Posts from Reports on victories and defeats in online games of Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Confirmed.
There were big problems with money. I cleared all the treasure rooms in the area, about five in total, but they all had minimal loot, which caused the problems.
Primus saved the day during the game.

As part of the "Everyone Gets Something" tournament, Igrok_v_geroew (Dwarves of Carlin) won against raykonnen (Magi of Razak). M3 template with a dungeon. I was a little luckier than my opponent, thanks for the game.

As part of the "Something for Everyone" tournament: Primus (Elf, Anven) def A1coho1!c (Elf, Ossir) - Sun map, very large without underground, 2-2-1 I placed a bet on quickly building units and a castle. There were constant problems with wood. But various storage facilities and quick clearing helped me get ahead of my opponent in terms of meat! Thanks for the game! P.S. For the third game in a row, I haven't gotten Light for the Elves. This is starting to annoy me! Anven, level 22, 7 17 3 11 4 3 Skilled Avenger - Enchanted Arrow - Rain of Arrows Skilled Defense - Reflection - Resistance Skilled Leadership - Rally Troops - Aura of Swiftness Persistent Luck - Soldier's Luck Skilled Logistics - Find Path - Path of War

As part of the "Everyone Gets What They Deserve" tournament:
Primus (Elf, Anven) def A1coho1!c (Elf, Ossir) - Sun map, very large, no underground, 2-2-1

I bet on quickly building up units and the castle. There was a constant shortage of wood. But various resource nodes and quick clearing helped me get ahead of my opponent in terms of meat! Thanks for the game!

P.S. For the third game in a row, I haven't been given a Light artifact when playing as an Elf. This is starting to annoy me!

Anven, level 22, 7 17 3 11 4 3
Expert Avenger - Enchanted Arrow - Arrow Rain
Expert Defense - Reflection - Resistance
Expert Leadership - Rally Troops - Haste Aura
Permanent Luck - Soldier's Luck
Expert Logistics - Find Path - Path of War

That's exactly what happened. I just couldn't manage the wood! I couldn't find any for the first 3-4 weeks!!! And the neutrals guarding the neighboring locations were quite tough, so I developed slowly, and as a result, I lost – it was a complete rout! And I'm not very good at playing anyway:smile33:

As part of the "Everyone Gets What They Deserve" tournament:
Leolopus (Elves, Ossir) - won; Major Vikhr (Orcs, Kegan) - lost, Sun template, very large, no underground, 1-4-7
First, I checked in the tavern to see who started with which hero against my opponent. It turned out to be Haggeesh, but after a while, I saw that my opponent was developing Kegan, which pleased me greatly. The clearing went smoothly; I broke through to the adjacent zone and almost cleared it when, suddenly, Haggeesh jumped out of a portal right under my nose, followed by Kegan. I had to retreat and regroup against my opponent; the forces were unequal. Major, without hesitation, brought in reinforcements and rushed towards me, but I was already waiting for him. The finale was predictable; Kegan without Haggeesh is just a pile of meat, and although the numerical strength was not in my favor, the quality was on my side. Thanks to my opponent for the game!
Ossir - level 18, 10-11-5-15 (1-3)
Expert in Luck - magic resistance
Expert in Education - magic attraction
Expert in Logistics - finding the path - path of war - scouting
Fundamentals of Defense
Avenger (novice) - enchanted arrow

As part of the "Everyone Gets What They Deserve" tournament:

Vip.rus - red, Necropolis, Deidra def / lose Kill_and_Aktion - blue, Magic, Nazir, Smile template, 2 months

We played for a long time and it was almost fun. The leveling went quickly, I was leveling up 2 heroes, Deidra and Lucretia, and at some point I couldn't decide who my main hero was, both were at level 17, and both had their own advantages. Deidra with image and magic attraction, but Lucretia with logistics and sharp mind. Deidra won with a large mana reserve))) In the end, I leveled her up to level 20. I must say that I wasn't very lucky with leveling up my main hero, they didn't give me luck or logistics, and they never offered Undead Protection from Magic. So I was defenseless and fought against this chaos mage, Nazir). On the 2nd week, Forgotten Hero armor was in the shop, but I just didn't have enough money.
I cleared 3 sectors, ran into an opponent, but not in a head-on attack, I managed to prepare! The opponent seems to have lost a lot on the neutrals, but that's not my problem). In the end, there were several battles/skirmishes, all according to the same principle: he casts chaos on me, I kill and resurrect, kill and resurrect:D The losses were significant, but not critical, I had a reserve (for the banal reason of insufficient money). Somewhere in the 4th battle (the opponent probably bought the last upgrade), Kirill didn't run away, but just fought to the end, and that's basically it!

