Posts from The ninth stage of the annual John Van Caneghem tournament.

1. To participate in the 9th stage of the Van Canigem tournament for Heroes 4 «The Frozen General», you must register on our website and leave a request in this thread.

This tournament is official; ratings will be awarded based on its results.

2. The tournament is held on version 3.51 of Heroes 4: "Equilibris". The save will be generated using the Russian version.

3. The goal of the game is to defeat the enemy.

The result will be evaluated, first and foremost, by the minimum number of days.
If several players have an equal completion time, the winner will be determined by the number of ice demons under the player's command; if a favorite is still not determined, then by the amount of mercury.

4. Tournament Rules.

1) The use of cheat codes during the final walkthrough of the save is prohibited.
2) Restarting or any other modification of the initial save is prohibited.

3) Use of the space bar.

3.1) Use of the "space" key is PROHIBITED when boarding a boat.
3.2) Use of the "space" key is PROHIBITED when disembarking from a boat to shore.
3.3) Use of the "space" key is ALLOWED when pulling a killed hero (grave) out from under monsters.

4) Bugs - SaveBag

4.1. Shifting monsters using saving is PROHIBITED.
4.2. Additional hero upgrades related to saving are PROHIBITED.
4.3. 65000 arrows for Elves using saving in battle is PROHIBITED.

5) Bugs - SinglBag

5.1. Overcoming obstacles on land, i.e., when dragging units with the mouse from upper slots to lower ones, they end up, for example, behind bushes that are normally impassable (the player does nothing prohibited and uses the mouse; during this operation, units lose some of their movement).
ALLOWED.

5.2. Overcoming obstacles when disembarking from a boat to shore, i.e., landing on shore without an indication that landing is possible (the anchor is not visible on the shore); again, this is done using the mouse, and units' movement points are reset (space is obviously prohibited - see point 2).
ALLOWED.

5.3. Upgrading hero graves with a Thief. Upgrading hero graves with a Grandmaster of Stealth.

PURPOSEFUL upgrading of a grave in this manner is PROHIBITED.

NON-PURPOSEFUL upgrading of a grave in this manner is ALLOWED.
You must provide a reasoned explanation as to why you were forced to accidentally upgrade the grave and why it was impossible to avoid.

5.4. Upgrading graves with ordinary units on attack, defense, or speed crystals (sapphires) in battle, or increasing magic points.
PROHIBITED.

5.5. Upgrading graves with ordinary units in military schools, universities, huts, academies, etc.
PROHIBITED.

5.6. Units carrying a grave are allowed to visit stables, oases, wells, and other objects that increase movement points.
Therefore, EVEN PURPOSEFUL transport of the grave through these objects is ALLOWED.

5.7. Use of a hero's spellbook by the hero grave on the adventure map.
PROHIBITED.

6. The use of "completely Closed external dwellings" on the battlefield is prohibited.
(I will explain in more detail for those who do not understand: I consider a "Closed external dwelling" to be a COMPLETELY enclosed area, for example by rocks or logs, which contains
a small island for a unit, such as a fairy, harpy, vampire, etc.
That is, a place that cannot be entered on land by a unit of the smallest
size (3x3) and can only be reached by air—a kind of natural fortress. Having such an external dwelling allows one fairy to beat back a hundred Black Dragons and win an impossible battle; to prevent such situations, I prohibit "Closed external dwellings" in this tournament.)

A "Not-closed external dwelling," or more accurately a semi-open one, is allowed in this tournament.
By a semi-open external dwelling, I mean a place where a unit or Hero can
Enter on foot, and the attacking monsters, regardless of their size, must be able to reach the Hero or unit to strike them (the point of a Semi-open external dwelling is to limit the number of monsters attacking you simultaneously). Besides, it's not proper for a Hero to hide in an external dwelling while the enemies are wasting themselves on whatever. Our Heroes fight with open visors.

7. Using any other errors (bugs) is prohibited!

8. Discussion of the tournament on the forum during its progress is PROHIBITED!!!
(Players who violate this rule automatically disqualify themselves from playing in the tournament; their results will not be counted and will be annulled).

