Posts from The 8th stage of the annual John Van Caneghem Tournament (2008).

And thank you for the organization. It was a pleasure playing the map; I even have a desire to play it a 2nd time and try to glue 6 days together.

RESPECT! That's what should have been started with!!!!

With a slightly different generation of the starting save, it definitely would have worked, but with this one, it's very possible that it still wouldn't.

Hmm... and what was missing in this starting save? It seems there is even Dimension Door :)

Hmm... what was missing in this save that would have made it better?

If Dessa could quickly level up the Ranger without taking the 3rd-level Training skill, she would definitely start jumping on day 4, but as it is, there are only questions. After all, in terms of management, the skill is much more beneficial than clearing out neutral creatures, and there are fewer problems with snow later on. In short, to have everything as it is, but with some heroes having slightly different skill trees. But that's just a "what if" scenario.

Dirty Player
Day 4: Turis takes the Bonfire! This is the toughest moment, 6 ravens with the first move after all! When I tried this, I had Grindan, so the ravens cut half my army and made it combat-ineffective, but Turis, having tactics, can protect the snipers, and thanks to leadership, trigger their morale. BUT! All these reflections are only for vanilla SoD... I don't think this will be possible to implement with the patch

Shakti (with tactics) attacked the Bonfire... losses: 3 golems

Dirty Player
Days 5-6: We get Dimension Door, and then it's unclear... seems like troops are needed to open up the magic forest

The Fairies can also be easily defeated by golems

Dirty Player
Anyway, I don't know. Maybe Desse will simply run out of mp...

That is most likely.

Dirty Player
I didn't check this specific option solely because of the patch (It's hard to kill ravens, the computer, magic dragons)

Strange... it was precisely using the same distinct characteristics of the patch that I took out those characters you are talking about.

Hello everyone!

Kastyan, well done, congratulations on the victory!
Fireball is strong, but don't waste your resources!
Well, Vitaly and the rest of us can only applaud these brave guys!:smile12:
Of course, a big thank you to the host for the amazing map!:smile41:
I hope the next masterpiece won't be long in coming!

About my game:

The Walkthrough is very similar to Kostin's, but mine has 2 mistakes.

1st. I captured the Castle on the 3rd day, not the 2nd. I just couldn't do it in 2 days (3 squares left), although I felt that it was possible, so I thought that 8 days was the limit.
And the second one, I guess, is that I didn't get the Flight artifact or I just moved Dess with it stupidly.
As a result, a 2-day gap.

Brief Walkthrough:

Day 1. Roland stopped at point 17/7. I didn't take Pandora (the beginning of the mistake).

Day 2. Rylander joins Kent and defeats the devil.
Jelu takes the archers from the garrison and converts them. He gives them to Rylander and takes the artillery from him. And passes it on to Gretchen.
Gretchen developed to 15 attack to take 2 peasants. He takes the obelisk, the chest, the pot, and leaves.

Day 3. Capture the Castle, clear the area - full bank, conserve, redeem Gretchen - peasants. Dessa changes sandals and gets into the boat with Cyra.

Day 4. Obtain the boots and land in Normandy.

Day 5. The longest day.
Killing the phoenixes and snakes. Transferring 2 phoenixes to the ground and capturing 2 Inferno (Phoenixes and peasants are given to the guards)
Since I was messing around with Dessa, I stopped at point 19/31 (Here, I probably messed up the 2nd day too)

Day 6. While everyone was sleeping, 1 computer disappeared, and the other went to the blue one. Dessa finally takes the gate, jumps and runs to the purple tent. The rest are slowly mastering the territory (looting, raping, joining).

Day 7. Computers are defeated, castles are captured, Dessa conquered the first 2 distant mines.

Day 8. Dessa conquered 3 mines in the unknown desert. Roland appears, he is given the sandals, he exchanges them for experience, runs away from the orcs and redeems himself in the Inferno, runs through the purple gate to the altar.

Day 9. Dessa takes 2 distant mines, and all the artifacts are passed to Roland, who exchanges them for experience.
The end.

Although the saves are not needed by anyone, according to the rules, I will have to attach them. I will attach them a little later.

Bye everyone, see you soon!

The bonfire attacked Shakti (with tactics)... losses: 3 golems.

Vitaly, please describe the battle.

Fables can also be easily defeated by golems.

The problem with fighting fables is that if you only use golems, it seems like you can't win the battle, and even if you do, who will hold the line for the rest of the fight? And if you take someone other than golems, they'll all be shot down, and the army will become ineffective. I had one ice bolt hit a level 21 sniper right on the head :mad:

If describing the battle, then together with the tactical phase.

Read Dirty's walkthrough. How did I miss Dessa? :) Played as Ryland (the coolest diplomat on the map). He would have also received Expert Air if the Pandorki were without skill. Without Air, he just wasted MP. At the beginning of day 8, visited the stable and took Inferno. And then it started: no more than one Dimension Door. Too bad :) I don't remember why I didn't replay ;) Probably because I rushed and sent the save. It seems it's impossible to upgrade now.

Dirty, congratulations! I expected a winning result in about 10 days. Seven days, and with that much experience – that’s amazing! I only just got into the game on day seven. Applause!:smile12:

Good day to you all. Let's get started... I've reviewed all the save files, and everything seems fine. I didn't notice anything suspicious. Well, I thought, there's no need to rush in this matter; today (if I have time at work), I'll review them again and post the results. Below, I'm attaching all the save files; maybe someone will be interested in looking at other people's saves...

I hope the next masterpiece isn't far off!

That's true – it won't be far off. I already have an idea, and I've made some rough sketches on paper. All that's left is to find the time to transfer all of this to the map and test it. Well, I think it will be ready for the next 3v3 tournament. ;)
A brief overview of the map: the map will be the same size (or slightly larger if all the planned elements don't fit), just as intricate, with many quests, and it will be called "Devil's Spawn." And as always, it will be symmetrical, BUT with a completely different line of symmetry. ;)

Sincerely, K0Lb@zzeR.

Indeed, I forgot to thank the organizer for the brilliant map!
I'll offer some slight criticism. In my opinion, there are two inaccuracies: the placement of the boat (the dock turned out to be underdeveloped) and the altar (in reality, the second criterion made the evaluation subjective).
Otherwise, it's absolutely fantastic, chic, and unique!!! A lot of different quests on various themes, a new feature (thank you to the author - Dirty Player) with starting experience for heroes - adds tremendous variety to the choice of the latter, not too long, but requiring a certain level of skill battles, and an interesting task. In general, a lot of huge pluses.

Sincerely, Kamikaze!

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This is the second Heroes III tournament on the Morale and Luck patch.
The tournament was held from 10.20.08 to 11.22.08.
Tournament organizer - K0Lb@zzeR.
Tournament map and starting save - K0Lb@zzeR.
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