It may be weird but somehow I don't feel as comfortable with my mind when i play other towns than ramp lol. The music and nature motive really gets me and helps me to relax and focus. It's just soothing on soul. Is it just me or every castle brings different emotions like inferno/necro are uneasy- stressing, stronghold/tower literally might and magic, mystery and adventure etc ? Anyway somehow I'm always having the best games playing rampart. Personally it's my favorite castle by a lot. I played it almost exclusively as a child- like 15 years ago- and upgrading elves for early dominance was my secret strategy then. My friends didn't want to play with me if I picked ramp 🤣 Lucky charm, cuz i still get easy breaks and good tempo maps on this town =)
I Agree on everything. It is listed among the top 3 for sure on my world. Yet I didnt enjoy playing rampart for just one simple reason. I dont want any of these creatures to die, so it kinda makes me uncomfortable seeing them disappear on the battlefield. When any of my pegasus, unicorns or elves died I felt like I got to reload 😀Therefore it is not a viable option for me.
Same here lol. It's often a struggle to get the game rolling but views and sounds (and elves pew pew if you get a nice stack) are enough to make me main it lol. But I'm generally weird like that, my top 3 favourite towns are rampart, fortress and stronghold kek
yes, upgraded Elves and Ryland as start Hero (he has Diplomacy from the start) was my strategy. Picked up lots of monsters with him. Those were the days.
Yeah that's why I play Rampart. My friends don't understand why I insist on literally only playing Rampart and nothing else, but I started playing when I was 9 and it was my favorite town back then. I have strong emotional ties to it because of that, and also the aesthetics and music. Rampart forever!
Rampart heroes are hybrids of humans and pure-blooded Vori Elves (more specifically, these hybrids are what people call "elves" in H3, when actual elves were never shown), humans and dwarves. Just wanted to leave this fun fact here. The video's been spot-on about the other aspects of Rampart (as usual heh).
Depends. Avlee elves are just Elves who departed from vori-elves (ice elves)cca 200-350 year after silence. Vori-elves call them renegades. Gelu is half vori-half avlee. Even pure human can be rampart hero (gem).
Rampart is GREAT for Heroes 3 games that go beyond day 8. It is your BANK! In 4 days you can build the Treasury and week after week (see below) rake in the gold to fund whatever you fancy!! In Heroes of Might and Magic III, games can last for MONTHS (game time, in most cases!!).
i always think about how to get the most out of creatures and their abilities and try to form some good army combos with groups that work so well together. For example having elf archers in one group makes them hit harder, but its not good if u too much overkill on one unit and waste potential dmg u could split over to another unit. Or if u get bless spell its easier to manage only one stack of archers to boost entire stack but it also can leave them vulnerable to being blinded. Also single stack of archers is easier to bunker and protect, which leaves more spot free in rest of army to try another trick with other units that come with them. Splitting archers may be good if u dont have bless but ur morale is good. More stacks archers split into, more chances one of those stacks with fire off morale and net you with more total dmg. Or for example centaurs are good for sacrificial uses, when u send one behind enemy lines to draw them back to other side of battleground or absorbing retaliatory strikes. 2 or 3 single stack of centaurs can give u good amount of free attacks without of retaliation which saves lives but tricky part is to leave some space for them in army to play with that tactic. I kinda like to split army on ranger and druid. Ranger will have split stack of archers in corners, with split stack of dendroids or dwarfs in front of them and split stack of unicorns to cover sides and complete two bunkers. This way ur archers gain benefit of morale and dwarfs and unicorns are sandwiched together to boost up their magic resistance multiplier. Druid hero can take leftovers like centaurs, pegasi or whatever is left and play tactically with them. Pegasi are super good in harpy style attack tactics when u have few of them one-stack and have them tag some though target while main stack of pegasi waits, then at end of round main stack can fly in, hit hard target without retaliation and on start of next turn u can run back away to safety. rinse and repeat, and since these tactics take time to wear enemy down, druid are natural counterpart to drop spells to help out and mess enemies up.
@@alex_the_magician9483 Yeah that's a good one. I remember choosing Rampart because of the hero who had logistics as a speciality (also it was - and still is - the most beautyful town imo). I played the game decades ago, literally. You put my attention back on it again, thank you for that. Greetings from Germany
It's my favourite town. Ok, others are good too, but I like the treasury and how you get 10% extra gold each week from whatever is in your bank. If you are patient with spending, you can dominate and never run out of $. Also, the speed of units are amazing so you get to travel further on the map (dwarves may slow you down). So many spells compared to fortress and Castle. Heroes also like to learn luck which helps you double your hit points. Plus I love the music and scenery too lol.