Deidra: 20 level, 4 - 9 - 20 - 8, 0/1
Expert spellcasting - wisdom - secret knowledge
Expert dark - master of mind
Expert education - attraction - unraveling the secret - scholar
Initial protection

Thanks for the game!:smile02:

Leolopus (Elves, Ossir) - won; Major Whirlwind (Orcs, Keegan) - lost, Sun template, very large, without underground levels 1-4-7

Yes, that's how it was. From the start, I had Haggeesh, and in the tavern, I found Tilshek and Keegan. The first two heroes are prohibited by the tournament rules, so I had no choice but to develop Keegan. I armed him with the army of the two heroes and defeated almost all the creatures in auto-battle. I upgraded his machines; I didn't have time to get the OS, although even one level might have been enough. When the opponent fled, I already started thinking about the possibility of winning. Or rather, I hoped that I at least had a chance :) But everything went quite one-sided; Leo defeated me without much difficulty.

Keegan - 14 level, 7 6 2 8
Leadership (2)
Logistics (1)
Attack (3), tactics, ranged attack
Machines (2), ballista, rapid-fire ballista
Racial skill (3), memory of our blood

And thank you, Leo, too ;)

I confirm the player's report regarding the heroes!
He shouldn't have agreed to a battle to the end, of course... but the map generated was really boring. As a result of the battle, both armies were wiped out... but I still had troops at home because the battle was near his castle. And a dwarf without an army and only with Light magic is unlikely to be stronger than a mage with Chaos magic, summoning level 15, and knowledge level 20.
Thank you for the game.

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I confirm Vip.Rus's report, with some clarifications and additions.

The game turned out to be long and interesting...
I decided to level up two heroes in parallel, with the intention of choosing one main hero later.
The leveling process was successful; Nazir immediately received education and the Mark skill, while Narhiz received the Summon skill...

By the beginning of the 3rd week, I had built up my capital, reached level 5 in magic, and had level 1-5 and 7 creatures.

Despite his initial education, Narhiz leveled up slower than Nazir.
As a result, by the first encounter with the opponent, they were at levels 13 and 17, respectively.

Nazir managed to snatch a +50% fire damage cloak from the neutrals before the battle
(the total damage, including armor penetration, was 540 units), but he lost 15
mages and 9 alt-djinns. Seeing the opponent, I had to call for reinforcements (the roaches were positioned in the corners, annoyingly)...

The battle between the main heroes took place on the 6th week and was interesting. Unfortunately, when I surrendered, the respected opponent didn't save the game.
Our troops were diverse in terms of level and upgrades.

Deydra, level 18 (approximately, level 20 was later))
568 upgrade - 158 upgrade - 112 upgrade - 35 upgrade - 35 upgrade - 9 - 0
Nazir, level 18:
81 alt-djinns - 48 alt-djinns (this was one of the mistakes) - 63 alt-djinns - 11 alt-djinns - 25 alt-djinns - 0 - 9 upgrade.

My strategy was simple: protect the golems, ignore the tumblers (I made a mistake and completely messed up), and attack the opponent with Fireball and the Mark skill... The only difficulty was to manage the remaining few units effectively (the Titans fired only twice during the battle, although they did trample some higher vampires).

In the final part of the battle, the opponent had 11 archliches and 9 undead with 19 and 1 hit points, respectively. I had 13 golems, which blocked the archliches. At the beginning, I had 115 mana (255 before calling for reinforcements). When I had 8 mana left, I made a mistake - instead of casting Arrow or Stone Skin, I cast Fireball ((. As a result, I only killed the undead, the Mark skill didn't work on the archliches, the golems didn't resurrect, and the mana ran out...(( In short, it was a terrible mistake. I had just enough mana with Secret Knowledge to win!

But, as they say, what's done is done...

Leveling and stats with artifacts (approximately) 8-4-11-17:
3 racial - Mark
3 education - Scholar - +2 spell power and 1000 experience - Magic Attraction
3 sorcery - Secret Knowledge
3 chaos - Fire Lord - Mana Burst - Ice Lord.

Thanks for the game!

raykkonen (Necropolis, Zoltan) defeated Lok1978 (Academy, Jalib) 2-2-5 on the Sun map. Zoltan turned out to be very strong and resilient, equipped with a Necromancer amulet and a ring from the Holy Word (Banshee -2 morale and luck, -20 initiative) and a ring +20 initiative. He had plenty of resources. He could have defeated 5 more Jalibs without any losses. Thanks for the game.

