Heroes III: Strategy Guide - Episode 3 (Using Multiple Heroes)
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- By popular demand, here it is: "The More You Know" strategy guide.
The More You Know will be a Heroes III series that acts as a strategy guide. The episodes will span at least the 12 days of Christmas where I'll be putting out a different tactic for Heroes III in each video. This -- is Day 3, Using Multiple Heroes.
-MeKick 
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One of the biggest problems I have is knowing when I can win a fight.
For example, in this video you just cleared a crypt on Day 1, I always thought I'd need at least level 4-5 creatures to do that.
It'd be great if you did a video about when you can engage in fights and win.
Ah, now this is an interesting remark to make regarding future entries into this series. To be honest however, I've nixed this idea for three main reasons.
The first reason is that I can't go over every possible combination of fights you can and cannot do. What are your hero's stats? What creatures do you have? What creatures do *they* have? I don't think it's always as simple as saying "yeah, you can win this fight against a Horde of Pikemen with a starting army of Marksmen" and broadly generalizing it over lots of other possible fights as well.
Secondly, I daresay that I'm not particularly qualified to talk about what fights are and aren't doable. There are fights that I have taken where I assume I can win, only to lose. In addition, there are fights where I suspect will be "easy", only to win at the expense of over half my army (ruclips.net/video/dDCZTKKDRCY/видео.htmlm18s is a great example of this).
Perhaps the third (and most important) reason is that the fights that you might be able to do are quite different from the fights that I might be able to do. For example, the fight that takes place at ruclips.net/video/dDCZTKKDRCY/видео.htmlm42s is one that I was barely able to do without significant losses and was almost certain that I would lose (but took anyway out of greed). A player of a higher skill level, on the other hand, would've been aware that such a fight was possible and perhaps preserved more units than they did. Conversely, a player of a lower skill level probably would have stood no chance against that. Who am I to judge what fights each individual player can and cannot take?
Having said that, while this idea would be helpful, you have to play it by ear a lot of the time (intuition). Knowing when to take fights comes with experience and is *not* something I can teach you in a 5- to 10-minute video. The purpose of The More You Know is to give people strategies that they can objectively use in most situations, and so I feel that this type of video would not be a good fit therein.
Alright, very good points.
Thank you!
cee eich ee double-u very late to this comment, but one thing you can do so that you can take harder fights earlier on is experiment with finding the most effective units available in each faction for the beginning game and go for those. For example, rushing toward Marksman/ crusaders on castle, thunderbirds on stronghold and vamp lords on necro etc. once you get a little more used to these units, you will find that for the most part they are faily easy to utilize and will expand the scope of what you can do early game.
cee eich ee double-u knowing when to battle and when not to battle is also heavily reliant on your knowlege of the game. how fast are the units you are attacking, how much health do they have and how hard can they hit? Another thing to keep in mind is the possible number of creatures that might show up, for example fighting a griffin conservatory where the min is 50 griffins and the max is 200. having knowlege of these things and weighing cost and benefit is an essential skill in Homm3
The longer you take to clear something the harder it is. So if you wait until you have tier 4-5 units you will probably need them, whereas if you hire a few heroes, make a decent sized army in week 1 and try you can probably do it easy enough
When it says populations of dwellings increase or a specific type of monster gets a boost that doesn't only apply to cities from what I can tell, all things seem to grow.
Or if not, perhaps a breakdown of population mechanics might be a good episode 4 lol
I wish you'd made a few more of these, nobody else on RUclips seems to have done anything like them. Thanks for posting what you did though, great work!
Please, more. This is the only quality video guide for Heroes III I've ever seen.
I'm sorry that I haven't been able to pump out more episodes of The More You Know. I appreciate the polite request and your opinion of my strategy guide thus far, but unfortunately, I lack the time and motivation to create more episodes at the moment.
Despite the relatively short duration of these videos, there is a fairly high amount of time and effort necessary to create each one which I would much rather dedicate to my Let's Play Heroes III series instead. I've put The More You Know on indefinite hiatus for now, but I'm hoping to continue this series at some point in the future.
In the meantime, another content creator for Heroes III (Tyranuxus) has released a tutorial series of his own, which you can check out here: ruclips.net/p/PLqzKvhEbeCCNV6ODqE7z_DwHi070XVKkK. I hope this helps!
Thank you for making these Videos :-) Heroes 3 was my childhood game and I still play it occasionally today (itnever gets old). Keep up the work!
My pleasure -- thank you for watching them!
Yes, every match of Heroes III is indeed a new adventure. That's exactly why I'm playing it today! :)
Really appreciate the effort and patience you put in to make these videos! I've started watching some of your challenge videos and i'm learning more each time. I'd love to see more whenever you have the time and mood for it!
I love these school of learning strategies to play videos. Many things mentioned unlike simple showcase videos.
That's great to hear! In my playthroughs, I typically try to give insight on my thought process and I share a few tips here and there, but those videos remain focused on gameplay more so than strategy. The goal of The More You Know was to give a more detailed look on specific parts of the game, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to finish the series.
