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In this thread, I suggest posting reports of games that are not part of any tournament, but rather played casually, over a cup of tea or coffee (or a pint of beer :)), for fun, to gain experience, or just for the sake of it.
If you think that a report of your game deserves to be posted (the game was interesting, educational, or you want to get advice on tactics, etc.), feel free to post it!

Just remember the rules:

1) The report must include: the version you played on, the name of the map, the duration of the game in days (the day, week, or month on which the final battle took place), the factions, the color, and, if desired, the name of your opponent!

2) The report should be as informative as possible, and, if desired, interestingly written (maybe we can think about a contest for the most interesting, literary described, etc. report :rolleyes:)

3) If you need advice on this game (battle), don't hesitate:), ask, there are enough players on the forum who can give good advice or help in some way! It will be educational for you and useful for others ;)

4) And most importantly: flooding will be strictly suppressed! Please do not leave posts like: "Well done!" "Cool!" "Titans are powerful!" etc. You can express your thoughts, wishes, etc. using the rating system!
If you want to give advice, please: be informative, specific, and clear!

I hope this thread will be of interest to you and will be useful :)

Best regards, Luchik!

LordZezuk (Death) def L@R$$ON (Chaos) Iron Man 225
Equilibris 3.51

First, I bought everything I could and went to attack the Naga, even forgetting to buy a second hero :) and lost all my troops along with the tactician, failing to finish off one snake. On the second turn, I bought a Lich with poison, bought ten Imps, and eventually took the mine only on the third day.
After that, I only trained him in scouting and went to the second town. By this time, there were already 3 Vampires. In short, I placed the Devils somewhere in the middle of the second week and went for the gloves. Somewhere around day 125, I got the gloves and went to
attack everything that moves with two Devils, 4 Vampires, and 5 heroes :) .
Then I leveled up the heroes, nothing special. When I was clearing the guard to the trees, I bought all the Imps, skeletons, and dogs, because I really didn't want to lose the Devils and Vampires. In the end, I got 350 skeletons and 47 dogs. With this amazing army and three Sorceresses (two Order and one Chaos, all masters), a tactician, and a runner, I went for 22 Bone Dragons. I didn't even expect it, I only lost about 50 skeletons and one hero :) Then I killed 15 Berserkers, learned from the trees, and ran to the third town. And it was already the beginning of the fourth week. There were 8 Royal Dragons and 2 Black Dragons guarding the passage. I sent the skeletons and dogs at them, and in the end, the Green
Dragons killed the Black Dragons, what a coincidence. Then I went to attack the Green Dragons. I lost 1 Devil and two heroes. Then I captured the third castle, somewhere at the beginning of the fifth week, ran to learn magic, and while I was going back and forth, we finally met on day 225 :)
And L@R$$ON was hiding behind the Tower, and if it hadn't been for that, I wouldn't have noticed him :), and I attacked.
Final troops

My army:

General 16
Battle Mage 16
Battle Mage 16
Fire Elemental 15
Ninja 16 (Death Master)
19 Devils
30 Vampires

L@R$$ON's army

General 15
Fire Elemental 16
Lich 14
Demonologist 13
Ranger 16
Black Dragons 11
Efreet 41

I'll briefly describe the battle. I move the Devils under the archer fire, shoot the Efreet with the tactician's crossbow with slow and poison. I remove the spells from the tactician, whom L@R$$ON placed in the front, and disintegrate him with the Wizard. L@R$$ON flies with the Dragons to my tactician and removes the immolation, then tries to kill him with heroes, but he has Order armor and he still stands his ground. Then I don't really remember what happened, I killed the Dragons with Vampires
and the heroes with Devils. I also hypnotized the Efreet, and soon all the opponent's heroes fell in a glorious death along with the Black Dragons. The final touch - I killed the Efreet. Many thanks to L@R$$ON, the game turned out to be very interesting. :smile54:

LordZezuk (Death) def L@R$$ON (Chaos) Iron Man 225, Expert ;)
Equilibris 3.51

Thanks for the game!

