1 – skeletons and their upgrades. On day 2, I capture a stone and wood mine. I send 2 heroes to search for free mercury and sulfur. I build up to specters and a guild in week 1. With my main hero, I attack one type of neutral creature to get more skeletons. Week 2 – vampires and liches, citadel, capitol. After that, it's easy to develop with vampires. Week 3 – death knights and dragons, depending on how much mercury I find! By week 3, I have a pretty good army.

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