@@alex_the_magician9483 Even some polish youtubers rap about how this Town sucks. Song title is "Jebać Bastion" which means "fuck the Rampart" But still its one of my fav Town. After Fortress and Tower.
@@klapacjuszanimomon8501 Haha, that's funny! I've actually grown to like it at this point, ever since I started choosing Mephala over Ivor as my starting hero.
For Rampart, I pretty much like having tactics and expert water magic + prayer (although it is quite hard to get that spell in Rampart). It has pretty strong low tier units, so they benefit a lot from the extra speed/attack/defense bonus.
Great video! You can also build a power stack with Pegasi, but you didn't talk about them much. I came to play Heroes III only a couple weeks ago and kinda falling in love with Rampart, and Pegasi seem to be one of the strongest units, regarding the efficient combination of speed, attack, and availability to snowball :-)
I kind of dislike how Rampart heroes have such high chance to get Archery but they only have one shooter. Sure, Elves are great but they're very high priority targets, everyone will try to kill them first.
Guys, did you hear anything about artifacts that boost your army's moral and speed? Wait a minute, rampart heroes got all of them? But why do they want to focus on it? 🤔 Is there any way those parameters somehow help rampart to protect their archers? XD
My cousin was a great rampart player, ot was his favourite town so i saw him play them very often. It is a strong town overall, and has solid start with almost every case. In long games elves are really vulnerable so you need resistance. In smaller maps its viable option for sure.
You forgot to mention the fact that Gold Dragons cannot be Resurrected (immune to 1-4). With a Hero like Elleshar for example, this would make Green Dragons far more powerful than Golds. All they have to do is survive the first attack. Very specific scenario yes, but still. Rampart is my favorite faction for both the aesthetics (the most traditionally Fantasty-based faction in the game) and the usefulness of each individual unit.
I don't know man....Rampart is quite overpowered actually. Fair points. But forgot to mention Treasury which is overpowered af. And you can also accumulate treasuries allowing you to have enough money to buy out all creatures in multiple castles creating colossal armies. Pegasi are actually amazing L5 units. Though I am not too crazy about unicorns. Rampart is a great town. Especially on large maps when investing in the long haul (finance pays off).
@@alex_the_magician9483 Oh okay. I have episodes where I don't like certain towns as well 😂. Didn't like Rampart actually all that much either until I kind of knew how to use them.
Haha Rampart has been my favorite ever since i started playing around 12 years old. 35 years old now. Granted most of life i haven’t played. Recently have understood the strengths of Castle & Necropolis. Always wanted to like Tower more than i do.
mephala or that hero i forgot name who has magic resistance specialty but more likely magic resistant here is my pick. i understand rampart as counter magic nation. which can cast spells but most likely they will repel them. use of wards is good for them to weaken attack spells, buffs and magic mirror against opponent who is designed to cast a lot of attack spells rather then cast buff spells to support his/her weaker army.
Gisele, yeah true, interference is OP especially in the late game. Problem with that on Jebus Cross though is that most games will end before you have a chance to get interference to that point.
I'm a Tower player. "rampart" is extremely strong for small maps. But once I ate a very serious rampart fight from a rampart player on a small map in a game channel called GameRanger. Just Centaurs and Grant Elves are enough to hit, and I was even with Nagas and on my way to take out Giants. But Grand-Elf combined with Centaur very deadly especially in large numbers and this was early game. It's just that Tower is harder on small maps, and in the early stages of the game, it was month 1- 3 weeks. Tower it's harder to evolve so fast.
I find Rampart and Dungeon quite interesting to compare because each has the opposite problems of the other. While the dragons in rampart aren't great compared to the other unites, Dungeons relies on its dragons too much which can lead to problems as well. Between them, it becomes a contest of whether the combined units of rampart can overcome the Black Dragons and take them down before losing too many other units, because the rest of the dungeon would probably be a sweep afterwards.
earth got 45%, water 45%, air 10%, fire 0% (for rangers) so they got for me high chanse for earth, to 8 lvl i near all time get earth on basic or better, but i dont like ramp too, small centaur numbers, elves what can die in first shooter block, and dragons what you actually cant build makes i too much more like for example castle
Yeah I know this now lol. But it's weird, I have really bad luck with rangers and never seem to roll earth with them. Like I will literally get it maybe 1-2 times out of 10. Because of that I assumed that they had a low chance, but since then I looked it up and realized I was wrong. Just unlucky with them I guess.
I love the fact that the entire HoMM 3 community is focused on a single unofficial mod and a single type of map templates... Really? Well I guess I am not part of the HoMM3 community then...
