Posts from Игры HoMM3 for fun

04/08/2015 Kalcefar (red, Inferno, Karl, Clavius) def ebanaizer (blue, Fortress, Valeska, Mephala) 2SM4d(3) 132.

Dandy (Red, Ramp, Kyrr, Kyrr) def Kalcefar (Blue, Wharf, Kasiopeia, Gundula) JC 135.
A normal surrender. 2 Griffin Conservatories, 3 Dragon Fly Hives, a Zephyr (later found another one very far away). But I only made it to 131, and on 132 I already clashed with the opponent. DAMN RESISTANCE!!!!!! reflected the Angel explosion, and the opponent outlasted me. Bought myself out and came back with 4 Gold Dragons and covered it with an Armageddon :)
Thanks for the game.

For some reason, there is still no Cove thread in the season topic, so I'm writing about playing Cove in HotA here (for Fire's qualification, actually).

=Lizard= (Cove, Lina, Dessa) def FireToSky (Cove, Jeremy, Jeremy) 123, 8mm6a

We played a double spawn layout for both of us. Dessa came out first in my main and leveled up great: Armor, Offense, Air. Lots of money at the respawn and a pirate external dwelling. The computer neighbor was very far away, but Dessa got there on his last moves at 121 and captured the growth. Although the growth wasn't great — the computer only built 1,2,4 in the citadel. At home on week 1: 1,2,3,4,6 in the castle. At 122, at the computer's respawn, I beat Boots of Speed for 30+ Gorgons (they were also guarding a Horseshoe of Misfortune and some resource). I rushed home, the chain was well placed. I was planning to take the Consul 3-4 via the chain, 2 beehives, and the Scarlet Tower in the bushes — using specially leveled Lina (with Expert Scouting) and Clancy (with Advanced Scouting). But Ivan fought extremely poorly at the Experience Workshop against 150 Golems and capitulated. Thanks for the game!

08.04.2015 Izgoy (red, Castle, Caitlin, Turis) def Superseb (blue, Conflux, random, Moner) jebus cross 131.
Everything is very poor near the starting castle! But there were two roads and I chose all restarts. Everything felt kind of dull until I saw the first angel external dwelling on 115, and next to it another 2 angel external dwellings + a level 2 conservatory. As a result, by 121, the growth in the castle was 5 angels! Again, I decided not to rush into the treasure zone. Dragon Utopias are available, angels can be upgraded to archangels as they grow. But by the end of the second week, I realized that even with 2 Dragon Utopias, it wouldn't be possible to upgrade up to 20 angels. I decided to simply do a full buy-out on 131 — ended up with 22 angels and some meat. While entering the treasure zone, I decided to save the meat for a good push with the stack. Something like 20 angels. And I almost paid for it... The opponent attacked the stack with all their might. It was a brutal beating of my angels, whom I hadn't even split yet. What probably saved me was that the op didn't make ones, as he took all the meat there was, and used that meat to soak up the retaliation from the angels... Thereby making it easier for me to kill his army. Thanks for the game.

07.04.2015 liverpool (Blue, Cove, Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia) def TwinkieThecake (Red, Cove, Annabelle, Annabelle) 8mm6a 117 (HotA)

We took all the restarts, and in the end, only one path to the portal leading to the dungeon remained. In the dungeon, there was another portal leading to a neighboring zone (the passage on the other side was guarded by a group of greater demons), a lift leading to the treasure room, and a path blocked by a lot of wasps (guarding the "marshmallow" and an artifact that reduces morale). The path to the computer was, as it turned out, through rough terrain, so I had to spend a couple of days traveling to it. On turn 117, I decided to take the computer's town, but it built a castle, and its army consisted of pirates and single nymphs, so I got beaten up. Thanks for the game!

Fill-ua (Castle, Edric, Adela) wins Mukti (Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 115 JC
On 111 Adela from prison at lvl 5. Then on 112 Griffin Conservatory for 1 unit. And then everything went on autopilot, so much so that it made me sick. The build order would have been 1-2-4-5-7 without Citadel.

Mukti (Fortress, Westan, Salmir) def Fill-ua (Conflux, random, Ciele, Ciele) 116 JC
In the starting box, I got 80 gnolls on the second day, then I took a hydra lair, and I needed to take the second one and build houses. One of the villages was my home base, but I didn't have time to build it.

07.04.2015 WiZarDX_576 (red, Cove, Dargem, Gundula) def Huanito (blue, Cove, Manfred, Crag Hack) mini nostalgia 124 (HotA)

Had nixa dwell in starting area guarded by 36 basilisk.In week1 took castle AI,nixa dwell.On 121 I started to risk with fights to speed my tempo in game.1st,took full red tower and after that dungeon CPU and went in tresure where 2 giant banks were placed.In that time I had 12 cyclops,4 wyverns and 5 firebirds and on 124 tried to take full giant bank but golems were too much for me and lost there.Thx for game

Mukti (Fortress, Westan, Salmir) def Fill-ua (Conflux, random, Ciele, Ciele) 116 JC

Fill-ua (Castle, Edrik, Adela) wins Mukti (Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 115 JC