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

Fashionable Tournament

Kolobokk (mages, Narhiz) defeated Mkadan (humans, Vitorrio) - M3, 2-1-7

The beginning was typical: I chose a hero and went forward. The only thing was that I didn't get a Hafiz. I just kept moving forward, sweeping everything in my path. I met Vitorrio somewhere in the beginning of week 3. I drove him back to his castle. I gathered reinforcements, but I didn't have time to reach the opponent's castle before the end of week 3. I didn't have time to gather new reinforcements, and the opponent attacked. Narhiz, level 17, vs. Vitorrio, level 14. The battle was roughly equal, but I had a bit too few troops (only all units up to mages, except for one growth). I didn't have any spells better than Ice Block. I retreated, but the opponent was left without an army. There were about 15-20 griffins, 20 monks, 1 angel, and 18 archers left. I retreated, and in the castle, I was waiting for new troops, all spells, and full armies from the Djinns. I took everything and went on a new path, which, as it turned out, led to the same route, but it was much shorter. Meanwhile, the Delaba with 3 Titans was destroying everything around on the third path, but didn't quite make it to the opponent. I leveled up to level 11.

Seeing my main hero with an armada of troops approaching his castle again, the opponent surrendered. The economy was running smoothly, and everything was built on time.

Narhiz, level 17, 2 6 10 21
Machines - 3 - Ballista - Tent
Defense - 3
Chaos - 3 - Fire Lord - Secrets of Chaos
Education - 3

Well, the build is almost perfect for a mage.

Thank you for the game.

Leolopus (CE, Ilfina) - won; Igrok v geroev (Dwarves, Ingvar) - lost, template (don't remember which one) 3-1-3
Ilfina - level 26, 20-24-8-17 (1-5)
Expert of Light - blessing - wrath
Expert of Logistics - pursuer - pathfinding - native lands
Expert of Mechanics - ballista - tent - triple shot
Advanced Attack - shooting - Offensive Spellpower
Expert of Luck
Skilled Avenger - deadly shot
Everything as usual - searching, clearing, developing, building, maybe I was just a little luckier with the direction of movement, and a lot of utopias were generated, so besides monsters and their artifacts, I also found FIVE utopias, and as a result - good leveling and a decent army. In the final battle, I had to fight, the dwarves put up a good resistance, but the advantage was on my side. Thanks to Sanya for the game!

A Trendy Tournament

Ejett (Mages, Nura) defeated Leolopus (Humans, Laslo), spider template, somewhere around the middle of the 3rd month

Everything started off well enough, I got Nura right away, but my leveling was somehow unlucky; I decided to go Light for mass spells, without machines or a tent. Due to regeneration, I was constantly taking losses, and very often I had to fight shooters with nowhere else to turn—the second week turned out to be a week of festivals. As a result, I couldn't build up a proper army; I didn't build Rakshasas and Giants until the 4th week. I hoped for Darkness, but first, I needed to build the guild and library. My hopes were justified, and at level 5 I had Subjugation, although I got Darkness itself late—I "managed" to fully upgrade it by the finale. I had already started breaking through ГО (broke through two guards on my side with losses; Titans stood on Leo's side, and I was too afraid to attack them for now), when Laslo arrived at level 28 with a huge army with attack and defense of 20 (Nura was level 23). I decided to defend in the Castle because it would be very difficult in the field, and I feared there would be anti-magic. In short, right at the start of the battle, I broke the catapult; Leo didn't expect such audacity from me :D, so he had to pay his way out. Although I received a substantial sum of money, I suffered heavy losses since I didn't have time to resurrect anyone, and my entire army had been bought for the battle except for 3 Rakshasas. It's unclear how everything would have turned out further in this game (I bought the book of darkness and wanted to explore the treasury a bit), but Leo decided to save time and gift me the victory, for which I thank him :smile20:

I lost, I confirm, but I think after pity Dragon Utopia I would have become a monster
even though my level was higher, the artifacts still did a dirty deed
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Igrok_v_geroev (Elves, Osir) won against Leolopus (Necromancer Vlad), smile template without underground
he says that nothing happened to the phoenixes and there was no magic, but I think they should have developed their free magic then they wouldn't have lost and my development would have gone much faster so I don't know if he could have beaten me or not
thanks for the game!

