To answer to some likely questions... (check the description for more info and links) The mods I'm using in this video are the Heroes 3 HD mod (higher resolution, battle queue, QoL improvements) and Horn of the Abyss (new creatures, new features). They are mods for Heroes 3 Complete Edition and they don't work on Heroes 3 HD Edition (from Steam), which I don't recommend buying. Both of these mods are used by the majority of regular players and are high quality. I wanted the video to be fairly snappy so I didn't cover some potentially detailed things like hero chaining. However, I'm aiming to cover more tips in future videos (so feel free to subscribe 😉). Maps shown in the video include Gold Rush, Rediscovery, Dungeon Keeper and a random map from my Vampires Only series. I've made playthrough playlists for all of them, either already uploaded or soon to be uploaded.
Hi.. i have complete edition from GOG, but how can i install? i choose the directory and pop a mensage saying ""HoTA must be unstalled on HoMM 3 SoD or complete. Selected folder does not contain required HoMM 3 so installation of HotA is impossible.
I know Im randomly asking but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account? I was dumb lost the password. I love any tips you can offer me
I also considered myself quite ok for a PvE player (and I know the game for 20 years as well) but most of those tipps were new to me (apart from the animate dead one - there is one heroe who has it as a special ability and that combined with vampire lords makes for an OP army).
@@lukasbosina301 Same for me. I played this game when I was teen and therefore never bothered with the mechanics. But as an adult I derive more pleasure from learning how to play games efficiently. And with how complexe and difficult to master this game is I am sure I will enjoy it for a very long time.
Great content! As someone who worked on this game years ago, it's so awesome to see a community of people still enjoying Heroes III. Really proud of the game and the old team which put it together.
I miss 3DO HOMM games. Ubisoft absolutely slaughtered your franchise and it‘s a shame. I still play Homm3 frequently with my friends and this is one of the games that will forever stand the test of time.
I dreamed dreams of HOMM3 for weeks after I played it at a friend's house until I finally got the game from Circuit City (rip) back in maybe 2000. I'm now 32 years old and still play it once a month or so. Thank you.
"Why would anyone need a beginners tips tutorial for a game that came out more than 20 years ago?" Because it's still the best fucking game its genre has ever seen. That's why.
it's just staggering of how much effort and inspiration did they put in making this game. it honestly feels like if every game was this well designed and to this depth, we would have maybe 50 games in the whole universe.
I've been playing this game for 20 years and I didn't knew that upgraded and basic creatures were facing opposite directions. Still having fun with this game.
then try to play The Devil Is In The Detail map !!! best map for old players its giant map and very hard. if u can fnish the map then u are real player.
I love so much when you defend a town and the enemy attacks with a strong army so you have to play the best you can to survive and your strategy ends in victory. We shall never see a Game like this again!
@@pandaman1331 that’s because gaming (particularly PC gaming) in the 90s and early 2000s was still largely a hobby for nerds. When nerd culture entered the mainstream, companies had to appeal to much larger demographics
A tip I have when playing with Vampire Lords (my favorite unit) : the upper and lower left corners of the battle arena are bordered by 3 hexes but the upper and lower right corners of the battle arena are bordered by only 2 hexes. That means that if you're battling living non-ranged single hex units slower than your Vampire Lords, you can wait on the first turn, then fly to the center and on turn two fly to one of the right most corners and battle at most 2 at a time. If you have blind you can reduce that to 1. This means you can take out a much more powerful army. Because you keep regenerating units as you suck out the life of the other army, the AI will attack you even though you can defeat the army easily even if it takes a long time.
One tip I would add is that the units don't have movement caps on the campaign map, only heroes do. To bring in reinforcements from towns to the main armies one can set up a chain of heroes, transferring troops from one hero to another as their movement ends.
What I learned from this video that I didn't know after playing this game for almost my entire life: - The pros of having 1 unit stacks - Faster units in your army increases hero speed on land - Creature bank (cluster) formation 1, 2 = top, 3,4,5 = mid, 6, 7 =bottom - Press space to use portals???? Whaaaaat - that's legit a game changer! - Towers prioritizes bottom ranged rather than top ones Noting this to remember it btw, thanks dude ^^
#1 it depends if you have an overwhelming army or underwhelming. I learn this from AI tactics. The goal here is to lose counter and the highest number have a free attack without being counter thats why griffin or counter attack spell is good. Defending siege towers ALWAYS inflict on highest possible killable stack. I think the formula here is if creature is equal or below 30hp target it else other creature.
The space bar is more like "take action". If your hero's on a windmill, he collects resources. If he's on a dwarven treasury, he attacks. If he's on a monolith, he teleports. I used to position my scout heroes one step away from certain buildings at the end of day 7 so I could collect from them at the start of day 1. Now I leave them on the building and save 1 movement.
@@wizardsuth Spacebar is very useful. If for example I end up at a building and forget I'm out of resources to pay, I can go sell some at the marketplace and then go back to the hero press spacebar and buy without having to waste movement points. Before I knew about the spacebar I would have to exit the building and re-enter, wasting movement points.
08:40 Correction. At the start of day (not turn). Means that if a blue player is attacked by red player (first one to go in a day), the blue player will replenish mana; not vice versa
yapp I only discovered it a few months ago and my life has been changed ever since. also the expansions I'm using tells me how big is the unit with actual numbers and not just saying "lot" or "swarm" but instead "50-99" which is way more helpful and I don't need a template to get an idea how big that unit is actually. I have to walk to the dwellings to find it out but then it just shows for the rest of the game if I right click.
