14:51: You don't have to rely on Thant getting scholar, you know. You could get a hero that starts with scholar. You start with both a learning stone and a tree of knowledge, which would give you very good chances of getting advanced scholar very quickly. And you have a lot of useless gold to cycle through heroes.
Thanks for the upload. I LOVE the series. The character of ViDomina was one of the central characters in Wizardry VII and VIII - I believe it's actually pronounced like VidOmina - she even wears skimpy leather in that game.
@42:25: Dendroid Soldiers have extra branches in the back of their neck, but most visible are their toes. Guards have shorter toes, Soldiers have longer and lighter colored toes.
Man i love you for making these, i just started playing and learned much from your videos and they are really good to watch after a hard day... Keep it coming
Even without necromancy, the skeleton transformer is really nice to consolidate all the random critters you get from everywhere. Running hero trains bringing everything in one turn to a necropolis feels really nice.
You can tell dendroid guards from soldiers by looking at their feet. Dendroid soldiers have green toes. They also have spikes on their shoulders and elbows, but that's more sutble.
Good job, YT recommendations. *waves* I did the "jam everyone into the skellie transformer" trick back in... the late 90s? (egad.) Buying the skeleton dragon in order to make it into a regular old one feels Not Great, but the armies were preposterously large.
I don't have one, too many things that can get in the way. But I try to upload at least once a week if possible, most likely on weekends if that's when I'm free.
dendroid soliders and guards- the diffrence between them is in the legs. soliders have white legs, while guards have brown legs(this is how i tell them apart)
It's interesting hearing you say you don't want to cheese it. But to be honest, the strategy of 1 (or 2) giant stacks with single figure stacks baiting and blocking is rather cheesy itself. The battle AI system clearly wasn't designed with that in mind and would probably have been better if they'd implemented a 'minimum share' across stacks for the human player. Either that or provide AI armies with a wider range of unit variety to counter it. Enjoying the series though!
Completely agree with not accepting the autocombat on that town defense. Definitely feel like cheating. Glad you didn't went with that. For spreading the animate dead, maybe you can have some luck with an Alchemist hero (Tower Might heroes) ? They start with scholar. I can't remember if there's any who start with advanced scholar, I don't think so. But you do have a couple of learning stones, so that's a pretty good chance of getting advanced scholar. Unless you don't want to recruit non-necropolis heroes, because they don't start with skeletons. Man, Vidomina could surely benefit from having Slow. And Forgetfulness, but you haven't found that yet. If there would be more necropolis towns, a high level Vidomina or Isra might not even need the Vampire's Cowl to reach 100% necromancy. Sadly that's not the case here. But, yeah, where there are few, powerful enemies, the cape would be better, as there would be fewer losses. I have to ask Norovo, are you allowing poor man teleport ? That is attack some monster, retreat and recruit it back on another far-away town ? I always felt like it's cheating, but I saw it accepted pretty broadly.
Is Necromancy hard capped at 100%? I guess that would make sense. I already recorded part 3 and there is a 'poor mans' in there I'm afraid. It's hard to know where to draw the line on what level of cheesing the game is acceptable. 😅
@@Norovo Well, I might be the only one complaining, so no worries, haha! And, yeah, necromancy is capped at 100%, that is, you cannot summon more skeletons than creatures killed. But it's not that easy to get there anyway, it's a rare concern.
Interesting. Love this old game and still play it on occasion. Played it a ton over the years. Are you using some sort of cheats? Level 5 difficulty and your enemies are weak? Attacked a castle with crappy ballistas and you break through in 2 rounds? At level 5 difficulty and full opponents?something seems amiss.
No, no cheats lol. Luck is a big factor in this game, but I also try to get as much done in as few turns as possible, giving the enemies less ability to build up
Do you ever do PvP? Might be fun to set up a match with you and AbsoluteZero and some others. He normally streams on Sundays or Mondays but doesn't always do Heroes 3.
I don't really because my time to play the game is very limited. Single player is 'safer' if I want a reliable recording (no risk of disconnects etc.). But it would be cool to play against AbsoluteZero one day, I watch his videos a lot.
@@Norovo Cool! Thanks for the reply and your high quality Heroes uploads Sir. I almost beat Chris once but I was 11 spell points short lol. They generally play on Jebus Cross but a few other templates sometimes too.
Hey ! Loving these videos, thanks for the content! I was wondering, how do you get all these UI additional info when you're in in combat (HP text in color) ?
Found your channel recently and I love your playthroughs. I made it all the way through your Maelstrom videos only to discover what I'm assuming is the last part isn't up yet. 😭 Still working on editing or something?