On the first day, I free a hero from prison. On the second day, I rush to attack the Naga.
But I only manage to get the Gloves on the 4th day. As a result, I slowed down significantly, and I manage to take the second town too late. I also build the Dragon Cave too late. But after that, the game becomes MUCH easier! Which is reflected in my subsequent lead in development! From the 1st Castle, it becomes quite easy to move around! And after freeing 2 lords, the economy started to improve! I level up 2 Chaos mages, a runner, a tactician, and in the end, a death demonologist joins... Both Chaos mages know Confusion Cloud, so the neutrals rush through with a whistle, with NO losses at all! (since few have magic resistance) From both towns, Ifrits with Castle Defense steadily arrive on the battlefields!

In the end, I notice 2 Order Grand Masters in the opponent's army, naturally with Berserk and Hypnotize! I'm scared! I see Mind Shield. I need to take it. I took it the day before the final battle and gave it to the General, who also had Life Shield!

Well, then I made a mistake! I put the General in the front! Immortality is immediately removed from him! And Disintegration is cast on top! :smile07: Shock! Accordingly, protection from death and mind spells is immediately lost. The Ifrits are hypnotized... and basically, that's it!

I enjoyed the game! I'm waiting for a rematch!!! :smile13:

Oh yes, I forgot, 2 Chaos Grand Masters are great! :D :D :D

CTPAHHuK (Barbarian) def LordZezuk (Life) Iron Man 146
Equilibris 3.51

We chose exotic Castles for a new experience. And we enjoyed it! Playing as a Barbarian turned out to be not that difficult, much easier than I expected. Two things significantly eased my game: two Berserker dwellings and a healing wand near the gem mine.

With the Berserkers, I easily got the gloves on day 3, took 2 Castles, and without any problems freed both Lords.
From the start, I developed the Barbarian, Ranger, and Tactician. In the tavern, I bought a Priest, and in the second Castle, I also made the purchased Barbarian learn Life magic. In general, I planned to bring Bears and Stonekin with the Tactician, two Paladins, an Assassin, and a Ranger to the final battle.

To clear the mines and the altar of magic on the way to the Bear dwelling, I didn't dare go with 5 heroes and took monsters with me. By the time I returned to the Castle, I had almost finished upgrading two more Barbarians. Meeting them near the bridge guard to the 3rd Castle, I left my monsters and, with 7 heroes, made my first hit-and-run. After killing almost half of the Bears and Grunters, I fled to the second Castle and, the second time, with 5 heroes and monsters, I finished off the losers.

I immediately dismissed the idea of taking the third Castle because I couldn't figure out how to stop the Stonekin and Birds, and my Barbarian couldn't get GM Melee and GM Resistance. After clearing the southern territory of the 3rd Castle, I finally managed to get GM Melee and Resistance. After teaching the Tactician, Ranger, and Barbarian the advanced skills of Death, I finally decided to attack the 3rd Castle with 7 heroes. It turned out to be quite easy, and I headed north to clear it.

I spent almost the entire journey with my Stonekin and Bears, so the events unfolded slowly. Without collecting anything valuable from the artifacts, I went to the trees of knowledge, where I maxed out my guys to GM Life, GM Life, 5555 Warfare, 5555 Tactics, and Ranger 5145.

On the way, I picked up an army from the 1st and 2nd Castles and ran to the altar near the 3rd Castle, where I managed to learn Resurrection. In the 3rd Castle, I took the Hand of God and, with trembling knees, moved towards the guard.

Only in the battle itself did I realize what 21 Cyclops and 13 Bears against the AI computer meant. In the first battle, I only used General's Amulet of Order, Songs of Peace, and Bless. In the second battle, I had to cast Resurrection twice more.

The Lord was waiting for me in the Castle. As always, with a beer.

Barbarian is awesome.

