Posts from Reports on victories and defeats in online games of Heroes of Might and Magic V.

We were practicing before the tournament.
Ment(Necropolis, Kaspar) def JonnyP (Academy, Ora)
During the game, we determined: the "smile" build, medium difficulty, you can see the factions. The map was a bit poor, but not catastrophically so. There were no mines (other than wood and ore) not only in the starting zone but also in the adjacent one. There seemed to be enough artifacts (except for the dragon mantle appearing repeatedly). I start the game: Zoltán appears, Kaspar and Orson are in the tavern (well, I think I'm lucky). I immediately made some mistakes: in the first week, I underestimated the pikemen and goblins and lost. I bought a hero, somehow restored the army (added zombies from the city and dwellings, found Razzak in the dungeon, added golems). In the second week, I captured the crypt, went to the bears with the elemental belt, and discovered that the auto-battle in the crypt drained all my mana :( I asked my opponent to reload, and he agreed, so thank you very much. After that, everything went smoothly: I was a little more careful and didn't rush, but I advanced steadily, and the skills were great. Money came in partly from the treasuries, partly from the large bag of gold, and partly from the built-up capital. I captured the dwarf castle, and the income increased even more, plus there was an opportunity for conversion (who said that bone golems are useless fighters? ;)). The only problem was with mercury: even at the end of the game, my dragons weren't upgraded; I upgraded the undead in the fortress.
I was walking around one of the zones and saw Ora in a zone adjacent to the dwarf zone. Leaving the gem mine and a potential castle nearby, I made a portal to the city, bought some things, and went on the attack (before that, I ran into the artifact shop in the opponent's zone, bought dragon boots and a ring of speed, and the opponent took a ring of misfortune in that time). Jonny was in a financial crisis, so his army wasn't complete. After a short battle, he fled. I activated the chain and chased after him. When I caught up, the opponent was already waiting in the castle and seemed to have bought everything (or almost everything). I spent a turn waiting for Daedra with the rest of my army, and then he attacked. My army was larger, and the stats were also good (Jonny somehow had poor attack and defense, he seemed to be uneducated and without artifacts). Nevertheless, in the battle, I had to get a little nervous: the opponent, as it turned out, had a tome of darkness, expert magic of light, expert magic of darkness, and Sandro's cloak! He was quite effectively controlling the zombies, skeletons (of which there were few left), and even the phoenixes that I was summoning (plus berserk). The ring of misfortune also didn't work very well; many strong attacks were wasted. But still, I had a lot of ghosts and vampires, so the battle was decided in my favor.
I think we both gained good experience. Thank you for the game!

