Posts from [HMM II TOURNAMENT OFF] The Tsar's Will.

1. To participate in the sixth offline Heroes 2 tournament "The Will of the Tsar," you must register on our website and submit an application in this thread.

2. The tournament will be held on the Russian version of Heroes 2 "The Price of Loyalty" from Buky. The save will be generated on the Russian version.

3. The goal of the game is to gather 2000 skeletons in the shortest possible time. All skeletons must be in the army of one hero.
The result will be evaluated primarily based on the shortest time.
If several players have the same completion time, the best will be determined by the sum of primary skills (attack, defense, magic, knowledge) INCLUDING WORN ARTIFACTS (counted for the hero with the highest skill sum from those presented in the save); if a favorite still cannot be determined, it will be based on the amount of mercury.


4. The following are prohibited in the tournaments:

1. redeeming your dismissed heroes on the same day (i.e., using the "dismissal-redemption" tactic);
2. it is also not allowed to buy heroes who died in battle (do not confuse with those who fled)!
3. a redeemed hero who fled or was redeemed in battle cannot be used on the day they fled or were redeemed. You can buy such a hero, but you can only use him on the next day;
4. excavating UA without fully opening the puzzle map;
5. Open discussion of the tournament on the forum during its conduct is PROHIBITED!!!
   (Players who violate this rule will automatically be disqualified from playing the tournament; their results will not be counted and will be annulled).
6. using any cheats or bugs in the "final" playthrough
7. using weeks and months with additional troop increases or plague. If a week "+5 monsters X," a month "monster X," or plague appears, the player must replay the week/month transition and achieve a neutral result. If there are difficulties in obtaining a neutral result, the judge must be notified immediately.
8. Warlocks are prohibited from taking the necromancy skill.

5. The player must save intermediate saves for each game day during the tournament.
Intermediate saves may be requested by the tournament organizer to verify the integrity of the playthrough. If the use of cheat codes is detected, as well as clearly indicated errors and features of the game that are prohibited, the player will be immediately disqualified from the tournament.

6. Together with the final save, players must send a brief description of how the skeletons were gathered.

7. Send the final save to the email address kylegoogl@gmail.com. The sent save must contain the tournament number (6), the participant number in the application table, the abbreviation (ВЦ - The Will of the Tsar), and the player's nickname. Example: 6_1_ВЦ_Kyle.gх1.

8. The tournament starts on November 5 and will last until November 26 (inclusive). The results will be announced on November 30, 2007.

9. After receiving your save, you will see in the application table that:

save accepted - next to the bold Nickname.
save counted - next to the green bold Nickname.
save not counted - next to the red bold Nickname.

TOURNAMENT on HMM II: The Will of the Tsar
Number	Participant
1	Alex_R
2	Arandor
3	Kamikaze
4	Sage
5	Psixxx
6	K0Lb@zzeR
7	Ley
8	GRAMM
9	DR28
10	Qwerty
11	vbn
12	PReDS
14	Catch
15	Lisichka
16	OlegRS
17	Brennan

1. Download the save and the map.
Note: The save and map are archived using WinRar 3.62.

2. The downloaded save must be placed in the Games folder in the folder where Heroes 2 is installed.

3. Load it and start the game at any time that is convenient for you, while remembering to make daily saves.

4. After reaching the last action (i.e., when you have armies >= 2000 skeletons), you must save again.

5. A complete description of the tournament map is encouraged (not required). If there are any, a competition will be held for the best description, 10 of which (the best) will take their place of honor in the "Feats of Our Best Heroes" section!

6. Send this save to the specified address (in the rules of this tournament).

7. Wait for the results to be announced.

P.S. I wish all participants of the tournament a good time playing the game!!!

So, can I sign up already?
It's so quiet here:confused:

Sign me up!
I haven't played Heroes of Might and Magic II in a while.

It's just a day off today. Sign me up as well :), I'll be making up for my performance in the spring Heroes III tournament.

I'm not very good at playing the Skeleton Summoner, but I'll give it a try.

I'm not very good at gathering skeletons...

Yeah, and it would be nice to learn the technology of raising them from corpses :D

Is it possible to use this in Heroes 2 Gold?
If so, please add me to the list.

+1
Add me to the list too :) Let's try to gather some skeletons.

Aha... so, a tournament...
I'm in, sign me up! :)

I checked out the map yesterday – I liked it (it’s cool).
Good job, Kyle! ;)
But I think there are two minor flaws (purely gameplay-related):
1. You can defeat the computer before you can gather 2000 skeletons...
What should you do? Just ignore it?
2. The Necromancers (all except Sandro) are in prisons – I assume this is to prevent you from leveling up other Necromancers?
But what about Warlocks? They also get Necromancy skills ;)
P.S. What about diplomacy? Can you play around with it?

I think there are two flaws (purely in terms of gameplay):
1. You can defeat the computer before you collect 2000 skeletons...
what should you do? just ignore it?
2. The Necromancers (all except Sandro) are in prisons - I assume this is to prevent other Necromancers from leveling up?
But what about Warlocks? They also get Necromancy skills ;)
P.S. What about diplomacy? Can you play around with it?

1. Let me remind you of the goal of the game: ;)

The goal of the game is to collect 2000 skeletons in the shortest possible time.

2. Indeed, but I didn't know about the Warlocks... :o .
Therefore, a point will be added to the rules: Warlocks are prohibited from taking the Necromancy skill.

3. Feel free to play around with it ;)

Sincerely.

Is it possible to play on the Heroes 2 Gold version?

Hmm, if my memory serves me correctly, the "The Price of Loyalty" expansion is included in Heroes 2 Gold. Therefore, I think you can play it. Sincerely.

Hmm, if my memory serves me right, the "The Price of Loyalty" expansion is included in Heroes 2 Gold.
Therefore, I think you can play it.

Best regards.

:smile01: So, I'll play it.

The map is good, but it's a bit small in size.

Come on...:), is that really too much? There's plenty to do as it is ;), and the gameplay itself doesn't take up that much time...

Come on...:), and the gameplay itself doesn't take up much time...

Cool. I spent half the evening trying to explore the map. Nothing worked. Everything is done with particular ingenuity. The starting castle is just awful under these victory conditions. The monsters bite and kill the hero, and only send the skeletons to their final resting place.
If it continues like this, the path to the top three will be more than easy - I'm constantly being sent to grind in a small area...