What was your first castle in Heroes 3? Auto-translated

I had the first Castle. Back then, I just got a Pentium 2. We started playing, and everything was fine; we were killing neutral creatures, and we didn't even realize what was going on. But then I came across neutral creatures that could shoot (evil eyes), and before that, I was just lucky, and all the non-shooting ones appeared. But then those ones made us lose! There was also an Underground passage. The game was 1v1. So, in the middle of the map, there was a Border Guard. We visited the tent and got as many as 3 Angels! We opened the passage, and then a lord jumped out from there, and he had 10 Black Dragons! He completely crushed us!))) And the funniest thing was that on the first day of the game, I spent all my money on heroes because I didn't know that I needed to reload the turns (I was 7 years old) and thought that the hero was no longer usable... But in general, since then, I've been a fan of the third game, even though I've played all the parts of Heroes, Disciples, and Warcraft; I still come back to the third game!!!

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And the first hero, and still my favorite from that Castle, is Valeska, with her archers specialization

Oh, I remember even playing on a single-core processor at my brother's place on Windows 98 – I blindly launched the "Brave New World" map and went with harpies (again, blindly) against the gremlin archers :D

I first played Heroes of Might and Magic, and naturally, the first faction I chose was Barbarians (my favorite), followed by Knights. The version was a pirated one with all the heroes, so Elemental Lords and Clash of Dragons didn't work, and neither did The Succession Wars or Armageddon's Blade:), not to mention the rest.

My first experience playing Heroes was utterly wild. I didn't find the tutorial among the menus back then :) and bravely dove straight into the single-player scenarios (moreover, I didn't quite understand why they were called "single-player scenarios" or what that even meant). I played on the map set as the first default — "One for All." The version of the game was "The Restoration of Erathia," the very first one, and in the English edition. I was immediately struck by the music and the magnificence of the landscapes. All those piles of treasure, all the colorful magic with fairies, witch huts, leprechauns... I was simply stunned. The only thing that bothered me was the cardboard horse that seemed glued to my cursor. I figured out that it represented the turn. I clicked around. Collected a couple of piles of something sparkling. And then came the crash — a little number "2" appeared under the horse, and I couldn't move anywhere. I had to start the game over)))) Well, I started over. I was a very patient child :D
I figured out how to end the turn. I entered a town and spent a long time admiring the creatures in awe. It was a Tower (at the time, it didn't bother me at all that it sat on a snowy mountain right in the middle of a green meadow). I hired a hero—I don't remember which one—gathered some gargoyles, and attacked the nearest group of elves. For a long time, I thought elves were very tough guys because I only managed to wipe them out on my tenth attempt. Every time, I hired a new hero and sent him along with the starting army to crush those wretched elves)))) Eventually, I defeated them and was very happy. I stumbled upon another Tower nearby (this one had no Fort, so I decided I had encountered a completely different kind of building). I took it using my uber-tactic of endless hero hiring :) :) :) Then I conquered the nearby lands and decided to head for new places. But the exit "outwards" was guarded by a company of a couple dozen Black Knights. I continued hiring heroes and sending them in bunches against the Black Knights. The heroes died stupidly, causing practically no losses to the enemy. I felt a shortage of money. I poked around at unfamiliar keys in combat mode and discovered the auto-battle function. Since I was already quite tired of this hellish meat grinder with the knights, I would hire a new hero, set auto-battle, and go do my own things. I repeated this about twenty times. And then the month of the Rukh birds was announced, and I saw a flock of cute white birds near the exits of both my castles. That's where my "hero stream" came to an end — everyone was shredded the moment they stepped out of the castle. This wasn't the first time I'd encountered a computer player, but at first, I didn't even know they existed)))
Then I started trying to play this map again and again. The town there was random, so very soon I knew all the town types and all the possible hero faces perfectly. Around the fourth town, it dawned on me that I needed to build creature dwellings and stay quietly at home. The epiphany was so bright that I didn't go anywhere at all. I captured one resource mine of each type and sat there, obsessing over my precious creatures. I loved the Castle the most for its angels and crusaders. But by the end of the second month, I hit a major snag — a mean computer arrived and took my castle right off the bat :)))))) It was very frustrating. I decided to play with the scariest-looking creatures. I played as Inferno a few times, but no noticeable results appeared. Finally, after about a week, I found the tutorial scenario and won for the first time))))) And then everything went like clockwork — one map, another, mastering all the races one by one... then for the first time, I learned the power of Town Portal, Fly, and Dimension Door with expert magic... and I became completely hooked on Heroes. Interestingly, the first time I managed to play against a human was around 2003, when I had already abandoned Heroes for a while. Actually, I have no one to play with now either :D And the computers became boring about five years ago, and I've also grown a bit tired of crafting maps for myself.
P.S.: If anyone wants to play online, I'm always up for it :smile13:
It's also been a long time since I've played a 3-player game with humans, about a year and a half. This isn't right, otherwise I'll lose all my practice))) So save me, even if you have to beat me down)))

