Your Homm3 Hd Version Is Obsolete
Melia Hazinski
Author: Dave (Canada), 10-12-2022 22:13
How to attack last castle? - A Pirate's Life For Me!
I've completed the entire map, but now at the top right I'm at the final hero but I can't cross the "clouds" to reach the town... how do I finish?
Author: brg (zg, cro), 16-07-2019 02:45 Like
done in somewhat more than 6m - A Pirate's Life For Me!
great map.
the problem here is what some people already wrote, random troops and rss at beggining and draculas troops.
anyhow... spent about month on starting point than went trough whirpool and unprisoned hero with a lot of swamp troops. took that troops from him and went north to free gelu and aeris from prison... the rest is history. dracula was biggest challenge, he had more than 12k leeches.
This map is just stupid.. Played this on impossible and cant finnish it becouse there are these 2 barbarian villages that are out of reach without fly. Only 2 Ai's left. Ive spent 3h buying heroes from tavern to get those 3 heroes with fly but no luck.. stupid map. Delete yourself from this planet
3 ai heroes are given fly from the start thats why you couldn't get it.
That i know too all towns and cities on the map are accessible some you need portals but there should be a way to all of them. I will look into this at some point ty.
sorry, but there is absolutly no way to these two barbarian towns without fly. also there are there the AI heroes near the two towns and they also can not get out of the towns near region and they stopped moving. as i killed the 3 heroes with fly the rest of the AI heroes are also stacked. i read the comments below when you said that you solved this problem, but look like you had not solved it in the impossible version.
There are no parts of the map that you need fly for. If you dloaded the first installment the hard map did have a lock but was updated quite quickly and fixed.
all 3 maps are fully accessible you just need to find a way to the areas. Unless you were one of the 20 people who dloded the first 20 which were updated.
Author: Mike, 26-07-2016 02:38
Huge waste of time - A Pirate's Life For Me!
I have no idea what the point of this map is. Didn't bother with the whirlpools and captured my fifth town from the safety of behind the keymaster gate. Spent every turn moving step by step through resources and gold that I didn't need (I have 3 golden geese!!), building up towns, etc. A couple hundred Sea Dogs walk through every challenge with Expert Earth and Slow spell. Around the middle of month 3 I just stopped playing. Just a pointless map.
The map is designed to give you some time ie 3 months to do your stuff then it kicks in and you start to fight hard opponents. You can also choose to go through the whirlpool and face the foe. Its a shame you didn't carry on playing the map. The first 3 months are to give you even stats vs your opponents. But if you are adventurous you could of gone through the whirlpool at any time.
If you actually thought that a few 100 sea dogs would get you anywhere on the map apart from the clearing of your area you would be mistaken. Try playing the map a little longer or even finishing it and then by all means make a comment.
Thanx for giving the map a try anyway.
I haven't completed yet but I honestly believe it's accedemic at this point. I believe though that the map has again not gone as you planned.
Day 67 first time in whrilpools and came upon Dracula who had only 450 liches. Easy kill. So did you do something to make him easier?
Day 70 got supprised by Xarfax with 150 Arch and 420 Sultans. Had cape of silence and Armagedon. Did have to reload rounded up 120 Haspids 200 Nix 1200 Sea Dogs etc. Outstated him 50 to 30 and he had the wonderful shackles, so some loses but not overwhelming. Only challenging battle of the game. Not sure if he was flying or not
Day 90. Purple and Orange dead. Tan and Green: have all cities in their starting areas though they each got one of the random towns elsewhere. I have Aeris and Gelu (from Prison) who can Fly. I believe I also got Aeris the first time I played Expert version. Anne has Attack and Defence at 90. I've seen no other Gods flying around anywhere so unless you've got one scheduled to be released latter the AI I've been fighting since Xarfax is swatting flies. Have 1.5M in gold so could easily hire another 100 haspids and company + all the Angels but really doubt will need them.
Sorry, probably not what you expected. Perhaps another try might prove more challenging. Dracula did have 10000 liches last time I played. And no, I didn't check the map editor to see what you changed or where the Flying heroes were though obiviously I've had experience playing the map.
I think your experience on the map as definitely give you an advantage. Taking gelu early will give you an advantage. There are still few surprises but it looks like you will do the map. Good job, i did think if i took gelu in my play thru it might of been easier. let me know how you get on.
