Heroes3: What's Your Favorite Town Type?

[Main_Brain]

Well with Tower you tend to loose alot less Troops as they wield the Best Distance attackers in the Game :=)
that can make quite a Difference in the beginning if you dont have to return to get new troops..

question can I Force a RangeAttacking Unit to go into Close Combat? I want the Medusen (hey what the plural ofg Medusa in English?? to fight HandtoHand instead of by Bow? Not possible unlike HoMM4?

[moomin]

There is supposedly some keyboard combo you can press to get a melee attact instead of a ranged one, but I always forget. Try the usual suspects: shift, cntrl, alt.

[DarkCloud]

But moomin- why would you want to- most ranged units receive bonuses for striking from afar?

[loinburger]

At least one of them (Medusas?) have a powerful hand-to-hand attack, and also have very few shots (so if you've got the option of using a hand-to-hand attack or a ranged attack, it's worthwhile to use a ranged attack).

[Heresson]

I played a game as Necromants and again I have to admit that those dragons of necropolis are hopeless.
What is it about them? They seem not to be the 7th classs unit but 6th or 5th

[Main_Brain]

but Medusas can also Paralyse in CloseCombat

[moomin]

I sometimes like to use titans for melee strikes: they have no penalty for it, and soak up huge amounts of retaliation that would do serious harm to lesser stacks. I happens.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Heresson
I played a game as Necromants and again I have to admit that those dragons of necropolis are hopeless.
What is it about them? They seem not to be the 7th classs unit but 6th or 5th

They've got a chance of Aging an enemy stack, which reduces the HP of all units in the stack by 50% (making it a certainty that your Skeleton uber-stack will wipe out the stack on the next hit). The ability kinda sucks, though, because it takes effect after the dragons cause damage. The unit would be pretty good if enemies couldn't retaliate against it, or even if it were a bit faster, but the weakness of the Ghost Dragons are another reason why Necros have got to suck up the morale penalties and take on some Devils or Angels.

Bone Dragons are a lot better in HOMM4--they're a no-retaliation unit.

[moomin]

Bone Dragons are really scary in H4. Not only are they a non-ret unit, they also have a high probability of throwing fear, which will make your unit run away and possibly leave the strike zone of your intended victim.

There is so much I like in H4. Too bad there isn't a game behind all that excellent game mechanics stuff.

[Main_Brain]

No Mp arrgghh how can you release a Game w/o M Civ3 started Bad habits

[Heresson]

So what is your favourite castle-type in HeroesIV?

[moomin]

Order, with Death as a very close second choice. Death is ultimately more powerful, though. Town type means a lot more in H4, since it determines what kind of heroes you can recruit. And heroe development is actually interesting in H4.

[Main_Brain]

Chaos is Fun.. Chances are you wont get any good Healing spells and Thieves.. well.. but the Offensive Spells really Rock
Troops are not that great but chaos Spells cancel that out.

[Andemagne]

I looked thru my H3 & H3:AB manuals and there were no short cut key for close combat attack (for ranged attackers).

[Heresson]

My first favourite was death. I always liked the vampires, but here I'd rather take those poisoning things. They were great. Perhaps some other units suck, especially that small
red things, and necromantion isn't as fruitful as in H3,
but it later gives You vampires, which is very very nice.
Now I use order;
-those little silly men can attack on distance which is very good when it comes to type 1 units
-magicians and genies can attack on distance with magic and except for those fairy Dargons (fight with them isn't nice, esp. whem there is 100 of them in one city) no-one can repy them.
-Genies can make an illusion. I think that it's not welll balance, because You not only can make a copy of foreign unit, it can be bigger than the copied unit, and sacrifice unit can be used on it. Unless You're fighting with really, really strong thing, it means that You can spare yourself from any losses.
-titans attack on distance.
-those little guys, I don't use them in a game usually,
because my tactic if to finish everyone off until they reach me, or to fight with illusions..
Of course, it means that I'm qeak when they reach me, but You can use golems instead of magicians and it will
be more balanced, then.
I think Life is good too, it has units to aand chaos has its good points too. Well, nature too, but I'd never play it.

When it comes to advances, at the start I was choosing:
-fight
-nobility
-tactics
-magic of death (because of necromation)
-magic of life (because of resurrection)

Now I tend to use magic of order in place of one of those.
I work in pairrs anyway, I mean, two heroes in one army.
One can specialise in defence magic, other in attack.
I want to check in one play a heore with all magic abilities,
but I'd miss fight and tactics and nobility then.
I never choose reconaissance.