Heroes 3: The CASTLE CRUSADE! 1v7 Against All Evil Towns (Part One)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- The Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Castle Crusade! This is a 1v7 random map playthrough as Loynis the Cleric on a quest to eradicate evil. Click here for more episodes (playlist): • Heroes 3: The CASTLE C...
Game version: Heroes of Might and Magic III: Shadow of Death (vanilla / Complete)
Main Hero: Loynis (Prayer specialist)
Map size: XL+U
Difficulty: Impossible (200%)
Starting Town: Castle
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#homm3 #heroes3 #heroesofmightandmagic3
Full playlist link here: ua-cam.com/video/-Z1Qkndv0nc/v-deo.html
The mod I'm using is the HD mod - note this is for Heroes 3 Complete and does not work with Heroes 3 HD Edition from Steam: sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/
I will if my PC can run it!
What resolution?
This is a great game, what mod is it? I just have vanilla.
Also, thanks for the video it's awesome
@@awesomemccoolname7111 go on google and search for hd mod for homm3 you can go and find Tutorial on UA-cam
Cannot find map template anywhere
I am lucky to find someone on the internet who gives Heroes 3 the love it deserves.
Search for MeKick - the known world. Insanely fun as well
yeah but he don't know how to play...
@Azuri e nope, i'm a competetive player
@Azuri e funny thing is that u don't know how to play either
@Azuri e ok pokemon... ok.
I was suffering in bed with 39 C fever, having insane shivers and muscle pain from covid shot, and the only thing that could ease my mind and distract me was your videos. Thank you for your continous work to entertain us!
Lol same thing...
I love having random fits of moments you just feel like having.
And when sick you get those moments you just want to chill in a specific way, or something just helps your mind at that time.
Shit, man. :(
Lol, glad I read this before getting the jab. Lol, I think I'll pass. Feel great, maybe I keep it that way.
@Tim Well it was already quite benign like the flu. But it's understandable if you have health issues to take such precautions.
I can't express how deeply soothing these videos are to me. thank you so much for making them.
You inspired me to pick this game up and actually learn wtf everything is about. Instead of playing it out of nostalgia. Thanks mate, keep on the good work
I did that yesterday! Regards from Uruguay
Worth playing? I'm currently putting ports on my handheld and this game has file depots to run. I have never played any in the series but remember watching a friend play this on PC when we were kids; never tried it myself. Does it hold up today (for a portable experience)?
@@SicketMog it surely holds up imo! A bit difficult to understand in the beginning, but you ll get the hang of it. Especially when watching Norovo
@@SicketMog H3 is unironically one of the best games ever. It 100% holds.
As for the portable - I don't know. It's nice when I play it on a Steam Deck.
Norovo video to watch while chilling after work, just what I needed
I remember when I was 14 and loved this game.
It was pretty simplistic, yet it had TONS or replayability.
Thanx for the fond memories of better, simpler times, Norovo! 👍👍
(P.s. re-installed just because of this vid 😁)
When i was around 9 my father showed ne this game, and i loved it, but didnt understand anything. Now, 7 years later i picked it up again, and thanks to you i finally understand what im supposed to do.
The "Oooooh Shhhhugar" made my day. Love your videos.
You just taught me that creature dwellings at +1 growth. I had no idea. Also didn't know they didn't accumulate, but that's not as relevant as I would usually hire them anyway. The amount of little details and quirks in this game never ceases to surprise me.
Yup. They do accumulate in Horn of the Abyss which I find a lot more satisfying.
@@Norovo Agreed, I'm surprised the base game didn't work that way.
@@Norovo But can it be a good version if it nerfs Necromancy?
Best Regards,
Skeleton Department
I found out about the HD mod to this AMAZING game through you ! And i deeply thank you for that. THANK YOU SIR!!!
Try 'Horn of the Abyss' version 3.5 new faction. excellent version
Clearly he is way better than me at the game, but I was constantly surprised he waited so long for the city hall and then capitol. I usually rush those asap.
Rushing City Hall and especially Capitol is usually a bad idea, because it slows you down too much in the early game. The resources required are much better spent for buying heroes and troops as those give you momentum for clearing out the map thus gaining more resources, exp and vision
@@danailnedkov9561 depends on the template, delaying income on H sized templates like 8xm8 Huge or 8xm12 Huge for example is a mistake because while you gain a little bit of tempo in the first 2 weeks, you drop a lot more tempo than you won in the next few weeks after that. Rushing income is a bad idea in small templates which are the most frequently used in PvP, but it's far from being universally true. For example if he went for income in this situation he may have died early, he was stronger weeks 2-3 which may just have been the reason he stayed alive, but he traded that for being piss poor and weak weeks 4-6.