@@TheKnownWorld I'm glad you shared your knowledge with us this far. Take your time and keep going with the video as soon as you have enough inspiration and time.
Will do! Cheers!
what is this, ANOTHER episode? has it been a year since the spell casting episode already?
This one is really a great tutorial, congratulations. I hope you find the time to develop this guide way behind the knight.
Thanks! Indeed, it would be nice to continue this series at some point, but I'm not sure if that will be any time soon.
Need more of these, how about an episode on which units to target for bless? Explaining protection from x? Does it affect damage from fire based units for example? Elementary build orders in general that apply to most factions? When to go for banks? Etc.
Hi! I'm a big fan of your work, I really appreciate someone making great Heroes 3 content, as aside from the obvious nostalgia factor, I genuinely believe this is one of the finest turn-based strategies out there (to this day). I would like to make a suggestion for the strategy guide series: I think you should do faction guides. You could go over strenghts / weaknesses, heroes , economy, fighting (esp. late game) and opening strategy. This would be a great help, as I find that getting good information on a specific subject like this is hard (there are some guides on celestial heaven but they are kinda meh). Also I would really enjoy watching tactical analysis of late game fights, both against AI and Player opponents. So maybe after filming a let's play, you could make the end fight into a separate video and add commentary. Just an idea. Keep rocking man! :D
Hello! It's nice to see that others out there appreciate the content that I've been putting out for this legendary game. I share your perspective regarding Heroes III being one of the finest turn-based strategy games in existence, particularly in terms of enjoyment and immersion. :)
First of all, since I feel that final battles against human opponents are my greatest weakness, I don't consider myself qualified to accurately analyze them. Thank you for the idea though!
While I do value your suggestion for future episodes of The More You Know, the focus of the series is on gameplay mechanics (i.e. how hero movement works) and general strategies that are usable by every faction (i.e. hero chaining and the use of 1-stacks in combat). Furthermore, the idea of covering varying aspects of factions does sound interesting, but these subjects are informally covered by the matches shown in my Let's Play Heroes III series.
Besides, I already know what topics the next episodes will cover. Right now, it's just a matter of finding the time and motivation to actually make the videos themselves.
Keep rocking I shall. Cheers!
Thank you for keep making this series, it does help newbie like me a lot
Glad to hear it. :)
Let Episode 4 be about the Heroes' Skill Tree, how each Secondary Skill can provide great advantages for a certain type of Hero/Town/Map :O
P.S. Have a skill tree of: Scouting, Scholar, Eagle Eye, Mysticism, First Aid, Learning, Artillery, and Navigation, on a Fortress Hero that can only use Fortress units, on a waterless map, and you can only use that hero as your main C:
He Ang pro_CTB that challenge made me throw up in my mouth a little bit
(dont hate on fortress, vs. the ai, its actually not so bad)
U will have atleast armorer on fortress hero :)
We need more of this. As a person that mostly played Heroes at the age of 6-9, my skills arent the best.
So needless to say, these videoes are super helpful for players like me
Love your content
Thanks! Hopefully in the upcoming weeks, I can release a few episodes for The More You Know. ;)
We'll be waiting !
Later on in the game, I always have the problem that one hero that has an actual army doesn't seem to be enough. I always get caught up on spots where my main hero currently is not present, leaving my side heroes without any army undefended. But when I try to prevent this by splitting up my army so my side heroes (at least some of them) have at least a bit of an army, my armies become to small very quickly. Should I actually split up my army or put all my units on one hero even in the late game?
hey, man. I love your channel and I've learned a lot of new strategies watching your vids. Can I ask you to do a M map instead of the regulars XL? I always have problems on maps smaller than L and maybe some people would like to see that too. Congrats, the channel is amazing, keep doing this great job! (Sorry my bad english, I'm from Brazil)
Your English is just fine! :)
Let me take that into consideration. I'm not sure if you're aware, but I do have a playthrough where I took on the AI on an S-sized map, if that is of interest to you (ruclips.net/video/iYQEQ3EtUCo/видео.html).
TheKnownWorld in the first place, thanks for answering =). I have already watched this video, great work with Galthran and his skeletons by te way. And it helped me a lot, after that I became able to win a couple S maps in 200% which I had never done before watching it. But I still get trouble on some M maps at 200% difficulty (I think I win sometimes because I get lucky) and I think watching you play one of those could help a lot not just me but anyone, actually. I think it's a good challenge =). Merry Christmas and happy new year, bro!
Adilson Carvalho You too. Happy Holidays! :D
Hey, any plans to do more of these ? I'm getting back into homm3 after a 15 year hiatus and these 3 videos have already enlightened me on some gameplay nuances I had previously missed (having the manual from the GOG release helps a fair bit too
Welcome back to Heroes of Might and Magic III! Unfortunately, while I do know what the next episodes would cover, I've put this series on hiatus for the time being. I simply don't have the time or motivation right now to do the recording and editing necessary to put together episodes in The More You Know. Sorry about that!
