Posts from The second tournament between three forums, dedicated to the second installment of Heroes of Might and Magic!

Well, when the knowledge shrines are visited at the very end, they give much more experience.
The whole point of the map was to build a Town Portal in the enemy's Castle earlier. Having TP, DD and a week of time, you can hunt down all the enemies and shred the titans. I didn't manage to do it...
It turns out there is a quirk with boats on this map. I tried to summon a boat, but it didn't arrive. And when you build one in the village and leave the town, it isn't near the village. But you can call it. That's what I didn't get before. By water, of course, it will be faster to reach the enemy.
And I ran everything by land as a Barbarian. On day 16 I built DD and only managed to beat the heroes in the corners, the villages, and the castles. But I didn't have time for those heroes who were hanging out in the center:(

There seems to be an issue with the boats on this map. I tried summoning a boat, but it didn't appear. And when you build one in the village and leave the city, it's not there near the village. But you can summon it. I just didn't figure that out.

And that's why he failed in school; the Tsar explained this boat mechanic in one of his lessons.

let's say this tactic works, but it requires playing with all the heroes.
but how do you level up a specific one?

Exactly, I had all 5 of them leveled up to around 40,000.

Well, you conduct reconnaissance in force. Just like they taught you in school... You study the map. There's a specific task: to level up ONE hero. We'll leave the trees for last. What do we have? Five heroes. Okay, one main hero, and we send the rest to find artifacts. Boots, a compass, and the Shield of Anduran are good items. We capture an artifact, attack nearby monsters, surrender, and buy back the hero with the artifact in our castle. We give the artifact to the main hero, and so on. The main hero has one job: to crush everyone. The sooner he gets the artifacts, the sooner he reaches the teleport, and the more experience he gains. But 500,000 experience points is a lot. No matter how much I practice, I always fall behind the winner by twice as much.

Good evening, everyone. I just got back from the countryside, so I'll send the save files and write something more substantial tomorrow. Overall, Pash described everything correctly. On the eighth day, you need to develop a decent champion in one of the composite castles with a built teleport (on the seventh day, you capture it - there's a third level of magic there, which took me a week to achieve) and with the compass and both boots. Then, you jump around to all corners and kill everyone, and for a couple more days, you just collect chests (where there are 1500). And the most important thing - I figured it out towards the end - is to go around all five trees on the last day. As a result, with 215,000, I got 500. I didn't quite manage to optimize the walkthrough to reach the next level (231,000), but if I had, it would have been more than 580.

Yeah, I guess I'm getting old. About 12 years ago, I definitely would have achieved this result. Back then, I spent entire nights playing the first Heroes of Might and Magic.

everything was on point – that’s exactly how I played, like a winner... the only problem was that the AI didn’t want to build magic structures higher than the 2nd level.... I spent more than a week before giving up on it.... by the way, I sent the saves by email. If everything is okay there, please ask the organizer to upload them to the forum. And the biggest trick – I built the initial logistics with 1-2-4 to 1-2-7, to gather two heroes as they moved in the southwestern sector, kill them, rush to the right Castle, and prevent the most powerful of the lower right ones from escaping into the snow. Killing them on day 7 gave me a week of Titans.

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correction – I took the Castle with the teleport on day 8...

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so maybe it wasn’t quite like that

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and not that Castle

Romanuel, the save files are fine, you can post them here; it would be ideal to include a walkthrough as well.

2 Romanuel: Yes, I've replayed it about 8 times since the first day to reach level 3 magic. I initially chose the left castle to capture, but I could have chosen the lower right one. As for wandering into the snow, I was just exploring there later for experience, and it was right in the middle, so two teleports were enough to get there. 2 everyone: I didn't expect to be so high, with 501k, I thought I'd be in the top five. My first result was 170k with Jojosh, who simply bypassed two radii. I sent all the saves to Qwerty, so there's probably no point in writing it out – people can just watch it in real time, right?

2 DR28
Everything has been submitted, and the judges are reviewing the save files. I have no questions.
Please wait a little longer, and the official results will be announced!

Romanuel, the saves are fine, you can post them here, ideally along with a walkthrough.

Hmm... I immediately got around 350... then 489... and then I saw that the logistics could be improved a bit, but it didn't work out. I won't criticize too harshly for the obvious lack of refinement – when I realized I couldn't get the score I wanted (over 500), I didn't worry too much – time was running out, and the beer was getting warm... There's not much to describe here – everything is visible. The forum doesn't seem to accept 7z files, so you'll have to extract the files from the archive twice.

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by the way, describe the strategy for replaying to reach the 3rd floor. What did you change, how, and most importantly, what didn't work? I even killed a couple of heroes (in reality, you couldn't even touch anyone in the first week) - nothing changed. So, I lost to you by at least a day. Then I spent a day not fully gaining experience, but exploring the huts with knowledge. This gave me (exactly what was missed in 100% implementation - it was initially designed for capturing heroes) the opportunity not to waste a turn jumping to wells and castles with the same frequency as before. But the issue with the week of Titans completely ruined everything. So, it didn't help much... In short, play here, vbn and friends, it's time to finish the top ten with me.

Final results of the tournament:

1. DR28 - 501 259
2. Romanuel - 495 711
3. DeadLord - 422 131
4. Lovelass - 399 813
5. Ghostly Rider - 350 561
6. PReDS - 299 175
7. Pash - 280 333
8. Uranist - 236 349
9. Wizd - 189 357
10. Kraftt - 115 720
11. Werky - 96 739
12. AST - 70 840
13. Meshanin - 54 920
14. Svan - 53 914
15. Andrey44 - 43 750
16. Sureiz - 42 730
17. Rockom - 42 140
18. Prokaznik - 33 030
19. Wolk - 22 400

... Unknown Hero - result annulled.

Dear colleagues!
Thank you all for the great game!
Congratulations to the winner - DR28!!!
I would also like to note the excellent game of Romanuel and the significant progress of Pash.

P.S. A new tournament will be held soon!!!

Yes, I was completely fooled. I didn't see two trees on the map!!!! If I had 400,000, well, I mean, if I had two more levels. So, I'm completely disappointed.