Thanks for the game :)

CTPAHHuK (Barbarian) def LordZezuk (Life) Iron Man 146
Equilibris 3.51

Listen up, everyone!!! :smile15: How can you play against StranNik, I don't know!!!:smile45:

I tried to take the gloves on the third day, they killed me right away, and then I couldn't find them.:smile07: We reloaded, I decided to take them on the fifth day, when the Crusaders would arrive. If it weren't for StranNik's lessons before the game about taking the gloves on the second day, I would have immediately built creatures and definitely taken the gloves on the fourth day, but instead I started doing some nonsense, building magic, buying all the peasants, damn them :smile05:
Well, I took the gloves on the fifth day, but by then StranNik had already run far ahead! Fine, I rushed to level up, all in a hurry, God forbid I lose even one day! But I forgot about everything in the world! And I forgot about the mages at the tent, I'm running happily, only when I was freeing the first lord did I remember that I wouldn't be able to get the second one!!!!:smile21:
And as luck would have it, I was desperately short on money. First I was short 30 rubles for the seminary, then 50 rubles for building Angels in the Castle, what the heck! I lost another two days. In short, the Angels only came online in the middle of the second week. I finally bought one, set off who knows where. Stupidly attacked the mine guard, where about 500 Demons were hiding :smile41:
They killed me for sure, drained all my mana, I barely escaped :smile40:
I bought all the Crusaders, and with them I leveled all my heroes to level 7. But StranNik was already taking a third Castle. I have to catch up!!! :smile29: I went with two Angels and 15 Crusaders against 16 Bears and 36 Ogre Magi. :smile14: Guess in three tries what happened? Of course I fled, but I killed 8 of the bears. Then I attacked them two more times with just heroes out of sheer desperation. Well, I killed them. But what next? StranNik says he's already rushing towards me. At that point I completely lost heart. I holed up in the Castle and sat there. I did come out to kill 16 Titans with just heroes to look into a Pandora's Box. I killed them. On the second try. And the Sorceresses were guarding the trees. For the sake of experiment, I decided to attack them too. I just lost two Angels for nothing. In the end, when StranNik rushed in with 13 Behemoths, I had one Angel :smile12: I put him with a Runner to guard the Castle gates, while I bought 50 Pikemen and 70 Archers, and with such a fine army I met my death :smile16:

But overall it was fun :smile03:
Thanks for the game.
I'm too shy to ask for a rematch for now :smile21:

>> If it weren't for the Stranger's lessons before starting the game to obtain the gauntlets on the second day...
Is it possible to duplicate them somewhere? I think everyone would be interested... I, for one, can theoretically imagine how to obtain them as Haven on the expert difficulty. And even then, only under a couple of "incoming" conditions...

You can play as Chaos. But as for the rest, it's not a sure thing.

>> If it weren't for the Wanderer's lessons before the game starts, about getting the gloves on the second day...
Is it possible to duplicate them somewhere? I think everyone would be interested... I, for one, can theoretically imagine how to do it on expert difficulty. But even then, only with a couple of "favorable" conditions...

Essentially, two rules apply: create 2 advanced mages and leave one hero alive after defeating the dragons.
Advanced mages are always created, except in the case when an artifact is given in the treasure chest. And two out of three heroes are killed because they don't have enough turns left on the second day after defeating the dragons. Again, if you attack the dragons on the third day due to the slow movement of your troops, it is desirable that all three heroes survive. But in any case, the point is to keep more of those useful early-game units alive, such as wolves, berserkers, archers, etc.

I tried to defeat the dragons as quickly as possible with Nature and Life factions under the worst conditions. By this, I mean having both dwellings of Pixies and Peasants, respectively, and not using any randomly dropped useful artifacts. For Life, I also didn't buy any level 2 units. The battlefields against the Nagas and dragons were generated without any obstacles.