@@TheKnownWorld, are you still not feeling like making more of those videos? Because they are awesome, one cannot emphasize it enough! :)
@@TheKnownWorld I agree completely! We love this series. But either way, thanks for what you did make.
Ideas on next Guides:
- hero chaining
I find it interesting that you should make such suggestions since all of these topics are included in the upcoming episodes for The More You Know. Unfortunately, I've put this series on hiatus for the time being not because I'm out of ideas, but because I lack the time or motivation to continue making videos for this series.
So, is this going to get updated eventually, really looking forward to more.
Heroes can also chain move troops to distant parts of the map...in multiplayer on known maps, after positioning several heroes at intervals first turn, it's possible to largely clear the starting area on the second turn.
I actually planned to do an episode on hero chaining at some point, but I haven't yet gotten around to doing it.
You didn't tell the people to watch out for Stannis in a Tavern. You'd think of all the heroes he would be the one you remember first! Also, nice Chain Lighting in a tope, killing your Trogs really convinced me how good of a hero Solmyr was huehue
I hope you eventually make more of these.
Cheers! I want to continue the series at some point in the future, but right now I lack the time and motivation to do so.
Please make more guides like these and I would also love to see some factions and unit breakdowns.
I intend to continue The More You Know at some point, but each episode takes a fair bit of time and effort to make that I just don't have available to me at this time. Thanks for the feedback on what you would want to see in the future!
Heya. I don't know if 'The More You Know" is still a thing, but perhaps the next bi-anual volume could cover the ins and outs of maximizing hero movement? This can either be very simple and straightforward or more complicated, I suppose.
Simple would be what is worth paying attention to in order to have a decent amount of movement every turn. I.e.: terrain, fast monsters, premature turn ending to temporarily unequip slower monsters for more movement next turn, etcetera. More complex could be, when to sacrifice movement speed - for example, should you include dwarfs into a seperate starter army? Or, what is and what is not worth exploring? And when is it acceptable to use your main hero to grab stuff that is unguarded?
Ironically, Hero Movement was supposed to be one of the upcoming episodes for The More You Know. However, I've put the series on indefinite hiatus until I have the time and motivation to continue making more episodes.
A video about how archery works? :) Could include an explanation of how ranged damage is calculated, and also what determines how far ranged units can shoot without penalty. I also recall that you once said that ranged units shooting over castle walls suffer from a penalty to their damage. Thanks! Great content
I think a video on how ranged damage works (or perhaps even damage in general) would be a good idea, but I'd need to find time to make it. The general idea for ranged unit damage is this:
- A ranged unit does 100% (base) damage if its target is within 10 hexes (not considering sieges).
- Attack Skill will add damage on top of the base damage (based on Attack-Defense difference).
- The Archery Secondary Skill will add 10%/25%/50% (Basic/Advanced/Expert) damage on top of the base damage, not factoring in Archery-boosting artifacts.
- A target that is further than 10 hexes will only take half the usual damage. This is ignored when Golden Bow or Bow of the Sharpshooter is present.
- During a siege, a target behind town walls will only take half the usual damage. This is ignored when Golden Bow or Bow of the Sharpshooter is present.
Hey MK, quick question: which RNG templates do you suggest for mediocre H3 players to have a casual game on L-XL maps?
Balance and Skirmish aren't too bad for an L-sized map. Mirror (h3dm1) is a pretty interesting one as well.
Regarding XL+U, personally I find Mini-Nostalgia and Spider to be particularly fun. As for XL with no Underground, I'd say that Jebus Cross is a reliable pick.
Can you at some point make a video about the crypts, dragon utopias etc.? Especially about where which creature in the army slots apear in the battlefield.
Actually, I had an episode planned where I was going to cover some basic details of creature banks, including how units are positioned during creature bank fights. However, I haven’t had the time or motivation to continue The More You Know as of recent, but I intend to continue the series at some point.
glad to hear! looking forward to that :-)
:)
I wish you would continue this series. Most of this stuff was obvious to me as a Heroes veteran but I did learn something in the magic video for example. And obviously as this would go on to more complex topics I would learn more.
PS. If you see this what is your opinion on the games from the franchise other than 3, did you play and enjoy any of them?
Yes, you're right - my intention with this series was to go into greater detail about more complex topics like Hero Movement and Poor Man's Town Portal. I've always wanted to complete this series as well, but it just requires too much time and effort to make each episode relative to my Let's Play Heroes III series.
To answer your question, I've never played Heroes 6 or Heroes 7, but I've tried Heroes 1-5. I grew up with Heroes II a bit and I like the game, but I feel like Heroes III built on the strengths of Heroes II to go from being a great game to a masterpiece.
