Posts from [HoMM5 Tournament OFF] The fifth stage of the John Van Caningham Memorial Tournament.

Congratulations to the winner and the runners-up! I participated for the first time, so my result wasn't great. By the way, before the final, I had 221091 experience points and was level 25, but the table shows 36318. Thanks again for the tournament!

Congratulations to the winner and the runners-up!
This is my first time participating, so the result isn't great. By the way, before the final, I had 221091 experience and was level 25, but the table shows 36318.
Thanks again for the tournament!

But you've seen this map before ;) - It's not a tournament map, and I immediately knew what to do and where to go....while the rest of us had to run through it once in the test version to figure out how to get to the Necromancer ;) In general, you have a decent result, it's just that there are some tough players ahead of you, and they have more than one tournament under their belts :)

And Conservator says that his hero is level 26 and has 255556 experience:confused:. Then he should be in 3rd place!

Thank you for the congratulations. The fight for the prize places was fierce!

I will definitely double-check everything; the results haven't been added to the summary thread yet.
wolf64, thank you for the detailed walkthrough; I learned a lot from it.

Adelaide asked me to post my Walkthrough as well. Day 1. Immediately head to the Manticores. It's not easy to defeat them without losses. It's important to position your troops correctly before the battle so that the Jinn get afflicted with plague. Here's a recording of the battle: http://infern.ifolder.ru/13492635 After the battle, Nazir is level 2 (Master Art). Now our goal is the Knights. But to defeat them, we need to increase our Chaos magic. We return to the well. Day 2. We drink mana and run east to the Elder Druids. Day 3. We defeat the druids. We are left without mana and without gremlins. But we get a wand with 3 fireballs, and we replenish the gremlins further east on the road. Then we go down to the stables. Nazir is level 4 (Advanced Chaos, Expert Chaos). We defeat the Knights. Day 4. We collect chests for experience. Nazir is level 8 (Expert Master Art, Basic Logistics, Advanced Logistics, Expert Logistics). We immediately run to the militia for boots and a chest. We get to level 9 (Secrets of Chaos). We run to the Dwarf castle. Day 5. Along the way, we visit the well, and go for the quest. Day 6. We take the quest, run to the wolves. We stop near the Minotaurs. Day 7. We defeat the Minotaurs (level 10, Basic Attack). We buy Mountain Guards, defeat the wolves. For the battle, we only deploy the Mountain Guards - it's not a pity to lose them. We are now level 11 (Beginner Shapeshift). We run back to the Dwarf castle. Day 8. We talk to the dwarves, we get to level 13 (Pyrokinesis, Medium Shapeshift). We run to the Mage's Hut. Day 9. We visit the stables, the Mage's Hut, and run to the druids. Day 10. We run past the knights and the ents, and stop two steps from the druids. Day 11. We talk to the druids, run west. We defeat the Knights, pick up the Crown of Sar-Issa and the chest. As a result, Nazir is level 15 (+Advanced Secrets, High Shapeshift), has 190 mana, 9 spell power, and full Chaos, including Pyrokinesis. We run to the Red Guard, stop on the road - below the Witch's Hut. Day 12. We pass the guard, replenish mana at the well, and run to the Pyramid. Day 13. We enter the Dungeon, take a Rakshasa, and defeat the Necromancer. Here, the main thing is not to allow a successful attack by the Archliches on the Rakshasa at the beginning of the battle. (One such shot takes out 4-5 Rakshasa). Here's the battle: http://infern.ifolder.ru/13492645 P.S. Maybe I should have chosen the path of war, then Nazir would have had a higher level.

Valleo, didn't you say you had 14 days, and when you had 13, you couldn't defeat the Necropolis player and had to go to the Sphinx for experience...? You reach level 18, and only then (on day 14) do you have the final battle...
But in the walkthrough description, it says only 13 days, why???

And why is the replay file date today - August 11, 2009? If it had been before the official end of the tournament - i.e., before August 3, 2009 - it would have been acceptable.
Maybe you replayed and managed to complete it in 13 days, but after August 3, 2009???

You yourself said that you would be interested in seeing my 13-day playthrough. And I already wrote that I couldn't/didn't have time to defeat the Necromancer before 08/03/09. And this is reflected in the tournament results.