As part of the tournament "To Each Their Own." Map: City of Wonders. 1-3-7
PROTON-N (Wizard Nura) victory // alex nv (Orc Krag) defeat.
Played the map for the first time, just for the heck of it... :) Felt the pain... that I shouldn't level Nazir—then Nura showed up too—realized the map isn't big—an angry Barbarian would be coming soon... Counted movement tiles, pinched pennies, and prayed to Urgash :rolleyes: for Berserk... And—oh miracle! :eek: Berserk in the library :D Then—played dumb and sat in the castle pretending to take a beating (the Orc was already charging with red eyes)—couldn't meet him in time... And then, as they say, "Cinema and Germans" :smile04: Evil destroyed itself.... Thanks for the game, Alex, it was fun...
Nura lvl 17.
Darkness mastery, mark, strong chaos, machine gun, attack mastery, magic advancement / roughly: 5-11-7-7-1-1.
Krag ~lvl 17.
Machinist—that's for sure :) Logist, I think.. ~13-4-8-8-?-?.

Each player gets their own experience in a tournament. The map is City of Wonders. 1-3-7
PROTON-N (Mage, Nurra) wins // alex nv (Orc, Kragg) loses.

....Thanks for the game, Alex, it was fun...

Nurra, level 17.
Darkness, Spark, Sign, Chaos strong, Machine Gun, Spark Attack, Advanced Magic / approximately: 5-11-7-7-1-1.
Kragg, level ~17.
Engineer - definitely :) Logistics, maybe... ~13-4-8-8-?-?.

You're welcome! It was a very instructive game, showing how Orcish hordes can be defeated by cunning mages.
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However, at the time of the encounter in the castle, Nurra was level 16 and had 0-1 morale/luck!
And Kragg was level 17: Advanced racial - Blood Memory, Spark Attack - BB-Ranged-OS, Advanced Logistics - Finding - Path of War, Spark Machine - Tent - Ballista - Rapid Fire / 13-4-5-8-1-1. Otherwise, I confirm, I lost :(

As part of the "Everyone Gets What They Deserve" tournament, using the "sun" template, 1-3-4
PROTON-N (Nura mage) / Heroes player (Ora mage) - DRAW.
We played for 3 hours, then the player disconnected, saying his child pressed something... We tried loading autosaves, went through all of them - nothing, it says the database doesn't match. We decided to record a draw. Although I was level 19 and the player was level 15, and my stats were much better.... We also decided that if these half a point are really needed by someone in the future, we'll replay, but that's unlikely.

As part of the "Everyone Gets Something" tournament, using the "sun" template, 1-3-4.
PROTON-N (Nura mage) / Player in Heroes (Ora mage) - DRAW.
We played for 3 hours, then the player disconnected, saying his child pressed something... We tried to load autosaves, went through all of them - nothing, it says the database doesn't match. We decided to record a draw. Although I was level 19 and the player was level 15, and my stats were much better.... We also decided that if these half a point are really needed by someone in the future, we'll replay, but that's unlikely.

I agree that he turned off the computer, but I don't know why his level was lower, and I won't argue about it here, as anything can happen. A draw is fine with me, and if needed, I'll replay, thanks for the game.

As part of the "To Each His Own" tournament, Dragon Pass, 1-4-5.
ValhallaWolf(Dungeon, Iranna) def Игрок в героев(Necropolis, Zoltan)

The game turned out to be very interesting despite the ending. From the start: Iranna, Vaishan. On the second floor: Irbet. I struggled and struggled (two heroes with a useless spell, one with Darkness, which is completely unnecessary) and went to level up Iranna. Once again, I missed out on the tree—I didn't want to give away 10 gems. In general, total bad luck right up until the major on the starting respawn. A Pendant of Mastery—why on earth did that drop for me????? Well, at least it solved the money problem. In the guild, a Wall of Fire on the 3rd floor—just complete disaster.... I simply prayed at the altar—and they gave me an orb there—after that everything started going well!!! Except for the fact that with Vaishan, I successfully lost as many as 6 Trappers on demoralized minotaurs (that's how many I've lost in 3 weeks overall, and here in one battle). And then came a message from the opponent surrendering—he got burned on the Dragon Utopia...

Iranna level 17 5-4-19-7(but there was a lot of mana due to the Fountain of Youth and Attraction)

Advanced Logistics
Basics of Chaos
Expert Summoning—Master of Spells.
Advanced Defense—Evasion—Fight to the Last
Average Education—Magic Attraction—Sorcerer's Reward
Dark Ritual—Arcane Wave.