I didn't spend nearly as much time trying out Heroes I, Heroes 4, or Heroes 5, so I don't have the most informed opinion about these games. However, Heroes 4 felt like too far a departure from the first three entries in the HoMM series for me to really get into it. I didn't enjoy Heroes 5 very much, particularly because the birdseye perspective combined with the 3D models often made it difficult to spot objects on the Adventure Map. Heroes I was alright, but it definitely lacked the polish and refinement of its successors.
will you be doing one about templates? think you've mentioned before that you wanted to; i'd look forward to that one!
also, now that hota's out, what's your feelings about tower? [even though the heroes are still god awful]
An episode on Templates is in the roster, yes.
Also, with the removal of Mage Tower as a prerequisite building for Genies/Nagas/Giants and the addition of Experimental Workshops, I feel that Tower has gotten massive improvements from the original game. They have an ultra-cheap, powerstack-viable Tier 7 unit with other units that are very strong along the way. Even taking into account the relatively "weak" heroes of Tower (which can be remedied by switching to a different main hero, of course), Tower is honestly one of the strongest factions in HotA.
wtf? H3 Guide? - It's awesome. Now I know where to send all "wise" RUclipsrs.
Hi. I watched some of your movies and you split your starting army (level 1 melee units) and created group of creatures with 1 quantity. Could you explain me how does this tactic work? Maybe in next video If you have time.
Thanks in advance.
That is supposed to be a future episode in my "The More You Know" series, but I haven't quite gotten around to making it yet.
Ok, thanks for your response. I'm looking forward to your next "The More You Know" episode.
You're welcome, and I'm glad to hear it! :D
I would like to know more about orthodox spells like: hypnotize, fire wall, force field, forgetfulness, earthquake, mine field, clone, armagedon.and such
a little late to the party, but hypnosis is dependent on the spell power of the hero and the amount of hitpoints possessed by the targeted stack. many creatures also have mind spell immunities. personally I prefer the spells blind and berserk as they both have somewhat similar practical effects and do not have the same limitations
Honestly, gedon took a massive hit in three (more immune creatures, artifacts that stopped it, harder to get in guild).
Here ya go, a bit of a reference guide.
Hypnotize - useless. With a spellpower to control 4 nagas your lighting bolt would be able to send them into oblivion right away. The only way to make it useful is to kill off AI's stack to the point when you can hypnotize them and let AI resurrect it to full power - I only saw this trick once, and I wouldn't count on it.
Fire wall - bloody great against mid-weak neutrals. There's dozens of youtube videos of Luna pillaging and wrecking havoc with a single pixie.
Force field - pretty decent thing for cheezing your victory over two-hexes melee stacks. Don't work against the rest of the enemy types.
Forgetfulness - at expert, turns archers into swordsmen, but without a sword. Doesn't work on Liches, so don't get your hopes too high.
Earthquake - mediocre. Can facilitate wall destruction all right, but 6 single stack Cyclopes do a significantly better job at it.
Mine field - mediocre. Random mine placement more often gets you wasted mana and no enemy casualties than not. And if you can cast it often enough to be of use, you most definitely could have used your mana better.
Clone - at expert quite amazing, think of it as a "double movement" for your archers (at expert - including Titans). Could also be used to remove retaliation, but make sure that there's no units in enemy army that are as fast as the clone, or it will most likely be smacked before it makes a move.
Armageddon. Glorious, glorious Dragoggeddon, with a warlock running amok with his Black Dragon and pillaging everything that isn't nailed down. Prone to running out of mana when you want it the least, and yes, enemies sometime have units that are immune to fire or magic, so keep an eye out.
Now, I know this is kind of a noobish question, but how can I use heroes from differing towns without having problems with morale, and terrain movement? I normally always wait a week for a hero from my own town to appear in the tavern so I can effectively go into battles with them, as well as having no problems with terrain on maps (Like Jebus Cross), etc..
(By the way, idk if you remember me from your streams, I'll be back, I promise, school has me by the ass)
Actually, this is a great question! But you might be mistaken as to how Morale works. Morale is affected by the number of faction types that are present on one side of the battlefield but not by what hero you use. If you use units from only one faction, you get +1 Morale. If you use units from two factions, you get 0 Morale. Any more factions than this result in -1 Morale for each additional faction with a maximum penalty of -3 Morale.
So you can have an army consisting of units from Castle and Rampart being led by a Rampart hero, and (assuming no other Morale bonuses) your net Morale will be 0. If these units are led by a Necropolis hero instead, your net Morale will still be 0.
As for terrain penalties (which I will talk about in a later episode of The More You Know), the basic idea is to try and minimize how much you move around on terrain types that hinder you when you're using units that are not native to that terrain type. You can read up more on hero movement at heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Movement. I hope this helps!
And yes, I haven't forgotten about you.
Thanks MeKick, luv u 4ever honeybuns
um ok lol
Thanks a lot for this guide! Please, keep going! Wish a prosperity for your channel!!!
I'll make the next episodes when I'm able to. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Maaan - we NEED more of these! PLS!