9. During the tournament, the player is required to save intermediate saves for each game day if their completion takes less than one game month.
Intermediate saves may be requested by the tournament leader to verify the honesty of the walkthrough. If the use of cheat codes or errors and game features explicitly prohibited in the rules are detected, the player will be immediately excluded from the tournament.
It is also necessary to make saves of controversial battles (such as a hero and fairy against 100 dragons) so that the fairness of the victory in the clash can be verified.

10. Along with the final save, players must send a description of the map walkthrough indicating the starting bonus they took, as well as a description of complex battles (by default, those against enemy heroes). If the outcome of the battle depends on luck/morale rolls, this should definitely be reflected in the description to avoid questions about the impossibility of repeating the battle you conducted.

11. Send the final save to the email address Zybr1@mail.ru. The sent save must contain the participant's number from the application table, the abbreviation TFG («The Frozen General»), and the player's Nick. Example: 1_TFG _Zybr.h4s.

12. The tournament starts on October 20 and will last until November 15 (inclusive!). Preliminary results will likely be announced on the same day or the next, and final results another 1-2 days later.

13. After receiving your save, you will see in the application table that:

the save is accepted - indicated by a Bold Nick

This list may be expanded by new participants!
I invite everyone to take part in the tournament!

Saves will only be considered from players who are in this table, so make your requests IN ADVANCE!!!

PARTICIPANT LIST
NUMBER	PLAYER NICK
1	BigAke
2	Lee
3	Skuns
4	Alexsander13
5
6
7

Everything about the starting save

1. Download the save.

2. The downloaded save must be placed on your computer in the GAMES folder of the installed Heroes 4.

3. Load it and start playing at any time convenient for you, while remembering to make daily saves.

4. After reaching the final action (after which victory occurs), save again.

5. Send this save to the specified address (in the rules of this tournament).

6. Wait for the results.

P.S. I wish all tournament participants a great time playing!!! And good luck:smile02:

Please add me to the list of tournament participants:smile19:

I couldn't manage to launch and view the files. Second attempt... will be in the evening.
If I like the map, I will participate anyway, even though I finished with the World Championship :)

I opened it :) Only not with the tournament version, but with the regular version... h4mod

I opened it. But it's not the tournament version, it's the regular one... h4mod

I don't think I said that version 3.51 TE was needed.

I'll make a note, just in case, if I suddenly manage to finish it:smile04:

I'll sign up just in case, maybe I'll make it to the end:smile04:

If no one scares me off.

Very funny :) it turns out it's not scary at all...
I didn't understand the map author... - having a green teleport is good, having a ford is good, but the fact that you can't get to the island with 2 Haven cities is bad.
From the island with the 3rd Haven city, if you go through the gate, you can't get into the boat... that is, you can buy it, but you can't get in, the boat station itself prevents it..
You can take the book of Haven magic first and then fight the goblin knights, which is cool, but it's not important anymore.
And the fantastic ending: "Hold your cities for another 3 days" - everyone loves that...
Anyway, I finished it, I'll try to manage without the 3 days, if I can... I can probably send what I have :smile02:

You can't reach the island where there are 2 towns; Life is bad.

Everything is possible…

From the island where the 3rd town of Life is located, you cannot board a boat after passing through the gates.

Yeah, here there really is a bug: in Heroes 4, you can’t move diagonally.

A spectacular ending – hold your cities for another 3 days.

Well, consider the fact that some guards are taken under a flag to fix their number :)

You can take the Book of Magic of Order first and then fight goblins with knights; it's cool.

Yes, indeed :) The goblins are fixed by the campfire ;)

P.S. It’s better to write about various things, like the book incident, in a private message.

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By the way,

On the island where the 3rd town is located, if you can't pass through the gates, you can't get into the boat.

If you need to get to the Barbarians, there is an alternative route.

I've sent the save file. Please confirm receipt. :smile17:

Save file received. Thank you for participating.

we’ll play together:smile34:

we'll be two:smile34:

Traditionally, the strongest players submit their save files last, on the final day...
Let's hope our competition will be more diverse:smile08:

Okay, okay :) There's already progress :) Two is more than one))

Lee, did you send the save file or just decided to chat?:) I haven't received anything...

From: Liventsev EE To: Zybr1@mail.ru Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:37:17 +0300 Subject: I sent the save file Here, I repeated the email from October 30... this is the file... 2_TFG_Lee.h4s... and it's unchanged... if you're interested... I can't sit down and improve it right now.