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lkru33
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posted April 27, 2005 08:52 PM |
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Well, hopefully you didn't take my opinion as a bash to yours. Just my preference is all 
On smaller maps where opponents meet early to mid week 2, I have found how much of a "thorn in the side" Ciele can be with lots of spell points and a magic arrow that causes over 150 damage. 
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zsa
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posted April 27, 2005 09:32 PM |
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Edited By: zsa on 27 Apr 2005
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yah I do actually, I sent it to ya.
and no, why would I find your post as a bash at me mate? Everything's fine
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LordLazy
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Wood cleaner
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posted April 27, 2005 09:44 PM |
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someone mentioned orrin up there. Reason why I dont like him = bad skills, + his spec dont help much in main battle most often, and archery do NOT make ballista do more damage, offense does. edit: sorry, had to retest it. Library police caught me  thanks angelito for fixing my brain lol. sorry to all I may have confused
else, all the magic thing, is but but but but, shall we make a who will win a random M skirmish most often thing? hell no solmyr will do that most often
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angelito
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posted April 27, 2005 10:11 PM |
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.... and archery do NOT make ballista do more damage, offense does.....
Would you ALL just stop with these rumours?
ARCHERY is the skill who raises the damage of a balista. OFFENSE is only for hand-to-hand damage!
Try it with the editor.....
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LordLazy
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posted April 27, 2005 10:19 PM |
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I read it in here once I think gonna check it and edit my post
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Jebus
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posted April 27, 2005 10:22 PM |
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So Angel??
Solomyr and Tower right???
that's the best??? go for gold first???
four schools of magic???? Tactics suck???
hello?? right???
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angelito
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posted April 27, 2005 11:32 PM |
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Yes....and JEBUS is for noobs only.....
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AvatarEru
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Leader of Serbian mages
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posted April 27, 2005 11:38 PM |
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Castle: lyonis(prayer)
Rampart: Gem,Ryland or Gelu
Tower: Solymur or Dracon
Inferno: Xeron(I only played campaing with him)
Dungeon:Alamar,Deemer or Mutare Drake
Necro: Aislin or Sandro
Fortress: Tazar(armorer)
Stronghold: Crag Hack or Gundula
Conflux: Monere or Ciele
Neutral town(Conflux):Ciele
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Jebus
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TheJester akaJeebs akaJebfoo
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posted April 28, 2005 02:53 AM |
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Yes....and JEBUS is for noobs only.....
Yeah I guess beeing a NOOB makes me only worthy of NOOBS as well!
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Sir_Stiven
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posted April 28, 2005 03:11 AM |
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lol
no good castle heroes
tyris rocks because of her starting tactics.
If playing castle town sorsha is good.
Orrin is great with this archery, esp. with tower
Valeska is great for starting archers, if a tough template (no jesus toss) upg. archers might be your only choice to clear area and then those extra archers are a blessing.
As for no rules.. Adela
tsk tsk
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zsa
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posted April 28, 2005 09:12 AM |
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well yah there are a couple of decent castle heroes - nothing outstanding like hack or mephala or gunnar, but decent heroes.
My all time favourite knight has to be sorsha. She's a pretty cool hero, got good start skills, and gives a nice bonus to a castle army (who will almost always have crusaders).
Tyris is nice too becuz of her tactics, and as mentioned the archer chick is decent too. Edric is another decent hero, and christian is another average to play with hero.
Loynis is never good for main hero, but he can help out especially in the beggining with some ranged fights, so he has his uses.
The problem with castle heroes is that:
1. clerics just plain suck as magic heroes 
2. knights are ok heroes, but barbarians, beastmasters and demoniacs defenitely make for better might heroes. Rangers and Overlords, well it's debatable.
So no magic heroes that excel, the cleric class sucks, and not a lot of people play with magic heroes at all. In conclusion, clerics must be pretty unpopular. Tell me people, when was the last time your main hero was a cleric?
And might heroes, you have nothing outstanding, just a bunch of mediocre to above average heroes. And on top of that, the knight class isn't top notch either.
So, while I don't agree with LLazy that castle heroes suck, I can't completely disagree with him either.
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csarmi
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posted April 28, 2005 11:19 AM |
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Edited By: csarmi on 28 Apr 2005
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I thought we were talking about starting heroes!
That's not the same as your main - at least in most situations.