Sorry, but this series is currently on indefinite hiatus until I can find the time and motivation to continue it. I already have the next episodes planned, but these aren't easy to make considering the amount of editing that goes into making them.
Well bro - ill be waiting! :) I love the style and the editing. Hope you get inspired soon!
That's great to hear! I'm glad you appreciate the level of effort that I've put into making these episodes!
Episode 4 of the guide is our particular Half Life 3 :(
Do you still have plans to do it?
Thanks :)
Sorry about that! I do still have plans to do Episode 4 along with 7 other episodes, but I'm not sure when I'll get around to doing them (if ever).
I wish there were more of these. Virtually nobody explains Heroes 3 strategies.
What version of h3 are you playing on? I want these arrows under army when you meet with other hero,
its the hd mod it has a lot of easy to use features that can make the game a lot easier and friendly to use
just look online HOMM3 HD mod
must be nice starting a map with gold! xD Great vid! using it to show one of my friends how to play
maybe for you next video (or a future one) you could explore kiting? I have a hard time explaining it and its a pretty essential skill. Alternatively, maybe going over seige tactics (both attacking and defending) is a good idea. just wanted to make some suggestions :) great job
Ah, great suggestions! As it turns out, these are already concepts to be explored in the later episodes of The More You Know. But as you pointed out, explaining it can be difficult, which is partly why a video doesn't yet exist for these strategies. :P
Thanks!
Will there be videos on topics like economy, unit choice, artefacts, morale/luck, etc?
Thanks for the videos! I'm now playing HoMM 3 Horn of The Abyss thanks to you XD
Just like 15 years ago :)
My pleasure!
In the upcoming episodes of The More You Know, I have no intention of discussing any of the topics that you brought up. The More You Know's focus is supposed to be on exploring gameplay mechanics (i.e. how movement works in the game) and teaching strategies that are usable by every faction. Furthermore, topics like "economy" and "unit choice" strike me as rather subjective, and I'd prefer to have these episodes lean more towards objectively useful strategies. For example, I doubt anyone will question the usefulness of 1-stacks and hero chaining, but there will probably be more than a few people who will raise eyebrows at my preference for rushing Wyverns while playing Fortress.
The topics you mentioned are better handled through a combination of watching my Let's Play Heroes III videos and pulling up some pages on heroes.thelazy.net/. If you want to see how I approach economy and unit choice, then you'd get a lot more out of observing me play a match with the faction that you're interested in rather than a short 5-minute video that briefly tries to cover my approach for every town. As for information on artifacts and morale/luck, you can get this off of other sources online.
Anyway, thank you for watching my content. I hope you enjoy your journey back into Heroes III! :)
Thanks for response!
Yep I found thelazy wiki already XD
P.S. Who knew that you can have few powerstacks of units and then just 1 stack in every other slot
If only I had this info long time ago :P
You're welcome! As you pointed out, the notion of using 1-stacks with powerstacks feels like a simple yet ingenious strategy that would have helped my gameplay had I realized it sooner.
But hey, better late than never. ;D
Next episode in 2022 huh?
Maybe. It depends on when I find the time and motivation to keep making these.
We're still waiting...👍😅
Using multyple heroes, geting logistic and pathfinding, getting fly, teleport, water walk and town portal. Win!
ok but how to use heroes efficiently later in the game? while im pretty okay using them early on they seems to be doing nothing in later stages of the game.
Keep them as part of your chain until you get control spells like DD, Fly, and TP and adjust your hero positions accordingly. If you get new towns, buy out heroes to scout the nearby area if you have the Gold for it. If you have objectives (i.e. Crypts or Dragon Fly Hives) on the map that haven't yet been cleared, then move heroes to get ready to clear that out.
I can't label all the different situations in the late game and how to appropriately use heroes in response to each, but these are just some general ideas of how to approach them. It's up to you to be creative enough to come up with solutions that fit each situation that is presented to you. :)
Well i would like to know, how to play a map, what we should focus on map and why
When we should back to castle (Like for mana, or for spells/armie)-when we should go further etc...:)
This is just one of those things I can’t make a good guide for. Decision-making in Heroes III is a skill that has to be learned by the player given time and experience. You can find moments when I’ve had to make such choices in my Let’s Play Heroes III videos, which act as a general guideline for how I approach such situations. Often, I opt not to return back to my starting town with my main hero to get armies or spells - to obtain extra armies, I use hero chains and towns of other AI players, while I acquire spells and spell points by capturing towns on the map and accessing Magic Wells.
I would think it difficult (perhaps even impossible) to make a video that outlines all the possible situations you could be stuck in and how to tackle on each one. Besides, my way of taking on certain situations is far from perfect, and some players may find it easier to approach maps using playstyles that they themselves are familiar with.
