Posts from Игры HoMM3 for fun

07/17/2015 Pridu (Red, Stronghold, Kirr) def PutinKING (Blue, Tower, Dessa) 122

111 captured a dungeon village + has a hidden stash of Orcs (not painted).
112 I paint the Orc stash, and then, with one of the scouts, I find a Bear dwelling... But, as practice showed, I might not have been able to take the Bear stash without the Orc dwelling. By 114, I take the Bear dwelling, build a settlement in the dungeon... there is a second Bear. On 115, I drive away Calph's companion from my dungeon (in autobattle, losses: 4 Wolves and 10 Orcs out of 20). I tell myself: "I can do better" and I lose the Bear and 13 Orcs ((. By 117, I capture Inferno and finish off the Green player. The search for resources was unsuccessful; there are no Bears in the Citadel.

121 there is still a Bear in the settlement... in total, an army of 3 Bears and 20 upgraded Orcs runs to conquer the lands. But on 122, a Blue scout runs out from a one-way point, captures Inferno (with unbought growth). All this is a disaster; he can come to me at any moment, and I won't find him. Sad thoughts in my head... But on the same turn, news comes that the opponent has surrendered.

17.07.2015 Armageddets (Red, Rampart, Ivor) def NightTroll (Blue, Stronghold, Pyrrh) 126 8mm6a

Started with Klancy, but Ivor appeared in the tavern. On day 111, I took a dungeon near the castle and Tyraxor arrived with his dogs, which helped to break through the ranged stacks. I got a hidden stash of dendroids, an artifact +3 to attack, and a helmet, and on the last day of the week, I found a hidden stash of unicorns, but I didn't have enough money to buy it. In the second week, I went to the dungeon, and there was one passage guarded by thunderbirds and a portal guarded by greymane elves. I went through the elves with Ivor. I reached the Inferno land and broke through the orcs to get to the Necropolis land. There was a necropolis nearby, which I was going to take, but I saw my opponent's hero. I decided to kill his hero, and I did. I didn't have enough movement points to kill the second hero on the snow. In the end, my opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.

18.07.15 myduck (red, Citadel, Crag Hack) def VosDeus (blue, Rampart, Alagar) JC 127
Played without restarts, full random. The chocolate failed... I played like a noob. Thanks for the game

18.07.15 VosDeus (red, dungeon, shakti) lose PutinKING (blue, Inferno, kelh) diamond 127
took müllicah on the 1st turn, the respawn gave a medusa dwelling, but it was in the opposite direction from the villages and I didn't go to take it, took 2 villages and the computer's Castle, by the second day reached two more villages, but the opponent arrived with a much larger army. surrendered.

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07/18/15 Armageddets (blue, Rampart, Kirr) loses to NightTroll (rare, Dungeon, Gunnar) 8mm6a 146
Starting with Kirr. In the tavern, Ivor appears. I decide to develop two heroes in parallel, and we'll see who becomes the main one. Kirr explores and advances in Earth magic. In the early turns, I take 2 Crypts on the starting area. I get a lot of gold. From the first turn, I get 7 heroes. The eighth one seemed not worthwhile at that moment. At the end of the first week, I find an Elven stash guarded by 53 upgraded Lizards, pass the army along the chain to Erdamon, advance him a couple of turns, giving him expert tactics, bring Unicorns and Dendroids, and break through the stash. But this stalled my development. And I didn't leave the starting area in time through the Fae gate. I find a Dragon stash and again turn back to stay on the starting area for another week to take the stash and the resource. On turn 125, I take the Dragon stash and a single resource. I see that the opponent has taken a second Castle, and I prepare to leave on the third week. I leave the starting area. I notice a computer-controlled hero and defeat it with Ivor. Then, I return the army to Kirr, and he takes a double resource and breaks through to the purple computer-controlled hero, capturing its Castle. One move was not enough to enter the Castle itself. And the opponent ambushed me, took a nearby Angel stash, and attacked Kirr. Since he got 2 Utopias, with the help of artifacts and attrition, he defeated me without a chance, although I had a larger army. A fair defeat. Thank you for the game.

07/20/2015 theG (Red, Random, Cove, Random, Cassiopeia, Jeremy) def Pridu (Blue, Random, Inferno, Random, Ignatius, Marius), 8mm6a, 211

21.07.2015 theG (Red, Random, Castle, Random, Orrin, Jeremy) lose Pridu (Blue, Random, Conflux, Random, Ignissa, Gunnar), 8mm6a, 133

Although I don't really like Conflux, I decided not to take a restart.
1. I caught Gunnar (although Jeremy had already appeared in the opponent's tavern).
2. Near the castle there is a University captured and you can buy Earth Magic there (the Mage Guild has Slow).
3. I spot Boots behind a pack of demons, which can be picked up on day two.
4. And of course there is RE 112

On the second day, I picked up the Boots and found nothing else interesting, not even a shabby external dwelling of fairies. The clues at the respawn are guarded by 5-9 Ghost Dragons :-) Never mind, Gunnar has Boots.. we'll manage!

By day 4, Gunnar is 1 day's march from the castle :-) still nothing interesting found, optimism is starting to fade.

On 115 a Griffin Conservatory is discovered, which is already better, and on the same day, from a direction cleared near the castle (20-49 Orcs), a computer opponent jumps out at me. The only thing that saved me was the mage and the fact that in Conflux they always build a Mage Guild...
In the end, by 117 I occupy an Inferno castle for free, with the castle already built...
Chains are built to return troops to the Conservatory.
By 122 the Conservatory is taken (level two). Gunnar wants to go to the center in the Underground (well, I thought that was the center) — it turns out the center of the map is my Treasure.
By 125 the Angel of the Dead is almost assembled, only the Skull Helmet is missing. Gunnar is preparing for the march to the center.
I run Gunnar out of the castle and only then remember that I wanted to build Mage Guild level 2... The chain takes Conservatory level 1, then Gunnar takes a chest for 10k XP

127 Gunnar finds another Conservatory (the third one in count and damn it's another level one, what bad luck)

131 we run further, we can already see the Red scout. We choose from three directions an exit from the Underground to the surface and follow the path... But I fall short of the castle by literally 3 tiles..

The opponent, on the other hand, on 131 was 4 tiles away from my hero, but chose a different path (took a maximum of Ulis for 12 Wis there).

132 Jeremy of the opponent doesn't reach me, a castle is built in the Castle stronghold.
I take the opponent's main, losing 4 Cyclopes and a couple of Air Elementals (I save mana, although I'm Blue and it will replenish anyway!!!). I see that the opponent hasn't even bought anything and Angels are built, not bad.
I send out a scout, he spots an external dwelling of Swordsmen. Well, I think I came just in time :-) Another week of running around in the wrong direction and I'd be done for (I hadn't even built Birds to level two yet).
On 133 the opponent attacks the castle, but has no chance of recapturing it.

As the post-mortem revealed, the Skull Helmet for my Angel of the Dead was with the opponent, and he had taken it from 5-9 Snipers, maybe it was quest-related.

Thanks for the game.