I don't remember how I found out about it, but I knew it from back in the day. I know someone who also didn't know about it a couple of years ago and was super surprised. Still surprising to hear there are other people that didn't know about it. I guess it might be because I didn't play a lot of Restoration of Erathia back in the day, I almost immediately jumped to Shadow of Death. On the other hand, I didn't know about units affecting the speed of your hero until a couple of years ago, or about towers preferring to attack bottom units until just now :D
I've just downloaded the Complete Edition from GOG after a 15-year hiatus. I used to play this game religiously when I was younger. Can't believe I'm learning new tactics for this game in 2021!
hello friend, try using stronghold, hero crag hack (well, his name has "hack", so you know.. ). Quickly build behemoth cave at week 1. If you are playing normal difficulty, it is absolutely easy ( even with 200% difficulty, you can still do that if you lucky enough). try to recruit as many hero as you can, explore the map with behemoth, you should easily win the map, good luck friend.
hi,im also 22 and been playing this game till now but im enable to beat every map at 200% diff. here are just my play style in case u wanna try out Normally i just focus on building the capital for the income and get the range unit before the 1st week then go for the rests always recruit 2-3 hero at the start to reveal the map and get more resources spells are fucking OP in this game therefore learning expert wisdom is a must (earth,wind spell is top priority) last but not least , morale and luck play vital part in battle enjoy sitting several hours in your room playing !
@@dustinjowen4427 learning from 200% difficulty gives u more experience than normal difficulty. You can learn whats faction imprtant building guide for rush, units strength n weaknesses and play style. Learning from ur own rather than copying others guide is a stable progress
I remember going to a pc store with my dad and buying this game in 1999 or 2000 when I was 6-7 years old. It was the first game I ever had, and I've been playing it ever since. Yet I didn't know a lot of the stuff in this video, thanks a lot. If these are beginner tips I want to know what pro tips are lol.
Those would take a thick manual like author sais by the end of the video. Among others it involves: hero chaining, chosing class for main hero and side heroes, secondary abilities guides, artifact guides, spell guides (including school of magic effects), AI manipulation on the battlefield and much more... :P
For me- I was at the uni, and one of my friends was telling the other, how this new game Heroes3 (unheard for me) is great, and so much improved from something named Heroes2. We went to his house to check it out, and as I saw the mechanics, and the stats (of Behemoths), I said 'I'm going to be learning this all asap'. And so I did:)
One pro-tip is that high power spell, expert fire magic and Armageddon can destroy more or less anything, but Black dragon, Efreet, Fire elemental and Magic elemental. Just get some black dragons and Armageddon and "grass will never grow again where ever you go".
People here talking about being 6 or 10 years old when they first played this game, but for me this is the first video game I've seen, literally. I used to watch my dad play it since I was 3, it's what defined computer gaming for me and it's the game that made me memorize everything and turn on the computer by myself and play it, when I still couldn't even read.
Holy crap. I've been playing HoMM III almost all my life and mostly clicked the video out of curiosity. I was not expecting the last tip and I really appreciate you saying that. It feels like so many people are so focused on optimization these day, in all games, and it's rare to hear someone speak out about just having fun. So thanks for that. It kinda made my day.
I remember when Heroes 3 just came out, and it was huge upgrade compared to Heroes 2. 22years of experience here, tho some of your tricks I never knew until now. Thanks for the video :) MOAR
Great video Noro, especially the demonstrations of movements. A little detail, you did not mention: Animate Dead is easier to get and you do not need advanced earth magic for perma effect, but it only works on *Undead* creatures, while Resurrection only works on *Living* creatures.
Great tips! I'm a casual player but I've gotten noticeably better just by watching your playthroughs, and this is of course even better in that sense. Looking forward to more tips (and playthrough) videos!
Thank you. I'm jumping back in after many years off. I forgot most of this stuff. Multiple stacks of the same unit is an easy way to gain a big advantage. If the unit has a good special you can play with that a lot. I usually find myself leaving one of the units at the stronghold to stack (most always the slowest unit so I keep my hero movement up as well, plus they're usually tanky) while I split one of the units in two. Like with the Swamp faction. The upgraded serpents weaken the enemy (and they dispel). You only need one single unit and they attack first almost all the time. You'll weaken the unit and draw use its counter and then have the whole rest of your army to follow up. You only sacrifice the one unit. More than worth it.
These are really good tips!! I've been playing Heroes III for years, but always very casually with friends, which is why I've never been able to master the campaigns. I'm gonna try these things right now, especially the first one about the single stack units!
Just discovered the existence of HoTA, and as a result have bought the game for the 6th time. Each time I delve into it I discover a new depth to the game, rather pleased that the strategy I used originally as a child is still viable (though calling it a strategy may be a bit of a stretch, it really was just picking Gunnar as my starting hero).
Another thing about the shooting range and broken arrow - if I remember correctly, if the unit that is 2 hexes long stands right between the 10 hex border of your ranged unit's range, it actually matters whether you aim at the front of the rear hex of that large unit. It's been a long time since I played HOMM so correct me if I'm wrong.
