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Let's continue the discussion. Another game as Barbarians.
Starting view:


End of the first day. The first hero, Vey, rushes upwards, as shown before. Gretchin takes the bird nest and decides to explore the paths.


We run along the dirt road to the edge of the map. There, we randomly find a Pandora box.


And here's an interesting moment.

The Pandora box is guarded by 50-99 water elementals. The Pandora box is good; theoretically, it can contain: Simple Ogres, Armored Ogres, 10k experience, 10k gold, Magic level 3, Magic level 4. If there are native zones, there may be Orcs and possibly wolves. It's a bit scary to go into the SOD against the water elementals because if there's an armored stack, it's likely a loss with no chance. If there are no armored units, the battle is still not easy, and there will likely be very large losses. Let's think, is such a risk worth it for this Pandora box? Question: What's in the black box? (© What? Where? When?). The correct answer: 45 Orcs.
P.S. On this turn, Clavius was bought, but he didn't go down the road.

And here's another question. Why might we need 45 Orcs? The answer is in the screenshot.

Two dwarf mines, 20+15, allow us to place bears in the Castle. What would happen if there were 10k experience or an empty Pandora box?

Of course, overall, the game is acceptable, but personally, I'm most worried about the question: why did Vey run upwards and not along one of the two roads.

Regarding the Warlock's move on the first turn:

He stepped on the magic guild or the cell below (it doesn't change anything) - he sees a block of Ogres. Then he goes to check the rough terrain at the top, even though there is nothing there, only a chest two moves away and two resource piles, which could have been taken faster if he went in the left direction. And it would have been more rational, from a map hack perspective, to take 2 gold piles from below, and another pile with the Miner, and buy a fourth hero.
This case, on the contrary, shows that I am NOT using a map hack, lol.

If I'm playing poorly, a series of streams will save me, as it will become obvious that I'm playing very badly.

In reality, Vey moved 2 squares to the right; she didn't see the block, but simply rushed upwards along the shortest distance. This has been verified.

I'll be glad if we're wrong, and I'll publicly apologize.

How did you check it?

And again, from the perspective of Maphack, this is absolutely not rational.

The block was spotted from above. Verified by reviewing the turn; what else could be done?

Added 15 minutes later

From a mapmaker's perspective, the move is very rational. Later, Vey will gather ore, without which he cannot build bears.

Will there be saves from other games?

It's more efficient to gather gold from the bottom and send the fourth hero upwards.

That's why the question arises: why doesn't the first hero go down the road? I'm sure 99% of players would go right, see the Ogres, and then run down the road. Who would play differently?

If I start to struggle, a series of streams will save me, as it will become obvious that I'm playing quite badly.

Seriously, don't you understand? We're talking about cracking password-protected save files.
Wouldn't it also be interesting to try and find a vulnerability in the HD+ protection?

Well, you're giving yourself too much credit.))
Judging by the screenshots, you play like a newbie who's incredibly lucky.
You can nitpick about anything, but first and foremost, about the quality of the game.
If you only look at Dirty's gameplay, it seems like someone who doesn't know how to play just finds what they need at the moment to build up, and grabs all sorts of bonuses.

If you were really playing not bad, you would at least clear out the Pandora's Guard first, instead of rushing Grechin across the experience stones.
It's a rather dubious idea to get 2k experience, only to then encounter an impenetrable guard; that's one thing.
I won't even mention the dungeon behind the demons – why not take it instead of getting 2k experience?
Clear out the Pandora's Guard, get a hero, explore the area?
Again, this "unconventional" thinking only suggests that the person is playing with a revealed map, and that's really not bad for winning.

Besides hacking save files, there's another way to reveal the map: by simulating its generation based on the seed specified in the description. Technically, this is quite feasible, and I did it when I was looking for a bug in the program for calculating guards, and I think it's easier than hacking encrypted save files. But it's still quite a hassle and requires special skills and knowledge. If a person can (and wants) really do this for cheating, then I think they can find a way to bypass any reasonable protection.