Idk man, comparing Dungeon wich haves the strongest early stack in the game (40 Trogs x 4/5) seems a bit too much. I'd put Centaur stack over Pixies since you don't bleed them the second you face Morale/Ranged/Guywithmagicarrow, over Pukeman due to speed of course, over Goblins since you WILL bleed them hard and one morale and it's over, and above Gnolls. Gnolls can be better in some scenarios due to specialist (x3 stacks, + 1 speed) but normally I won't risk being outspeed with such HP so it's Centaurs to me. The ones doing a better stack early are Skeletons, Trogs but they're harder to use and easy to bleed, and Gremlins in a lot of scenarios but not always. Normally I see the Centaur stack as solid and durable, wich Trogs and Gremlins lack.
Definitely feels like my goto if I play by the "I'll capture the towns I really want later" mentality. Elves and centaurs being so fast let's you play pretty damn aggressively early on. I guess the weekly ehp of the slow boys being ready on standby in your town is a nice bonus if something goes wrong
The white tall thing to the left of the town. It's a creature bank, you have to fight wolf raiders in them, and if you defeat them, you get cyclopes as a reward.
Hi! May I ask which version should I get into in order to play the best experience? Is it the HD version from Steam or the version from gog? Is there a "standardized" version that everyone plays? Are there many mods that are mandatory? Thanks!
Do not get the Steam version. Actually you can just download HotA for free here h3hota.com/en/download - it already contains all the necessary elements of the original and HD mod. This is the version that everyone plays. If you do want to buy it, get the gog version. And then get the HD mod, and HotA. (both are free) sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/ h3hota.com/en/download
I personally like conflux the best, because of Luna, I think it's very fun to play with her as she can do some crazy stuff with her firewall. If we take Luna out of the equation - I would go with Dungeon as it's probably the most well rounded, has good heroes, good buildings like the portal and mana vortex, and is versatile and can go for pretty much any objectives, whereas other towns are more limited - like fortress likes hives but not so much pickets or consas unless they are near the road because of the swamp terrain.
What are you saying? I get offered Earth Magic all the time, sometimes even earlier than Wisdom for my rangers. Rampart heroes also get offered Leadership, Luck, and Armourer all the time.
Yep, I looked it up and realized they do have a decent chance at Earth Magic. I must be unlucky with them because I've had trouble getting it so I assumed they didn't have a good chance.
@Seaworth I did not, it's just like I said in the comment above, I'm just really unlucky with Rangers for some reason, and always roll water with them, like 90% of the time, so I assumed that they had a bad chance at Earth, but after the above comment I looked it up and realized that they actually have a good chance, I'm just unlucky with them...
"I'd rather even play Inferno over Rampart" lets be real tho Inferno runs by the rule of cool, and everyone knows that being cool is cooler than being strong or viable lol
idk if somebody write it here but unicorn has also magic aura which cause surrounding units have magic resistance (idk how much it is but it is thing to count on when positioning unicorn in battle hence can help to repel spell focused on surrounding units)
I play Rampart a lot and it's like a powerplay in ice hockey in reverse - grand elves shooting everything from distance while the rest of the units stay around them defending.
@@alex_the_magician9483 Thanks for replying, although I couldn't fathom the meaning of it :-). I meant is as a hyperbole. Obviously, slowing creatures down always helps. But, I have yet to understand why people rarely include Rampart heroes into good ones (Rangers mostly). The town has excellent range units and the heroes have a good chance to roll Archery (50% at the expert skill is extremely godly IMO). You can also hiresharpshooters. No other town has such perks. Combine it with mass slow and feast can begin.
@@petrsadlo6244 Heh, what I meant was fragile archers like elves are tricky to use, I've lost a game trying to take a unicorn dwelling before, because the unicorns moraled round 1 and blocked my elves. Also sharpshooters arent available on most pvp templates, unless you manage to diplo them.
Just looked it up, yeah ur right. Hmm actually that invalidates my point, they have a pretty good chance at Earth magic. I must be unlucky with them then, because I always have trouble getting earth with rangers.
you should really have a disclaimer at the start of your videos mentioning that you're judging the game based on the hota expansion / jebus templates. takes 5 secs, helps with the confusion
Mentioned that in multiple videos previously, got tired of it. On top of that hota is the most widely played expansion and jc is the most popular template, so while there may be some people who get confused by this, the majority will find it helpful.
I'm not confused at all. If you don't want to watch don't watch. The truth is I wish more people made heroes 3 content to help us all learn. I for one appreciate the videos
It is the strong guard that separates your starting zone from the desert (treasure) zone. On Jebus Cross you try to do the break as quickly as possible so that you can get in the desert, which has more high value artifacts, pandora boxes, and creature banks. If you'd like to learn more, check out my video where I discuss this particular map template: th-cam.com/video/G3PpTGeh0H0/w-d-xo.html Also for basics of online play, feel free to check this one out: th-cam.com/video/XEsnn25K5_0/w-d-xo.html
What the fuck. The best town (Conflux is only better in experienced player's hands cuz balance is better but still crap on Hota). Every unit REALLY has it's own role here: even the slowest ones like Dwarfs and Dendroids are perfect town defenders. Also Earth Magic for Kyrre and few other is pretty common so wtf. This town has the easiest start. Just get starting 40+ Centaurs and get 10+ Grand Elves (the basic ones are good enough if you are short on wood during first days) and this allows you to roll and clear the shit out for the first weeks without loosing any unit (if you know what are doing and you can tease AI enemies with centaurs around the battlefield). Some of my friends also say that "they hate this town" and always get reckt by me to the point they don't want to play with me anymore. xD
Nah, necro and dungeon are definitely better than ramp, I think most people would agree with that. I also think conflux, fortress, and castle are better, but more people would probably argue with those.
@@alex_the_magician9483 Other than very specific creature bank early strats on the overplayed Jebus Templates Dungeon is without a doubt the worst faction in the game XD. The saving grace are good Heroes and starting army (40 trogs per stack) other than that and Portal/Dragons, which you might struggle to get, they're a whole turd of a faction. They're simply amazing, in the worst way. Of course in Jebus context with Shatki they rock. I love Fortress and I do consider them good and easy to play, but they're no Rampart. The Gnoll specialist is very good in native terrain picking banks (again Jebus centric pov) but other than that I wish they were as good. Rampart is simply too many cheap HPs with speed and damage. They're kinda broken. Castle is better due to Angels, stronger, easier to rush, and Cons. Other than that only Champions are probably better than Unicorns (but expenssive) otherwise it's a stomp. But yeah normally Castle will go for Angels and win. Necro is better of course, we all know.
@@alex_the_magician9483 If you stop considering clearing Jebus banks with stacks of over 200 Trogs you'll easily see how it's absolutely the case. Average HP and damage produced per week is the lowest in the game with crappy building order and a price only behind Tower, they have nothing for them. Again, if you imagine yourself doing something other than clearing banks with Shatki you'll understand how they're literally trash tier.
@@Eggmith You sound like an anti jebus elitist bent on imposing your opinion on others. I totally disagree with you regarding dungeon. It has a lot of things going for it. Most of their units are not amazing in terms of raw battle power I'll give you that.... but you have really good heroes (overlords in general get good skills, jedditte and alamar are awesome, gunnar is cool, deemer is allright too), mana vortex and portal of summoning are amazing, black dragons if you can get them are really good, also considering you can roll armageddon in mg4, you can utilize that in combination. While I can't attest as to how good or bad they are on other templates, you're literally the first person I've ever heard trash talking dungeon so much (and I do know people who mostly play templates other than JC).
It may be weird but somehow I don't feel as comfortable with my mind when i play other towns than ramp lol. The music and nature motive really gets me and helps me to relax and focus. It's just soothing on soul.
Is it just me or every castle brings different emotions like inferno/necro are uneasy- stressing, stronghold/tower literally might and magic, mystery and adventure etc ?
Anyway somehow I'm always having the best games playing rampart. Personally it's my favorite castle by a lot.
I played it almost exclusively as a child- like 15 years ago- and upgrading elves for early dominance was my secret strategy then. My friends didn't want to play with me if I picked ramp 🤣
Lucky charm, cuz i still get easy breaks and good tempo maps on this town =)
i also love ramparts music, very good sounds. very peacful
I Agree on everything. It is listed among the top 3 for sure on my world. Yet I didnt enjoy playing rampart for just one simple reason. I dont want any of these creatures to die, so it kinda makes me uncomfortable seeing them disappear on the battlefield. When any of my pegasus, unicorns or elves died I felt like I got to reload 😀Therefore it is not a viable option for me.
Same here lol. It's often a struggle to get the game rolling but views and sounds (and elves pew pew if you get a nice stack) are enough to make me main it lol. But I'm generally weird like that, my top 3 favourite towns are rampart, fortress and stronghold kek
yes, upgraded Elves and Ryland as start Hero (he has Diplomacy from the start) was my strategy. Picked up lots of monsters with him. Those were the days.
Yeah that's why I play Rampart. My friends don't understand why I insist on literally only playing Rampart and nothing else, but I started playing when I was 9 and it was my favorite town back then. I have strong emotional ties to it because of that, and also the aesthetics and music. Rampart forever!