@@danailnedkov9561 I completely disagree. Early game is easily conquered with good strategy, dwellings, diplomacy etc..
Having a bunch of creature dwelling while broke does you no good. I'll take the 50 troglodytes on week one over the medusas
One of my all time favourite games from when I was young, great to see HOMM 3 still being played
Just what I needed
Good job of taking us through your thought process.
Love your series. Keep it up!
Your videos are a source of knowledge and comfort... thank you!
Hey Norovo! thanks for the upload, always appreciate your long videos. Hope everything is ok with you! cheers
Love the playthrough so far! It promises to be a hard and entertaining journey.
This made my day. Thank you for making these videos!
I started playing heroes III back in 2000....and i still play.....when i have free time
Thank you for the Heroes content! I just got back to HoMM3 and wanted to watch some content to maybe improve my own play, which mostly came to slowing down and utilizing more one stacks. Now I'm just going through your videos and finding them pretty entertaining, so thanks
I only ever played on normal difficulty and leaned heavily on expert earth magic with town portal
Fun to watch. Alliance emeny actually makes the game easier because their heroes wouldn't farm enough to grow crazy stats and skill level.
this is correcto. also armies don't get doomstacked because cpu will capture about the same number of castles. so you face a bunch of similar oponents instead of 3 weak ones 3 heavy ones, and a monster
this was a gem of a video to find. very good job.
This gives me anxiety and makes me cozy at the same time.
Forces of Evil: We have 7 warlords, powerful monsters, many cities, and tons of monsters!
Forces of Good: We have a Norovo.
1:29:09 Oh man I literally just finished watching your Christmas Special with Daremyth and seeing the Earth Elemental spell scroll sure brought back some memories from that playthrough... sheesh...
I see you play and instantly get nostalgic... you play so good! dont hold any punches lol also make an effort to pass on your knowledge with us! awsome!
@37:06 What an oddly convenient boon. 😊
The most chill stuff on UA-cam right now.😁
This is the ASMR of video game content
I'm so used to playing WoG this seems quite unusual. Commanders are so OP early game :D
Ideal skills imo: 1. Wisdom 2. Intelligence 3. Earth 4. Air 5. Water 6. Logistics 7. Pathfinding 8. Archery
Like I said the last time, I still think the best strategy with Castle and Rampart is to upgrade archers tower for more than double damage in the 1st 2 days of play.
Good work! :D I like watching you like in the background. Currently thinking about playing HoMM3 again when some time frees up :P as you probably see, it is time consuming.
New heroes 3 videos are an instaclick for me, great vid!
Lyonis is always my favorite choice, Prayer for the whole Army later is just... Delicious
37:08 haha, even the game follows your idea of a griffin power stack. you even have the griffin specialist on your side ;-)
I've been watching this game over the past week, longer videos are fine👌🏻
Keep it up!
this game is so damn good, so glad i found your channel! might start playing it again
I don't know if i'm right but i believe not allying the enemies with each other or setting them in multiple teams would increase the difficulty of the map, because it allows the enemies to snowball much better as they aren't being locked eating each other's resources an towns off.
anyways great content, i love watching your Homm3 videos!
This was my favorite games when i was a kid. God them loved it, was not very good at it though :D
Love the vid! Thanks for putting it up on youtube!
I'm using the HD mod but I don't get things like seeing how far the enemy will move and seeing the turn order at the bottom - Is this another mod?
You made me buy Heroes 3 on GOG. Thanks!
1:10:40 Makes a mistake
"shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuger"
Made me laugh
I'm a little late to the party on this video. But, really good opening. I kind of prefer the "stickier" playthroughs a la the Straker and Daremyth ones which were really entertaining and some masterful comebacks and strategising.
Best of luck with the game squire! Keep up the good work
Super crazy, I just finished playing a map with Loynis, he's fantastic. Thanks for making these videos! I've been playing this game for most of my life now and it's wild how well its held up. I've been playing valeska recently, but I wish we could get heroes like Gelu and Dracon in single scenario mode.
1:02:38 Great suspense with tough decision making. Btw u know what would be kl? U could save at moments like that after the play through u could come back just for this one fight and have it in form of post scriptum bonus at the end or smth like that, just to see how it would went otherwise, would be much fun to see:)
saves two pikemen from loss...losses two pikeman compaired to autobattle.
PERFECTLY BALANCED, AS ALL THINGS SHOULD BE.
Yes! Perfect.
Been awhile since I watched your channel. Glad to be back. And you grew a lot since last time we spoke
>takes 1 step
>blocked by horde of skeletons right next to a Portal of Glory
Whichever deity random'ed this map was having a laugh
Hype!!!
Loinus is my favorite hero. Prayer early game (and with expert bonus late game) is very very useful.
Norovo: "Ssss-"
UA-cam: DEMONETIZATION!
Norovo: "-ugar.."
UA-cam: Close one... maybe next time
(1:10:40)
UA-cam: we were so close!
Great video! Random question though, why is the music different?
"...probably to the West, because we can see a Monolith..."
Dude, how TF can you tell that those couple of pixels against the Fog of War are a Monolith?!?
A fun watch!
Build a cityhall asap. Whats the point of building up the military if you have no money to buy the units.
The creatures stay so its better to spam creature buildings before worying about youre gold income. Its basically like a rule you should always follow.
@@raJlabaJloM what if plague week hits them ?
@@aleynamutlu4206 plague can only happen on a beggining of a new month if i remember
legit hyped
The most magical game ever made.
I really enjoyed this video. keep it up!
It was great to watch!
Ohh I loved this game so much 😍 good old days 🤗🤗
Bro I suddenly remembered I used to play this when I was like 8 and now I'm like how could I play it
Damn it... I had forgotten HoMM 3 for years... Suddenly this video was suggested and I just realised I must play it again.... Don't know if there's any decent multiplayer action anymore but I'll just start with AI players I guess! Random map was the best thing to be included in HoMM3 !!
Very good multiplayer scene still mostly from Europe tho
Nice vid!
I’m hooked on your videos
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA!
Dude, I am playing a beautiful world with my sis on 100% and we strugled a lot at the beginning, cause I put all bots in teams of 2 as well. The mod I am using actually have way harder AI then the base game.
I appreciate that you use human faction, cause I havent made any proper teams, that could do much, just general builds, that I thought I am good with
Love this franchise!
@norovo Why not rush to Capitol ASAP? You spend the whole time complaining about lacking money, but rushing to Capitol makes up for what you spend to get it in like, a week or something, I forget but it isn't very long at all. The enemies will never attack you in time for you to benefit from having it early.
Around the time you're trying to puzzle through spending cash to fight to open the on-map Portal of Glory, the Capitol would have already repaid the investment and you would have had all the Griffins you needed.
I like the content but it's key to rush to capitol. You want it by day 6
Thanks!
Prayer is one of the most broken spells in this game: It's basically haste, stone skin and bloodlust all in one spell.
No, not all lol, it's just a worse and more expensive version of Haste. Also Water Magics is the worst school of magic so that is another reason why it's bad, and it's a tier 4 spell, Prayer is actually nothing compared to Town Portal, Meteor Shower, Chain Lightning and Ressurection, the reason why Prayer isn't forgotten is because there are templates that banned Haste for being too broken, but we still have a 1.00$ version of Haste, yes, it is Prayer. It's pretty good in Duel, but I don't know any other templates where you would want to use Prayer.
@@DOGErealyeah it’s great in duel with water, also AA gives it which is nice ig?
How do you get the ability to see which stack is next in turn? I can't seem to find any option for this in the HD-mod. Also, great, interesting video! It's nice to hear you explain your moves.
Fun to see you struggle a bit :)
great series!
Great video. Love your play style. What is the keyboard shortcut you use when splitting units to place one in each empty space?
It's Ctrl + left click using the HD mod
Soooo, considering you said you want to grow your channel:
Watchtime percentage is a pretty important part of getting videos recommended. Now, I personally can almost never finish an episode in one sitting, because usually I only have time while I eat or am on a small break (20-30 mins), and I am guessing that even though youtube puts me back to the timestamp I left at, it still counts it as a new view, further lowering the watchtime percentage.
I haven't really tested this, it's just a theory, but either way... it might be worthwhile considering cutting up episodes into little 20 minute chunks.
There are two reasons this might help your channel out: For one, it fixes the possibility that the watchtime percentage is lower even when the viewer is enjoying the video (simply not having enough time to watch the whole episode), and two, it could allow you to upload semi-daily, and youtube loves consistent frequent uploads! And as a bonus, finding and using correct cliffhangers could make the viewers want to see the next episode a bit more in some cases, and make them more likely to tune in next time.
But take this tip with a grain of salt, since I'm not really a big youtuber, I just read r/NewTubers and stuff like that.
And this could have some negative sideffects, since cutting up episodes into said 20 minute parts could become kind of troublesome if there is no clear place to put a cliffhanger in, and would require you to upload more often which you might not have the internetspeed/time to do. And of course, 20 minutes in HoMM3 is not a lot of time, so that's another thing...
