Factory and Castle in Town Vs. Town Battles - HoMM3: HotA

As per your request :)
Let's test how different armies can do in three scenarios: Meeting engagement, defending and attacking a city. In meeting engagement the armies are of the same size, in city battles the attacker has 10% more troops. First three battles are controlled by AI the last three by player. In this episode we have Factory and Castle facing each other.
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00:00 Setup
00:15 AI Meeting Engagement
02:22 AI Factory Assaults
05:52 AI Castle Assaults
09:10 PvP Meeting Engagement
15:14 PvP Factory Assaults
20:31 PvP Castle Assaults
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I hope you enjoy the video :)
If you are a fan of Heroes 3 or play the game, check this video out. You learn new things about the armies of different factions.
#heroesofmightandmagic3 #hornoftheabyss #heroes3 #hota

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Army costs (1 resource = 1.000 gold)
Factory Field Army: 439.670
Factory Defensive Army: 384.700
Castle Field Army: 391.380
Castle Defensive Army: 355.800

[@necromancer803]

That ICQ sound you get means that a sound file is missing. In HotA, if a unit has either corrupted sound file or none, the sound is replaced with the one you can hear on coatles

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Hmm. I guess I would need to look to the files then as no patch has fixed this at least yet :)

[@stolenn4me]

Out of all sounds in the world, why the icq notification?😄

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Indeed :D When I first tested the unit I was kind of "Funny sounds they have picked for this one..." Thanks for the comment.

[@e.vasileva5891]

I found the Coatls making that sound quite cute :D The new updates have fixed it.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the info. I need to download it. It was starting to get into my nerves :D

[@cmlcml415]

we need to count how many "uh oh" are there in this video lol

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Uh oh. :D Indeed. Thanks for the comment.

[@chanceobrien]

ICQ message sound! OMGROFLMAO!

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Yea :D Thanks for the comment.

[@zealgaming8161]

This town feels really strong against neutrals where you can wall in your ranged, both which has insane damage potential.
Then you encounter a enemy hero, and the hero casts a spell and all your carry potential is now gone in the blink of an eye T_T.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Fully agreed on that. Though Coualts should outspeed both Behes and Hydras and even Haspids and Ghosties. But that first spell casting can be quite significant vs. other factions :) Thanks for the comment.

[@RllXeron]

Once again my mind is blown about how this new factory castle is uniqe as fk. I would never anticipate such a wild set of units and their concepts. Pure fact that you can combine very strong t7 but slow speed.. Secondary t7 which is paper but can became imune for 1 round... And then nice t6 shooters whose are also very weak is interesting in case of balance 😂

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Indeed. The Factory seems to offer nice amount of tactical variety :)

[@novasoul99]

Duuuude I loved the chicken noise the Quatls make. But they patched it :(((

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Every good thing ends in time :) Thanks for the comment.

[@novasoul99]

@@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu bro dropping the philosophical aspects🔥

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

@@novasoul99;D

[@Canuovea]

Wait, you can "heal" the mech spider stack with the flamer troops? Okay, those things were menace enough already.
Also, those Coatl things, flying across the map in a single turn? Why does "Factory" even have Coatls? How is a Coatl even remotely on theme? They seem to be a second Tier 7 unit? Okay, that explains how they can hit anything across the map, but... why have a second tier 7 unit? Also, they sound obnoxious. Like a cutesy little "Uh Oh!" every time they do something (missing sound file, but it's kinda funny. Makes em sound like Cuckoo Birds).
That said, for all my negativity (and I somewhat apologize for that) they aren't impossible to lose with. Maybe I'm just jealous of all the neat tricks they seem to have, but I do think they seem rather packed with neat tricks for a single faction.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment and analysis. Agreed that they seem to be rather powerful faction. I need to try to find the sound file if I can :)

[@Lollaren]

That sound destroyed the video. Don´t do it again

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Yea, let's see if I can fix it :)

[@Gunigugukebe]

​@@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu Hope for that, but it was funny anyway)

[@kacpadestro8086]

Lol bountyhunters got obliterated

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Yea, their low hit points hit them rather hard :) Thanks for the comment.

[@KutaphoneX]

When their time had come, they knew that. They could feel it in their bones ^^

[@Raukodor]

Lol ia is really stupid
Like champions fighting in his own pit, or go with archangels alone instead of waiting so all troops can attack

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

I just hope it was AI and not my control 😅. Thanks for the comment.

[@Raukodor]

@@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu 🤣

[@goldmidwest]

I'm sorry. But I've watched videos of Factory non-stop since they have been released/added to the game. Tons of videos like the ones on your channel and similar ones on many others. Factory is DEFINITELY over-tuned and there are strong legitimate arguments for it being overpowered. It's commendable that a community of smart/passionate people were able to add two factions *at all* & balance them *at all* but there are obviously going to be blunders and Factory's power level is a blunder.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Based on the tests it seems that the faction could use a couple of nerfs. Then again, imo the final test would be how it fares in PvP with two pro players :)