Rampart heroes are hybrids of humans and pure-blooded Vori Elves (more specifically, these hybrids are what people call "elves" in H3, when actual elves were never shown), humans and dwarves. Just wanted to leave this fun fact here. The video's been spot-on about the other aspects of Rampart (as usual heh).
Thanks for that lore tidbit :)
Depends. Avlee elves are just Elves who departed from vori-elves (ice elves)cca 200-350 year after silence. Vori-elves call them renegades. Gelu is half vori-half avlee. Even pure human can be rampart hero (gem).
Rampart is GREAT for Heroes 3 games that go beyond day 8. It is your BANK! In 4 days you can build the Treasury and week after week (see below) rake in the gold to fund whatever you fancy!!
In Heroes of Might and Magic III, games can last for MONTHS (game time, in most cases!!).
I mostly play Jebus Cross, where games end week 2.
@@alex_the_magician9483 somehow I had fidured that out! 🤔
Try playing G maps, Rampart is the easiest because of the treasury
i always think about how to get the most out of creatures and their abilities and try to form some good army combos with groups that work so well together. For example having elf archers in one group makes them hit harder, but its not good if u too much overkill on one unit and waste potential dmg u could split over to another unit. Or if u get bless spell its easier to manage only one stack of archers to boost entire stack but it also can leave them vulnerable to being blinded. Also single stack of archers is easier to bunker and protect, which leaves more spot free in rest of army to try another trick with other units that come with them. Splitting archers may be good if u dont have bless but ur morale is good. More stacks archers split into, more chances one of those stacks with fire off morale and net you with more total dmg.
Or for example centaurs are good for sacrificial uses, when u send one behind enemy lines to draw them back to other side of battleground or absorbing retaliatory strikes. 2 or 3 single stack of centaurs can give u good amount of free attacks without of retaliation which saves lives but tricky part is to leave some space for them in army to play with that tactic.
I kinda like to split army on ranger and druid. Ranger will have split stack of archers in corners, with split stack of dendroids or dwarfs in front of them and split stack of unicorns to cover sides and complete two bunkers. This way ur archers gain benefit of morale and dwarfs and unicorns are sandwiched together to boost up their magic resistance multiplier. Druid hero can take leftovers like centaurs, pegasi or whatever is left and play tactically with them. Pegasi are super good in harpy style attack tactics when u have few of them one-stack and have them tag some though target while main stack of pegasi waits, then at end of round main stack can fly in, hit hard target without retaliation and on start of next turn u can run back away to safety. rinse and repeat, and since these tactics take time to wear enemy down, druid are natural counterpart to drop spells to help out and mess enemies up.
Thanks for sharing :)
Very good insight
"I would rather play Inferno than Rampart"!
... now that is a statement (:
Haha, yeah I used to hate rampart. I like it now though. Mephala
@@alex_the_magician9483 Yeah that's a good one. I remember choosing Rampart because of the hero who had logistics as a speciality (also it was - and still is - the most beautyful town imo).
I played the game decades ago, literally. You put my attention back on it again, thank you for that. Greetings from Germany
It's my favourite town. Ok, others are good too, but I like the treasury and how you get 10% extra gold each week from whatever is in your bank. If you are patient with spending, you can dominate and never run out of $. Also, the speed of units are amazing so you get to travel further on the map (dwarves may slow you down). So many spells compared to fortress and Castle. Heroes also like to learn luck which helps you double your hit points. Plus I love the music and scenery too lol.
Happy someone likes the town lol
@@alex_the_magician9483 lol 😂
@@alex_the_magician9483 Even some polish youtubers rap about how this Town sucks. Song title is "Jebać Bastion" which means "fuck the Rampart"
But still its one of my fav Town.
After Fortress and Tower.
@@klapacjuszanimomon8501 Haha, that's funny! I've actually grown to like it at this point, ever since I started choosing Mephala over Ivor as my starting hero.
For Rampart, I pretty much like having tactics and expert water magic + prayer (although it is quite hard to get that spell in Rampart). It has pretty strong low tier units, so they benefit a lot from the extra speed/attack/defense bonus.
i hope Legolas wont see this thumbnail
Rampart is my fav. I love all the two square creatures.
Haha, I like rampart a lot more now than I did when I made this video
Great video! You can also build a power stack with Pegasi, but you didn't talk about them much. I came to play Heroes III only a couple weeks ago and kinda falling in love with Rampart, and Pegasi seem to be one of the strongest units, regarding the efficient combination of speed, attack, and availability to snowball :-)
I kind of dislike how Rampart heroes have such high chance to get Archery but they only have one shooter. Sure, Elves are great but they're very high priority targets, everyone will try to kill them first.
