Posts from Discussion about Sylvan (Wood Elves).

More brutal? How so? It either works or it doesn't. :)

By the way, Elves can wipe out a decent chunk of an army in the first turn of a battle, which is also a plus.
And if a Knight trains Monks, for example, they can be made sworn enemies, which makes it less scary.
Only Demons, with their summoning ability, can compete in terms of troop numbers on large maps with undead.
But Runes are awesome :) especially with resurrection...

The more creatures in a unit, the more damage that unit will inflict, which means that if the Avenger's skill (+100% damage) triggers, we will get a significantly larger bonus.

For example, if a unit is small and deals 50 damage, with the Avenger, it will deal 100 (+50), if the damage is 2000, then with the Avenger it will be 4000 (+2000).

I have vague doubts about the Necropolis and Academy winning in a long game. And even Haven might not win.
The Elves had their Light improved, the Enchanter was strengthened, and they received a strong alternate upgrade for their creatures.
For example, against Haven:
1) You can invest in Chaos and get new druids.
2) It's no longer so easy to hide from the new dragon archers.
3) The new Lukari ignore 50% of defense, making it easier to take down tough enemy units.
4) There are many other things you can do.

In a battle with Necropolis, a lot will depend on luck, especially if the Necromancer goes into Dark Magic.

Academics haven't been dominant in long games in my experience. On small maps - yes, on medium maps - maybe, but on large maps - I don't remember that happening.

For Necropolis, Academy, and Haven, it's easier to "rush" Sylvan around week 3-4.

In my experience, Academies haven't been dominant in long games. On small maps, yes, and maybe on medium-sized maps, but I don't remember them being effective on large maps.

I think they're good even in long battles; they can accumulate enough knowledge and resources to provide their troops with minor artifacts. They themselves will gather a lot of artifacts. And their army isn't the weakest either.
Of course, it's hard to play against Elves, and a lot depends on luck. Mages go first and can destroy a lot of archers, or maybe the magic will be ineffective. It all depends on the artifacts and the level of play.

It would be interesting to see what happens if players convert all their monks into cavalry, and then the Elves recruit them as blood kin.
The cavalry would essentially consist of two units (the player and the monks).
Then, by recruiting one unit as blood kin, the player would effectively eliminate two units at once (both the cavalry and the monks).
I think this is a strong argument for the Elves against retraining humans. After all, there are still two blood kin slots available, one of which could be archers, who also partially include peasants, and the other could be armored units, which may include retrained archers.

Avenger
Now that’s truly evil. Although you probably won’t be able to retrain all monks into horses, it reminds me of a personal experience. I was playing against an elf on a medium-sized map with a metro, and by the end, I had 36 paladins, which the dancers (and there weren’t that many of them) wiped out with a single hit (luck + Cursed). Since then, I’ve tried to eliminate elves as quickly as possible, regardless of the race I’m playing.
As for warlocks, chaos + irresistible + sorcery, and by week 3 at the latest, the game is over.
For other races, against elves, machinists are the best; a 3-shot ballista will destroy most archers. But you need to attack as soon as possible. In ToE, the Cursed enemy ability has been enhanced, so you can’t let the elves have the chance to add half of our units to the Black List.

Interesting article: http://www.lki.ru/text.php?id=4465

Well, it's a decent overview of the faction for players who are already familiar with the world of Heroes of Might and Magic 5, but haven't seriously played as the Sylvan faction yet. A beginner will only get confused by this article, and an experienced player won't learn anything new.

The composition of the Elven Castle disappointed me; elves are physically weak creatures, endowed with keen eyesight, making them excellent archers, but here they are given swords as well... it's just strange. Where are the centaurs and dwarves?:(

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You forgot that elves are graceful and beautiful creatures. Drunken dwarves don't fit the style of the castle. I don't see the point in repeating the Fortress, and centaurs belong with the Barbarians.:smile19:

I want to talk about the "enmity" between elves and dwarves in Tolkien's works. Please, don't read the books by skipping lines! There was no real enmity between them. There were even times of strong friendship; for example, the elven ruler Findor agreed with the dwarves on the construction of his underground city, and later received a valuable gift from them. The Noldor often befriended and exchanged knowledge with the "children of the earth." And the famous Gates of Moria were built jointly, and to pass through them, it was enough to say "friend." But, of course, there were also disagreements: once, the dwarves attacked Menegroth and killed the elven king. But there was a good reason for this – Thingol (the elven king) refused to return something that belonged to the dwarves. But all of this cannot be called "eternal enmity." And the authors who read Tolkien added this "enmity" to their works, and they mostly judge based on the incident with Thorin. The elves of Mirkwood are quite suspicious, especially of dwarves living in underground cities. And so, stories began to spread about how the dwarves once cut down the elves' favorite grove, and since then, they have been at war for the fourth millennium. Sorry if this is off-topic, I just needed to clarify these points.

Hey, why do the upgraded archers have orange camouflage? Shouldn't it be used to camouflage them, not the opposite? Here's a picture to prove it.

Like hiding in autumn leaves. And not just in autumn leaves.

Listen, why do the upgraded archers have orange camouflage? It should be masking them, but it's doing the opposite. Here's a picture to prove it.

What's not clear here?=))) They're orange!!! That's how they hide=))) And the alts hide behind the alt-alts=))) Everything is balanced and understandable=)))

By the way, it's a cool idea to use Ents similarly to war elephants, with archers in the canopy and in the front. I can already picture the backs of the enemies. By the way, some people didn't like the dragons' appearance, so here are two more versions that, thankfully, didn't make it into the game. So, how do they look? And here, for comparison, is the one that made it in (far right). Which one is better?

OF COURSE, they could have made the one on the far right even more annoying, so that they poison for 3 turns – that would be great! And instead of dancing figures, they could have added some leprechauns that change luck.

The beta version is worse.