The result was good; the gloves were obtained on the third day. Moreover, for Nature, out of 72 starting pixies, after capturing 2 castles and freeing 2 lords, 59 remained alive, without buying any units in the second castle. Perhaps it would be more difficult with both dwellings of Leprechauns, who knows... For Life, the army was more battered on the dragons, but upon returning to the castle, I was greeted by a stack of ballistas, with which it was not difficult to defeat the mages and break through. I didn't run any further.

For other factions, it can be assumed that Death will save the Ninjas, Imps, and spells. Everything is clear for Order, and Barbarians with Centaurs can still be tried, although it should be easy, as they are large and easily block the way for the dragons.

How to play when you're playing the wrong way.

CTPAHHuK (Nature) vs. Lee (Nature) Powerspot 134.
Expert, 8 min.
Equlibris 3.51.

We struggled for a long time trying to start the map on different difficulties and with different time limits, but we finally managed to play on Expert in 8 minutes.

The most interesting thing is that I almost managed to win. I gathered small creatures around the main dwelling and, after gaining momentum, defeated the Leprechauns and robbed the Nature bank. I passed the turn and started thinking about where to go next. In the nearest dwelling, Air Elementals were bustling, and Sunflowers were growing on the shrine. And I decided that I was too cool, I wouldn't take them, I would go straight to the second dwelling for Griffins, because there were many Griffins on the Griffin spawn, but few Sunflowers and Air Elementals. On the way, I decided to join the Harpies and... it didn't work. They beat up my wolves and sent them to the Griffins. Well, I bought a Griffin and thought that now I was really strong. I attacked the Harpies near the labyrinth, hoping to join them instead of the wolves, and... it didn't work. The Harpies were with Berserkers, and they left only 80 Leprechauns on the battlefield from my entire army. From the correspondence with my opponent, I understood that he was not doing well either. It was a real famine.

On the fourth day, I started by running to the Castle, where I declared destalinization and began to join small creatures scurrying around the main town. I constantly had to buy monsters from the dwellings and the Castle to maintain diplomatic relations. The turns were very fast. Lee also clicked on "pass turn" a minute after receiving it.

After joining the Leprechauns, Tigers, and Satyrs, I went to liberate the Griffins near the Thief Bank. With them, I went for the Air Elementals, which, however, never came in handy, and then - to liberate the Tigers near the 3rd Castle. The most interesting thing is that Lee was beating me in terms of army, and at that moment he already had a Grand Master runner, while mine only knew the advanced pathfinding skill.

On the gloves were Griffins, which I took with me, and I ran to the second Castle. Lee was ahead of me in this as well; he had already taken the second Castle. And in terms of army strength, I was only able to catch up with him on day 124. The same goes for the Castles.

On the third day, I bought a Life Mage, because I noticed the Tome of Life in the middle of the mountain on the first week. I didn't buy a fourth hero; I was planning to gather a lot of creatures.

Lee had much more serious plans for upgrading his heroes. His plan was "cool, insidious, cunning, and victorious" (c) Lee :D. In addition to the Heretic, he also upgraded a Chaos specialist and a Shaman with Tremor! Lee planned to catch my hero in the middle with the Shaman on the Sprite and harass me while he enriched himself.

In general, on day 131, I stepped into the middle of the Necropolis. The next day, I bought Elves from the external market. On day 133, I cleared the left mountain and almost reached the lower shrine, standing not far from it. Naive and unsuspecting, I passed the turn to my opponent, and Lee carried out his mischief - a Quicksand appeared on me from somewhere behind the mountains. Immediately, his hero ran up to me - he was one step short of attacking.

134. I attack.

My:
18 lvl Lord Commander with charm skill
17 lvl Bard 455 Nature with Nature book
14 lvl Paladin 555 with Life book
37 Griffins
2 Phoenixes
7 Manticores
209 Elves

His:
16 lvl Lord Commander
15 lvl Bard Master
10 lvl Heretic Chaos Expert
10 (!) Magic Dragons
2 Manticores
150 Elves
70 Imps.