A second tip : The AI apparently has a value for each unit about how "dangerous" it is and balances how dangerous your army is vs its army when deciding whether to attack your army or run away during a battle. But it DOESN'T take into account the state of its army. If you don't have shackles of war but do have blind, you can blind one stack at a time until the AI's entire army is blinded, and then use slow in combination with blind to defeat the enemy army without giving the AI a chance to surrender. Attack, blind, attack, blind, etc. Be sure to also destroy any ballistas or first aid tents because if the AI player has first aid or artillery it may surrender when it controls one of those units. This only works if you have quite a bit of mana to burn and your hero has a high amount of power.
Still watching in 2024. I loved this game as a kid, now teaching my gen z American friends who have never heard of the game to play it, lmao. It's such a timeless classic! But I was never any good at it when I was younger, so I appreciate being able to learn through videos like this.
Video suggestion: could you please do a video explaining the different versions of HOMM3 available for purchase (and their pros and cons)? And the different mods/how to install them?
I must say how refreshing it is to see some new actual Heroes III content about the game itself, in contrast to "do you remember this old gem". I like the other stuff as well, but this really resparked my flame for it!
Some games are multi-player, Heroes is more like multi-layer game, sooooo many thing to know. About 20yrs of experience and this video still showed quite a few things i did not know. Great game, great video! Thanks.
Thank you very much for these tips! HMM3 in HD is a true masterpiece, with unique cities, an awesome fantasy ambience and gorgeous Paul Anthony Romero's music!
Wow! I've been playing this game since I was a kid and I didn't know most of these mecanics . Thanks for the video! Definitely looking forward to seeing the next one.
Ubisoft owns the franchise. We should only hope they do not remake the current Heroes 3, or ban the multiplayer/other development that the unnoficial patches provide.
I take long breaks from this game. Sometimes years even. But then all of a sudden the urge to play always comes back. I didn´t know several of these tricks. So thanks alot. 🙂
Remembered this game today. I’m so happy to see dedicated videos of 2020’s, and most important that you recommend at the end to simply enjoy the game as we like. Great video.
Great tips, I've been playing pretty much since the game was new and most of these I didn't figure out until recent years. The one about what the AI towers target I was not aware of - good to know! This is one thing I love about the game: there is always more to learn and scope for improvement.
These are decent tips for beginners but I feel like there are more useful tips for people with no knowledge of the game. Like how to rush economy buildings and having a bonus hero whose sole purpose is to pick up ground trash and visit weekly income buildings. It is also extremely important to know how to make good use of the "wait" mechanic and avoid ranged penalties.
I play this game for the first time back in Saudi Arabia when I was on tour in the Air Force in an admin tent back in 1999 and here more than 20 years later it is still one of my favorite games in fact I played it just last night while watching TV. One of the most low stress chill out games I’ve ever played.
this was nice because it explains quite a few things you talk about in your gameplay series when making tactical decisions and the like. I've been playing HoMM for most of my life and only recently learned things like how bad morale procs 1/4 times at the lowest grade, which is not at all what the original manual stated, or tactics here with one stacks and AI prioritization. It hasn't made me so much of a better player that I still struggle with some of the expansion campaigns but at least I'm not as frustrated as I was in years past :)
I love this game so much. Tried 4,5, and 6 but never went back to those games. Homm3 however, I usually get an inching to play this game everywhere 12-18 months and when I do, I beat all the scenarios to completion. Love the Rampart questline and I use nothing but the overpowered sharpshooters with no range penalty.
I love this game so much. Would play it all the time when now as little. Always died fast. Why I never looked up a tip video of this game is beyond me. Happy to have found your video. Will be a great help. Going to play this now and try our your tips. Also, the soundtrack is GOAT!
I had no idea that the speed of the creatures affected the hero's movement points and their overall mobility on different types of terrain! I assumed it just depended on the heroes... thanks for that tip! Also, am I the only one who always put my creatures in the same order than their rank? Like, level 1 units go in slot 1, level 2 units go in slot 2... xD
i remember when i played hotseat with a friend, he had 35k liches , i was with crag hack, made the cloak too, raise 10k liches, and when we fought, due to my habbit of taking all +1 att buildings, had 50 att, and my stack one shot all his 35k liches XD, he started loosing his hair that day, he bald now XD
I've being playing this game for so long and every time I hear the intro music from New World Computing and see the flaming planet as a giant fireball with a sword pierced through it, I have goosebumps and I feel like I felt when I've started the game for a very first time! And yet today I've learned something else. Thank you for the video!
I was quite hesitant to click on this video because I find that heroes 3 is best played as an RPG not a strategy game. But then your last tip kind of agreed with me, so yay! haha
I also kind of dream of a mod where transferring creatures ends movement for both heroes and maybe you lose one morale per stack that dies. Also AI which employs some sort of anti-kiting strategy. All in the name of making the game quicker where it is tedious to play optimally.
That's great to hear, I was reluctant to include it but I wanted to be honest that for me (and presumably many others who still love the game), agonising over marginal movement point optimisations going into the next turn is not really fun. The fun is slowly building up a great hero / army and responding to the unique circumstances of the map you're on.
#3 Diagonal Pickup : Wow. I was always under the impression that diagonal pickup would be *more* efficient. Visually, it's one less arrow on the pathfinding so it feels like it ought to be. Me finding out new stuff about this legendary game in 2023. Great video dude (^_^)b
Fantastic - the clarification about creature stacks when facing a creature bank is especially helpful as is the (not insignificant) difference between animate dead and resurrection (not to mention how the terrain always takes place on the defender's territory )
I'd like to add a tip. Having what I call hit and run heroes, that follow your main heroes to pick up resources for them to save their movement and bait the enemy.
excellent tips! Definitely helps me shake off the rust from not playing this game in several years. I was surprised to see such a thriving community still going on over on twitch.
