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NECROMANCY ONLY CHALLENGE IS PERFECTLY BALANCED WITH NO EXPLOITS!
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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Darwin Malilay

4y↑1

Ray Stinger Its always nice to see another HOMM5 fan :)

I agree with you, that some people like HOMM3 for the nostalgia factor (me included), I guess it's just something about old games have :)

Yeah, HOMM5 introduced a lot of cool features (I think it was the first to introduce 3D units?) but one of my favorites would be the ability to call upon/recruit units and have them automatically deliver themselves to your castle/base. This was introduced in the ToE expansion.

About the later games, I liked HOMM6 somewhat since it introduced the "town/Fort" feature. Which allows to keep control of all of your mines/resource building as long as you control the town/Fort. The game was also easier it think, because there were only 4x kinds of resources instead of the usual 7x.

HOMM7 I don't really like it tbh. Game felt too complicated and cluttered for me. They changed to much in my personal opinion.

Tamás Madarasi

4y↑1

Thank you Spiff!!!!!

HoM&M V is my all time favourite game! I have it since its release, and since I'm a fan of the series, I dare to say that it;'s at least as good as the 3rd part. I never dared to suggest or ask you to play with it, but here you are, so thank you very much! :)
I do agree, the v1.0 Necro was OP, but there are ways to deal with them. Although they are numerous, but flimsy units altogether (although they have the highest count of flying units in the game, good against castles). But there are other OP Hero+faction combos, just to name a few:
Wizard (good spell count + most ranged units + unit artifacts)
-Nur: constant mana-regen during battles (UNLIMITED POWEEEEEEER)
-Jhora: Initiative grows with level, you just have to have enough mana to obliterate the enemy
Sylvan (fast units, and grab Mass Haste for max effect, great unit skills)
-Wyngall: Units gets extra initiative, depending on hero level, combine this with the units, add some basic tactical knowledge and you can wipe out almost the entire enemy army before any of them moved :P (my personal favourite)
Knight:( balanced overall,m strong choice anytime)
-Maeve: Haste/Mass Haste improves with level
Barbarians (OP units, especially with rage just be careful not to lose them, no resurrection)
- Urghat: increased movement speed on the map, doesn't seem much, but with the right skills, laughable how much she can roam on the map and grab/kill/catch up with anything
The list can go on, there are OP possibilities in almost every faction.
You an exploit the system a little bit as well. If you're not satisfied with a battle result (unnecessary losses for example), load it back and put down fewer units. The Initiative of your creatures will be faster (guess the system divides it up to fewer, therefore higher numbers).
The only thing you cannot cheese is the skill choice at level up. The game lacks a random generator in this case, so igf you load it back, no matter how you gain the level up, it will be always the same choices. Same goes to a battle,: if you replay a battle the with the same setup and do the same moves, 99% of the cases the result will be totally the same.

On the other hand, since I play with this game for 14 years now, none of my friends wants/dares to play with me anymore.... :D

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Hjalmar Nordén

4y↑2.1K

Warrior: "I swear I will have my revenge for the death of my brother."
Elf: "You have my bow."
Dwarf: "And my axe."
Necromancer: "And your brother."

some guy

@Zero Alu digs up grave guess when you learn how is babby form

Demon King Badger

Undead Brother: uhhhggg

Oscar Wells

@Kumi I didn't know that at the time, I literally apologised for it afterwards

Kumi

@Oscar Wells it literally comes from a movie. Who cares?

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magnusm4

3y↑112

Necromancy army: We live in eternal undead servitude without feeling warmth nor pain and fight our former comrades.
24 peasants: We pay taxes.
Necromancy: "gasp" The horror!

Quentin Boswell

3y↑239

Me and my mom used to play this version. She came up with a strategy to use the demon castle against me when I was the necromancer. More than a thousand familiars stole all my mana before I thought about it. Necromancer defeated.

Old Skool

that is so sweet family

Ackalan

2y↑1

And that's why you have Mark of the Necromancer. (Unless it's a later version.)

Quentin Boswell

3y↑20

And this is Mom replying.........he got smart after that and I haven't won a game since 😔

Lady Armour Lapras

3y↑13

thank goodness your mom also didnt think of getting the phantom forces spell as inferno... combined with their regular gating and the instant gating ability in late game, theyre just oooooff

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Thijs Hooijen

4y↑416

The funniest thing I find is that you can recruit an all-powerful Demon Lord from the local tavern.

s c

Never underestimate the attraction of a good pint.

Demon King Badger

What did you expect me to do on Saturday night.

Dallas Krock

2y↑5

Lol without the creatures they're basically a humanoid sandbag so yeah. Drinking.

Христо Мартунков, граф Лозенски

3y↑31

Dude was just chilling there with his beer...

Angga Ihza

3y↑72

I don't see anything wrong with that. That's where he and the bois get wasted

Asbestos Fish

4y↑1.6K

Necromancy: If all your friends are dead, they can never leave you!

Demon King Badger

@Cosmit why all my friends stink?

Szarekh the Silent

@Cosmit Aged friends are like good wine.

Yanuu

Adam Vs Gaming wtf you on.

MOZAN33R

Or when you play the starwars faction

Nairneh

And even your enemies will become your friends in time...

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Herb Dean

4y↑374

My inner HOMM cheese monster was screaming for him to split that archer stack but he never did.

Why have one gargantuan stack that does 100x the HP of anything you run into when you can have 4 that do 25x the HP of anything you'll ever fight...

Pedro Prada Carciofi

You can't split stacks in 5 for some reason

TLR Eclipse

@David Rosensin why have 1 massive stack when you can have 3 or 4 every round.

David Rosensin

@magnusm4 Makes sense.

magnusm4

3y↑1

@David Rosensin Basically 1 big stack of boney boys kills anything and then some.
Splitting them into two smaller big stacks still kills any weaker enemies and almost any normal enemy.
Even if they do survive. Damage is highly based on how many you have.
So instead of enemies having 2 units with 15 each, and you only kill one for 15 of their units with the rest of the damage wasted.
You instead split your stack and get two shots, one on each enemy means they loose 10 each.
They both live but now you've killed 20 instead of just 15.

Eric Huls

3y↑2

@David Rosensin Skeleton Archers deal 1-2 damage per skeleton on average, a stack of 400+ skeletons can drop most things they shoot at

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Joshua Perry

4y↑36

You didn't even break it all the way my friend - the BEST part about mass-units in any Heroes games is that you can split the troops into groups.

1: Split the skellies in half; because they do so much damage that you can one-shot troops with only half those units which means that each turn you can one-shot two of the Opp. troops.

2: If you split the troops up to a bunch of single unit troops - the AI will focus on those single units; effectively making their units attack with all their might...a single skelly-boi. Imagine the power of many titans raining their wrath upon one single, sacrificial skelly-boi; like an undead Jesus (just Jesus, actually) taking the yoke of all the enemy AI's anger.

So yeah; you don't even need any other units when you get a mass of skeletons; just 2 groups of 1k each, and 3 groups of 1 each. This strat works on every single Heroes game I am aware of.

Oat lord

4y↑79

I remember my roommate laughing maniacally when he played this as a necro. Now I know why.

Adrian Strider

Point to Muller. Vamp lords, I find, is almost always the most useful. That vampirism power they got? Get a stack of a hundred or two.

Although, thats really hard to do without that one necro I always want to play as. Not vlad, but he's good. Ummm... Fucking story guy who can come to any undead stack and get it to join him, always, with a 50%+2% plus level increase of them. Once got 700 skelly archers in a single go from him. Could only play him in story mode though :/

Alex Müller

that "nerf" enables you to have massive stacks of vampire lords if you micro your dark energy points efficiently <3

Jusqua Northwind

3y↑2

It’s why they nerfed them by slapping necromancy points 😢

Mike Oxlong

4y↑16

Ah yes, UNLIMITED POOOOOOOOOOOOWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

burst0

4y↑70

This channel has a masterful use of stock images. Frankly, I’ve never seen such magnificent usage. I enjoy it quite a lot. Props to this channel for that.

Burri Miner

4y↑11

@Fefe If you look closely, every one of the "stock" photos have his own watermark on them. He's trolling with them. XD

Fefe

4y↑4

Meh that's the thing I don't like in his videos

John Cao

4y↑276

I remember playing the campaign of this game, and was enjoying the necromancer portion's ridiculous "all undead units on the map join you unconditionally", spent all the time collecting the largest most OP army I've ever created, only to realize I have to fight this character in later campaigns and I've created a monster.

Ihatehiphopcultureandsoshouldyou Derp

@Ray Stinger homm 3 is definitely the best in the whole series.

Darwin Malilay

4y↑1

Dejan F

4y↑2

@Ray Stinger you couldn't have been more wrong, homm3 a better version of homm2?? Seriously? Homm3 is by far the best in the series, although i do have to say homm5 and homm2 are my most favorite ones right after that one. The period of homm from 2nd and 5th instalment was the best, of course not counting that meme piece of shit game known only for the legend Spaz Maticus a young king on a mad quest to rule the world.

Ray Stinger

4y↑4

@Darwin Malilay HoMM5 was the best indeed. HoMM3 is the more popular one just for the nostalgia factor, but it was actually just an expanded version of HoMM2, while HoMM5 introduced several new elements which were stupidly removed on later installments...

Ray Stinger

4y↑2

@TheNzFox I still play HoMMV to this day. The spell you're referring to is a barbarian shout, only available with the Tribes of the East expansion, so you can't use it in the original campaign against Markal. Also, the Word of Light spell, which is specific to kill demons and undead creatures, was way too weak.

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Chas Michaels

4y↑65

I freaking love how spiff reacts to the exploits "it's fantastic" "brilliant" "lovely" it's great I love it I've actually considered buying Yorkshire tea

Flaviu Lup

3y↑16

I'm glad there is someone like You who try to bring this game back to life, respect 💪😇

Jehova's Abettor

2y↑49

There was another cheesy tactic, this one for knight faction. Essentially, you amassed gold and turned all of your peasants into archers early on (150+ archers on week 2 was a force to rush down anyone), or if you played a long game, you could amass ridiculous amounts of monks or knights.

Oishii Kudasai

@Ace Boogie whatever works

Ace Boogie

@Oishii Kudasai they have the lowest initiative ever. Gimme me tje dwarfs and I will destroy them with this tactic easily

Oishii Kudasai

2y↑1

with dougal its gg

Wolfqueen007

2y↑2

Did they not cap the training grounds early on? Now it's at most 20 units a week, which is still crazy because you could convert 20 priests into cavaliers, but still.

Unless the 150+ archers included regular population growth from towns and dwellings too, which is more than feasible, and still crazy

BigJay7410

2y↑16

Spiff, if you think the ghosts in Heroes of Might and Magic 5 are balanced because they can dodge 50% of all non-magical attacks, try getting ghosts in the expanded version of Heores 2.
Everytime Heroes 2 ghosts kill a unit in battle, that unit is instantly added to the ghost's stack. Your 15 ghosts have just kill 10 goblins? You now have 25 ghosts. Your 25 ghosts have just killed 100 peasants? You now have 125 ghosts.
Perfectly Balanced indeed.

Scarnor Dreker

2y↑1

Yes, but ghost cannot be recruit in Necropolis Castle. You have to find a neutral structure that allow it. And this is extremely rare. (I think they are only 2 or 3 maps with this structure).

remco moerland

4y↑460

"Nobody can defeat my army!"
Necropolis: "OUR army"

vibez

@feha92 ahh that, yeah it is bad. It is sad too cause the concept is great

feha92

3y↑2

@vibez Strike the Blood, it's not very good... or my taste is trash, since it managed to get 4 seasons... somehow. I will never react to hearing the line "iie, senpai" the same way ever again...
They end every arc with the same line

vibez

3y↑1

@feha92 which anime is it

Mordador

4y↑21

@Wookie Leniu I loved the Revolution and Lenin arcs, but it was all downhill from the Stalin vs Reich arc.

Wookie Leniu

4y↑33

@feha92 That anime has name communism

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Stewart Games

2y↑18

Undead factions having living human peasants makes a ton of sense in my headcanon. Unless you are like the Scourge and effectively an unliving weapon of mass destruction meant to end all life on a world, you want to have some way to increase your numbers. Living humans are your livestock and breeders, basically - you keep them around to have a supply of fresh corpses for later. Vampires do this all the time too, like in the Warhammer setting and MTG's Innistrad, keeping some villages around and even protecting them from other threats like demonic invasions and random roving monsters in exchange for a constant supply of supple virgins to snack on. The supple part is important, nobody wants to eat stringy meat.