HoM[M]ie (Academy, Jalib) defeated JonnyP (Haven, Dugal) - "Sun" map 3.2.7

I started with Hafiz and Jalib; I decided to make the latter the defender of the homeland, but Hafiz probably has more potential in TE. Gargoyle and Golem dwellings were in the home land; the opponent seemingly had archers, but I didn't notice it in time and decided to play with that layout. I reached the lands with mines without any problems and seized them all for myself, then teleported through the outpost with Earls into the gloomy lands with a gold mine, which meant Jalib had to rely only on himself since the reinforcement path was cut off. But the hero didn't despair, for with machines and fire arrows he was very self-sufficient! I was glad when I found a native gremlin dwelling in this wilderness. However, I skipped the gold mine and ran to the portal, which led me to the demon castle — a secondary site located in the desert with another native dwelling — gargoyles. Meanwhile, I tried to open a second front in the adjacent zone with Hafiz, but he had bad luck with skills, so I decided to take Nazir as the second hero — to outsmart the knight. Nazir turned out to be almost the most pleasant part of the game: Chaos magic with pyrokinesis, a lucky wizard, and spellcasting power up to 20 accumulated later including artifacts. Nazir went through the adjacent land with fire and sword (or rather, only fire) and broke through to the second gold-bearing zone, into which Jalib immediately popped out from another portal. Here the guys discovered the advance detachments of Haven; Nazir joined his squad of battle mages with Jalib's thunderbirds and gremlins, and the latter drove the restless Rutger away from the new frontiers. Hafiz later went on a reconnaissance mission along the enemy's retreat path, but didn't venture too far, as he provided a decent income to the treasury. Meanwhile, Jalib rushed home to learn spells and break into the treasure room, and Nazir went to the secondary site, where the mages guild was being actively built up. Then he headed to the gold-bearing zone hastily scouted by Jalib, finally found that mine, developed to level 20, and moved toward the home lands; in short, he retraced Jalib's path in reverse. Jalib, meanwhile, having lost 10 (!) thunderbirds to the annoying guards (24 phoenixes and 230 dark lizards), was fighting off everything he could in the treasure room. Such a loss was depressing, of course, but it was comforting that he built the level 7 dwelling in the 2nd week, and he hoped greatly for the "tricksters." He didn't gain much in the treasure room; he took the utopia — nothing interesting, one Silanna tree, a couple of artifacts. The best things were guarded by dangerous neutrals. Also, he wasn't happy with his skill build — he wanted to trade machines for Light magic and finish learning defense, so he hoped to visit the mini-treasure room, thinking there might be a mentor there. But then Dugal galloped into the treasure room; however, seeing me, he teleported back home, which nonetheless prevented me from putting my plans into action, because soon Dugal gathered all his forces and waged war on my lands. Jalib frantically started crafting mini-artifacts, for which resources were always lacking, but in the end, it turned out decent. The Lords of Fire and Cold — Nazir (Phoenix cloak, elemental gargoyles) and Ibba (level 10, Deadly Cold, Ice Embrace pendant) — went to give Dugal a warm and cold welcome. They killed a total of 10 knights and 23 griffins. But I lost these heroes too: I forgot to buy back Ibba, and Dugal managed to finish off Nazir. And so Dugal reached the walls of the castle, where the cowardly Jalib sat huddled, unwilling to come out until new growth. I was sure Johnny would win, as his combat stats were much higher, but Jalib had more troops, which he promptly covered entirely with heavenly shields (Lion's Courage set + Wizard's Mark). In the end, the victory was quite easy, which surprised me greatly. We played again in the open field, but the result was the same. Apparently, it mattered that the mages controlled all the gold mines, meaning the knights had financial problems. And Johnny's losses were also significant.
Thanks for the game!

JonnyP (Ravenna, Necropolis) defeated Leo_Snow (Sinitar, Dungeon) chaos 241
2 external dwellings of tier 3, portals weren't great - dwarven priests and assassins, but doable. At the start almost lost, lacked gold and wood, but I managed to survive somehow :D
Cleared adjacent zones, bought more army and went into the treasure zone in the second month. There I 'fattened up', skipped half the 'goodies' and rushed home (basically wasn't in a hurry anyway, there are external dwellings left, opponent was ahead in stats (Sorcery at around 40)). Ran to Blue through the second treasure zone (oh so long and annoying), through the secondary hero to the castle, that's where we met...
P/S: Leo_Snow was playing TE+IRMG for the first time, so no surprise. :)
thanks for the game

KillAndAction(Dwarves, Inga) lost Lion_Heart(Orcs, Garuna) - Heroes of Might and Magic III 2 1 2

Staffa (Academy, Джалиб) lost to KillAndAction (Necropolis, Каспар) on Spiral, 1-4-7.
On the 1st map, the opponent took a rest, and on the 2nd, they started playing.
They didn't give me Logu, but they did give me Enchantment, Summoning, and Defense. I was stalled for 2 weeks. On the third map, I emerged with a resource advantage and wanted to go for a mini-treasury on the 4th, but seeing the opponent, I decided to retreat to the town to gain resources. The final battle took place in the resource area.
Thanks for the game!