Posts from FirstBlood 2.4

Basically, I'm on vacation starting May 11, and I'll have a bit of extra cash), and for some reason, I feel like playing Heroes 3 again, specifically this map. I've already completed it once to the maximum, and now I want to improve my result even further. And I'd like to see how other people play :)

Therefore, I want to organize an offline tournament for this map!
You can Download it via the link.

Basically, to make playing this map more interesting, I'll create a prize pool of
100$ ... the amount is purely symbolic to spark interest!

Money transfers will be made only to moneybookers.com accounts.

The contest begins on May 11, 2012
Ends June 11, 2012.
(plus 1 day for reviewing saves and paying the winners)

The goal of the contest is to complete the map as quickly as possible; whoever is fastest wins. You can do whatever you want—reload, use any programs you like, THE MAIN THING is no cheats or bugs

Daily save
it's preferable for the save names to be convenient.
Record them like day1.GM1 da2.GM1 etc...
And highlight 3 main dates
( 2nd month, name it 2month.gm1)
battle with sandro, name it Sandro.gm1
battle with victorius, name it Victorius.gm1

Archive the saves into one archive and send them to email icetitan@mail.com

Good luck to everyone and an interesting Walkthrough of this map.

P.s if you like the contest, I'll organize such contests more often with larger prizes.
P.sss /topic/at/569403/
write there who will participate.

If needed, I can send the save file and the map. I don't know how to attach them here (maybe you can explain?).

It's essential to include it in the first post so people know what they're dealing with.
To attach it, you need to pack it into a zip archive (not rar) and attach it to the post using the "manage attachments" option in the message sending/editing menu.

Regarding the map. I think it can be completed in 3 months. If it weren't necessary to build an Inferno from scratch on swampy land, it could have been done a week or two faster. I didn't finish the map myself because I don't have time. I only cleared 4000 water elementals on the 15th day (the first day of the third week), then I made a plan, and after that, I lost interest. If I ever have an irresistible urge to play again, I'll finish it eventually...

Yes, indeed, killing 4000 units in the 3rd week is quite impressive :smile07:
But it won't be possible to complete it in 3 months anyway. Because the red (last battle) has a fixed army and is given at the beginning of the map.
I've added a save file for this battle. You can take a look.
Experts say it can be completed in 5 months.
Okay! Whoever completes it in 5 months and posts a save file with a review will get $10 from me :D

Okay, whoever finishes the game within 5 months and posts a save file with a review will get $10 from me :D

I'd need to install Heroes and start playing, but I'm just missing one letter 'k' after the zero :D

I suspect that even adding the letter "m" after the zero won't help. This map simply cannot be completed in 3 months. IMHO.

How did you manage to win with that army? I couldn't do it.

It's a secret :) but with this army, he's 100% guaranteed to be defeated. Try to figure it out.
If you can't, write to me in a private message.

It's a secret :) but with this army, he's definitely defeated. Try to figure it out.
If you can't, write to me in a private message.

Who are you talking about?)))

Who is he?)))

I didn't understand either. The purple one is defeated in 0 rounds in 4 turns, even without changing artifacts (by the way, identical artifacts don't work, and the captain's hat can be replaced with a teapot before the battle).

actually, it's not purple, but red. There's a file called Final batle in the archive.
In Last batle, even a 3-year-old could defeat him.

Let everyone know – let’s play.

To be honest, I didn't quite understand what the difficulty was in the Final Battle from the save. Without much hesitation, I defeated the red enemy on the 3rd attempt, and there are still 1149 archangels left. I guess I got lucky, as the archangels were demoralized on the 1st turn.

I suspect that even adding the letter "m" after the zero won't help. This map can't be completed in 3 months. IMHO.

This is easy to verify.

Create a thread here: http://www.heroesportal.net/tavern/?forumid=52 with your proposal. Describe all the conditions in great detail, what can be used when completing the map and what cannot.

For example, the task is to complete the map within 347 turns. And the prize fund is $1000, if you're not afraid and are so sure that it can't be done.

And skilled players will be found :)

if you're not afraid and are already so confident

Hmm, how to put it so as not to offend. In Russian, the verb "to suspect" carries a slightly different semantic nuance, doesn't it? Did I write anywhere that I am SURE of my words?

How do you even beat this map?
I've been playing Heroes since 2000. I've completed everything possible on impossible difficulty. All the most difficult maps.
But I always abandon this one around the 3rd month because a purple Necromancer with a huge army shows up.
You can, of course, hide in monasteries, retaking your castles. But he has Flight, Dimension Door, and Town Portal. By the time you take back one, he's taken three. He becomes even stronger, and you're stuck in a miserable existence in a monastery.

Please tell me, step by step, how you beat this map.
Even better, post a walkthrough as described in the first post of the thread.

I find it hard to believe that this map can be beaten (specifically VERSION 2.4!!!)
Maybe we're talking about something else?