Hi. First to say I love your videos and this has relightened my love for Homm3. Im wondering how you make the damage and possibly kills be shown when you mouseover in combat? Also what is the additional information you have while mouseovering in the overworld ( coordinates) and some additional information shown in black and orange while hovering over troops in combat. Thx in advance for anyone who can answer these questions.
Some really cool stuff though that I don’t know. What hotkey shows you the range of the enemy units? How did you hotkey distribute one unit to each slot? How did you see how many units you “should” lose before you decide to battle them?
Lets be honest, lots of dogs would have destroyed thoose skellybones. I wonder why hellhounds and cerberi dont do bonus damage to skeletons, it would be a nice touch.
Im sorry if this is insensitive to ask, but is there any chance you might be colorblind? especially in the first skellies only video you refered to orange as blue quite a few times, while in this one you seem to call them orange every time, but now im ust too curious to not ask 😅
Do you know that if you have a stack of upgraded Skelly's and all other slots are units that are not basic Skelly's the necromancy will give you upgraded skeletons? Quite interesting thing tbh
@@FernandoOliveira-qs1il i put wrong time stamp.. 46:32, he could of use teleport spell to get inside and kill them all easier. he kept walking skelly in and lost way more..
Maybe very close I will buy Heroes finally but if someone help me with HOA mode and Questions: Is a campaign mode still available? can I play online in HOA mode and how? 21:55 This item in Underground place. dream come true , skeletons defeat entire Fortress army , NICE .
HD mod has an online lobby for multiplayer and you can pick between launching HotA or vanilla Complete edition, so you still have access to the original campaigns.
I’m going to watch again, but something is definitely amiss, cheating, or I don’t know. You have 70,000 gold and have spent at a minimum 25,000. Your castles could have acquired you at most maybe 25,000 and I’d say that’s high based on early choices I saw. Did you pick easy monsters option? What else are you doing?
A town with a capitol produces 4000 gold per day and extra towns produce 500-2000, plus there is a lot lying around. I don't really need to spend gold in this run, so it's not hard to get lots of it after 2 months.
Loved when near the end the one stack skeleton survived the attack from 1 mummy and just back handed that pile of dust. Btw I dunno if I'm missing it but necromancer towns why aren't you recruiting the avaliable skeletons I don't think it stacks the amount gained each week forever does it? If you don't hire them doesn't that just waste the skeleton production boosts?
Haha I liked that too. And do you mean cursed temple? I'm getting all the skeletons from the town, but sometimes forget to visit the external cursed temple
Why do you not upgrade some of your skeletons when you have over 30K gold in the bank? You're way past the point where you can comfortably have 2 stacks of skeletons doing stuff and one of those stacks being upgraded would probably be quite helpful.
More episodes (playlist): ruclips.net/video/4BMQo7RCRTs/видео.html
14:51: You don't have to rely on Thant getting scholar, you know. You could get a hero that starts with scholar. You start with both a learning stone and a tree of knowledge, which would give you very good chances of getting advanced scholar very quickly. And you have a lot of useless gold to cycle through heroes.
I would say your enemies are... boned.
To mess with us, takes a lot of spine!
Thanks for the upload. I LOVE the series. The character of ViDomina was one of the central characters in Wizardry VII and VIII - I believe it's actually pronounced like VidOmina - she even wears skimpy leather in that game.
Finding cartographer in an match against AI is a "OH HELL YEAH...wait... oh no!"
Yea. It's a good thing to have but to have to watch through the AI's plays...bleh
57:09 I love how you're so offended by that one rogue Gnoll who seems to have appeared out of nowhere 😂
@42:25: Dendroid Soldiers have extra branches in the back of their neck, but most visible are their toes. Guards have shorter toes, Soldiers have longer and lighter colored toes.
Man i love you for making these, i just started playing and learned much from your videos and they are really good to watch after a hard day... Keep it coming
Nicely done sieging and defending with those skellies.
Your channel has grown so much and god I love putting these on and tinkering with Tech.. keep up the great vids
love the series and you can tell the dendroid soldiers apart by their ''feet''
They also have an extra branch on their head
Love these playthroughs, my game has greatly improved watching them.
I enjoy watching your HoMaM III videos. I've now cleared all the playlists from the past, please bring more :D
Even without necromancy, the skeleton transformer is really nice to consolidate all the random critters you get from everywhere.
Running hero trains bringing everything in one turn to a necropolis feels really nice.
Pathfinding is so under rated
Love watching these
You can tell dendroid guards from soldiers by looking at their feet. Dendroid soldiers have green toes. They also have spikes on their shoulders and elbows, but that's more sutble.
1k gold to view entire map. Perfectly balanced. ;) Loving this one!
Dendroid Soldiers have two visible extra branches on their backs.