Necro: Galthran
Barbarians: (Dessa), Crag Hack
Rampart: (Kyrre), Ivor, Jenova
Wizard: (Cyra-diplo), Aine
Fortress: Tazar, Bron, Drakon
Castle: (Adela-diplo), Valeska, Tyris
Dungeon: (Gunnar), Shakti, Dace/Synca
Inferno: Pyre, Octavia, Ignatius
Elemental: Monere, Grindan, any
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LordLazy
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posted April 28, 2005 11:34 AM |
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lol
no good castle heroes
tyris rocks because of her starting tactics.
If playing castle town sorsha is good.
Orrin is great with this archery, esp. with tower
Valeska is great for starting archers, if a tough template (no jesus toss) upg. archers might be your only choice to clear area and then those extra archers are a blessing.
As for no rules.. Adela
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yes, they do on all templates. logistics is a vital skill, but knights just have more troubles getting that than most other hero classes, on tough templates you can do without earth though.
yes, orrin is nice, but really, the only templates I would go for a knight as main would be panic/balance/skirmish, and if almost any overlord appears I will use him. if any beastmaster, barbarian or demoniac, then that will be my main, wont matter what beastmater, demoniac or barbarian, all is better than all knights, so there
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Xarfax111
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The last hero standing
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posted April 28, 2005 09:29 PM |
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picking starting heroes is for newbies only
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zsa
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posted April 28, 2005 11:01 PM |
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picking starting heroes is for newbies only
yeah, real MEN use all random . But I wasn't talking about picking start heroes. I never pick starting hero or town, but I do have to have an idea about what heroes I should focus on.
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guitarguy
Responsible
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Rockoon.
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posted April 29, 2005 03:19 AM |
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All I an say about starting heroes is that I'm a sucker for Logistics and Diplomacy. I can't say I'm anywhere near an above-average player, which explains why I don't do online games. I'd say that Kyrre, Ryland, Cyra, and Gunnar are among my top picks. Oh, and I'll settle for Sir Mullich as well.
I don't really freak out if I don't get one of said heroes; I carry on with pretty much anyone. I only get truly disappointed if I get an Eagle Eye hero or a Navigation hero when I know there won't be any water. By comparison, at least heroes with lesser skills like Mysticism and Learning have their solid uses.
-guitarguy
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rychenroller
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posted April 29, 2005 04:53 AM |
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picking starting heroes is for newbies only
Agree..
tho some of my fave heroes (ones that have won me games)
Krellion (super resister)
Nymus (Adv offense start)
Alkin (armorer/offense start)
Ayden (Heretics learn nice skills, intel spec is cool)
Sephinroth (intel start. crystal. good for fast mapz)
Monere (he's just cool)
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zsa
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posted April 30, 2005 06:27 AM |
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heh, the heroes that I play the most often with/like are:
1. Bron - i got this dude in like 5 out of the last 10 games I played - i didn't use him everytime as one of the main heroes tho
2. Brissa and Anenain - I loves the blue elementalists from conflux. Anenain I used him in 2 games as my main rather recently and brissa was just my last game
3. Gurnisson - sexy balista hero , got him a lot, used him a lot
4. Sorsha - played with her too, nice hero
5. Pyre is another hero that I played with a bit and I like
All in all, since I started playing the game again about 9 months ago (all random, random templates) I think my most used heroes would be bron, gurnisson and anenain.
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D-Forge
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posted May 01, 2005 08:23 PM |
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Tazar is the best. It`s not very hard to find 20 stacks of wood, and to build the wyvern nest on third day. Then you can just build blacksmith, buy yourself a tent and there you go: wonderful army to capture all mines. I managed to destroy 30 vamplords with 5 wyv monarchs and some lizards/gnools as fodder. And this hero is simply wonderful later on, with his huge damage reduction.. And he can learn resistance quite easy, which is (with the wog upgrades for this skill) one of the best. You must play wog with the berserker flies on to see how he shines..
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mithomasMIT
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posted May 02, 2005 08:29 PM |
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I used the same strategy in all parts of HoMM:
small map: combat oriented hero
larg(er) map: spallcaster
If the map's big U should choose a Hero with logistics speciality (if homm3) or for more fun intelligence as specialisation (also homm3)
But the most funny is to have a necro-hero with raise skeletons and get the artifact set for necro and than upgrade your liches to powerliches and after that U will gain only powerliches after fighting other creatures )
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