Lee's evil plan did not succeed, and the battle was quick because he was in a hurry; he had urgent matters. In addition, I managed to block the Magic Dragons with Phoenixes.

After the battle, Lee wrote to me, "heal up while I come and finish you off." And I feel that the day will soon come when Lee will really finish me off on the spot. He made a great start in the early days, and he's playing Nature :eek:. I won because I knew the map better today.

What is a Barb and how to play it.

CTPAHHuK (Barb) vs. Lee (Barb) Powerspot 125.
Expert, 8 min.
Equlibris 3.51.

Barbs are in fashion this autumn, so we decided to play on the map as Barbs.
On the map, the Barbs turned out to be surprisingly fast. Playing as the upper player, I managed to take both dwelling level 3 monster buildings in the first 3 days, join Cyclops from the shrine, free a level 2 building from under the Castle without a tavern, get the gloves, and exit the teleport near the tower around the second city. On the 4th day, I took the Cyclops near the thieves' bank, claimed the second Castle and the lord from the dungeon. On day 121, I took the monster market, ran into the main Castle for 2 more Cyclops, and rushed towards the second Castle, where 2 Cyclops were waiting.

In general, on day 122, I entered the center, bought Ogres from the dwelling, and claimed the birds near the chests. I stopped with the following setup: Paladin almost Grand Master, Ranger quite dumb, Tactician is good, 5 Bulls, 3 Birds, 10 Ogres, 31 Cyclops.

I was leveling up the Paladin because there were more shrines with life, plus I saw the Book of Life under the mountain. However, I took the book, but didn't use it, I wanted to check how it would be without the book. But before taking the book on day 123, I fought the mountain owner. In this fight, I couldn't hold back the opponent's attack with my Cyclops, and the Bulls broke free from protection. They and the Ogres died. Almost the same as on day 116, when I was pushing with 4 Mega Dragons and 10 Goblins for regeneration, as a result of which I lost everyone except the Cyclops, but before the market, it didn't matter. But in the center, it was a pity.

Throughout the game, I bought everything that was for sale, and everything that was bought was sold and bought again.

In the end, on day 124, I run to Lee and join his birds, stopping near his Ogre dwelling. In my army, there is a Grand Master Paladin and two idiots, with them 31 Cyclops, 9 Birds, 2 Bulls, 1 Sorceress.

On day 125, I notice Lee at the market and beat him. Unfortunately, Lee decided to make a Barbarian bodybuilder, and there were no Cyclops on his respawn. Therefore, the army didn't work out.

Conclusion: Barbs are eaten with Cyclops and books.

P.S.: Maybe someone wants to check it out - saves are here.

In this thread, I suggest posting completed matches to determine your rating in online HoMM IV games. The game report must include submissions from both participants in the match. It is possible for one player to post, for example, the winner, provided that the second player confirms its accuracy in any available way. When you submit your first application, you will automatically register on the site. The report should contain information about the outcome of the match, the opponent's name, race, map, difficulty, turn time, and the day of the final match, in any convenient but understandable format. The site is located here: http://heroeskingdom.narod.ru/ Good luck in the games and may you achieve brilliant victories! :smile49:

LordZezuk (nature purple) los. pashagreen (nature green) Power and Reason (expert 146)

LordZezuk (Necropolis) los. KlonBizon (Fortress) quiet world (expert 8 min 145)(01/23/09)

Added after 22 hours 51 minutes
oxygen_hl (Necropolis, green) def. drMotor (Preserve, purple) — Will and Mind 213, (Expert, 6 min) (01/24/09)

To make sure everything is done according to the rules...

Lars (Haven) def. LordZezuk (Asylum), PowerSpot Inside, 135 (Advanced, 8 min.)

Vadim, add Lu to the rating!

Lars (Asylum) def. Lu41k (Asylum), Power and Reason, 147 (Expert, 8 min)