Thank you for your answer, well i kinda newbie and your videos help's me a lot. You are doing great job making such a good viedo's. Im waiting for more(Especially stategy quide-Meaby you will finde some other topic to make next video :D)
And i want to say hota mode introduced multiplayer lobby(ofc if you alredy don;t saw it :D), it only have a few days and is in beta phase but already there is all the time 150-200 ppl online waitig for game with others :D it would be a pleasure to play with you some day :)
You're welcome, and thank you for your kind words! I'm fully aware of the online multiplayer that was recently introduced by HotA. In fact, I even used it on my Twitch streams to set up an 8-player FFA with viewers over the last two weekends.
As for The More You Know, I already know the topics for each of the episodes that I want to make for the series. Unfortunately, I just haven't had the time or motivation to make such videos, especially since each episode takes roughly the same amount of time to make as a Let's Play Heroes III video.
My biggest problem is when I use 2,3 main heroes at the same time, my force is not strong enough to defend my main town. Very risky it is.
The problem I have is that if I have 2 or 3 heroes then if both collect exp from fights then if I restock units and explore then all it takes is 1 fight for him to be exhausted while my other hero is just as vulnerable. If I have too many heroes then the problem becomes scouting and collecting due to them not having any fighting units and they can't collect the loot and it a one way road with my main fighting heroes over 4 days away fighting.
Then the problem comes when my first enemy is spotted. If one of my heroes stay then they just scout around or pick a fight. And if they do then I will either lose most of my units or lose leaving my castle defenseless. And if one stays he stays so no more attack, defense or exp just more units which the enemy wipe. And the moment I leave my castle they instantly just appear out of nowhere and takes it.
I played on a map where you start on an island with another castle to the left, one boat dock and one teleport one way to another tiny small island with a knight castle. My problem was I was isolated and it was a map of islands so my trips took eternity plus capturing any town was too costly on top of 2 or so enemies with somehow big level monsters in masses and more enemies hidden with the same units while I struggled to have one hero like that. And this was on easiest
It seems that there is a lot being said here. What I'm wondering is what you mean when you say that it takes one fight for your hero to be "exhausted". Exhausted in terms of what, exactly? Spell Points? Early on in the match, you shouldn't be running out of Spell Points against Wandering Monsters very often. In fact, you shouldn't even be using magic in most of the opening fights that you take since they're generally very straightforward.
Without being there to witness the situations that you're talking about, it would be quite difficult for me to give advice as to what you should do in the situations you outlined in your comment. Such knowledge can only be gained through playing and learning more about Heroes III. Rather than address your entire comment word for word, I would encourage you to watch my Let's Play Heroes III videos and observe how I approach the start of each game. Pay close attention to how I take fights, position my heroes to quickly transfer units back and forth between them, and how I deal with enemy AI players. Of course, I don't play flawlessly by any means, but there are a few strategies that you can pick up from taking a look at how I start off in a few of my videos. It might help to practice on a lower difficulty setting as well.
By my own admission, I'm not very well-versed in water-based maps, so I have no comment regarding the map you played on in your last paragraph.
can you make one about your fighting strategy with lots of units of just one?
I'm not so sure that I understand your request. What do you mean by my "fighting strategy with lots of units"?
Can you make a strategy video on how to use Turn order and 1 stack units? Please! :)
I went over turn order in my Waiting in Combat video. Have you seen that yet?
The use of 1-stacks will be the premise of a future The More You Know episode, although I should point out that The More You Know has been postponed indefinitely due to a lack of time and motivation.
Wow, thanks so much for making another video.
Thanks for watching! :)
I love these videos!! Can you please make one about battle strategies and strategies like switching over units & artifacts between heroes? Please!! :D
It’s nice to hear that you’re enjoying my videos! I’m not sure that I would know how to structure an episode on switching units and artifacts between heroes, to be honest. Besides, I’ve already planned out what episodes I intend to do next for The More You Know, but I just have to find the time and motivation to do them.
Yeah bad example, it was the first thing that came to my head because i saw you do that in another video and i never thought of it myself. Still, i'd love to see more of these, they increase the fun i have in the game even more :D Hope you'll find time and motivation to make those videos! Meanwhile, do you have any other simulair guides you could recommend?
I'm afraid that I don't know of any guides that follow the same style as The More You Know. However, I do know of the strategy guides written by Jolly Joker (see www.celestialheavens.com/viewpage.php?id=448), but I've never really looked over them myself. Perhaps those would be of interest to you? ;)
Cheers!
Thanks man!
You’re welcome!
Wow MK 2 The more you know videos in a single year It must be chrismas
Not yet, unfortunately.
Just an idea for an episode: non-combat skills. I find little real focus on any except logistics, and yet they can make difficult maps a lot easier.
What type of discussion regarding non-combat skills are you looking for, exactly?
I was just thinking some of the basics. I've seen people scoff at skills like estates for example, but I've found it very helpful on low resource maps or for smoothing the cost of Tower's units. Recognizing when pathfinding is critical or can be delayed/ignored (lost me games before). Scouting a map to see if navigation is useful (another painful loss, more to me trying to be clever than anything). Even the scouting skill early on (on a disposable hero of course) to get more of the fog removed early.
