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Hello! I've been familiar with the fifth installment of the Heroes series for a while, but I only recently started playing it with genuine interest. I'm the kind of person who, when I get into something, I like to understand it thoroughly, so I decided to write here to get advice from more experienced players.

Here's the problem: when playing on "Veteran" difficulty as the Tower faction against bots, after about a month in the game, an opponent shows up and completely crushes me.

I would like players to share their daily tactics and strategies. I've read a lot online, and almost everywhere it says that the Tower faction is scary because of its push and rush tactics, and that the game needs to be finished within a month. I'm interested in any specific scheme for how these events unfold.

Thank you in advance.

Hi! Actually, no one plays at levels below the hero anymore)).
The Necropolis is very strong in the early game because the main damage is dealt by the hero, and the army just needs to hold out for as long as possible. Therefore, when rushing, starting from week 2, upgraded Hydras with regeneration are actively used; they stand in defense and recover through the "wait" button.
There are several strategies for playing as the Necropolis, as there are for other factions. Previously, you could watch many streams and examples of builds, but now I only know that Noom streams:
http://www.twitch.tv/noom11/profile
You can also read about many successful Warlock games in tournament reports:
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By the way, registration for a new tournament is currently open. What could be better than practice?))
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Thank you!
They might not be playing, but they still need to learn.
Thank you very much for the information!

I'll give you a tip – max out your stats, and you'll need a minimum army size.
For example, even 50 in magic (and if it's 100+, it's even better), it's a dream come true for a Warlock or Wizard, because even a weak spell will deal significant damage, if not a full stack, then at least half of it.

Yeah, I get it. The Warlock's strength lies in his spellcasting level. The thing is, I don't usually make it to the level where I can get stats like that when playing against the AI. But when I play with a friend, I don't have any problems. But by the way, I've never actually reached that high a spellcasting level.

this is if you play with cheats or mods.
In general, it's much easier to win against a bot than against a human. But you need to know how the AI plays.

On a normal difficulty level, the AI simply has more initial resources. If you choose the maximum difficulty, you start with zero resources, as it should be, while the AI starts with 50,000 gold, etc.

Well, if the bot is cheating, then fight fire with fire: @SetPlayerResource(1,6,99999999); and your problems with the unfair bot will smoothly turn into a casual game.

Thank you, but I wasn't able to configure the console and apply the codes.
I'll take another look, maybe I did something wrong, and I'll try again.

Take Erin and immediately build Warlocks, level up Chaos, Sorcery, and Attack skills. And don't learn to use cheats, that's not good.

Mortulus, that's unfair to the players(((
the AI can, but users can't? That's not fair.

Sinithar, look for an artifact to enhance cold magic. Leveling up involves chaos magic and ice magic. A vulnerable wizard should focus on attracting magic and, most importantly, developing a sense of the elements. After that, it's up to you; I believe these are the main stats.

In my opinion, the Tower has two main problems: slow troop growth in its home town and equally slow increase in the hero's defense stat. In the first case, it's good if there's a non-native town nearby, from which you can send troops to the sacrificial pit to increase the number of Minotaurs and Beasts. But this doesn't affect the growth of archers, so you could consider leveling up a secondary hero in Leadership - Rally the Troops, who is stationed to guard your capital. But I don't think it's possible to increase the growth of higher-level units from "lizards" to dragons. As for the second point, this forces you to level up the hero's Defense skill or maximize his Initiative, keeping in mind the fairly rapid growth of the attack stat, because then it's desirable for him to move before the enemy, because with such poor defense, the enemy hero with high Initiative will destroy half of your army before his first turn. So, either you aim to get Keen Mind, which requires 2 unnecessary skills in the Logistics and Education skill lines, or you just hope for the right artifacts. By the way, if you take large-sized random maps, they almost always have a full set of dragon artifacts. Another interesting question is what magic to take besides Chaos, and whether to take any at all. For example, if you build red dragons in your town, keeping in mind the possibility of casting Vampirism on them with Dark magic, then, as practice shows, there are not always Dark magic spells of the 4th and 5th circles in the Tower's school. If you take Summoning, there's generally nothing interesting there for "long" maps, except maybe Celestial Shield. Learning Light magic spells will also be quite problematic if your enemies don't have human or high elf castles. Of course, you can always consider various Utopias and these spell markets of the 4th and 5th circles, but that depends on luck. Here's an example on such a map, with only 5 defense so far.

it's not always the case that towns have schools with spells from the 4th and 5th circles of Darkness.

In reality, never. Only Summoning and Chaos spells are available. Random schools of 4th and 5th circles can only be found in academies with a library.

In reality, never. Only Summoning and Chaos. Random schools on rounds 4-5 can only be obtained by Academy heroes with a library.

Yes, and right now, that's exactly the situation on my map. The second hero, Tralsai, has Darkness, but there's no point in leveling it up, as there are no higher-tier units in the city. And Ilayke can even be given Light, as one of the opponents is humans; maybe she can even reach Resurrection after "conquering" their castle.:smile19: