Heroes 3 - MAELSTROM - Part One (Impossible Difficulty)
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Maelstrom is a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (HoMM3) map included in the Horn of the Abyss mod (HotA), with a reputation for having an unpredictable and sometimes very punishing start, thanks to all starting heroes having Diplomacy and many opportunities to rapidly strengthen. Episode one.
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Game version: Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Horn of the Abyss (mod)
Main Hero: Eovacius (Clone specialist)
Map size: L
Difficulty: Impossible (200%)
Starting Town: Cove and Necropolis
MOD LIST:
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My HD mod settings:
Mode: 32-bit OpenGL by Verok
Source size: 1180x664
Stretch filter: xBRZx2 + Lanczos
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All future episodes will be added to this playlist: ua-cam.com/video/C_f_g2VHo6g/v-deo.html
Can´t watch the second one :/ it says its unavailable...
@@lukass.3124 That might be because only part 1 came out yet. 🙂
So good when I read all these comments. It’s like a movie evening on Sunday as a family. I will watch this later today before I go to bed. Thx
Thank you for these really insightful videos. I played Heroes 3 as a kid, and just recently got it on GoG for the nostalgia trip, and boy am I enjoying it again. I'm currently playing (struggling) through the campaign, on EASY, and to see a player with such a high skill level playing on Impossible difficulty on these crazy maps, along with all of the commentary explaining what you're going to do, why you're doing it, and weighing your options and potential consequences is really super cool.
@23:27 You can click on the right side of the shipyard you control to buy a ship, you dont need to bring the hero to the shipyard, you save a few moves this way!
News to me, thanks!
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Half an hour in, wondering if Norovo forgot his cape of velocity. 35 minutes in, yes he did, now he's remembering. Ahh. Major stress point averted. Nice!
I was going to stop watching because of it
In fact I too got stressed out about and had to take a break 😅
This is a good map. AbsoluteZero played it a couple years back. IIRC he used Andra as his main.
Hey man just stumbled across your content today and wanna say keep up the great work! As someone who is familiar with but doesnt know that much about homm 3 you hit the perfect balance between explaining your thought process/showing what items do etc. without having it get boring or tedious.
I like your style. Chill, but straight to the point, not a lot of fluff, and playing one of the all time classics.
You can check the movement points (required to an object and remaining) by hovering cursor while pressing ALT.
Also, you can 'speed up' in mines and other resource places by leaving the slowest units there for a night (similar to doing it when in a castle) - just hit Space. Main thing is NOT to forget the army next day when starting your hero's turn.
I always forget the army. Just like I always forget to buy a spellbook before taking off from the castle. Hurray for autosave.
Would you consider playing the HOMM3 campaign as a series? I know its probably way too easy for someone of your skill level, but I reckon it would still be fun to watch
i am a casual player and I win campaigns in like 1 try on 160%, they are piss easy
NO THEY ARE NOT PISS EAZY THEY ARE POOP HARD MY NAME IS ANDREJ ILJIC AND I CANNOT EVEN PASS FIRST SCENARIOS OF ANY CAMPAIGNS 😩😭
PLS GUYSSSS HELP ME 😰😰😰😨
@@andrej_urod_iljic There's a youtuber called "Meridian" who has playlists of all of the campaigns on impossible difficulty with commentary (HotA campaigns are currently underway). Maybe you can learn some tips and tricks there!
@@andrej_urod_iljic Nisu toliko teške mape, slobodno smanji difficulty. Prve mape su teže od poslednjih jer ti je pred kraj jače kampanje glavni heroj dosta jači ako znaš šta radiš, ali opet, ja sam kampanje prelazio milion puta (AB nisam nikad do kraja), tako da bukvalno na mapama znam napamet gde se šta nalazi. nadji na yt tutorijale, imaš već ustaljenje taktite za skoro svaku fakciju, verziju bitke, magije, mapu itd. jer je igrica stara 23 godine, tako da ljudi već znaju da je igraju. Nisam ni ja sad nešto predobar, ima i boljih ljudi od mene, ali sam dovoljno dobar za singleplayer (multiplayer ne igram jer su turn-based mp igre po mom mišljenju skoro nepodnosljive za igrati). Inače igram na expert diff (160% mislim), kontam da bih i mogao da igram 200% ali me smara da nemam resurse na početku, ali takodje i neke mape nisu bas napravljene za 200% te nekad se možeš softlockovati
@@lmao6762 bro what?
Love watching you play this game! Keep doing the good work!
This has been a lot of fun to watch! What a chaotic map. Definitely the randomness makes it interesting where the feeling of discovery plays even a more important role this time. Besides, you hooked us once more with that end haha. Let's hope the next episode won't take too much :)
"So we can keep running, like a rat, onto the ship" :)) Mbut rats usually run away from a (sinking) boat :P Anyway. Since a couple of years I enjoy watching (from time to time) your playthroughs and am always jealous on your tactics and playing abilities. Thank you for the content!
Perfect timing! I was just starting to wonder when a new series would start
Love all the homm you do this seems like a fun series
Supernice to see some more HOMM3 again! :D really looking forward to this!
This encouraged me try the map. Playing as purple I found a necklace of Celestial Bliss guarded by 100 goblins. Very weird balance.
8:42 Like Dracon campaign but with fairy dragons , what a nightmare it was .
Good beginning 20:25 😲😲🤯
44:05 Is that an easy strong item to get for free ? It could be good for Solmyr and his chainLightning spell .
48:00 Is that fairy dragon place !!? This place is nuts !!
1:03:07 Several golden dragon , this is the end if she found him early .
1:04:15 Maybe blue portal to go up there ?! Its really hard choises for me in this map .
1:05:18 I dont remember but that haunted ships had gold and wood , its very rare to see water map or fight haunted ship .
Nice! I was just wondering when you'll start a new heroes 3 lets play today! Can't wait for episode 2.
Why not upgrade those vampires? With the cape of velocity, they would be great on your clone hero!
Vamps + cape + Genies= a lot of movement points and easy fights if you buff your vamps
Yeah, and with 2 (TWO) Estates, it's a no brainer power stack
@@Winnetou17: Yes, that's 18 Vampire Lords speed 11 per week with castle. I would've exchanged that hero with Vidomina or Isra with Cloak of The Undead King in an Inferno town, but not much else. :)
really enjoying this map as it is not the "usual" random map. looking forward to the next episode.
Totally get the Pandora Box hesitation - my last attempt at this map I was also destroyed by a box!
Nice more heroes content!
Love it!
Also as someone that likes the game but isn´t e-sport ready i appreciate the commentary on the moves.
this is great. is it possible to do more playthrough of this kind? havent seen much of new vids like this type of play through in a while
Great work and great tactics! I would like to see a video on "A cold day in hell" hota map, is really challenging. A lot of heroes with 50+stats in just 2 months.
Keep up the good wok!
My favourite map recently and finished more than 10 times, the best performance is 53 days and has digged up the holy grail.
Tips:
1. Earth magic is a MUST. Town Portal, earth element, resurrection, implosion are essential.
2. Logistics is a MUST. dimension door is banned, so you have huge advantage with high mobility.
3. Shackle of war is a game changer. If you acquire this, the victory is 90% guranteed. Then you can eliminate major threats completely and get all their artifacts.
4. Fire magic is OK. Berserk can be very useful dealing with massive army.
a brief walk through:
1. choose purple player, you would have a good chance to start in the SOUTH-WEST corner. My personal favourite is Dessa (specialty in logistics, start with wisdom+logistics)
2. March north ASAP and free the hero in the prison with a CRYSTAL DRAGON
3. Let your main hero(Dessa in my case) take this crystal dragon, sail east from the harbour north of your starting town, land on the nearest land to your east.
4. March north after landing, take the neutral town, starting building magic tower, in the hope to get TP in level 4.
5. Then continue march north, free Kyrre in the prison to the north, he should be your secondary hero (specialty in logistics, start with archery+logistics).
6. Let Kyrre take the ship your major hero has left on the west coast, sail north west, to the land north of your starting town, take the neutral town there, and free an other great hero: Alamar? (with advanced wisdom and earth magic)
7. If with some luck, my Dessa and Kyrre are having good time taking all the resources in 2 empty lands.
8. Within 2 weeks, Dessa should have learned adv. wisdom+earth magic. and probably TP is acquired in the neutral town which Dessa took. NOW Dessa can TP to 3 towns, neutralize any incoming threates.