Grinnerz1

4y↑5

HoMM V will always hold a special place in my heart. It was my introduction to the series. Unfortunately, I think my copy was from a later printing, so I never got to actually see this version of Necropolis in action myself. Just the one with the necromancy with the points that let you get much lower numbers of slightly higher tier troops.

aminerman MC

4y↑9

I can just imagine the Devs Boss: "ok Jim you will be in charge of all of the necromancy mechanics" Jim: "I will make sure that they are perfectly balanced."

No one star

"Mistakes were maaaaaadddee!"

😂🤣😂

Karsa hyena

4y↑5

Actually the (not fan) nerf did the opposite:
-practically infinite mana due to Mark of the Necromancer
-you can raise any unit, including vampires
-zombies are the next best thing to skeletons (cheap to raise, pair them with Vitality from Defense for an unkillable army. try hero Orson)
-Fire trap is overpowered
-Summon Phoenix is brutal

You can power through the entire map with skeletons and zombies only. (Vampires aren't even needed to beat the AI.)

Nikita Fedenchenko

4y↑66

"Resurrect over a hundred of them!" - Resurrects exactly one hundred skeletons

Lluís G.

4y↑6

This was version 1, and was really broken. Then they did a lot of patching + 2 expansions.
At the end the game was pretty balanced. Necromancers were still strong but not so OP. And most of the factions had some way to be OP in the late game if well played

DJDreamy Boy

4y↑20

This is an early version of the game. Once with the final release of Tribes of the East , necromancy has been balanced with Dark Points , around 200-250 per week( depending on heroes skills and buildings ) and ALL raised undead army from fighting and winning cost dark points to rise. Therefore , no more endless skeletons of undead armies. That's because raising an undead creature costs Dark Energy points, depending on the power of the creature. Undead , elementals and dragons cannot be raised , and do not count. Also , a skeleton cost 3-4 dark points to rise , so you do the math. Also in Tribes of the East Haven can't train more than 20 creatures - no more tier 1 idiots transformed to archers , and all creatures from every faction got a second up-grade that can be chosen when you up-grade you'r units. This and Heroes of Might and Magic 7 are the only games that balanced Necropolis. Heroes 1,2,3 and 4 are unbalanced to the points where Necropolis can be invincible on every map.

Claudiu Cazan

4y↑1

Nocromancy is still op😅.When i play vs ai i like to play got a long time that game i got one time to the point when i had 24k skeleton warrior and the enemy ai had just around 3-4k😂 but still i always like to use vampires like...I can solo neutral living units with them.Besides 24k skeletons i had around 5k vampires,6-7k ghosts 12k zombies,archlich just around 1k+,the other one 1.2k and dragon 400+.I tryied to go against 36k 7th tier inferno unit and i won😂but because of the broken abilities of necro😅+i had a lot of deff+vampirism.Necro dorsn't have that strong dragons compared to other races but since i can grow other units fast is all good

Alexis Beaudin

4y↑4

TotE Necropolis can still do some busted things with dark energy, and has obtained some of the best "alternative upgrades" in the game. The alternate Vampire's sleep effect is terrifying, alternate Liches can Animate Dead too, and Zombies are no longer dead weight. Skeletons can become Warriors and lose early game sniping potential for actual shielding against threatening ranged units (awesome next to Liches). Access to Dark Magic cheese (blind/puppet master) complements them nicely too. Might be biased due to playing it a long, but TotE Necropolis is far from being "perfectly balanced".

Mansen

4y↑453

The fact that Spliff never thought to split those archers really annoys me. THAT is how you truly become a steamroller. No more insane overkills on single stacks.

Mansen

What a mature reply.

Mansen

Gotta appreciate those 6 month necro replies...

stephen mccarthy

3y↑1

The fact you can blind there last unit then res you whole army and power litchs can also cast animate dead is not broken at all then there is the ability to destroy there morale. Then again there is nothing as broken as ghosts from hero's 2

Brian Bethea

4y↑3

@no, as a matter of fact People are having a perfectly fine conversation about a video and you're over here trying to make them feel bad by insulting an entire minority.

smh

Mansen

4y↑3

"spergs"

Opinion promptly dismissed.

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Packed ice is the best minecraft block

4y↑53

"this building converts living things into dead things!" That's called a warehouse with coffee in it.

