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And don't even reveal that Inferno is your favorite faction. Besides, the Altar of Destruction costs as much as the Altar of Eternal Enslavement.

Basically, if you buy a laptop for $1000 and spend a month trying out all the factions in Heroes 6, you can beat anyone with any faction. "Patience and hard work will overcome everything!";). But the question is, who has more experience, determination, and intelligence among the opponents? EXPERIENCE, and again EXPERIENCE, and of course, brains are needed; without them, experience will be of poor quality. When you start playing, everything seems impossible, but later, after gaining experience, it seems like everything is easy.

In any case, you won't be able to beat Necromancers with Demons unless they make the summoning work like in Heroes 5. Haven might be possible if the player isn't very experienced, but you can easily beat the rest.
Another bad thing is that when you kill the main unit, the summoned unit also dies, but in Heroes 5, the summoned unit remained, so Inferno was significantly weakened.

Why are you so fixated on summoning? I don't even use it, except when there's nothing else to do on a given turn...

And in a tournament, in the first round, I defeated Necromancers using Demons on the "Interregnum" and "Golden Brimstone" maps. In both cases, both players played Necromancers well, but unfortunately, they didn't know the specifics of their opponent's race.

Why are you so fixated on summoning? I don't even use it, except when there's nothing else to do on a given turn...

And in a tournament, in the first round, I beat Necromancers with Demons on the "Interregnum" map, and once on the "Golden Brimstone" map. In both cases, both players played Necromancers well, but unfortunately, they didn't know the specifics of their opponent's race.

Maybe you developed 100 times faster, had many more troops; with equal levels and equal troops, you won't win; the duel is proof of that.

A duel isn't proof of anything at all, especially when we're talking about a multiplayer game on a map. On a map, you can't build all the creature dwellings in a castle at the same time (I usually have 2-3 built maximum by the time I face another player). And there aren't enough resources for everything. And heroes don't reach level 30 (if they even reach 15, that's good). And the unique buildings of cities function. And there are many other things...

Darkness cannot penetrate the Sanctuary.

A duel isn't really proof of anything, especially when we're talking about a multiplayer game on a map. :)

On a map, you can't build all the creature dwellings in a castle at the same time (I usually have 2-3 built maximum by the time I face another player). And there aren't enough resources for everything. And heroes don't reach level 30 (if they even reach 15). And the unique buildings of cities work. And there are many other things...

Multiplayer isn't interesting to me, so we can end the discussion here.

I don't know if anyone has compared Heroes to a game of chess, but judging by your discussions, they are very similar. Both require strategy and tactics, and you need to think several moves ahead. The only difference is that there is no "fog of war" on a chessboard... :)

I think everyone who plays online has encountered a player like negro126. Here are his online stats:

Online game - normal: 18/18
Online game - duel: 1698/1707

I can't even imagine how you have to play to win every time. And besides cheating, I can't explain it any other way. When I started playing online, I played against him 5 times in a row, increasing his win rate. And his duel request is always active, so he's not just racking up wins by playing against weak opponents, but he's actually playing and winning.
When I'm the host, he joins, chooses a hero, and checks the box. I change the hero, and he quickly unchecks the box and selects a counter-type. And it's always like that; against every hero, he selects its likely counter-type... I've already kicked him out of my request 10 times in a row as soon as he joins, and he still joins like some kind of bot. The most interesting thing is that he's always in his request, and at the same time, you can't see neighboring open requests, so he knows that I've just hosted a duel and joins? Oh, and also, is it worth mentioning that he has all achievements unlocked and a platinum Dynasty rank?

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Wow, you won't believe it, but I went into a duel with him. After a 10-minute wait, I quickly changed my race to Humans (Preacher) and started the game (he was a Necromancer). Yes, he's not a cheater, but he used the dirtiest tactics. I'll describe it in detail. Standard tactics of "Human" and "Undead" turtle formations. When I attacked with knights and angels and started taking down the Lamassu to get to the Weavers, he used a hero ability (some kind of link) on the Vampires. Besides them, I had nothing else to attack, so I had to hit... In the next round, he cast Stone Skin on them. He skipped an entire turn. After all this, I healed up, took down the Lamassu, and securely positioned an Angel in front of his Weavers and Liches. Then he "gave up" the round, saying a few words about me :) By the way, I forgot to mention that I immediately cast "Time Stop" on the Liches in the first round, so they didn't have much of an impact on the duel. I'm incredibly happy; he's still not a cheater...

And now, I created a duel again - he joined, the heroes are the same - 2 Necromancers, but for some reason, he's not checking the box anymore :) He knows that I don't duel with the same races.

Look at the screenshot, read the chat :)

I don't see anything strange in your story :). The person is simply playing the Necropolis faction perfectly, or they haven't encountered strong players.

However, their behavior in the chat was inappropriate. As for what you call "dirty tricks," in my opinion, it's just a successful tactic.

No, he plays with all factions, both warriors and mages, and only selects those who are 100% guaranteed to win against your hero. I still don't understand how it's possible to manage to play (and win!) so many battles online, especially when it's not peak time. Besides, many who have played a few games with him don't come back – his lobbies are always empty. And it's impossible to win so many times – external and internal factors can influence the outcome, from a simple power outage or internet disconnection to a mistake in the game or a strong opponent. Most likely, he won the majority of his battles with a pre-arranged player, "boosting" his statistics...

I think the player probably hasn't faced a truly strong opponent. But there aren't many of those, so the statistics look believable, especially considering he might have been playing since the beta in August. The stats were only introduced recently. As for Sacrifice, Stone Skin, and other abilities, why not? There are counter-measures for almost everything. Besides, Sacrifice, Stone Skin, and Earth Elemental are all very mana-intensive, and after 2-3 turns, they become quite predictable. Have you tried stunning the Spiderlings after they transform or delaying their turn? At the very least, it buys you 2 turns. And if the opponent doesn't remove the stun, you can stun the Liches for another 2 turns.))) In the end, who will deal damage in Sacrifice then?))) Be truly afraid of a Necromancer with Sacrifice in attack!

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And also regarding the statistics... unfortunately, not everyone plays to the very end; some just quit. But on the other hand, what's the point of playing if everything is already clear? And on the third hand, I've won many battles in seemingly hopeless situations when only 1-10 weak units remain, and everything is decided by a single, random attack (these are usually the most interesting battles). And if such battles happen, it's not a shame to lose.