9. Take Alamar to Dessa's town to learn TP.
@Norovo Hi! Love your videoes and this one was especially interesting. However i have a question: Why dont you consider vampire lords when deciding what to build? I would think a pwer stack with two external dwellings would take you to a 50-100 vampire lords very quickly and that would be enough to take on everything on the map (except for the swarm of golems offcourse) - I mean with that shield and your defensive stats (20 +) this early the vampire lords would be unkillable right? I really want to understand your thought process around this :)
I will get vampire lords in the next parts - to be honest, I forgot I need the necromancy amplifier first
51:25 when it’s flagged you can purchase a boat there without having a hero there. There’s some fringe cases where it’s useful
Normally I never comment on anything but I wish the episodes were longer. Just binged watched your whole channel 😂
This series is the most exciting yet, keep it coming 🙏
dont you want to play the game yourself?
@@josephsaeteurn9158 I don’t have the time and energy for it.. price of adulthood 😅
@@B1RCH1995 It would be less time consuming to play the game for 4 hours than to watch 400 hours of videos
I had to check to see if ive done this map and yeah i remember it being a tough one. Still very dooable though. I think i had a couple week 1 failures and i also didnt know how challenging the map was before doing it so i chose tower instead of castle foolishly. but luckily my two nearest opponents were castle so i had a huge stack of AAs and became unkillable pretty quickly then it was just a case of chasing
I checked the map in the map editor and i literally saw that the AI gets free buildings, about twice as much units and 150K gold per month.
What i love most about your videos is his you think out loud for us viewers. Also KUDOS for not overlaying third party music. Gameplay music is purist and maintains the immersive atmosphere 👍
I think flaging shipyards gives more movement to heroes on boats. Nice video by the way, keep up the good work!
Lighthouses do that, I'm not sure shipyards do
moaaaarrrrrr!!!! nice map/play/casting! :)
Commenting just for yt algorithm... Keep it up man, love your vids!
This looks like it's going to be a challenging map!
Would you consider playing homm5?
This was nice to watch and I learned some new tricks
Thanks for this new series!!
I tried this map after seeing your vid. At first impression it seems somewhat like jebus cross. Also the prison is ridiculous, mine has Jeremy and 15 Nixes. If I knew that I could break at day 3 or 4, only guarded by 250+ Pikemen.
Ended up breaking at day 7. Still killed off my neighbor at w2d3 though. The prison heroes are as strong as your main so it's like you have 2 or 3 mains. After that everything was easy.
How did you manage to get so smooth animation? Is it the Stretch filter in the HD Mod Launcher, or something else in the advanced settings?
HD mod, 32-bit OpenGL by Verok
Where can I purchase this particular expansion pack?.......Thanks for the vids!
its a free community made mod, you should be able to find the download by looking the name hota up!
nice take on the map
Why do you move a hero onto making a Ship? Because you own it, you can mouse over it and when you get the ship icon, just click to build it without using movement points to any hero. It you don't have enough resources you won't get a clickable icon for ship, it will say you can't afford a ship. It's only the shipyard you don't own that you can't mouse over it to buy a boat... Just a thought...
picked deemer for the meteor shower, got lucky and got tome of earth magic early so i could use earth elementals, resurrection and town portal early, but even without it the map is still overall pretty easy map even on max difficulty.
Awesome! Looking forward to the rest.
29:45 THE CAPE
Finaly, the legend has awoken
This was a special start. Can you replay this map. I only won due to early townportal. Would not win without that spell :D (Hard mode not even impossible)
Min 12. How do you get combat order at the bottom of the battlefield?
Is included in HD mod?
Is necessary to activate or is auto?
Yes it's part of the HD mod, I think activated by default
@@Norovo Thanks.
45:23 Do you mean 99?
Keep it up! HOMM3 forever!
Isn't Necropolis banned in multiplayer? It used to be way to overpowered before at least, have not played for a while...
17:19 you could pay them to join you and have 27 skeletons for 270 gold after transmutation
I didn't know Richard Ayoade has a gaming channel
You keep repeating that you need navigation and it seems that you forgot that the witch's hut right next to your Necropolis teaches navigation :)
IS the map included in Hota?