Reassured me that both completed it – within 14 days, as required. Well done for managing to complete the Necropolis campaign on day 13 with a weak hero. It seems that the time is coming when I will be relegated to the archives... a new, strong generation of players has arrived. Until now, you were hot on my heels, but now you will clearly soon be overtaking me ;)

P.S. – It's certainly interesting to watch, but ideally, the report should have been the official one – completed in 14 days, and then a version showing how it could have been improved....

Understood.
I confirm that in the submitted walkthrough for the contest, on day 13, I headed towards the Knights of Isabel, visited the Sphinx (level 17).
On day 14, I acquired a Rakshasa, went to the tree (level 18 - Enchanted Charm), and defeated the Necromancer in auto-battle.

I've corrected the table; Conservator has moved to third place. I did indeed miscalculate the experience points.
The tournament is over; I'm sending a request to the moderators of the section to close the thread and post the table in a presentable format in a special thread for the final results of the Clan Wars.

I'll finish the walkthrough that I started writing a week ago. Better late than never :)

Day 1: Nazir fights Rakshasa, picks up the chest on the right (2nd level - Master of Artifacts), then the experience stone (3rd level - Advanced Chaos) and runs to the Manticores.
Day 2: We kill the Manticores without losses, spending 30 mana (4th level - Expert Chaos), and run down the road.
Day 3: We visit the well, and stop right before the dungeon guard.
Day 4: We defeat the Cerberuses together with the Fire Demons and Imps (5th level - Expert Master of Artifacts, 6th level - Basics of Logistics), 5 Golems remain, we run to the chest +175000 experience.
Day 5: We take the experience and level up to 24 (Advanced Logistics - Expert Logistics - Secrets of Chaos - Magic Mirror - Sign of the Magician - Pyrokinesis - Wandering - Basics of Education - Golem March - Advanced Education - Path of War - Attraction of Magic - Witch's Reward - Basics of Spellcasting - Higher Education - Advanced Spellcasting - Skilled Spellcasting - Graduate). Then we defeat 4 Archdevils (we lose one Golem) and then 5. We recruit 13 Colossi, fight the Air Elementals, and spend the night near the Manticores.
Day 6: We gain speed on the Manticores, exit the underground, gain speed on the Druids, and run to the Fountain of Youth.
Day 7: We visit the fountain, then pick up the Boots of Swiftness, gain speed on the Phoenixes (losses - 3 Colossi), and spend the night near the Archmages.
Day 8: We fight the Hydras, then take a quest from the Gnome, and after moving 2 steps away from him, we spend the night.
Day 9: We kill the Priests near the Bears' dwelling.
Day 10: We kill the Wolves, then gain speed on the Undead, Liches, Minotaurs, and spend the night 10 steps from the Gnome city.
Day 11: We visit the Gnome, then gain speed with the help of the Water Elementals, visit the stable, and spend the night near the Pao-Kais.
Day 12: We visit the Rune Priest, then kill the Shamans, Pao-Kais, Lattos, and Ents.
Day 13: We visit the Druid, fight the Djinns (for extra experience), then the Vampires, Death Knights, Inquisitors, take experience from the chest (extra experience), then kill the Dragons.
Day 14: We gain speed on the Griffons, kill the Earth Elementals.
Day 15: We enter the pyramid, kill the Rakshasa (for experience), and finish the game.

Tournament in HMM V: "The Fate of Silver Cities" Results
Place	Participant	Clan
1	Wolf64	Witches	days: 14 experience: 96981 gold: 7100
2	Valleo		days: 14 experience: 76510 gold: 1500
3	KonServator	Witches	days: 15 experience: 255556 gold: 5500
4	Viking	Vampires	days: 15 experience: 83043 gold: 1350
5	valery	Knights of the Apocalypse	days: 17 experience: 36318 gold: 12300
6	Аделаида	Homo Homini	days: 21 experience: 41001 gold: 4808
7	vesta	Vampires	days: 22 experience: 35233 gold: 2619
8	WisTrit	Witches	days: 31 experience: 89606 gold: 14198