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Heroes Community > Tavern of the Rising Sun > Thread: How close can it get sometimes?
Thread: How close can it get sometimes?
Valeriy
Valeriy

Mage of the Land
Naughty, Naughty Valeriy
posted April 10, 2001 10:40 PM

How close can it get sometimes?

I've just lost my main hero (ran away), it's near the beginning of the game and my town with no citadel is occupied by one hero who has two centaurs and no offensive spells at all. An anemy computer hero is standing near with few stone gargoyles. Since the threat is not too great I buy two dwarves on my remaining cash (yep, that's all I had). I split dwarves and centaurs into 4 stacks. End turn. He attacks! It is 1 stone gargoyle that he has, but his magic arrow takes out one troop per turn and he isn't about to run out of mana. My town has no arrow towers yet. And so he does his thing, the gargoyle flies towards the troops, who do their best, but 16 hit point's isn't so little for two dwarves and one centaur remaining. And so it went on, one troop of mine getting shot dead by a magic arrow each turn. And there it is: the final deciding moment. One dwarf is left, and the stone gargoyle has several hit points left. If the dwarf does low damage, then he is doomed for the last magic arrow next turn. If he does his high damage, the stone gargoyle dies. This is my last chance to survive in the game, all depending on one little dwarf. And so he makes his final attack! He did it. The stone gargoyle returned to it's original state of stone rubble. The castle was saved.

That game I lost later on though, but that's not the point
I think the real exciting and adrenaline-packed battles are the closest ones, where both sides have a chance to win and it all depends on chance and strategy. What about your closest battle?
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Mystery
Mystery


Famous Hero
Hatebreeder
posted April 11, 2001 11:05 PM

In H1 i was attacked in my castle (i was sorceress) i've got left with 5 dwarves and he had 2 hydras and 3 ogers, i had no chance so i pressed AUTO, the garrisons started making great damage, the AUTOPLAY cpu casted haste and bless on my dwarves and i didn't even had these spells, and they always got luck or morale and eventually i won.
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SirDunco
SirDunco


Responsible
Supreme Hero
posted April 12, 2001 03:59 PM

I once at the start of the second week (this is HommIII) I took my army. It contained about 40 pikemen, 27 archers 15 griffins and 9 swordsmen. I attacked a dwarwen treasury. There was a throng of dwarwes. I am fighting and at the end I'm one on one Pikeman vs. one dwarf. After about 15 minutes of this one on on I win with 1 pikeman left. That is the closest. It ever got for me.

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Maxym
Maxym


Known Hero
posted April 18, 2001 09:23 PM

The closest I have ever gotten proportionally ( i mean i had 1 lv1 or 2 unit left early especially on custom maps) was 37 HP on a last manticore from a week 9 army supplemented by expert diplo. And it was not the end of the battle that was the middle

I was a rezz specialist and facing a bigger army with met shoer specialist. And my troops kept going down the drain fast, he kept showering, blinbing, ganging up, blinging again and so on. But once in a while i would get a respite from his ballista. And i would rezzurect something, deal some damage and lose it again. Slowly he kept running out of units to stand on my dead. But After few more turns i was left with just 1 manticore with 37 HPs. BUt this was the turning point, mu rezz was healing more damage then he could deal and i was able to force his retreat while retainig some manticore,basilisksand gorgons - few and several and few

This was an intensely exciting battle and i don't think it will ever get that close to a complete annihilation for me
Or maybe I am wrong I jeust remebered running away with just 1 magic elemental from a month 3 battle and coming back to win it LOL

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green_behemoth
green_behemoth

Tavern Dweller
posted April 18, 2001 10:42 PM

fluke

On my last game i was playin with stronghold with yog as startin hero. well, yog fluked out a couple of times, with an army of 19 thunderbirds, 30 orcs, and some goblins he managed to defeat, hordes of vampire lords, lots of thunderbirds, and lots of effreet sultans(in 3 seperate battles of course, but yog did them all on the same turn), i was going to left click but right clicked by accident instead, yog ended up with 2 thunderbirdsd at the end of that turn. it was on a randomly generated map and it was really screewed because there were hordes and throngs of creatures everywhere guarding pandora's boxes and spell scrolls

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Watchman
Watchman


Adventuring Hero
Defender of small Furry things
posted April 19, 2001 08:58 AM

The closest battle I remember playing was when I was resting in an inferno that I had just conquered from a bunch of imps, magogs, efreet sultans and hell hounds that kept defending as I lost more and more troops. I defeated them with little mana left (I used it up during my other battles in subsequent turns). Plus, they had the archer towers throwing fireballs down on me.