Void

4y↑160

"You see peasants are the backbone of just about everyone's economy and so they're kinda broken" - their backs sure are

PoisonJam

4y↑5

Man, I remember this game!! I bought this back in the day so I could play it on my laptop while staying in the hospital getting chemo. I never got to play it due to various factors, but after seeing this...man am I glad I held on to the disc version. I think I know what I’ll be doing this weekend. 😆

osets 2117

Did the vomiting prevent you from playing? I feel like it was the vomiting

Matticus Madness

4y↑13

"I'll definitely have to be messing with a Phoenix." - The Spiffing Brit, 2020

And in 2021, we'll be facing the world's first game exploiting Human-Phoenix hybrid.

Kun Drad

4y↑267

Heroes of Might and Magic series:
Everything is broken, but every broken thing cancels the other and that's how game becomes balanced.

Jusqua Northwind

@Robertas Vaicius Sandro because he set them against each other

QCbelzebuth

3y↑1

@Robertas Vaicius Tazaar is slightly better.

Noctis Headshot

4y↑1

HOMM 5 by far half of them are op while the other half is okayish

Ray Stinger

4y↑2

@TheSquishedElf Dungeon rely on stronger units that are pricey and fewer, seems fair except that ALL their units, with maybe the exception of Hydra, need an upgrade to be tactically useful. So you have to either rely on smaller variety of upgraded units or invest heavily on spells. Witches are the worst tier 6 creature in the game, their stats don't compensate their small numbers at all and they are outshined in damage by assassins. Lizards are also the worst of their tier, being too fragile. Dungeon has cheap buildings though, unlike Necropolis or Stronghold.
As weak as they are, I'd rank Sylvan higher than Dungeon, as they have a great creatures at their disposal - except for pixies and blade dancers.

TheSquishedElf

4y↑1

Ray Stinger Dungeon isn’t that bad, though their early game is super weak. Minotaurs, Black Dragons, and Hydras are all really good. The rest are mostly just expensive meatshields, witches can be okay. They’re about on par with Academy or Haven imo.
Fortress isn’t terrible either. Bear Riders, Magma Dragons and rune-boosted Berserkers would like a word.
Sylvan’s trash tho

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Light 1988

4y↑703

The merchant's guild have known this for awhile

LuxQueensbane

Ssssssssssssssssssseth there.

Jeramy Steve

3y↑1

Hey hey people.

Tokisaki Kurumi

@Johan Liebert Maybe~

Tokisaki Kurumi

4y↑5

@Z Day At the moment, our delivery area is limited to the seven city states and associated territories and settlements. We offer guaranteed next day delivery though. Do be advised, that refunds not pertaining to our guarantee have to be reclaimed alone and unarmed though and that we only guarantee sunday protection to our employees ans share holders. Refunds may only be collected on sunday.

Z Day

4y↑2

@Tokisaki Kurumi Wait...you deliver hash? You take credit cards? What's your delivery area? International shipping/delivery?

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pethol

4y↑1

When I used to play HoMM 4, I really enjoyed how I could quite quickly make very OP heroes by letting them learn combat skills. Once they became grandmasters at that, with a good set of artifacts they were usually able to beat almost every army on the map just by themselves. Also, with the ability to hide units behind each other to protect them from ranged attacks, I just sometimes accompanied the heroes with 1-unit stacks in case of a difficult siege, and that was mostly all it took to win. Perfectly balanced.

Mr. Explodio

4y↑27

It's easy to make friends when you're a necromancer.

Sama Hardy

only 3 likes?? that's so under rated!!!

Koos van Vugt

Thank you for your continuous and excellent entertainment throughout these precarious months Spliff!

Ondřej Bronec

4y↑36

HOMM5 gave me one of the best moments in my gaming life. At one of the last missions I wasn’t able to win. After quickloading a few times I managed to completly cheese the game and kill the whole enemy army with just my hero and reinforcements. You see summoned Phoenix is extremly strong unit and Palladins have an ability to completly heal a unit as an action. After my enemy made a hole in my walls I put the phoenix in it and spend rest of the fight healing it. Deafeted a deadly army with minimal looses and won the mission. Good times.

arrulli

4y↑2

You should play more of this game it's really cool. I remember my dad playing this and using the demon people.

ситх, возведший в абсолют

4y↑78

"In HOMM V our heroes finally can fight on a battlefield!"

laughs in HOMM 4

Szymon Bober

laughs in HoMM 3 Wake of Gods

Fefe

4y↑2

@Alpostpone HoMM4 was cool af. Especially the death faction 😁

Mercenaru

4y↑4

@Alpostpone Well said sir !

Wait...you actually mean the other way. FUCK !

I thought you were praising H4 ! DAMN !

Alpostpone

4y↑3

@demizson576 Can't blame him for forgetting HOMM 4 exists.

HOMM 4 is no laughing matter.

Evan Morrison

4y↑2

@eLsain I realize I should clarify what I ment by them being bad... I meant "bad" in that they're a definite part of the reason necro is completely unbalanced. You know, more that they're so good that their bad for the meta rolf.

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Sakura Maiden

I absolutely love this series, have done since the second game, and love that you're making videos on it. Despite the annoying bugs and that thing where the graphics collapses every hour, five does have a special place in my heart and is much stronger than six (yes, they do pretty musical remakes of the Meadows from two and Haven from Might and Magic six, but that's when the game works).

Bluecho4

4y↑10

"When I'm necromancin;, everyone's dancin'
No one can stop me, I dare you to try
The dead are infused with sensational groove
And they're coming for you now
There's nowhere to hide"

-Bear Ghost, Necromancin' Dancin'

manaquri

4y↑487

paladin: my whole order was murdered
necromancer: oh, that's horrible, where?

cak01vej

4y↑29

Paladin: Raising a family is hard.
Necromancer: Not if they are buried close enough to each other.
Paladin: ...what?
Necromancer: What?

Cyricist001

4y↑2

@DiscordantlyYou
Eh, Dark is a excellent magic school but Light magic humans specialize in and the paladin Cleansing ability can easily counter it. Also, humans get rather high moral early on meaning they act more often, and Defense and Offense are primary attributes meaning even without Buffs, human units will be more powerful. Also a number of artifacts provide immunity to all higher level Dark spells, though that's situational.

DiscordantlyYou

4y↑2

@Cyricist001 True, though it's not like Necro have no ways of answering that via curses and other dark magic stuff. you right tho

Cyricist001

4y↑3

@DeciMation
Funny typo that turn out to be :D

Null Point

4y↑11

@DeciMation
Attack of the dead men.

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Mark Brown

4y↑2

I remember doing this so fondly, although I split the skelly archers up into 3 groups with the dragons and vampires.

DevilinPink

4y↑1

I love to see, how still people play this amazing game.

Early game tip: You can chose not to let soldiers fight. So for example against the archers you could have fought only with the vampires. Would've caused 0 losses for sure ;)

RyudenTamarashi

4y↑3

This is basically how I used to play, though I went with Kaspar and the plague tent, since early game it did ALOT of dmg, and could also rez a huge stack of your archer if need be. I'd be starting to max out Skeleton archer stacks pretty early on.

David Mills

Same

taavidude

So glad to see that this legendary game is still being played to this day.

portland573

4y↑413

HoMM2 hotseat flashback. "How can those 4 skeletons kill a stack like that?"

"Ah, you obviously failed to spot the 'K' after the 4..."

Veylon's Channel

4y↑5

I also loved that Archibald campaign mission that was all about building up a skeleton army via necromancy.

Wolf Warrior

4y↑16

The K stands for Killdozer

Auron3991

4y↑32

Not that the skellys mattered when they could just call up their 10k ghost friends because someone forgot to clean out the peasant stacks.

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Hans Peter

2y↑3

This brought back so, so many memories of me trolling my friends in a LAN game. "Oh you have Arch Angels? Well I have a millions Skelli Archers!" I am crying right now.

Michał Woliński

3y↑3

For all who think about some HoMM3 exploits: there was a way to start last campaign mission with hero of level 100 or so, and one shot the game winning in first week.

Rezardus

Gosh I loved this game and still do. So many wonderful memories. Always used to play the orcs from the expansion pack.

Joker's Ace

this is such a throwback to my childhood, id love to see more HoMM videos!!!

discipulus

4y↑101

I know Sseth already covered it, but I'd love to see your take on Necromancy's hilarious brokenness in HoMM III, as well. Or really any of the broken stuff in HoMM III. Game is comfy.

Teadon Urajh

4y↑2

Them damn powerliches.

Dejan F

4y↑1

He does have a video on diplomacy

Robin V

4y↑5

hey hey people, seth here

ppunion

3y↑1

When the Spiffing Brit tells me to trust him, my instict is to run away screaming in fear of all the plotholes and exploits he will find that will tear a hole in reality.
Edited to add: "... Through a process I like to call very aggressive murder." This had me laughing so hard.