Good point!
Guys, did you hear anything about artifacts that boost your army's moral and speed? Wait a minute, rampart heroes got all of them? But why do they want to focus on it? 🤔 Is there any way those parameters somehow help rampart to protect their archers? XD
Wow, 3 prisons next to each other.
My cousin was a great rampart player, ot was his favourite town so i saw him play them very often. It is a strong town overall, and has solid start with almost every case. In long games elves are really vulnerable so you need resistance. In smaller maps its viable option for sure.
You forgot to mention the fact that Gold Dragons cannot be Resurrected (immune to 1-4). With a Hero like Elleshar for example, this would make Green Dragons far more powerful than Golds. All they have to do is survive the first attack. Very specific scenario yes, but still.
Rampart is my favorite faction for both the aesthetics (the most traditionally Fantasty-based faction in the game) and the usefulness of each individual unit.
I don't know man....Rampart is quite overpowered actually. Fair points. But forgot to mention Treasury which is overpowered af. And you can also accumulate treasuries allowing you to have enough money to buy out all creatures in multiple castles creating colossal armies.
Pegasi are actually amazing L5 units. Though I am not too crazy about unicorns.
Rampart is a great town. Especially on large maps when investing in the long haul (finance pays off).
I like rampart now. Back then I wasn't good with it which was probably the main reason why I disliked it.
@@alex_the_magician9483 Oh okay. I have episodes where I don't like certain towns as well 😂. Didn't like Rampart actually all that much either until I kind of knew how to use them.
Haha Rampart has been my favorite ever since i started playing around 12 years old. 35 years old now. Granted most of life i haven’t played. Recently have understood the strengths of Castle & Necropolis. Always wanted to like Tower more than i do.
mephala or that hero i forgot name who has magic resistance specialty but more likely magic resistant here is my pick. i understand rampart as counter magic nation. which can cast spells but most likely they will repel them. use of wards is good for them to weaken attack spells, buffs and magic mirror against opponent who is designed to cast a lot of attack spells rather then cast buff spells to support his/her weaker army.
Gisele, yeah true, interference is OP especially in the late game. Problem with that on Jebus Cross though is that most games will end before you have a chance to get interference to that point.
I'm a Tower player.
"rampart" is extremely strong for small maps.
But once I ate a very serious rampart fight from a rampart player on a small map in a game channel called GameRanger. Just Centaurs and Grant Elves are enough to hit, and I was even with Nagas and on my way to take out Giants. But Grand-Elf combined with Centaur very deadly especially in large numbers and this was early game.
It's just that Tower is harder on small maps, and in the early stages of the game, it was month 1- 3 weeks. Tower it's harder to evolve so fast.
I find Rampart and Dungeon quite interesting to compare because each has the opposite problems of the other. While the dragons in rampart aren't great compared to the other unites, Dungeons relies on its dragons too much which can lead to problems as well. Between them, it becomes a contest of whether the combined units of rampart can overcome the Black Dragons and take them down before losing too many other units, because the rest of the dungeon would probably be a sweep afterwards.
interesting point
I like the armor hero start. I saw it on Your stream
Yeah, I started liking rampart more since I started using Mephala.
@@alex_the_magician9483 maybe you should make a video on it. how to play rampart if you start with Mephala.
@@JanekTadeuszek Haha, not a bad idea!
earth got 45%, water 45%, air 10%, fire 0% (for rangers) so they got for me high chanse for earth, to 8 lvl i near all time get earth on basic or better, but i dont like ramp too, small centaur numbers, elves what can die in first shooter block, and dragons what you actually cant build makes i too much more like for example castle
Yeah I know this now lol. But it's weird, I have really bad luck with rangers and never seem to roll earth with them. Like I will literally get it maybe 1-2 times out of 10. Because of that I assumed that they had a low chance, but since then I looked it up and realized I was wrong. Just unlucky with them I guess.
If you don't play rampart creative, you will suffer.
One tip :
Expert water magic
Leadership
Diplomacy
Luck
Be creative with the clone spell.
If only you could have Gelu as hero :D
Bastion is definitely one of best for small templates, like balanced or skirmish. Dendroids are okay for pickets, leave elves in town.
I love the fact that the entire HoMM 3 community is focused on a single unofficial mod and a single type of map templates... Really? Well I guess I am not part of the HoMM3 community then...
Welll.... not the ENTIRE community, but hota and jc are the most popular.
There are plenty of people who multiplayer complete edition
Hota has amazing features!
Idk man, comparing Dungeon wich haves the strongest early stack in the game (40 Trogs x 4/5) seems a bit too much. I'd put Centaur stack over Pixies since you don't bleed them the second you face Morale/Ranged/Guywithmagicarrow, over Pukeman due to speed of course, over Goblins since you WILL bleed them hard and one morale and it's over, and above Gnolls. Gnolls can be better in some scenarios due to specialist (x3 stacks, + 1 speed) but normally I won't risk being outspeed with such HP so it's Centaurs to me.
The ones doing a better stack early are Skeletons, Trogs but they're harder to use and easy to bleed, and Gremlins in a lot of scenarios but not always. Normally I see the Centaur stack as solid and durable, wich Trogs and Gremlins lack.
Definitely feels like my goto if I play by the "I'll capture the towns I really want later" mentality. Elves and centaurs being so fast let's you play pretty damn aggressively early on. I guess the weekly ehp of the slow boys being ready on standby in your town is a nice bonus if something goes wrong
i like rampart now, since ive started playing mephala instead of ivor, more my style
What are pickets ? Or however you pronounce it.
The white tall thing to the left of the town. It's a creature bank, you have to fight wolf raiders in them, and if you defeat them, you get cyclopes as a reward.
@@alex_the_magician9483 thanks !
Dwarven Treasurery and have more than 2 or 3 of them. Helps a lot!
Hard to do as rampart in the early game...
Dwarven treasury caps the bonus at 30%
Hi! May I ask which version should I get into in order to play the best experience? Is it the HD version from Steam or the version from gog? Is there a "standardized" version that everyone plays? Are there many mods that are mandatory? Thanks!
Do not get the Steam version.
Actually you can just download HotA for free here h3hota.com/en/download - it already contains all the necessary elements of the original and HD mod. This is the version that everyone plays.
If you do want to buy it, get the gog version. And then get the HD mod, and HotA. (both are free)
sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/
h3hota.com/en/download
What´s the best town in Heroes 3 in your opinion?
I personally like conflux the best, because of Luna, I think it's very fun to play with her as she can do some crazy stuff with her firewall. If we take Luna out of the equation - I would go with Dungeon as it's probably the most well rounded, has good heroes, good buildings like the portal and mana vortex, and is versatile and can go for pretty much any objectives, whereas other towns are more limited - like fortress likes hives but not so much pickets or consas unless they are near the road because of the swamp terrain.
@@alex_the_magician9483 I haven't played HoMM3 in a while now, but I can remember Castle being the most OP city in the game. Very unbalanced
What are you saying? I get offered Earth Magic all the time, sometimes even earlier than Wisdom for my rangers. Rampart heroes also get offered Leadership, Luck, and Armourer all the time.
Yep, I looked it up and realized they do have a decent chance at Earth Magic. I must be unlucky with them because I've had trouble getting it so I assumed they didn't have a good chance.
@Seaworth I did not, it's just like I said in the comment above, I'm just really unlucky with Rangers for some reason, and always roll water with them, like 90% of the time, so I assumed that they had a bad chance at Earth, but after the above comment I looked it up and realized that they actually have a good chance, I'm just unlucky with them...
"I'd rather even play Inferno over Rampart" lets be real tho Inferno runs by the rule of cool, and everyone knows that being cool is cooler than being strong or viable lol
56 seconds in, the "verdict" is 'I don't like this town'. Let me guess, it cannot break on 112?? 😜
I like it more now, since I've started playing Mephala.
idk if somebody write it here but unicorn has also magic aura which cause surrounding units have magic resistance (idk how much it is but it is thing to count on when positioning unicorn in battle hence can help to repel spell focused on surrounding units)
Good point, thx.
I play Rampart a lot and it's like a powerplay in ice hockey in reverse - grand elves shooting everything from distance while the rest of the units stay around them defending.
Until mobs that outspeed you morale into them round one and you gg
@@alex_the_magician9483 Thanks for replying, although I couldn't fathom the meaning of it :-). I meant is as a hyperbole. Obviously, slowing creatures down always helps. But, I have yet to understand why people rarely include Rampart heroes into good ones (Rangers mostly). The town has excellent range units and the heroes have a good chance to roll Archery (50% at the expert skill is extremely godly IMO). You can also hiresharpshooters. No other town has such perks. Combine it with mass slow and feast can begin.
@@petrsadlo6244 Heh, what I meant was fragile archers like elves are tricky to use, I've lost a game trying to take a unicorn dwelling before, because the unicorns moraled round 1 and blocked my elves. Also sharpshooters arent available on most pvp templates, unless you manage to diplo them.
7:04 Don't the rangers have the same chance to get water magic and earth magic?
Just looked it up, yeah ur right. Hmm actually that invalidates my point, they have a pretty good chance at Earth magic. I must be unlucky with them then, because I always have trouble getting earth with rangers.
I often use Kyrre. He almost always gets earth magic.
I enjoyed the campaign, but yeah I get your point.
you should really have a disclaimer at the start of your videos mentioning that you're judging the game based on the hota expansion / jebus templates. takes 5 secs, helps with the confusion
Mentioned that in multiple videos previously, got tired of it. On top of that hota is the most widely played expansion and jc is the most popular template, so while there may be some people who get confused by this, the majority will find it helpful.
I'm not confused at all. If you don't want to watch don't watch. The truth is I wish more people made heroes 3 content to help us all learn. I for one appreciate the videos
I simply love Elfs
Wich template is this please?
Jebus Cross
What does brake mean??
It is the strong guard that separates your starting zone from the desert (treasure) zone. On Jebus Cross you try to do the break as quickly as possible so that you can get in the desert, which has more high value artifacts, pandora boxes, and creature banks.
If you'd like to learn more, check out my video where I discuss this particular map template: th-cam.com/video/G3PpTGeh0H0/w-d-xo.html
Also for basics of online play, feel free to check this one out:
th-cam.com/video/XEsnn25K5_0/w-d-xo.html
So gr8
Get you Capital first, then your troops!
Heh, not on JC, most games end on week 2.
What the fuck. The best town (Conflux is only better in experienced player's hands cuz balance is better but still crap on Hota). Every unit REALLY has it's own role here: even the slowest ones like Dwarfs and Dendroids are perfect town defenders. Also Earth Magic for Kyrre and few other is pretty common so wtf. This town has the easiest start. Just get starting 40+ Centaurs and get 10+ Grand Elves (the basic ones are good enough if you are short on wood during first days) and this allows you to roll and clear the shit out for the first weeks without loosing any unit (if you know what are doing and you can tease AI enemies with centaurs around the battlefield). Some of my friends also say that "they hate this town" and always get reckt by me to the point they don't want to play with me anymore. xD
Nah, necro and dungeon are definitely better than ramp, I think most people would agree with that. I also think conflux, fortress, and castle are better, but more people would probably argue with those.
@@alex_the_magician9483 Other than very specific creature bank early strats on the overplayed Jebus Templates Dungeon is without a doubt the worst faction in the game XD.
The saving grace are good Heroes and starting army (40 trogs per stack) other than that and Portal/Dragons, which you might struggle to get, they're a whole turd of a faction. They're simply amazing, in the worst way. Of course in Jebus context with Shatki they rock.
I love Fortress and I do consider them good and easy to play, but they're no Rampart. The Gnoll specialist is very good in native terrain picking banks (again Jebus centric pov) but other than that I wish they were as good. Rampart is simply too many cheap HPs with speed and damage. They're kinda broken.
Castle is better due to Angels, stronger, easier to rush, and Cons. Other than that only Champions are probably better than Unicorns (but expenssive) otherwise it's a stomp. But yeah normally Castle will go for Angels and win.
Necro is better of course, we all know.
@@Eggmith lol "dungeon is the worst faction in the game" coolstorybro
@@alex_the_magician9483 If you stop considering clearing Jebus banks with stacks of over 200 Trogs you'll easily see how it's absolutely the case. Average HP and damage produced per week is the lowest in the game with crappy building order and a price only behind Tower, they have nothing for them.
Again, if you imagine yourself doing something other than clearing banks with Shatki you'll understand how they're literally trash tier.
@@Eggmith You sound like an anti jebus elitist bent on imposing your opinion on others.
I totally disagree with you regarding dungeon. It has a lot of things going for it. Most of their units are not amazing in terms of raw battle power I'll give you that.... but you have really good heroes (overlords in general get good skills, jedditte and alamar are awesome, gunnar is cool, deemer is allright too), mana vortex and portal of summoning are amazing, black dragons if you can get them are really good, also considering you can roll armageddon in mg4, you can utilize that in combination.
While I can't attest as to how good or bad they are on other templates, you're literally the first person I've ever heard trash talking dungeon so much (and I do know people who mostly play templates other than JC).
Rampart is the greatest town, elves plus golden bow, pew pew pew
pish pow
Is this a pve guide?
Bro rumbling without showing is low effort
I actually love Rampart and you literally hate the biggest Dungeon counter town in the game. I have to laugh.
I hate this town too!
Necropolis was the funniest town and inferno was the worst and boring one
Thanks for sharing your opinion!