Finally something to refresh my memory. I have been away for 20 years from Heroes 3 and just installed the complete edition yesterday. I was overwhelmed by the AI on hard difficulty which I usually beat (in the campaign mode).
I bought H3 from GOG to relive the golden years and I gotta say, there was some pretty good tricks I did not know about! For example the upgraded units on the world map! I never made that connection :D
Damn - never realised there's stuff I still didn't know after so many decades of playing the game, but never knew about the diagonal interactions costing more movement points!
Thank you for the fast guide/Tips. I just purchased this game via g2a and it's my childhood game on my Windows XP Pro. I used to play it together with Age of Empires 2 and Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge. Good old games. :)
Me being slav that is Heroes 3 veteran because I started playing this game having 4 years: Yes... that are good tips for the one who started playing this game. You have mine respect.
I’m new to this & the 1 stack method was something I picked up on early, but I mainly used it when I was leaving some homies behind to guard the castle. I’ll start using it on offense too now. 🙏
Honestly, this is a pretty great tutorial. Since watching Norovo's videos, I've learned more than I _ever_ knew about _Heroes of Might and Magic III_ - as well as _I_ and _II,_ by proxy. The Movement Points this is a prime example. I had no idea creatures affected Move Points. That being said… it still took me *four hours* to beat the _Heroes of Might and Magic_ Campaign 02 map due to my inefficient play style of… well… refusing to recruit more heroes than necessary for scouting and hiding in my main castle until I have an _insurmountable_ attack force. If I played against another person, I can guarantee I would lose, lose, _lose._
This video has the best tips and explanation! I was thinking HOMM3 and Armageddon's Blade must have a quite small community. Then I explored HoTA and then these videos.. Very happy to see gamers like me who still enjoy a lot playing these great a 25yo series🤩
Few things I might add: - Ressurection leaves the units after combat if you are expert earth magic - Towers shoot archers primary but it depends... It does prefer killing units and checks the hp at each turn and shoots something if it can kill it. Example it wont go for the archers if you have dragon on 30hp. It will shoot the dragon instead. Thus they attack meatshields a lot
To answer to some likely questions... (check the description for more info and links)
The mods I'm using in this video are the Heroes 3 HD mod (higher resolution, battle queue, QoL improvements) and Horn of the Abyss (new creatures, new features). They are mods for Heroes 3 Complete Edition and they don't work on Heroes 3 HD Edition (from Steam), which I don't recommend buying. Both of these mods are used by the majority of regular players and are high quality.
I wanted the video to be fairly snappy so I didn't cover some potentially detailed things like hero chaining. However, I'm aiming to cover more tips in future videos (so feel free to subscribe 😉).
Maps shown in the video include Gold Rush, Rediscovery, Dungeon Keeper and a random map from my Vampires Only series. I've made playthrough playlists for all of them, either already uploaded or soon to be uploaded.
Hi Norovo, we need to have the "Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete" and then we can install the Mods right?
how to get heroes 3 expect from getting it from steam?
Hi.. i have complete edition from GOG, but how can i install? i choose the directory and pop a mensage saying ""HoTA must be unstalled on HoMM 3 SoD or complete. Selected folder does not contain required HoMM 3 so installation of HotA is impossible.
I know Im randomly asking but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account?
I was dumb lost the password. I love any tips you can offer me
@Grey Roger instablaster =)
Heroes 3 tutorial in 2020? I'm here for it.
This is what made me clock as well...
Yessss!
Dude, its 2021 and im still here for it
@@Ahandsomeransom Will there be resugance of hommIII now in 2021 mayhaps
Back when I played this game I never thought this would be happening....
I've got 20 years of experience and I'm still learning
I also considered myself quite ok for a PvE player (and I know the game for 20 years as well) but most of those tipps were new to me (apart from the animate dead one - there is one heroe who has it as a special ability and that combined with vampire lords makes for an OP army).
I've got 20 years of experience and I'm still a noob
It must be full tutorial in the game with every language
I've got 20 years of experience and I still suck...
@@lukasbosina301 Same for me. I played this game when I was teen and therefore never bothered with the mechanics. But as an adult I derive more pleasure from learning how to play games efficiently. And with how complexe and difficult to master this game is I am sure I will enjoy it for a very long time.
Great content! As someone who worked on this game years ago, it's so awesome to see a community of people still enjoying Heroes III. Really proud of the game and the old team which put it together.
I miss 3DO HOMM games. Ubisoft absolutely slaughtered your franchise and it‘s a shame. I still play Homm3 frequently with my friends and this is one of the games that will forever stand the test of time.
I dreamed dreams of HOMM3 for weeks after I played it at a friend's house until I finally got the game from Circuit City (rip) back in maybe 2000. I'm now 32 years old and still play it once a month or so. Thank you.
If you worked in the art department, I would like to know how your team was able to make everything look good.
I've played this game for sooo long. Me and my dad still hot seat this game to this day lol. Love the random map generator makes it fresh for so long
Thank you! I've spent many fun hours playing that game.
"Why would anyone need a beginners tips tutorial for a game that came out more than 20 years ago?"
Because it's still the best fucking game its genre has ever seen. That's why.
Exactly! And I am new to the game. 20 years ago I was 2.
Hell yeah bruh!