Finally, i've been waiting for so long! lets gooo
the dedication to correct in editing when you say something off i wouldn't have noticed anyway 😭
I've been waiting for this since ep 1
Cartographer is so OP
Challenge Idea: Skeletons only using only skeleton transformers used but no necromancy.
Good job, YT recommendations. *waves*
I did the "jam everyone into the skellie transformer" trick back in... the late 90s? (egad.) Buying the skeleton dragon in order to make it into a regular old one feels Not Great, but the armies were preposterously large.
we can see 2 of 4 pieces of Armor of the Damned on the map the set is very theme appropiate for the run
What is your upload schedule? Super stoked to enjoy a new episode this Sunday morning :)
I don't have one, too many things that can get in the way. But I try to upload at least once a week if possible, most likely on weekends if that's when I'm free.
May I ask why you didn't use the teleport in the battle at 46:07, which would have saved you from taking so many losses?
You can tell the dendroid soldiers apart by their feet :)
mmm, dendroid feeet
I can't think of a pun ...bad to the bone? ..
32:17 Teleport to right corner to reduce attacks.
dendroid soliders and guards- the diffrence between them is in the legs. soliders have white legs, while guards have brown legs(this is how i tell them apart)
Dendroid soldiers have different feet.
I swear I am hearing Vitamina every time 🤣
So what's the next challenge going to be? Skeleton Warriors? Archers?
2:43 how did you make the combat have this features? I have the HD+ mod
really will be interesting to see the game with all the possible skeletons in a game :) Even if it will be too fast as game. :)
Can you please check third video in the playlist? RUclips shows it as hidden and not available.
Their legs are a bit different.
Took me a moment to figure out what this comment was about lol
@@Norovo I forgot to use timestamp, mb :)
norovo it says part 3 is private
can you please make it public? i really want to see what happens next
Songs of Conquest will get new update soon with random map generator and better AI. It would be cool if You can check it after release
Not sure if I will make a video but definitely keeping an eye on it
Dendroid guard/soldier have different feet
It's interesting hearing you say you don't want to cheese it. But to be honest, the strategy of 1 (or 2) giant stacks with single figure stacks baiting and blocking is rather cheesy itself. The battle AI system clearly wasn't designed with that in mind and would probably have been better if they'd implemented a 'minimum share' across stacks for the human player. Either that or provide AI armies with a wider range of unit variety to counter it.
Enjoying the series though!
In the fortress town assault, why not just teleport the skellies in?
Teleport has limitations. Unless you have expert teleport you can’t cross town walls; I think levels two and three also have nuisances
Completely agree with not accepting the autocombat on that town defense. Definitely feel like cheating. Glad you didn't went with that.
For spreading the animate dead, maybe you can have some luck with an Alchemist hero (Tower Might heroes) ? They start with scholar. I can't remember if there's any who start with advanced scholar, I don't think so. But you do have a couple of learning stones, so that's a pretty good chance of getting advanced scholar. Unless you don't want to recruit non-necropolis heroes, because they don't start with skeletons.
Man, Vidomina could surely benefit from having Slow. And Forgetfulness, but you haven't found that yet.
If there would be more necropolis towns, a high level Vidomina or Isra might not even need the Vampire's Cowl to reach 100% necromancy. Sadly that's not the case here. But, yeah, where there are few, powerful enemies, the cape would be better, as there would be fewer losses.
I have to ask Norovo, are you allowing poor man teleport ? That is attack some monster, retreat and recruit it back on another far-away town ? I always felt like it's cheating, but I saw it accepted pretty broadly.
Is Necromancy hard capped at 100%? I guess that would make sense.
I already recorded part 3 and there is a 'poor mans' in there I'm afraid. It's hard to know where to draw the line on what level of cheesing the game is acceptable. 😅
@@Norovo Well, I might be the only one complaining, so no worries, haha!
And, yeah, necromancy is capped at 100%, that is, you cannot summon more skeletons than creatures killed. But it's not that easy to get there anyway, it's a rare concern.
Interesting. Love this old game and still play it on occasion. Played it a ton over the years. Are you using some sort of cheats? Level 5 difficulty and your enemies are weak? Attacked a castle with crappy ballistas and you break through in 2 rounds? At level 5 difficulty and full opponents?something seems amiss.
No, no cheats lol. Luck is a big factor in this game, but I also try to get as much done in as few turns as possible, giving the enemies less ability to build up
Do you ever do PvP? Might be fun to set up a match with you and AbsoluteZero and some others. He normally streams on Sundays or Mondays but doesn't always do Heroes 3.
I don't really because my time to play the game is very limited. Single player is 'safer' if I want a reliable recording (no risk of disconnects etc.). But it would be cool to play against AbsoluteZero one day, I watch his videos a lot.
