Halfling Grenadiers Are An Early Game Powerhouse - Heroes 3: Factory Showcase (Part 2) 

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I'd say, the current HoMM2 playthrough is a very strong contender :D ! We're quite lucky to have two games by Noro at the same time right now.

I feel like he lost a major campaign because he was unable to cast magic arrow once long ago, and it still traumatized him to this day.

Same here, it can sometimes take 4-5 time to finish one of his videos

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I was thinking that too.

Yeah. I think higher speeds lose some of the tension and impact. Perhaps they're ok for the walkover fights, but I like to see the animation in all its glory!

I agree, this is way too fast

Only noobs don’t use grid

No, full speed and grid

Yes

Could you help me out and tell me how to turn them on? I'm using the mod with a complete game edition

I remember I didn't like that game mechanically or in terms of art design of creatures but boy did they nail atmosphere and music, those town themes are heavenly

@@alexmashkin863 O yees the music is so cool. Im propably bias because this is the first HM that I owned. My favorite part was the plot of campaigns, most peple hate it since there were a lot to reqad, but it was designed pretty well, and you can really get deepinto the characters. Also that was the first time when I met with Idea of necromancer , that dont want to destroy the world instead of create , living-undead working society.

@@seriozycie9149 Oh, yeah, I hear you, campaigns were good, writing and design. But I played through and that's it, homm3 I play to this day :-)

Which is not to say that the best strategy is always "don't take out a loan unless you need to spend the gold that day". Because let's say you know you'll want to spend 2k on day 2 and 5k on day 6. In order to do that, you need to take out the loan on day 1.

Thing balancing Halfling Grenadiers is their high upgrade cost, didn't played Homm3 for some long time, but if i remember none of other T1 units need special/rare materials for upgrade and halflings require 2 sulfur and mercury to be upgraded, which it isn't much of issue on normal and hard difficulty, but any higher and you start questioning if it is worth it, especially when there ain't much resources or mines on map. Also they are quite pricey to be honest, but it is also balancing factor for how good they are. Also about bounty hunters. The ability is good, cause it force range units to take other targets or walk straight up to you, yet it ain't perfect and some units gonna walk towards you or gonna shoot you anyway. Not to mention that theirs ability works quite well against players too. Thing is that Bounty Hunters can punch like truck, yet they are very squishy which is an amazing trap. Enemy player must think at lest twice before he gonna do something, well untill he have AoE spell then it's not much of an issue. Still, choosing between getting rid of Bunty hunter or other more threatening units is quite amusing. Cause you gonna attack with whole army, not single unit

I think mechanical units can be healed or cured but not resurrected or death stared

Interesting idea, but I would prefer if Eagle Eye gave more info about dwellings/mob counts/spell shrines/other interactables within a certain range of the hero. For example, you can see that shrine is a magic arrow, which you already have. And you know that these elementals have exactly 10 storm and 40 air. Your idea makes Scholar and Eagle Eye too similar, in my opinion.

Or have eagle eye be able to open your opponents spellbooks, with limits on what you can see based on the level: Basic only seeing the first two spell levels and no specialties, advanced seeing 3rd and 4th and showing basic element investments, and expert showing everything. Specialty would allow that hero to see how many spell points they have available outside of combat as well.

Using the HD mod, hold down Ctrl or Shift while hovering over a unit

I definitely said "moot"!

This is really interesting observation! Could you please explain the higher ignore? I've been playing HoMM3 on and off for years now, and I am still learning new things.

It's not better, percentage is much less, their native attack is much less and their damage is much less than AB's :-)) It's a great early to midgame powerstack but they melt very quickly against tougher guards or enemy heroes, become way too bothersome to protect. They're good, but not unbalanced

If you're looking for actual PvP then it's better to look at someone like Lexiav, he has good tutorials and uploads competitive matches daily, Alex The Magician has great tutorials although he's stopped uploading. Noro plays PvE, never seen him upload any kind of online play

As mentioned somewhere in the video, this a random map, created with the built in random map generator. Unless noro shares the generated map, you can’t download it ;-)

I don't think that is the case. Try it yourself. Buy a new hero and give them your entire army. It will say they are your best hero in my experience. I assume it is looking at the fight value of the entire army (which is modified by hero stats).

@@KyriosHeptagrammaton So apparently the formula for strongest hero in the Thieves' Guild's is: sqrt((1 + 0,05 * (Hero_Attack)) * (1 + 0,05 * (Hero_Defense))) * (Sum of AI Values of all troops in hero's army) Thanks, I learned something new. And to check things before I speak!

@@IAmBael Nice! Where'd you find that? I didn't notice it on heroes.thelazy when I went looking. Also interesting it doesn't check spellpower and knowledge. That seems like an oversight.

My other current series Faction Wars is on Fheroes2, I'm using version 1.0.7 which is fairly new

It doesn't matter, you're just taking your income earlier 🤷🏻‍♂️ Only need to factor it into planning

@@alexmashkin863 yes in terms of overall gold income, but in terms of momentum if you take it the day before you need it you lose out that 500 gold you would have had available the next day. You shouldn't use it on cool down you should only use it when you intend to use all the gold in one turn. An example: you need 5000 gold for a city hall, you have 1000 income. If you take the bank straight away it takes 2500 + 5 days of 500 income or you could wait 3 days of 1000 income and then take the bank to purchase it 2 days earlier.

It's valid both ways, you essentially just take income money in advance, doesn't matter what you do with it. What you're talking about is an issue of planning your expenses not loan mechanics