Of course, most of these come from situations I've personally been in, and from across the entire franchise, so they may not be represtative in high level HoMM 3 play. Feel free to inform me if I sound completely nuts.
I see. So you want me to do an episode for the other Secondary Skills that are underused/underrated/situational. To be honest, I don't know what I'd even say when discussing most of these Secondary Skills. Would I talk about what the Secondary Skill does? How it's useful? Also, I'm one of the people who scoff at Estates.
Since most PvP games are played on Random Maps (typically, ones without water), you shouldn't ever need to use Scouting to determine whether or not you need Navigation. Pathfinding will be touched upon in a later episode.
Either way, I already have the central ideas behind each of the remaining episodes planned out. I just have to get around to making them. :P
Ah, so I am crazy. That or I play too many blasted water maps.
You're not crazy, I just don't think you've given enough details to work with for making a video which is why I'm asking what exactly you mean when you want me to "discuss" said Secondary Skills.
Also, I don't know very many people who enjoy maps with water on it.
Thanks your tips are very helpful mekick :)
Glad to hear it! :)
a nice video. I also like the upload rhythm of 2 videos every year. Can't wait for december 2017 :D
+1
No one expected it ! Woooow!
No comment.
Could you make a hotkey video
Which hotkeys are you interested in learning about? Also, are you using the HD mod?
I am using the HD mod and I always see you and rams flow through swapping unit reorganization of them and buy them in towns also when you activate a marketplace while not moving back and forth
CTRL+Click creates a 1-stack
ALT+Click groups up all units of the same type into one big stack
SHIFT+Click splits a stack into two halves
CTRL+SHIFT+Click fills up all empty remaining slots with a 1-stack
SHIFT+ALT+Click dismisses a unit
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+Click cycles an army from the town to the hero, or vice-versa
I hope this helps! Are there any other ones you want to know about?
Ok so multiple heroes. Every hero needs an army to win a fight, and starting from day 1 wild creatures goes higher and higher in numbers. So you simply have to recruit an army. This equals weakening main hero army which can be defeated by opponent hero. Having multiple heroes for further exploration in all directions disables transporting the army to main hero in time. Solution?
Ideally, you’d want to have your full army on your main hero at the end of your turn if you know that they’re in danger of being attacked. But during your turn, you’d transport the full army between each of your heroes so that they can clear fights before you return the army back to your main hero.
This strategy was supposed to be explored in an episode of The More You Know on “Hero Chains”, but I haven’t gotten around to making it yet.
Great series. Wish there were more videos! Also: 0 dislikes! :D Wow!
no guide for 2017 ? :(
What. Doesn't everyone get 8 heroes (preferably with +350 gold) Asap?
Nope. Some players prefer to get one or two heroes tops and then farm with just those.
Of course, +350 Gold specialty is nice, but having other utility-based heroes can be very useful too.
You forgot to mention whenever you see "King Stannis" in the Tavern you MUST make him your main!!!
Oh yeah...
whoes king stannis? whats his specialty and town?
"King Stannis" (a.k.a. Christian from Castle), derived from Game of Thrones, is a bit of an inside joke here within our community.
all hail king stannis
Just don't put him on a boat. Considering our scouts' reports, he'd probably end up betrothed to a singing goblin or something.
my weakness in Heroes 3 is having favorite heroes and always buying them regardless of the need
The issue is to know how many units should I assign to which heroes :l
As you might see in my Let's Play Heroes III videos, usually you would keep 1 unit (preferrably a Tier 1 unit or a Tier 2 or Tier 3 unit with Speed 6+) on your side heroes in the early game while you keep your full army on your main hero.
new episode?
Please add more videos!
Nice video!!
Make more of these please
When I have the time and motivation to do so, I’ll try to finish The More You Know. Unfortunately, each episode of The More You Know takes a surprisingly long time to make, and so my current focus remains on the Let’s Play Heroes III series.
That fade effect used on text at the end makes it hard to read...
Interesting. No one else has pointed this out except for you. Thanks for the feedback!
why did you stop doing these?
I stopped doing videos for The More You Know mainly because of how much time and preparation went into making these episodes. Since each episode of The More You Know takes roughly as long to complete as a full Heroes III match, I felt that my efforts were better off directed to my Let's Play Heroes III playthroughs instead.
@@TheKnownWorld Please, MeKick, do make some more TheMoreYouKnow videos. Is it possible?
@@TheKnownWorld Please, at least one TheMoreYouKnow video about battle strategy. How to arrange troops, who to attack? That would be really helpful and worth the time.
Two episodes in a row... IT'S HAPPENING
sooooooooooo where is the next episode?
Unfortunately, due to a lack of time and motivation, I have put this series on an indefinite hiatus for the time being.
TheKnownWorld thats sad to hear, oh well
Sorry about that! :(
Another Strategy Guide? WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MEKICK
buzz off
You're not beeing nice there. Also, nice 1-stacks of Trogs in that Utopia. By the way, I always buy Saurag, she is a great resource specialist for Stronghold.