 Anyway, from the east (where I had not yet explored) came the main hero of that inferno... Xarfax, I believe he was... Anyway, all that I had left of my original army was 30 stone gargoyles, 10 iron golems, and 1 arch magi as a level 10 Josephine with 25 mana left... and I was up against 40 cerubi, 110 imps, 10 magogs, 25 horned demons and 5 pit fiends.  I thought that I would lose the battle for sure, but I forgot about my arrow towers and, luckily, their lack of a balistics skill, and their hero's low number of spell points (like mine).  I lost the battle, but I managed to bring him down to 3 horned demons and 9 imps... using the exact same strategy that they used against me when I attacked... straight defend...
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green_behemoth
green_behemoth

Tavern Dweller
posted April 20, 2001 12:22 AM

and ...

As I was sayin,the fight against the effreet sultans were really tough, the effreets had fire shield(ouch!) and yog only had 6 spell points left from previous battles, he casted shield on everyone(expert earth) i only had 18 thunderbirds and 5 orcs chiefs, the effreets nearly killed me but my thunderbirds won the battle for me

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afm
afm


Hired Hero
posted April 23, 2001 01:40 PM

protect your catapult

I played a SoD campaign and my castle was attacked by a computer hero with an army nearly 4 times as strong as my own, but short with spell points. So I sacrificed nearly all of my units and spellpoints just to destroy the attackers catapult and to defend against the flyers and shooters. After all flyers and shooters were gone, i had 2 wolf raiders left and the computer had 50+ greater basilisks, 30+ mighty gorgons and half a dozen chaos hydras. It was a little boring to do the rest of the battle (let the towers do all the work)- but the computer didn't flee and I didn't resign.

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Hexa
Hexa


Responsible
Legendary Hero
posted October 04, 2001 02:07 PM

Just reading some older threads.
I've recently played a level XL (lost the name though).
In which I had several titanic battles with hordes and swarmes of creatures with three narrow escapers for me.

Stats around 30 all over for both. More spellpower for me and more attack from him. He attacked me three times over and I was the one to walk away with respectivly 1, 2 and 2 rocs.

Three very close battles in one map...realy envigorating! (did I spel That correct?)
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haile73
haile73


Promising
Famous Hero
posted October 04, 2001 02:21 PM
Edited By: haile73 on 19 Feb 2002

close but no cigar

Two fights come into my mind when reading this thread:

I played Zendeeke on BfH, he was Rampart, me Dungeon.. I cruised around with some Reds and Minotaurs only, he attacked me with a quite strong army.. I was superior in spell power, even had adv/exp ressurection, but his army was too strong. I often gamble a bit, to flee from battle in the latest moment possible
My reds were down and it was the king's turn.. ressurect or flea? ressurected 1 or 2 reds, his remaining pegasi & war unicorns moved, killed the reds, like I expected it.. but those war unicorns got moral move and I grew pale.. would my few kings survive ? I don't know how, but when it was my turn, only one king was left, with 24 hitpoints! Boy, did I run.. and even won the game later on

The other game, BfH again, vs. crazy_lair.. me Fortress, he got Rampart. I surprised his main, attacking him with quite a army, he only had 4 green dragons. He cast mass slow and I pretended I couldn't dispell, until my 15 mighties came into range. At this time, only 2 of his greens were left.. I dispelled, checked some strategy guide, which told me 15 mighties have a 45% chance to kill 2 units with death stare - but it only killed 1 green dragon, so he could surrender... and beat me later on

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StormWarning
StormWarning


Promising
Famous Hero
Archmage of Thunder
posted October 04, 2001 10:12 PM

My friend and I were playing allied against 5 CPUs on hard difficulty. He attacked the CPU's last castle (a Conflux). This was about week 10 or 11. His catapult was taken out early, and all 3 towers were still firing and all the walls were up. His madness in summoning stack after stack of 52 Air Elementals actually paid off when the towers and the CPU's last 40 Ice Elementals went after them one after another, leaving his two Titans alone with just enough shots to wipe out the IEs and win (they finished the battle with one shot to spare). I really hope the AI isn't so dumb in H4 to hand me a battle I should not have been able to win like it did my friend (had he used Lightning Bolts instead of Summon AE he would have won easily).
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Zune
Zune


Adventuring Hero
of Tatalia
posted October 16, 2001 01:43 PM

I remember once I played against the AI on normal difficulty. I had a scout who had picked up some creatures from refugee camps and creature dwellings, thus getting a strange army consisting of 3 Genies, 14 Centaurs, 26 Imps and 12 Archers. My only good spell was Clone, which I could cast twice.