Magnús Mar Arnarson

2y↑2

I would love to see a Diplomacy run on Heroes 3, it can be insane

stelio kontos

this game looks pretty awesome it combines two types of games i love and also gives me an idea for the best game ever and i will not rest until i find someone to back the idea or even just take the idea and make it and i will do everything to make sure it is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits at all it will just work

Fishface

4y↑4

When I was playing Heroes V I would get pretty overpowered by maxing the luck skill with the elves (the sylvan ones). I would be so op that I delt almost double the damage it said when painting with the cursor. I'd love to see you exploit it

Daniel Dax

4y↑3

That was a fun one to go. I kinda liked going jezebel for inferno and beefing up the fire succubi. God it’s so satisfying to watch them attack and see how their flame orb bounces to half of the enemies stacks and oh they are the only unit in homm5 afaik that has a ranged retaliation.

Pathalen Vivaldi

4y↑627

"We can convert any living thing to a dead thing."
Uh, murder, Spiff. That's called murder.

God

*Perfection

The 1ndiegamer

4y↑1

Nah, it's called recycling. Necromancers are the recyclers of the magic world

The FallenPoet

Necromancers also call it “free real estate.”

FanaticPharaoh

4y↑1

OMG, I'm a necromancer!

Aaron Austin

4y↑1

Nope it's called alchemy

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Csumbi

the presentation in this game is so good, i was quite disappointed to see that they devolved with the cities in the games after this. This game holds a special place in my heart even though i never finished it. :D

Tamás Madarasi

4y↑1

Pal Csoke

Skyrim, Heroes, fantasy... You're literally covering everything I'm interested in! 😍

Paul Bialozor

4y↑1

Awesome video. You did, however, miss or overlook another way to obtain weekly troops and that is by purchasing the 2 weekly heroes that contain troops. That allows you to grow your army even faster and at a reasonable cost. Instead of wasting time with a single hero traveling back and forth you just send each new hero on a one way trip. As they carry out the weekly army, in this case to Vlad, you don't have to waste time sending them back but rather have them scout forward or attack knowing they will get wiped out but you can check on the growth of any stack this way. There are many ways to increase Nicro Troops... Cheers...

1Perspective

3y↑14

As I recall, necromancy was even more OP in HoMM4 when you could get Vampires.

Eric Huls

2y↑3

@1987MartinT HoMM 3 Vampire Lords were just as much if not more of a pain in the ass unless you were going up against Conflux or Tower

1987MartinT

2y↑9

Yeah, fucking hell! Vampires are nearly unkillable in that game.

Madeline Price

4y↑2

gawd, I love necromancy. It's just a fantastic feeling when things fall into place, and your army just snowballs and steamrolls literally everything in its way.

Anthony Pendergrass

3y↑1

I just hate that Necromancer characters in games are ALWAYS so weak lol if they're good here, I might have to get it. Video game logic at it's best-
Enemy necromancer- massive army, terrible threat, unlimited power!!
Playable necromancer - like... 3 zombies with terrible stats and no AI

Isac Felix

2y↑1

Id really love to see a video game that makes a second exploiter's edition that keeps on the bugs that don't actually destroy the computer

SilverHawkScape

3y↑1

So this is what being the Scourge feels like. You just keep growing and growing and every enemy killed adds more and more undead.
😂

Gorbz

4y↑30

You know what makes this even more fun? Having multiple stacks of skeleton archers so you can kill multiple stacks every turn

Autumn Leaves

4y↑1

A latter Sylvan mission is a great example of this. After you get out of your small area, you meet the AI necro that's been farming neutrals all over the map and has, at a bare minimum, 20k skelly archers.

uNs7oPaBL3

4y↑1

this reminds me of the necromancy set in Heroes III where your necropolis heroes get zombies/witches or the best power litches based on witch lvl is your necromancy skill its effectively very broken and fun ^_^

THC

4y↑1

You should split the skeletons in half so you can get more turns for them

Slamigeslamsam

I only started to watch your videos recently, and came to enjoy them very much. Love to see more 🤘🏻

N S

4y↑6

I LOVE The heroes franchise! so glad you are doing them. Do the Ubisoft cd version of heroes 4 where they gave the prestige demonologist class to nature castle absolutely free! 5 devils every round? Sure, well how could I resist? 100% balanced, no exploits!