Igrok_v_geroev (Magic Razzaq) won against Vip.rus (Elves of Osir) on the Letos map, without underground.

He burned his VIP at work))) thanks for the game!

Confirmed, the revenge attempt failed. Armageddon wiped out the entire army; I was just a little short:smile17: Thanks for the game!

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Vip.rus (red, Orcs, Goshak) def /lose Alkogolik (blue, Orcs, Argat) - summer map without underground, 7-3-2

I gathered a decent army and got 2 excellent spells: scare and horde fury. The opponent came to me, I attacked and won without any problems. Thanks for the game! P.S. This time I was definitely luckier!:smile41:

Goshak, level 22, 23-6-3-4, 0/2, and 2 rings with -2 luck, one horseshoe +2 luck, I stole it right under the opponent's nose)))
logistics with keen mind
attack - ranged attack - offense - battle frenzy
units - ballista - triple shot
defense +20%

Igor916 (Academy) def Igrok_v_geroev (Necropolis) Sun template, very large, without an underground area. The map consisted of small pieces of land with teleports. I, on level 4 of my hero, recklessly attacked in the wrong place and ended up having to flee to avoid losing my hero. As I understand it, my opponent's game also didn't go well, and something similar happened, but later. In short, after 4 hours of playing (it was already morning for him), we came to the conclusion that we should stop the game. Thank you for the game.

Leolopus (Dwarves - Ibba) - won; Vip.rus (Humans - Dugal) - lost, Moze template, on the second week, I received information from my opponent that he had a terrible game against Mummies and decided not to continue the game.

Leolopus (Necropolis - Lucretia) - won; Vip.rus (Dwarves - Erling) - lost, Spider template, 1-1-3. After jumping into another portal, I didn't even have time to make a move when the cunning Dwarf jumped out of the darkness and attacked the wandering undead. The battle was bloody, but ended with my victory. Vip, thanks for the game!

Primus (Elf, Wingael) def Igrok_v_geroev (Dwarf, Ibba) - Spider, very large, no underground, 3-3-2

From the start, I had the Elf and Wingael. Of course, I chose the pointy-eared guy in the green robe! He leveled up well, his stats were much better than his opponent's, but he was 2-3 levels behind. He couldn't get Light magic; he only got it on level 19, which meant he had to deal with all sorts of nonsense while searching for a mentor and didn't touch any of the creatures in his starting town. His stats didn't allow him to defeat level 7 creatures! There were no resurrection spells in the castle or in the 3-4 libraries. He started searching in the treasure rooms and, thank goodness, he found one. He started clearing his starting town, then moved on to the remnants of the enemy's town. He barely managed to find a mentor; there was only one on the map. He forgot about efficient logistics and pathfinding, got a middle-level education, solved a secret, learned Forest Cunning, Battle Balance, and Forest Fury. He took Full Protection, Battle Defense, and Battle Precision, Elven Luck, and mass spells. By this time, his opponent had already retrained and was ahead of him in stats. A few days later, the final battle took place. Thanks to Divine Retribution, his opponent was able to deal good damage to my troops; otherwise, I think the battle would have been one-sided. Thanks for the game!

Wingael, level 27, 8 21 11 16 5 7
Expert Avenger - Enchanted Arrow - Arrow Storm
Expert Offense - Tactics
Permanent Luck - Luck of the Road - Soldier's Luck - Elven Luck
Middle Education
Expert Defense - Dodge - Battle Defense - Battle Precision
Expert Light Magic - Protection - Righteous Fury - Seal of Light

P.S. I really liked the combined artifact, Lion's Courage (each time creatures have a positive morale bonus, the hero moves forward on the ATB scale by 10% of the scale's size. If a negative morale bonus triggers, the hero moves back by 10%). Wingael moved very often, which allowed him to cast mass spells, resurrection, and Divine Retribution quickly!