Finished on day 108. Got Gelu and Aeris around day 85 after taking over tan orange purple and green so I'd say I got them late. Didn't use them anyway, purpose was to do it without me using fly. Also picked up Sephinroth latter who also had fly so perhaps the AI got no flying heroes, unless Xarfax could, not sure. Also got Xeron and some others out of Prison but no fly. The way you described the map I figured it would be necessary to move very fast but looks like that kept the AI from tackling the prisons.
Ya looks like you got there before they released. Guess i will look at that on the next update. I have a few things in mind. Your knowledge of the map now is too good lol. I will soon have my next map out hopefully will offer you a challenge too, lets hope?
Author: maygwan (uk), 04-07-2016 10:55
New Updates to map - A Pirate's Life For Me!
So i fixed the 2 castle's that you or the ai could not get too. From comments by Alex i have made TP and WWalk a permanent spell you will get in the cove's. Valery made an interesting comment on the randomness of a few stacks i have fixed those also. I have also included to go with hard and expert an Impossible version of the map. This is a version i have been play testing and i cannot beat it although i am having fun trying.
I have sent these updates in and they should be added soon. Ty all for the Imput.
Good job on updates but I have to say Im 100% sure AI had fly in my playthrough :D Because he did get that castle I made screenshot was locked and he also got to the cyclopes isle. Thats why I couldnt finish the map - blue took the castle town that was inaccessible without fly.
He was taking the surface coves as well by flying over the mountains and he took all 3 of them in 1 turn. Its not possible with water walk. Also flew out of the inferno near the snow part up to the other towns there all the time. How he got it I dont know, I thought he was set to have fly to make the map more difficult lol.
What did you change in the version you cannot beat? Curious.
When i have played some homm3 maps on occasions an ai gets fly for w/e reason maybe that happened to you alex, I am not sure but i have done map 4 times and never seen the ai fly. Lets hope these updates fix it all.
Landslide there are a few changes to impossible but fly was added to a select few players on the map. I did it to test a few things but after playing the map it frustrated the hell out of me that i couldn't beat the map. The select players became an obsession for me to beat cause i hated them lol So if you do manage to win pls tell me how.
Anyway hope you all still enjoy the map and soon i will have this is legion 9 out for you all to play. I have gotta run some play through and it will be good to go. You will be able to play 7 factions.
Ai don't get fly, is a bug of vanilla, AI converts remaining water walk points into fly. So when it cross water, he can go anywhere. The only way to avoid that is to remove water walk from AI spells pool and give it to human only via scholar.
Author: alex, 02-07-2016 02:08
towns - A Pirate's Life For Me!
But I played on expert version of the map [with impossibly difficulty] and the towns were blocked there :o I don't know whats different between that and hard, but the towns were definitely blocked, but I also definitely played on expert... mysteries :D
But yeah, my comment would be to make sure town portal appears in some town in the starting area, conflux the latest. Water walk would also be nice, makes it a bit too random and potentially frustrating without such assurance. Other than that, lovely :)
Dunno how you kept Dracula on 1 island, he got confused a couple times in my game but then went on to take my surface Coves and wouldn't let them go!
Author: maygwan, 01-07-2016 07:48
Glad you enjoyed - A Pirate's Life For Me!
You may have downloaded the first version i put up which did block access to 2 towns i fixed that and a new version was added quickly. Expert mode was fully playable though. Glad it was fun and i will take all comments and when i do an update will use them.
Author: Landslide (France), 30-06-2016 17:53
Very Enjoyable Map - A Pirate's Life For Me!
Great map. Outside of Dracula didn't find the AI overwhelmingly difficult. Orange was the most challenging. Did end up with several heros at 99 in all stats. No problem finishing the map. Did have waterwalk.
Replayed it a couple of times by boosting the AI with all cities given to them fully built up. Still playable. Dracula does vary a lot. One time took him out early with only 2000 liches and once he had over 10000. It's possible to make a fool out of him. Just kept getting in and out of a boat with the Admiral's hat on one of my hero's and he did the same so basically locked in place.
I also did that in my play through i found it fun because first go he beat me i wasn't prepared so it annoyed me. So i kept him on an island just to spite him even though i know he didn't care :)
Thanx for comments i will take them all in and see what i can do when i update.