I played it for the first time around 2000. I remember going to my brother's place, and we decided to play some game together. Since I didn't know how to play turn-based strategy games at all back then, I only remember the Dungeon faction and how I lost to them the first time.

the very first castle was the Rampart. I liked it, and I considered it the best. But then I saw the Dungeon, or rather, captured it, and realized that this castle was the one for me.

It was a long time ago, and my memories of the first games in Heroes of Might and Magic III are a bit jumbled, but I remember the Castle...
As far as I recall, it was Inferno. There was nothing like it in the second game, so I immediately became interested and played as it for a long time afterward.

My first game was Heroes Chronicles: The Last Stand.
Naturally, I started playing from the beginning, so the first castle was the Swamp Fortress. =)
I don't remember the gameplay very well. I only remember that I completed both missions, and since then, I've been running around shops looking for the remaining parts of the game like crazy. :)
I even read all the dialogues and followed the storyline. %))
That was in 2003...

Of course, Necropolis! Necropolis is always stronger than everyone else!!!

My first castle was Inferno. I remember how I tried to take a Lich lair. I surrounded the Magogs with my troops from all sides, not realizing that this would only benefit the Liches. I did manage to take the lair, although with huge losses. Before that, I had some experience playing Heroes 2. I was surprised that all creatures could be upgraded. Now I almost always play as Stronghold.

The first castle was either the Swamp or the Conflux; my experience with the game was minimal, and it was only thanks to Heroes of Might and Magic II that I even started playing. But at six years old, I couldn't play properly. When playing as the Conflux, I always tried to build Elven Archers because I liked their appearance. Something similar happened with the Lizardmen from the Swamp and the Knights from the Necropolis. I played terribly. Now I only play In the Wake of Gods occasionally, and I usually play as the Necropolis, less often as the Dungeon.

I started playing the campaign with Jelu for the first time. Everything was going well until I reached the dungeon in the underground, where I failed during the siege. At that time, I hadn't saved the game even once (I somehow forgot about it) and didn't know about autosave either, so I had to start over.

I thought everyone had Castle as their first town, but I was wrong =)

The first time I saw three heroes, I was watching someone else play, and it was Inferno (everyone liked it back then because it looked cool).
But I played for the first time as Tower, and my first victory came with Dungeon.

The first time I launched the game, it was just out of boredom. It was called something like "Fire and Sword," and I remember a Necropolis being generated. I only played for two minutes then and didn't launch it again for several years. I never really played any games besides chess. Then, I watched a friend play once, but I didn't understand anything. Later, I launched the game a few times myself, but I would quit after two minutes because I couldn't figure it out. The first time I really got into the game, I played as Dungeon, and from that moment, I spent almost weeks playing it non-stop. I don't even know how I passed my final exams back then...