Posts from What was your first castle in Heroes 3?

Yes, it's a legendary game, and my castle was "Dungeon," while my brother played as "Fortress" and easily defeated me because he's a better player.

P.S. I have a friend who, about 7 years ago, when I didn't have my own computer and used to play at an internet cafe, would always stand over me while I played Heroes after a Counter-Strike session, constantly saying: *"You're such a noob, why are you playing these games? Are you crazy? Let's play Dust 2 against bots instead."* :D But after a while, I convinced him to try Heroes of Might and Magic, and he got so hooked that he still can't let it go! :smile04: Now he plays turn-based strategy games (Disciples, HMM), and his first faction was Castle.

I used to play King's Bounty on my Sega.
I started playing the first installment on a Pentium, and I got the computer as a New Year's gift. Naturally, I spent the entire New Year and all the remaining weekends playing the first Heroes game.
I was amazed when I saw Heroes 3 on sale.
The Chronicles of Heroes: "Wars of the Steppes" and "The Shadow of Death".
I completed them all without losing or restarting.
But before that, I read the text file in the game folder and completed the tutorial campaign. Plus, I had a lot of experience from the first part.
Over time, I acquired The Shadow of Death.
My favorite map (I chose it based on the number of players on the map and its size) was "Monks' Retreat".
My favorite faction was Castle, and my favorite hero was Loïn.
I remember how we used to play hot-seat multiplayer in Heroes 3.
I already had a lot of experience in Heroes 3, and it was boring to play against the computer, so I got my friends into it.
Over time, they learned to play, but they still weren't as good, so I played by their rules or their favorite scenarios.
Basically, that's the story. We got together in Heroes 3 one morning, so we could play from start to finish.
We chose our factions: I, as always, chose Castle and Loïn, my friend chose Castle and Adel, and the other friend chose Conflux and a random hero. The map was large, so we decided to gather resources and level up. There was plenty of time (in real life). The map was large, and there were enough resources and monsters for everyone, so everyone was happy. From time to time, there were skirmishes with "minor" heroes in auto-battles. The main heroes were running around, gathering troops, collecting artifacts, and bombing dragon caves.
So, the friend who was playing as Adel had a large army, but he was unlucky. I was closer to him, so I attacked and defeated him quite easily, with almost no losses, because the archangels resurrected the monks, and my hero resurrected the knights. However, I lost 6 archangels to Implosion. This was my biggest loss in the entire game. Because of this, I decided not to finish off my friend and retreated to lick my wounds (gather more troops) for the battle with Conflux.
But the second friend, seeing that my army had lost a few archangels, decided to finish me off. He quickly used a portal to reach me and engage in battle. And he had a lot of phoenixes, which grow by 4, and many other elementals. Plus, he had a lot of mighty gorgons, about 100. His army was about three times larger than mine in terms of numbers. And that's when he said the phrase that still resonates with us when we play Heroes 3 together: "Well, pray!!!, you're done for." To which my first friend said, "He's an expert in prayer!!!" =)))
The result: I cast Prayer on all my units (water and earth magic were maxed out). We waited, 7 units on each side, exchanged shots. I resurrected a group of archers, and he sent phoenixes to attack my archangels. It was something to see when 44 phoenixes killed only 2 archangels out of 16, after which the remaining archangels retaliated and killed 9 phoenixes.
His phrase: "I didn't know Prayer was so powerful" was no longer as important. I and my first friend were amazed and laughing, rolling on the floor. I still won the battle, although I resorted to an unusual tactic: I filled the field with shooters, even though I was being bombarded with Implosion. The earth protection and anti-magic skill helped me survive. Then I resurrected the archers and monks and shot down the gorgons.