4x tactical strategy? The best game is m002. Then HOMM3. You don't really explore in XCOM but it is definitely a great tactical strategy game..
@@chrispelletier8654 wtf is m002. Don't namedrop shit that makes no sense.
@@ParleLeVu if you are watching this homm3 video you SHOULD know what m002 MASTER OF ORION 2 is.
it's just staggering of how much effort and inspiration did they put in making this game. it honestly feels like if every game was this well designed and to this depth, we would have maybe 50 games in the whole universe.
For 16 years, when reinstalling OS my order of installing the required software is:
1. OS (obviously);
2. Drivers;
3. Heroes 3;
4. Everything else.
So I'm not the only one doing this? 🤣
I played this game 20 years ago and still playing it now. For me is not just a game, it is a piece of art.
Best strategy game
Been playing heroes3 for 20 years and still wasn't aware of quite a few things lol
same but i played for less than 10 years
I've been playing this game for 20 years and I didn't knew that upgraded and basic creatures were facing opposite directions. Still having fun with this game.
then try to play The Devil Is In The Detail map !!! best map for old players its giant map and very hard. if u can fnish the map then u are real player.
@@kayacenk4164 thanks buddy! I will try it! Have u finished the map?
@@marcoadriao3395 yes i did now im playing another hard map Conquest Universe Ult ed
Same. Just learned it. I'm still in shock...
Me too!
I love so much when you defend a town and the enemy attacks with a strong army so you have to play the best you can to survive and your strategy ends in victory. We shall never see a Game like this again!
yea great times
That short castle defense victory song was oh so sweet when that happened
The music is on this game is top notch it really puts you on the exact mood game offering.
Not with how lazy and uncreative gaming companies have become. The 90s and early 2000s really were a different time for pop culture.
@@pandaman1331 that’s because gaming (particularly PC gaming) in the 90s and early 2000s was still largely a hobby for nerds. When nerd culture entered the mainstream, companies had to appeal to much larger demographics
A tip I have when playing with Vampire Lords (my favorite unit) : the upper and lower left corners of the battle arena are bordered by 3 hexes but the upper and lower right corners of the battle arena are bordered by only 2 hexes. That means that if you're battling living non-ranged single hex units slower than your Vampire Lords, you can wait on the first turn, then fly to the center and on turn two fly to one of the right most corners and battle at most 2 at a time. If you have blind you can reduce that to 1. This means you can take out a much more powerful army. Because you keep regenerating units as you suck out the life of the other army, the AI will attack you even though you can defeat the army easily even if it takes a long time.
One tip I would add is that the units don't have movement caps on the campaign map, only heroes do. To bring in reinforcements from towns to the main armies one can set up a chain of heroes, transferring troops from one hero to another as their movement ends.
What I learned from this video that I didn't know after playing this game for almost my entire life:
- The pros of having 1 unit stacks
- Faster units in your army increases hero speed on land
- Creature bank (cluster) formation 1, 2 = top, 3,4,5 = mid, 6, 7 =bottom
- Press space to use portals???? Whaaaaat - that's legit a game changer!
- Towers prioritizes bottom ranged rather than top ones
Noting this to remember it btw, thanks dude ^^
#1 it depends if you have an overwhelming army or underwhelming. I learn this from AI tactics. The goal here is to lose counter and the highest number have a free attack without being counter thats why griffin or counter attack spell is good. Defending siege towers ALWAYS inflict on highest possible killable stack. I think the formula here is if creature is equal or below 30hp target it else other creature.
The space bar is more like "take action". If your hero's on a windmill, he collects resources. If he's on a dwarven treasury, he attacks. If he's on a monolith, he teleports. I used to position my scout heroes one step away from certain buildings at the end of day 7 so I could collect from them at the start of day 1. Now I leave them on the building and save 1 movement.
@@wizardsuth Spacebar is very useful. If for example I end up at a building and forget I'm out of resources to pay, I can go sell some at the marketplace and then go back to the hero press spacebar and buy without having to waste movement points. Before I knew about the spacebar I would have to exit the building and re-enter, wasting movement points.
08:40 Correction. At the start of day (not turn). Means that if a blue player is attacked by red player (first one to go in a day), the blue player will replenish mana; not vice versa
I never knew about the space bar thing for monoliths. I just always thought the computer was cheating when it did that.
Its not just portals, you can also use it on creature dwellings and such
yapp I only discovered it a few months ago and my life has been changed ever since. also the expansions I'm using tells me how big is the unit with actual numbers and not just saying "lot" or "swarm" but instead "50-99" which is way more helpful and I don't need a template to get an idea how big that unit is actually. I have to walk to the dwellings to find it out but then it just shows for the rest of the game if I right click.
I don't remember how I found out about it, but I knew it from back in the day. I know someone who also didn't know about it a couple of years ago and was super surprised. Still surprising to hear there are other people that didn't know about it. I guess it might be because I didn't play a lot of Restoration of Erathia back in the day, I almost immediately jumped to Shadow of Death.
On the other hand, I didn't know about units affecting the speed of your hero until a couple of years ago, or about towers preferring to attack bottom units until just now :D
I really enjoy watching your Heroes 3 playthrough series. It's one of my favourite things to do to chill out after a long day. Please keep doing more!
Thank you!
I've just downloaded the Complete Edition from GOG after a 15-year hiatus. I used to play this game religiously when I was younger. Can't believe I'm learning new tactics for this game in 2021!