@@Norovo Cool! Thanks for the reply and your high quality Heroes uploads Sir.
I almost beat Chris once but I was 11 spell points short lol.
They generally play on Jebus Cross but a few other templates sometimes too.
Hey ! Loving these videos, thanks for the content! I was wondering, how do you get all these UI additional info when you're in in combat (HP text in color) ?
Found your channel recently and I love your playthroughs. I made it all the way through your Maelstrom videos only to discover what I'm assuming is the last part isn't up yet. 😭 Still working on editing or something?
Have another look 😉
Hi.
First to say I love your videos and this has relightened my love for Homm3.
Im wondering how you make the damage and possibly kills be shown when you mouseover in combat? Also what is the additional information you have while mouseovering in the overworld ( coordinates) and some additional information shown in black and orange while hovering over troops in combat.
Thx in advance for anyone who can answer these questions.
Glad you're enjoying the videos! I'm using the HD mod and SoD_SP plugin - linked in description.
Some really cool stuff though that I don’t know. What hotkey shows you the range of the enemy units? How did you hotkey distribute one unit to each slot? How did you see how many units you “should” lose before you decide to battle them?
These are HD mod features - linked in description
When will you upload part 3???
Lets be honest, lots of dogs would have destroyed thoose skellybones. I wonder why hellhounds and cerberi dont do bonus damage to skeletons, it would be a nice touch.
Im sorry if this is insensitive to ask, but is there any chance you might be colorblind? especially in the first skellies only video you refered to orange as blue quite a few times, while in this one you seem to call them orange every time, but now im ust too curious to not ask 😅
Do you live stream anywhere or just make these after the fact?
Do you know that if you have a stack of upgraded Skelly's and all other slots are units that are not basic Skelly's the necromancy will give you upgraded skeletons? Quite interesting thing tbh
but you will get less..
He knows and mentions it in part 1. decides to not go for it cuz comment above mine ;)
til death ripple works on elementals
Dendroid Soldiers have different feet.
it took u so long i forgot that his was even a series
44:46 y not teleport in?
No town portal?
not possible without adv. water magic
@@FernandoOliveira-qs1il i put wrong time stamp.. 46:32, he could of use teleport spell to get inside and kill them all easier. he kept walking skelly in and lost way more..
@@m.kaschi2741 my bad.. wrong time stamp..
I was thinking the same thing why not use teleport? but like someone else said I guess he needed water magic to effectively use it.
how about Skeletons only with first 6 months only defending.
Maybe very close I will buy Heroes finally but if someone help me with HOA mode and Questions: Is a campaign mode still available? can I play online in HOA mode and how?
21:55 This item in Underground place.
dream come true , skeletons defeat entire Fortress army , NICE .
HD mod has an online lobby for multiplayer and you can pick between launching HotA or vanilla Complete edition, so you still have access to the original campaigns.
The HD mod is not the same thing as the HD version of the game confusingly.
@@KyriosHeptagrammaton Yeah , I know that conflux isn't in HD edition and that is bad , for sure .
@@Norovo Ok then I will get HOA mode because I like to try that pirate town and lots of additions there , Thanks 😁
i need part 3
Love your videos, i have 1 question tho. Isn't you allowed to upgrade your skeletons?
I've decided not to allow myself to do that
I’m going to watch again, but something is definitely amiss, cheating, or I don’t know. You have 70,000 gold and have spent at a minimum 25,000. Your castles could have acquired you at most maybe 25,000 and I’d say that’s high based on early choices I saw. Did you pick easy monsters option? What else are you doing?
A town with a capitol produces 4000 gold per day and extra towns produce 500-2000, plus there is a lot lying around. I don't really need to spend gold in this run, so it's not hard to get lots of it after 2 months.
Loved when near the end the one stack skeleton survived the attack from 1 mummy and just back handed that pile of dust.
Btw I dunno if I'm missing it but necromancer towns why aren't you recruiting the avaliable skeletons I don't think it stacks the amount gained each week forever does it? If you don't hire them doesn't that just waste the skeleton production boosts?
Haha I liked that too. And do you mean cursed temple? I'm getting all the skeletons from the town, but sometimes forget to visit the external cursed temple
@@Norovo ah k I must've just missed it my bad. been enjoying the letsplay great fun can't wait to see the next one.
hahaha skellies its my brday also firat comment
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday
@@Norovo thank you
Why do you not upgrade some of your skeletons when you have over 30K gold in the bank?
You're way past the point where you can comfortably have 2 stacks of skeletons doing stuff and one of those stacks being upgraded would probably be quite helpful.
dude your micro in combat is really bad
Geez - all that SWAMP area. That's going to be a real slog to get through.
I'm looking forward to the next installment, sir! 🤗👍
M 🦘🏏😎