Although I played well, and my friends also played well, it took me two years to figure out how to get a hero into the Castle.
We saw that when attacking the Castle, the hero automatically entered the Castle, but we couldn't figure out how to get him in there, even though we tried dozens of times, clicking everywhere, but not in the right place.
As I remember it now, right after I got the hero into the Castle, I called all my friends to tell them how it was possible and how simple it was. I was overjoyed. I felt like I had won the Nobel Prize

I played as **Inferno** for the first time... I remember building and building, nurturing my army – it was scary to move away from the castle :D, and then a Necromancer came and tore me apart like a wet rag :D...
In Heroes of Might and Magic III, I loved **Conflux**, but now I always tend to choose **Dungeon** and take three deer brothers with traffic light eyes :D...

I started playing Heroes, not really paying attention or understanding anything, and I would go fight Gorgons with 40 Pikemen. My first castle was, of course, a Castle. Later, after playing for a long time, you start to understand how long ago that was...

I played as Inferno for the first time... I remember building and building, nurturing my army – it was scary to leave the castle: D, and then a Necromancer came and tore me apart like a wet rag: D...

I was also pretty clueless. I was afraid of losing my city, so I left most of the creatures in the garrison just in case, so that no one could capture it: D.

Yeah... I remember that quiet autumn evening in the spring of '99, the computer room, and how I first launched Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, and how, randomly, I got the Swamp map.... Who knew that 9 years later, I would still be playing Heroes with the same childlike enjoyment?

I don't remember playing the second game, but I started playing the third one when it came out. However, that was a long time ago, so I can't recall any specific details.

Oh, I remember how fun it was to play for the first time :) Back then, I played with a friend, and we chose Inferno – at first, I really liked the castle, it felt like pure devilry! :D I remember on the very first day, I bought troops and asked where to attack, and they advised me to attack "that legion of golden dragons, you'll easily take them down";) Yeah... And then, when I built Ifrits, I was really happy)
Yeah, yeah, I remember Dimas telling me that if I dismissed the Ifrits, they would fly to his castle, steal his resources, and return the next day... The Ifrits never returned :)

The first castle was Necropolis (Necropolis in Heroes III). I defeated the phoenixes (Rise of the Phoenix Alien). I remember how I completely destroyed the magical dragons of Azure with the "Fear" spell (Fear damage). I was surprised that my army (150 war skeletons, 100 zombies, 85 ghosts, 150 liches, 200 dark knights) was defeated by a hero with (10 Dark Dragons, 500 Troglodites, 1000 harpies).

I remember seeing a friend play as Necropolis for the first time. I myself gained my first gaming experience playing as Castle. I don't remember the hero, of course. And I wasn't particularly surprised by anything.

Hi! My first castle was a Tower. I chose a hero with the hypnosis specialty because I liked his appearance and the name of the specialty. Surprisingly, I won my first game because the difficulty was set to the easiest level. I remember my final battle. The computer captured my castle (there were only 2 castles on the map), and I ran to recapture it. The enemy was from Necropolis. Throughout the entire first game, I never used magic. I also remember that every day I bought new heroes and finished each day's turn with all of them, running them around the castle. This was because when I wanted to skip a turn without finishing the movement, a message appeared: "Your heroes have not finished their turns. Do you really want to end your turn?" This question bothered me and made me move them around for some reason. I'll write something else interesting if I remember it.

First castle?:) Well, considering that I don't even know their names properly and I only played this game once))) I'll say this: I recently played with Cunningham. I think it was a Haven castle. With angels and knights))) It seemed quite strong:)

My first favorites were Rampart and Inferno. The second ones were Castle, Stronghold, Fortress, and Dungeon. I don't like the rest and try not to play as them. The exception is Conflux; I like it, but I play with it rarely. Based on this, here's my ranking: 1. Rampart 2. Castle 3. Dungeon 4. Stronghold 5. Fortress 6. Inferno 7. Conflux 8. Tower 9. Necropolis - I just don't like it... it's not pretty, even though it's strong.

When I started playing, it was incredibly interesting to try out each faction. I preferred Tower and Necropolis (Necropolis later, after I found out it existed, lol :D).