I DL'd it from there in 2017ish, just now finished all of the campaigns. The last one in Armageddon's blade is hilarious.
- There are still beginners in this game after all these years?
- Always!
I'm 22, started playing at 10 because of my older brother. I still haven't won a single game in Normal, but I just keep playing and having fun.
Normal mode you mean 100% difficulty? I can help where you stuck with
hello friend, try using stronghold, hero crag hack (well, his name has "hack", so you know.. ). Quickly build behemoth cave at week 1. If you are playing normal difficulty, it is absolutely easy ( even with 200% difficulty, you can still do that if you lucky enough). try to recruit as many hero as you can, explore the map with behemoth, you should easily win the map, good luck friend.
@@sontungduong793 wow, I didn't expect such advise. Thanks a lot, I'll definitely try it!
hi,im also 22 and been playing this game till now but im enable to beat every map at 200% diff. here are just my play style in case u wanna try out
Normally i just focus on building the capital for the income and get the range unit before the 1st week then go for the rests
always recruit 2-3 hero at the start to reveal the map and get more resources
spells are fucking OP in this game therefore learning expert wisdom is a must (earth,wind spell is top priority)
last but not least , morale and luck play vital part in battle
enjoy sitting several hours in your room playing !
@@dustinjowen4427 learning from 200% difficulty gives u more experience than normal difficulty. You can learn whats faction imprtant building guide for rush, units strength n weaknesses and play style. Learning from ur own rather than copying others guide is a stable progress
I remember going to a pc store with my dad and buying this game in 1999 or 2000 when I was 6-7 years old. It was the first game I ever had, and I've been playing it ever since. Yet I didn't know a lot of the stuff in this video, thanks a lot. If these are beginner tips I want to know what pro tips are lol.
Those would take a thick manual like author sais by the end of the video.
Among others it involves: hero chaining, chosing class for main hero and side heroes, secondary abilities guides, artifact guides, spell guides (including school of magic effects), AI manipulation on the battlefield and much more... :P
For me- I was at the uni, and one of my friends was telling the other, how this new game Heroes3 (unheard for me) is great, and so much improved from something named Heroes2. We went to his house to check it out, and as I saw the mechanics, and the stats (of Behemoths), I said 'I'm going to be learning this all asap'. And so I did:)
One pro-tip is that high power spell, expert fire magic and Armageddon can destroy more or less anything, but Black dragon, Efreet, Fire elemental and Magic elemental. Just get some black dragons and Armageddon and "grass will never grow again where ever you go".
People here talking about being 6 or 10 years old when they first played this game, but for me this is the first video game I've seen, literally. I used to watch my dad play it since I was 3, it's what defined computer gaming for me and it's the game that made me memorize everything and turn on the computer by myself and play it, when I still couldn't even read.
Holy crap. I've been playing HoMM III almost all my life and mostly clicked the video out of curiosity. I was not expecting the last tip and I really appreciate you saying that. It feels like so many people are so focused on optimization these day, in all games, and it's rare to hear someone speak out about just having fun. So thanks for that. It kinda made my day.
I remember when Heroes 3 just came out, and it was huge upgrade compared to Heroes 2. 22years of experience here, tho some of your tricks I never knew until now. Thanks for the video :) MOAR
I've been playing this game for 20 years and never knew any of this. Much thanks, magical TH-cam man.
Literally bought Heroes 3 two days ago. Thanks for this.
Great video Noro, especially the demonstrations of movements. A little detail, you did not mention:
Animate Dead is easier to get and you do not need advanced earth magic for perma effect, but it only works on *Undead* creatures, while Resurrection only works on *Living* creatures.
Very useful tips. The 'how to recognize upgraded monsters' bit blew my mind.
One of the best games of all time.
Great tips! I'm a casual player but I've gotten noticeably better just by watching your playthroughs, and this is of course even better in that sense. Looking forward to more tips (and playthrough) videos!
Thank you. I'm jumping back in after many years off. I forgot most of this stuff.
Multiple stacks of the same unit is an easy way to gain a big advantage. If the unit has a good special you can play with that a lot. I usually find myself leaving one of the units at the stronghold to stack (most always the slowest unit so I keep my hero movement up as well, plus they're usually tanky) while I split one of the units in two. Like with the Swamp faction. The upgraded serpents weaken the enemy (and they dispel). You only need one single unit and they attack first almost all the time. You'll weaken the unit and draw use its counter and then have the whole rest of your army to follow up. You only sacrifice the one unit. More than worth it.
I keep my 20 years of experience as a trick for the game xD
Me and my brother still playing it. We Love it.
Thx for your videos.
this is probably the first ever tips video for H3 where I actually learned something (I did not know tower AI prefers to shoot bottom up)
Hey, when you have 15+ years of experience and then you find out that you still have a lot to learn. Thanks for this!
I love the soundtracks of HOMM III and IV, my favorites
These are really good tips!! I've been playing Heroes III for years, but always very casually with friends, which is why I've never been able to master the campaigns. I'm gonna try these things right now, especially the first one about the single stack units!
Video suggestion: I’ve never understood the plot of the campaign 😅 a lore video would be a ton of fun
I have played HOMM since the first one, sometimes in 1995. and I can tell you this is an excellent video with some really nice tips. Bravo!
I love how I didn't know some of this stuff after all these years playing ...!