My Dad's dad, my grandfather, we was in World War I. He was a mule guy! He basically ran a crew that had mules and horses and they ferried stuff to and from the front lines. He saw combat. He got shot (in the fleshy part of the thigh) and that got him sent home. He always had a slight limp after. He became a docker, a ganger (foreman), and because of his previous service, age, injury AND critical job, he didn't get conscripted or sign up in WWII. My Dad was 15 when WWII broke out, and was short, and working in a sawmill for no money. He and his friends went to the recruitment station to lie about their age and sign up. The sargent there laughed them away. He forged his parents signature and went back a week later, the sargent tore it up and sent him away again. Then the sawmill closed, and he landed an apprenticeship with a fitter at a boatyard. As the War kicked off, my Dad was working on refitting ships (civilian and naval), fixing railway sleepers, tooling armoury machines etc. By the time he was 17 and tried to sign up again, a top officer (impressed with his resume, grades, skills etc) told him "NO chance! You're by all acounts a very skilled man an you're already helping more than almost anyone else, I need you to stay doing what you're doing!". He was angry, but he soon made engineer in the Merchant Navy in 1946, becoming first (chief) engineer by the age of 26. That was unheard of. He earned a fortune, having no wife at the time, but his Dad died in 1955 of Docker related shit (overworked, smoking, etc). So he had to take care of his mum and four siblings with all that money. He finally met my mum in 1975, when he was 50, and had me! He'd been right through the war, he used to help the fire brigade dig out people, alive and dead, after the air raids by the Nazi bombers. He digged out many of his neighbours and friends, even his first girlfriend, who was just 15 years old. My Dad was the most logical, straightforward, and fearless man I've ever known. I guess, after living through that as a teenager and spending the next 30 years travelling the world from the engine room of a huge Merhant Navy cruiser, toughens you up.
These idiots in the UK Government, and in Washington, taking their orders from the Plutocrats and Technocrat Vampires, have no idea what real life is about. For them, it's about preserving what they have ALREADY stolen, and stealing as much more as they can before their corrupt bodies wither and die.
It's time for change.
can u write me some keyboard shorcuts? ...im new to this game but i kinda like it...just taking forever with click by click
part 2 when?
I only won this scenario on the fourth try. My tips: get one hero up to snuff extremely quickly and neglect any others, then get him/her to the sea portals, way sooner than in this video series. If you can take out 100 water elementals without losing more than one-stacks, you can do all the blue portal elemental stacks and all the yellow portal elements stacks on the same day for an incredible cash advantage over your opponents. After that dig into the corner castles, which the other factions tend to leave alone for longer.
I believe the ai at the very least cheats by "knowing" the map, like whats in all the boxes and gold piles for example.
I am always a fan of revenge runs.
well... the choices (town, hero, resources) on map start should remain untouched. you should leave the dices to roll and progress from that. that is the fun if you want to beat AI. for human players... its up to the players to vote, but random will still be the best choice. I know the game is not balanced but everyone is in the same situation.
In the fight against magic elementals, should have used mr clone and cloned your genies to then hit them
My main takeaway is that i misuse 80% of my movement points and 100% of my turns
not upgrading vampires?
Yay more HOMM!
sad sunday evening with no second part :(
Why does the movement of the camera look so smooth? How can I achieve this in my game?
Use the OpenGL by Verok setting in the HD mod - my settings are in the description
@@Norovo wow! i never knew this! thank you so much it is much more pleasant on the eyes
Idk why you keep on using clone on second turn...
Ughhh why no vamp lords
Champ
Sure it's pretty hard without any S/L.
Go play map lord of destruction
This is one of the easiest maps I ever played. All my heroes have DIPLOMACY and also my main heroes on second months of the game already got DD. It is kind of dissapointing, I expected real fights. Maybe without diplomacy and DD and TP it would be hard. Nah.
hurry up and release the next one
pffff...you play with lot of mistakes...ignore air magic,cape of velocity,physic ele base resist...im not impressed.
I think you need to learn how to edit out all your himming-n-hawwing during combat, it's like watching paint dry or someone playing chess by themselves.
the way u pronounced casiopeia made me dislike this video XD
Thanks for the excellent playthrough, Mr Norovo!
But I do get frustrated when a map builder uses RNG as the method to 'add challenge'.
By definition, it is rarely fair - especially when AI already gets cheats etc...
M 🦘🏏😎