The Heroes Round Table

Wait Salamandre, for that map, how were you able to get past that neutral stack (southwest of the starting position) unscathed on Turn 1 using just 2 griffins? They consist of upgraded level 3 creatures!

When's the best week to build dragon's cave on a normal difficulty map? I've been thinking second week, but if you were to do that, you have to either build no upgrade buildings for two weeks, skip castle, or skip city hall. Is it worth getting dragon's cave on day 14 and sacrifice castle, city hall...

I've been thinking about it, and yea, I agree that the build orders could have been better. What do you think of these build orders? Castle: Form 1 (if there is a stable on the map) 1)Archer's tower 2)Blacksmith -> explore with max # of archers and pikemen, as well as a ballista 3)Barracks 4)Stables...

Shrines only teach one spell, no? What are the chances that the shrine will have the spell that I want?

Also, if I were to occupy two towns, what are the possibility that the second town has a spell that the first town already has?

Throughout the game, is there going to be only 5 random level 1 spells, 4 level 2 spells, etc. in your own city? How do you get more spells? Do you have to siege another city and get spells from there? What if there's that one spell (i.e. Bless) that you want so dearly, but out of all the cities tha...

That helped so much! Thanks Salamandre.

So let me get this straight - you managed to gather 21000 extra gold through treasure chests, gold piles, windmill, and sieging necropolis, right?

Shoot, now I see what's wrong with my strategy - I didn't siege early enough in order to gather extra gold. Doh.

^^2500 per day? You mean I should make 2500 per day, or spend 2500/day?

Thanks Kristo! Okay, I tried a strategy like that. This is what I did: 1:Town Hall 2:Archer's tower 3:Blacksmith 4:Barracks 5:Stable 6:Training grounds 7:Citadel 8:Mage Guild 1 -> Explore with 5 cavaliers 9:Marketplace 10:Griffin tower 11:Monestary 12:Castle 13:Portal of Glory 14:Capital The problem...

^^In that case, should I make PoG on the second week instead?

Salamandre - but the problem is, what units would you use for your exploration force? I usually use 5 cavaliers, upgraded to champions at a nearby stables, but based on your build order, it seems that you have no choice but to use angels as your exploration force. 2 angels cost 6000 gold, and you ha...

why build wyverns if gorgons can do everything wyverns can do but better?

I'm sorry. I got the build orders mostly from here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/63965-heroes ... faqs/15480

EDIT: What level of difficulty do most people play?

What do you think of these build orders (all 9 of them) for the first 14 days at knight difficulty (so 10 of each resource and 20000 starting gold) and with enough gold nearby? Castle (I pick cleric so that I don't need to build a mage guild): 1:Town hall 2:Archer's tower 3:Blacksmith 4:Barracks 5:S...

*gameplay Personally, I love these two additions. It makes the gameplay more deep, strategical, and it kind of balances out the "weaker" bases. Thanks to whoever designed them! In your opinion, how do the commanders and the lvl 8 creatures change the gameplay of HoMM3? To me, it seems that...

@Salamander - I don't get it. Why angels on the first week? The building costs like 20,000 gold. You spend more than 27000 on the first week and then you run out of troops on the second week. Very bad idea IMO. @BoardGuest - I like that one better, but is it really wise to pass on cavaliers on the f...

Day 1: Town hall Day 2: Archer's tower Day 3: Blacksmith Day 4: Barracks Day 5: Stables Day 6: Training Ground Day 7: Citadel Day 1: Upg. archer's tower This way, I can get out cavaliers in week 1. However, is citadel more worth it than griffin tower? Training ground requires three prerequisite buil...

Are pit lords really worth their 700 costs? Or are you better off using Inferno's other units? I've tried using demon summoning to the games advantage, and it seems very weak because you can only use it once per battle, and you need a large horde of pit lords to summon enough demons. With the same p...

For week 1, which tends to be more effective on most maps? Getting a city hall up ASAP, or getting all the creature dwellings up?

Thanks.

I see.

Another questions about scouts: should scouts do any fighting at all? What units should I include within my scout?

Thanks so much guys!

@Tress - banks? Isn't that only in the WoG addon?