Just discovered the existence of HoTA, and as a result have bought the game for the 6th time. Each time I delve into it I discover a new depth to the game, rather pleased that the strategy I used originally as a child is still viable (though calling it a strategy may be a bit of a stretch, it really was just picking Gunnar as my starting hero).
Another thing about the shooting range and broken arrow - if I remember correctly, if the unit that is 2 hexes long stands right between the 10 hex border of your ranged unit's range, it actually matters whether you aim at the front of the rear hex of that large unit. It's been a long time since I played HOMM so correct me if I'm wrong.
20 years of playing this game and still there are things to learn... this is way this is one of the best
A second tip : The AI apparently has a value for each unit about how "dangerous" it is and balances how dangerous your army is vs its army when deciding whether to attack your army or run away during a battle. But it DOESN'T take into account the state of its army. If you don't have shackles of war but do have blind, you can blind one stack at a time until the AI's entire army is blinded, and then use slow in combination with blind to defeat the enemy army without giving the AI a chance to surrender. Attack, blind, attack, blind, etc. Be sure to also destroy any ballistas or first aid tents because if the AI player has first aid or artillery it may surrender when it controls one of those units. This only works if you have quite a bit of mana to burn and your hero has a high amount of power.
Still watching in 2024. I loved this game as a kid, now teaching my gen z American friends who have never heard of the game to play it, lmao. It's such a timeless classic! But I was never any good at it when I was younger, so I appreciate being able to learn through videos like this.
A lot of these tips I didn’t know, but as you said in the video, the most important thing is to enjoy the game and have fun!
Thanks for sharing!
Video suggestion: could you please do a video explaining the different versions of HOMM3 available for purchase (and their pros and cons)? And the different mods/how to install them?
I resurrected (see what I did there?) this game following a break of years and years. What a game, top banana. My son is addicted too. Fabulous.
I must say how refreshing it is to see some new actual Heroes III content about the game itself, in contrast to "do you remember this old gem". I like the other stuff as well, but this really resparked my flame for it!
I played for over a decade and never figured you could use 1-stacks until I saw it on youtube. This had been the biggest gamechanger for me.
Some games are multi-player, Heroes is more like multi-layer game, sooooo many thing to know. About 20yrs of experience and this video still showed quite a few things i did not know. Great game, great video! Thanks.
Liked because you said: Have fun. Somthing that many has forgoten in the world of gaming. Good tips
Thank you very much for these tips! HMM3 in HD is a true masterpiece, with unique cities, an awesome fantasy ambience and gorgeous Paul Anthony Romero's music!
Love me a tips video for a game thats over 20 years old lol this game is such a classic, the 1st 3 Heroes games were my PC life as a child
Actually super useful - played this for hundreds of hours as a kid and didn't know some of these
Wow! I've been playing this game since I was a kid and I didn't know most of these mecanics . Thanks for the video! Definitely looking forward to seeing the next one.
Me too.
Ubisoft owns the franchise. We should only hope they do not remake the current Heroes 3, or ban the multiplayer/other development that the unnoficial patches provide.
@@NeblogaiLT yes. Let's hope they simply let the HOMM 3 be as it is.
I take long breaks from this game. Sometimes years even. But then all of a sudden the urge to play always comes back. I didn´t know several of these tricks. So thanks alot. 🙂
Remembered this game today. I’m so happy to see dedicated videos of 2020’s, and most important that you recommend at the end to simply enjoy the game as we like. Great video.
Ngl, that last tip was prob the most important one in this list. Thanks because I was starting to feel overwhelmed.
Great tips, I've been playing pretty much since the game was new and most of these I didn't figure out until recent years. The one about what the AI towers target I was not aware of - good to know! This is one thing I love about the game: there is always more to learn and scope for improvement.
These are decent tips for beginners but I feel like there are more useful tips for people with no knowledge of the game. Like how to rush economy buildings and having a bonus hero whose sole purpose is to pick up ground trash and visit weekly income buildings. It is also extremely important to know how to make good use of the "wait" mechanic and avoid ranged penalties.
I never knew about this game until this tutorial. I don't know how this got into my recommendation but i watched and liked this video anyway.
I play this game for the first time back in Saudi Arabia when I was on tour in the Air Force in an admin tent back in 1999 and here more than 20 years later it is still one of my favorite games in fact I played it just last night while watching TV. One of the most low stress chill out games I’ve ever played.
Oh god, this game brings me back. The gameplay, the story, and the ost. Subscribed
this was nice because it explains quite a few things you talk about in your gameplay series when making tactical decisions and the like. I've been playing HoMM for most of my life and only recently learned things like how bad morale procs 1/4 times at the lowest grade, which is not at all what the original manual stated, or tactics here with one stacks and AI prioritization. It hasn't made me so much of a better player that I still struggle with some of the expansion campaigns but at least I'm not as frustrated as I was in years past :)
I love this game so much. Tried 4,5, and 6 but never went back to those games. Homm3 however, I usually get an inching to play this game everywhere 12-18 months and when I do, I beat all the scenarios to completion. Love the Rampart questline and I use nothing but the overpowered sharpshooters with no range penalty.
I love this game so much. Would play it all the time when now as little. Always died fast. Why I never looked up a tip video of this game is beyond me. Happy to have found your video. Will be a great help. Going to play this now and try our your tips. Also, the soundtrack is GOAT!
