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SirWillis
Tavern Dweller
Gorgon Herder
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posted May 15, 2007 11:35 AM |
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Fortress
Whats up my fortress homies lol
ive been wonderin for a while about which are the more popular fort
s used by online players im the on out of all my mates that uses the fortress everyone else is a rampart tower conflux castle and Nercromancy.
Cheers frm a swamp dwelling friend
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My enemies will perish into the swamplands of Zaqzorn
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted May 15, 2007 01:23 PM |
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Fortress is awesome. I don't play online, and I've kinda shifted to H5, but it's still a cool town. However, this summer I will be stuck for two weeks in Ireland with nothing but H3 and Starcraft to keep me company.
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yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted May 15, 2007 02:38 PM |
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What about grasslands, fresh air and pubs?
Fortress is one of my favorite towns as well, alongside the Stronghold.
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Bigbadfly
Famous Hero
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posted May 15, 2007 03:22 PM |
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Fortress is my absolute favorite town!
I like the monsters and escpesially the flies!
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c0ldshadow
Known Hero
ig chr0meice91
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posted May 15, 2007 04:38 PM |
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i went thru a phase where fortress was my favorite town. dungeon is my favorite town now tho and always will be.
fortress is really cool though. i think the wyvern monarchs are a really cool looking creature. the greater basilisks are a bit underrated in my opinion. they were always reliable to me.
fortress has one of the best looking towns and the 2nd best music i think. necro is my fav. music.
sometimes when im joking around i call fortress 'fartress' lol. and rampart 'ramfart'. i do like fortress tho but i hate rampart.
to me it never made sense the mage guild went to level 3. how is it that a 'witch' hero class doesn't have a level 3 guild lol? what could be more magical than a witch?
castle should have a level 3 guild (no argument). fortress should have at least a level 4 guild.
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c0ldshadow
Known Hero
ig chr0meice91
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posted May 16, 2007 01:23 AM |
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i think wyvern monarch's have the best looking special ability animation (for poisoning).
2nd best is probably zombies disease which looks like diarrhea is covering the enemy.
one thing i love about fortress is the moat, which takes 2 turns to cross unlike other bases. makes envading a fortress a real pain for walkers. boiling tar and boiling oil are the coolest moats in my opinion. the castle defense barrier for stronghold, rampart, castle, and conflux, are stupid.
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted May 16, 2007 02:04 AM |
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Also, the Fortress moat will end up doing 180 damage to enemy stacks, as they have to spend 2 turns in it instead of one.
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SirWillis
Tavern Dweller
Gorgon Herder
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posted May 16, 2007 11:06 AM |
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Fortress
My fave unit as you can tell by the pic is the Mighty Gorgans 10 of them if ur lucky cant ake out 1 of anything including crystal dragons which are evil
i have only recently upgraded to heroes 3 complete i like the new flies ability cast weaken when they attack
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted May 16, 2007 01:36 PM |
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Fortress gets a massive boost in the SoD, or in H3 complete since it has that. Lizardmen and flies get a stat boost, and flies the ability to cast Weakness. My fav unit? The hydra.
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yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted May 16, 2007 02:14 PM |
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Quote:
My fave unit as you can tell by the pic is the Mighty Gorgans 10 of them if ur lucky cant ake out 1 of anything including crystal dragons which are evil
i have only recently upgraded to heroes 3 complete i like the new flies ability cast weaken when they attack
And 11 of them can take 2 
Always keep them in groups ending in low number since for example 21 and 30 can kill the same amount (3) while 31 would have chance to kill 4.
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Devangle1984
Known Hero
I am the Dark Vader
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posted May 16, 2007 04:32 PM |
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Some of the advantages fotress have are :
1)It has an excellent might class(specially taz)
2)Can move around and explore very fast as they can have fast scouts.
3)All units except the first two have a good special which can alter the final result of a battle.
4)Cure, haste(or mass slow) and tactics plus hyrdas = obleterate any block in the map
5)Overall units have good Defense.
6)With hives allowed, they can build excelent powerstacks.
Some disadvantages:
1) All units lack speed and if no tactics and haste, fotress will suffer, specially vs a ranged basedtown.
2) Terrain penalties cost a lot, speciallyif u plan on takin cons.
3) Fotress only has mage guild 3, unless other towns are available, fotress will lack on that department.
4) If no hives are allowed, then their lv6 unit is not as impressive as others.
5) Fortress does get use to in mastering and is like inferno where u need experience. Its not like a town like rampart where u just start and get going.
Overall fotress used in the right hands is a force to recon with, but will be weak on temps as e2, marathon and other longer games,specialy with hive restrictions.This is not my most fancied town, but it is a very special one.
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angelito
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted May 16, 2007 04:52 PM |
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21 cows can kill 3 units with death stare, but the chances for killing a third one is very low in opposit to a stack of 30 cows. (every single cow has its OWN chances...so the more u have, the better the chances are).
And refering to E2 and fortress, I have to strongly disagree with you Dev..
Those Chaoshydras are excellent when it comes to fights vs hordes or even throng of level 7 units. I think Rampart may be a bit weak on E2, while Castle (Archangels) is a bit overpowered. Stronghold kicks a$$ if u got at least 1 behemot dwelling....those teddies do incredible damage...lol
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SirWillis
Tavern Dweller
Gorgon Herder
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posted May 16, 2007 04:55 PM |
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woah
My opinion of units
Chaos hydras do rule bril at taking out multiple groups
Wyverns are handy for there poison and they always get targeted my AI great distraction method
Mighty Gorgons well what more can i say death stare
basilisks stop any strong unit with its stone touch
Flies very effective agains genis powers and in SoD against upgraded elementals
lizards not the best archer but you cant have everything
knolls handy cause you can get large numbers and they aint the weakest level 1 unit
well now my fortress loving friends i am making a campaign for the fortress a good one not the spoils of war one which is too easy
does everyone agree
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My enemies will perish into the swamplands of Zaqzorn
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted May 17, 2007 09:26 PM |
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Only bad thing about the Hydra is the relatively low ATK and DEF as compared to most other lvl 7's. However, no retaliation makes up for this. Just curious, but how do you set random map templates? Do you have to download them? It's a noob question, but it's been bothering me.
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Mordaunt5
Tavern Dweller
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posted May 17, 2007 09:39 PM |
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Fortress is a damn cheat. Only way to beat them is to rush them early - or runes (especially ressurection rune) will win it for Fortress no matter how weak they are - on most maps  .
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yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted May 17, 2007 11:30 PM |
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Um, you know you are in H1-H4 forums, right?
So, no runes, no dwarfs, just good old swamp stronghold.
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted May 17, 2007 11:50 PM |
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The best kind.
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Devangle1984
Known Hero
I am the Dark Vader
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posted May 18, 2007 11:11 AM |
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swamp lord all u do is download the relevent temp to your data folder and rename to rmg.txt, and u wil have that temp working when u load random games.If u want to change the temp just rename the desired temp.U can get those temps on LRH site or the WCL site.
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted May 21, 2007 03:48 AM |
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Thank you. Possible to get full website names? I don't understand the abbreviations. Thanks!
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c0ldshadow
Known Hero
ig chr0meice91
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posted May 21, 2007 05:44 AM |
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here are the links for you, swamplord
http://www.lrh.ro/en/
http://randommaps.siteburg.com/
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