Then I spotted a town guarded by a few Efreet and lots of Dwarves (Of course, I couldn’t see the exact numbers until I fought). After a long thought I decided I had a fair chance, and I only risked losing a weak hero, so I attacked. The exact numbers turned out to be 2 Efreet and 32 Dwarves, with no hero. The town had a Fort, but nothing more.

First, I waited with the Genies. Because the difficulty was normal, the Efreet didn’t wait, but moved to the middle of the battlefield. Then I attacked the Efreet with my Centaurs to remove their retaliation, and when it was my Genies’ turn again, I cloned them, being able to attack the Efreet twice without retaliation.

Next round. I attacked the Efreet with my Genies and then with my clones. The Efreet died, while I lost 2 Genies. However, 32 Dwarves remained, and I had only quite weak creatures left. I quickly lost my Imps and Centaurs for the price of a few Dwarves. I cloned my Archers and went towards a corner with my Genie, while my Archers were at another corner, constantly shooting at the Dwarves. Luckily, the Dwarves followed my Genie. They defeated the Genie, but there weren’t many Dwarves left now because of my Archers.

I thought I had won the fight, but suddenly I got shocked. I had totally forgotten that my Archers had only 12 shots! However, I still had my 12 Archers, while there were only a few Dwarves left (I don’t remember how many). Despite the hand-to-hand penalty, I defeated the Dwarves and had 3 Archers left
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Viper
Viper


Known Hero
Lord of Black Magic
posted October 16, 2001 02:52 PM

I had one too.
I had 2 Ghost Dragons and my oponent had 5 Gremlins (also my hero had basic resistance). Isnt close enough? Than how about that: It was his turn and he had Implosion (Advanced Earth magic). Close enough now? I knew i will use it so my only chance was resistance. Well, i had only 5% chance to resist his magic. I even closed my eyes and...
... and resistance worked!!! Sure he had no chances and his main hero was defeated.
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rogue
rogue


Promising
Famous Hero
Prosecutors Will Be Shoplifted
posted October 16, 2001 05:57 PM

Cool story, Val.

I always like close battles, or even better, battles where you look you don't stand a chance, but somehow manage to pull off a victory.

I'm one of those people who never stops fighting until the very end. I never give up and say "oh, I'm dead"

I don't have any stories fresh in my mind though.
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The_Gootch
The_Gootch


Honorable
Supreme Hero
Kneel Before Me Sons of HC!!
posted October 19, 2001 08:46 PM

One of my most memorable fights was against a buddy of mine playing "Warmongers".  He was the Rampart and I was the Castle.  Needless to say, he had numerical superiority because of the hill fort.  His main was Kyrre, and mine was Sorsha(I wanted to make it interesting).  His main body was topped off by 23 gold dragons to my 18 Archangels, and he had more of everything thereafter, including some 450 Centaur Captains.  Both of us were maxed out in Leadership and Luck.  He had implode...I had expert clone.
1st round I waited with my Archangels.  He promptly imploded them and attacked them with his gold dragons...and got a 2nd chance from morale.  Then he flew in with his silver pegasi.  On my next move I slowed all of his troops(except of course the gold dragons) and proceeded to beat the everliving snot out of those 2 units.  I wasn't worried about his grand elves(only half damage).  The very next round I cloned my remaining archangels and resurrected them with the clone.  He concentrated his implodes on my archs and I resisted one of them(he cast 4 in all).  But...he never disspelled the slow.  Needless to say, his dwarves and dendroids weren't a factor until he saw his imminent defeat.  Fortunately, he tried to eek out one last attack before he retreated.  I got 2 consecutive morale boosts and 1 luck boost and ended up taking all of his trash.  Both of my opponents conceded after that...

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Sir_Stiven
Sir_Stiven


Honorable
Legendary Hero
banned
posted February 19, 2002 01:11 PM

hehe nice topic

My closest game was the first one this season, i played Puskin on Battle Of Bastards 2 for TOH. His dungeon and iam Castle, but since i get black orb as relic his drags are a easy target and i also have recanters. So he attacks me week4, he has about twice my spell points (about 250)and a 260 dmg lightning bolt.

So he takes one AA/round but since i had the better army i tried to attack him..and get mass slowed so after many many rounds we are both out of spell points and he has only 5-6 blacks left and i have crusaders halberdies and royal griffs. So he waits and attack over and over just to reduce my army to royal griffs but he has only 3 blacks left. I surrender the battle when i have 13 royal griffs left and he has one black drag which i wont be able to kill. Same day he chains his leftover troops to his main and attacks my castle. Im dead

/Stefan

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