Kappa
At first, I was going to use 1-stacks, but then eventually I decided to save that for a later video. ;)
And yes, Saurug Stronghold starts are the absolute best.
Saurug is a d00d.
It seems this mini-series stopped for some reason :
The More You Know is currently on hiatus due to the amount of effort it takes to make each episode. Editing and recording gameplay footage and audio eats up a lot more time than one might expect. If I feel like it in the future and have the time to do so, I'll release some more videos for this series.
Looking forward to it - twitch isn't really my thing, so I really appreciate you uploading to YT as well.
Fair enough. More content should be coming soon :)
I'm Solmir.I don't want to think .I want to build capitol and stay in my castle - tower.
I dislike Kreg Hek,because he comes to me on 121 with high creatures and I loses(((
kable87 is that u???
no!:D
:|
where's the rest?
On hiatus at the moment. When I get the chance to produce some more episodes, perhaps I will.
we want more :o
I expected something more advanced, but still watched ^^'
What about prayer? I believe in one of the campaigns the main hero has prayer specialty, and from what I remembered I was just like haste+stats, and a hell of a lot
More videos, please
I'll try to release the next one as soon as I can!
It's anyone here who is still waiting for the next episode,or I'm the only one ?
I really do apologize for having forsaken this series. There has been just far too much on my plate as of the past half year for me to be able to continue this series alongside the other content that I’ve been putting out on this channel. Lack of motivation is a problem, too. Don’t lose hope, though - I shall continue The More You Know someday!
Nice
In my childhood days it was still called "Hero of Might 3", I swear.
I think that even to this day, some people still play "Hero of Might and Magic III".
That'll be my next challenge as well. :P
Makes me wish a mod to set automatic patrol routes for multiple heroes in the late game.
That would be nice, yes.
It's trickier on 200% difficulty. The forst 2500 gold you gather may better spent upgrading the town...
The purpose of this episode isn't so much to recommend people to get heroes before building a Town Hall or vice-versa, but to suggest having more than one hero at a time (especially in the later stages of the game). From what I've seen, there are too many players who fall behind primarily because they focus too much on using a single hero to clear out the map when they should instead be using side heroes to do trivial tasks like picking up free resources.
Why do u put heroes 2 music there😂😂😂
Why not? :P
keep it up!
TheKnownWorld: do you get outplayed by AI when playing 1 hero?
TheKnownWorld to Inner TheKnownWorld: *1v9 solo hero expert* no
Love you :3
You forgot to mention :
"No heroes until after 311, unless you are able to move them all during your turn", 7th of the OWL Rules.
Oh, my bad. I totally forgot about that. :^)
+TheKnownWorld That's ok MK, now everything is fine. Keepo
Otherwise, it's great that the series goes on :D
MK on fireeee!!!
:D
Can you tell me which version exactly are you using/playing? Of heroes 3 I mean.
I use Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death with the HD mod (downloadable from sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/).
Aw hell yea
MLG guide right here advanced too leet for the peeps
3 heroes in expensive towns like rampart are really enoght
I had to double check that I haven't accidentally traveled 3 years to the future again.
don't worry, u didnt
waiting for real intresting things, but i know, that you have to start from easiest :P Cheers ;)
This is the last of my "basics". For "real interesting things", you might enjoy the next episode.
However, don't get your hopes up too high. There are some individuals who are too skilled for these guides to be of any use.
😊
First video on youtube with 0 dislikes...
I wonder how long it'll stay like that for. :P
don't act like we didn't see that chain lightning at the end mk
Now why would I do that ... :P
Eh you should play on the highest difficulty. 0 resources at the start. Try spamming heroes then :)
But I do play on 200% difficulty. And even then, I still spam as many heroes as I can reasonably obtain as soon as I'm able to.
Ah! Also like and subscribe!!!
HoMM II music :D
:)
too many Heroes III: Strategy Guides.. please slow down, ppl moight get head injuries from all the knowledge. MAy i suggest you wait a few years before you post the next video.. but great work
Noo is that all? Please moar!
Sadly, yes. Despite how short these strategy guide videos are, each episode takes a much longer amount of time and effort to make than a standard Let's Play Heroes III episode. As a result, even though I have the next episodes already planned out, I've decided to put The More You Know on hiatus for the time being.
Give me Sandro and i'll make this game HERO of might and magic ;)
You don't know what you are talking about, do you?
Firstly, Bron is obviously the better hero.
Secondly, Necropolis is for scrubs. real man play Fortress.
#Lizardman4life
Bron and his stupid lizards.
Sandro is soul, Sandro is spirit. give him to me in a Beastmasters and Witches world, let him have an army of insects, the victory is his.
Sando is the triumphest.
#Lizardman4life
Hey, I thought we ran Sandro out of Enroth. Man, Erathia really has gone to the dogs if they let him in.
i would bone Sandro