I had no idea that the speed of the creatures affected the hero's movement points and their overall mobility on different types of terrain! I assumed it just depended on the heroes... thanks for that tip! Also, am I the only one who always put my creatures in the same order than their rank? Like, level 1 units go in slot 1, level 2 units go in slot 2... xD
The fact so many people are still playing this game and making videos on it is probably the single biggest reason I still have faith in humanity
Nice disclaimer at the end of the video. Its always very sympathetic when good experienced players value different ways to play the game.
i remember when i played hotseat with a friend, he had 35k liches , i was with crag hack, made the cloak too, raise 10k liches, and when we fought, due to my habbit of taking all +1 att buildings, had 50 att, and my stack one shot all his 35k liches XD, he started loosing his hair that day, he bald now XD
I've being playing this game for so long and every time I hear the intro music from New World Computing and see the flaming planet as a giant fireball with a sword pierced through it, I have goosebumps and I feel like I felt when I've started the game for a very first time! And yet today I've learned something else. Thank you for the video!
My dad recently introduced me to this game series, absolutely love it!
I was quite hesitant to click on this video because I find that heroes 3 is best played as an RPG not a strategy game. But then your last tip kind of agreed with me, so yay! haha
I also kind of dream of a mod where transferring creatures ends movement for both heroes and maybe you lose one morale per stack that dies. Also AI which employs some sort of anti-kiting strategy. All in the name of making the game quicker where it is tedious to play optimally.
That's great to hear, I was reluctant to include it but I wanted to be honest that for me (and presumably many others who still love the game), agonising over marginal movement point optimisations going into the next turn is not really fun. The fun is slowly building up a great hero / army and responding to the unique circumstances of the map you're on.
@@Norovo I couldn't say it better myself.
Best game ever! After all those years the only game that I always come back to.
That one about tovers was quite nice, I will be using it form here on.
#3 Diagonal Pickup : Wow. I was always under the impression that diagonal pickup would be *more* efficient. Visually, it's one less arrow on the pathfinding so it feels like it ought to be.
Me finding out new stuff about this legendary game in 2023. Great video dude (^_^)b
I am a casual player, playing since like 2000 when I got my 1st PC. Yet I still find this very helpful, thanks bro !
Many thanks to HotA crew for giving second life to this brilliant game!
played this game 20 years ago..still learnt something new today!
Fantastic - the clarification about creature stacks when facing a creature bank is especially helpful as is the (not insignificant) difference between animate dead and resurrection (not to mention how the terrain always takes place on the defender's territory )
I'd like to add a tip. Having what I call hit and run heroes, that follow your main heroes to pick up resources for them to save their movement and bait the enemy.
I've been playing this game for two decades, and I didn't know half the tips in this video. Thanks!
there more tips
excellent tips! Definitely helps me shake off the rust from not playing this game in several years. I was surprised to see such a thriving community still going on over on twitch.
Been playing this for close to 20 years and there was still stuff in this I didn't even notice were a thing, dope! Thanks for the vid :)
Nice one on the upgraded units facing the other way... That was something i did not notice :)
I've been playing this game since 1999 and I learned a bunch, thanks!
Finally something to refresh my memory. I have been away for 20 years from Heroes 3 and just installed the complete edition yesterday. I was overwhelmed by the AI on hard difficulty which I usually beat (in the campaign mode).
I bought H3 from GOG to relive the golden years and I gotta say, there was some pretty good tricks I did not know about! For example the upgraded units on the world map! I never made that connection :D
Damn - never realised there's stuff I still didn't know after so many decades of playing the game, but never knew about the diagonal interactions costing more movement points!
Loved this, thank you. This was easily my favourite game back in the day, and I just got this from Steam after YEARS of not playing.
Quite a few things I didn't know about, despite having played Homm3 for 3 years now so great job on the video! :D
Thank you for the fast guide/Tips. I just purchased this game via g2a and it's my childhood game on my Windows XP Pro. I used to play it together with Age of Empires 2 and Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge. Good old games. :)
Me being slav that is Heroes 3 veteran because I started playing this game having 4 years: Yes... that are good tips for the one who started playing this game. You have mine respect.
Have played this game for years and some things I had no idea about. Thank you!
I’m new to this & the 1 stack method was something I picked up on early, but I mainly used it when I was leaving some homies behind to guard the castle.
I’ll start using it on offense too now. 🙏
Yes, Yes! This is the perfect video to procrastinate to. Nostalgic.
Honestly, this is a pretty great tutorial. Since watching Norovo's videos, I've learned more than I _ever_ knew about _Heroes of Might and Magic III_ - as well as _I_ and _II,_ by proxy. The Movement Points this is a prime example. I had no idea creatures affected Move Points.
That being said… it still took me *four hours* to beat the _Heroes of Might and Magic_ Campaign 02 map due to my inefficient play style of… well… refusing to recruit more heroes than necessary for scouting and hiding in my main castle until I have an _insurmountable_ attack force. If I played against another person, I can guarantee I would lose, lose, _lose._
This video has the best tips and explanation! I was thinking HOMM3 and Armageddon's Blade must have a quite small community. Then I explored HoTA and then these videos.. Very happy to see gamers like me who still enjoy a lot playing these great a 25yo series🤩
Few things I might add:
- Ressurection leaves the units after combat if you are expert earth magic
- Towers shoot archers primary but it depends... It does prefer killing units and checks the hp at each turn and shoots something if it can kill it. Example it wont go for the archers if you have dragon on 30hp. It will shoot the dragon instead. Thus they attack meatshields a lot
I didn't know about the towers shooting the bottom ranged attacker stacks. Thank you.