Perhaps you could use the community tab to find out more about your viewers? Like, "Do you watch episodes in one sitting?" or "Shorter but more frequent- VS Longer but less frequent episodes"
Unfortunately HoMM3 is a bit niche and non-mainstream so it's tough to grow since there isn't really a high ceiling, but hey, the game's been alive for 22 years so at least the fans/viewers are dedicated :P
Anyway, can't wait for the next one :))
Hi Zorutan, thanks for the advice, rest assured I spend no lack of time agonising over these little details. :)
My understanding is that watch time % isn't that important and UA-cam is more interested in session time. I believe an understanding that viewers are less likely to make it through a super long video is built into the system and doesn't actually affect views too much - most 2 hour videos have the same issue so it would only be a concern if the video performs poorly relative to other videos of similar length. My experience is if you don't make it through a long video but watch it for a decent length, UA-cam will recommend it you the next few times you go on your homepage.
Hope they remake this amazing game in 2023, make Multi player easier to connect and updated graphics. HOMMIII is the BEST
Loynis my favor too lol
Right in time!
At 1:01:36 you might have had to give "haste" or "teleport" to get the archers out. And maybe against the Angel's hut you should have take out the archers of the stack and left only the royal griffins. Otherwise a good game. Most players would restart the card if they were blocked in the beginning.
I have the complete edition from Gog. How you see how many units enemy has approx. and the units on the map (50-99) for example? Where do I turn that feature on, much appreciated.
search for HD Mod + Hota
The way you fought the horned demons at the initial portal of glory makes no sense to me.
Can you do a Heroes of might and magic 2 playthrough? Would love to see that!
Great video, gotta pick up this game again! Question, I noticed you didn't pick up certain resources when passing, is this because you want to save travel points for scouting?
No capitol after 80min playtime, that is so incredable bad!
14:11 battle- in sytuation like this you need to set gryfs at position 2 and 6, but in that sytuation you should put haste on pikiner before you move gryfs maximum forward, and than push pikiners maximum forward... the morales show im right....
14:25 gryfs shoul atack upper gremiln not just blocking.
I am really confused on this first map, all those shrines and you didn't hit them (the lvl1's) you could have gotten a foothold on spells early on and taken a few more battles with the spells(provided they arent duplicates ), what was the logic behind NOT taking them?
I found it a little strange that you bought additional heroes so early, I would think that investing that gold in a resource silo, while inefficient and expensive, would have ultimately netted you more resources than going for so long with zero ore income, nevertheless great game you played here, love hmm3
Also, at an hour and 16mins when you defeated Fiona I think it was, I am shocked that you gave up an opportunity to learn intelligence
Feels like the map generator kinda screwed up and there wasn't supposed to be a block to the north-east by the lumbermill. Starting town would have looked way more solid that way.
my fav moment is at 1:10:41 when you misclick ... s-s-sugar. I guess you have kids :D
Hi, I started playing heroes a few weeks ago and I was wondering how you make your game look like that. I tried the HD mod but when I go 1980*1080 The game looks too small, specially the city screen.
Thanks in advance, I'm really enjoying the videos!
Norovo uses 'with source size set to 1180x664 and a stretch filter' - I'm not expert, but I believe putting the source size too high causes the issues, as some elements just don't scale. A lower res with a sharpener means things won't be too big, but does let the mod try and use the extra pixels in modern screens.
I'm pretty sure the AI knows the entire map from the start. The Necro fog of war generator thing is useless against them.
So them being allied and sharing a map doesn't actually change their planning ability. All it really does is make them not attack one another.
They'll mainly still goof around and make bad moves but sometimes be smart.
Dunno about that, why would the AI randomly poke it's head out of the darkness without picking up anything then?
@@Zorutan Here is a thread discussing this: heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=2523
My guess about them poking out is that, depending on your difficulty level, they may be more or less cautious about approaching too closely. For them the fog doesn't exist.
Great gameplay, but why were you so strict with spell points? I believe some of the fights would be much easier if you'd used magic (especially prayer) more liberally.
I like heros of might and magic III
thanks for sharing
Hey so, the link for the HD mod is down but I found it on the Nexus, at least I assume it's the same because they link to the same website that is also down, but when I play I don't have a turn order or see enemy numbers when I check, and I can't find any settings for it. Is it the wrong mod or are there hidden settings somewhere?
Sorry to come at you with just a tech question, I'm really enjoying the video and using it to try to learn how to get better at the game myself.
lol i would have given up at horde of skeletons XD