(For reference, when ubisoft aqcuired heroes, they changed everything slightly, I believe for copyright reasons. It included such wonderful decisions as the above, in addition to giving chaos (dungeon) the "potion of mana" spell. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

N S

@Elurdin In the ubisoft release, you no longer needed demonology or death magic. i.e., perfectly balanced as all things should be.

Elurdin

I remember summoning devils spell to cost a lot of mana to use as well as fully lvled Demonology and Nature Magic, by that point any Hero was op as hell.

Dmitry Ferulev

actually my favorite chap of HoMM. Had so much fun playing

Seth Moore

Hey Spiff! Been a fan of your videos for several months now! HOMM are some of my favorite games! You should really try the Grandmaster Stealth Exploit on HOMM IV, its pretty broken! Would love to see a video of it.

MahrCheen

4y↑2

Evil never sleeps, just watches and waits as their army grow

HeartLock

4y↑63

This makes me want to make a series using this. God I miss the old might and magic games, three was truly fantastic.

Ravan

@The Spiffing Brit Three is* majestic

Alessandro Santarini

4y↑1

@The Spiffing Brit also 4 was very very nice. 5 and 6 are terrible

HeartLock

4y↑2

@Death wish guess I should start looking into some scripting then!

HeartLock

4y↑3

@The Spiffing Brit I would say I'd love to see an episode on it, but I think everyone knows the many exploits of that game nowadays. Enjoy the tea sir, truly love your content!

Death wish

4y↑4

I'd watch it

Double-x2-Points

Very excited to see the title of this!!! Dude this was my JAM back in the day. Definitely spent countless hours making custom maps and creating campaigns for me and my sister to play. I remember starting the player out with only a ghost or two, maybe a vampire lord which you'd need to be very careful with not to lose, eventually amassing an undead army with high level necromancy later on. Love it so much. I haven't yet started watching this video, I simply freaked out when I saw the title as HOMM was one of my favorite series, with 3 and 5 specifically being my favorite (if I remember correctly). I love your videos, and I am excited to crack open a brewskie and begin watching this one. I hope to see you exploit something I didn't already know, which is almost always the case~ I need to find a copy of this game now and hope it can somehow run on my PC, as now I crave the peasant army of death! (Lol attack thousands of weak armys, ressurrect them after battle as skellys or what have you...I have a feeling this will be covered here lol...) BTW check my recently discovered exploit (first?) in skyrim if you want~ I haven't done anything (too) crazy with it yet and you will likely be the first person to utilize it to the max. After watching your ritual stone exploit video, I now realize you can likely combine my glitch/exploit with that one, and several other potential combinations, to do things that have likely never been seen before in all of Skyrim😂. (Or give me a week and I'll poorly make several "first ever" videos on it, but let's be honest, we need a respected and known content creator like yourself to share this stuff with us. You are loads funny.) Anyways, great videos overall, glad I found your channel.

Justin Diffenderfer

You know the really scary thing? I was able to do something much more dangerous with skeleton archers in the most recent version, so it's not even really fixed.

Prince Dusk

I only really played HoMM: Quest for the Dragonbone Staff, and my favorite (and least favorite) unit was the ghost, because after about 10 ghosts they basically don't die and converts half or more of all units they kill into ghosts, but after so many (and I never figured out how/why/when) they would defect and become a roving band and it was usually 500 - 2000 of them so I never could go back near the area they defected in... it was kinda fun trying to keep enough that they could still perpetuate, but not have too many.

Antonio Lal Fonseca

3y↑1

This is also very overpowered in necromancy especially if you get the Cape of the grave lord

S Sifr

4y↑350

Ohhh, I remember wielding more than 10k skelies archers when I played this lmao.

sgtsarcasm

Tilde nice work i was losing patience with 100k lol

Spencer Young

Rookie numbers lol

TheArklyte

4y↑1

And then human faction does the opposite and stockpiles money until they can turn up with thousands of Paladins and Tactics skill that allows them to extend deployment zone and hit everyone on first turn. Or rushing dragons and other high level monsters on the map for their treasures with a hundred crossbows and five separate villagers to block off 2x2 movement.

Tilde

4y↑1

@sgtsarcasm One time I managed to get 1,000,000 skelemerangs

D. N

4y↑3

There's the bonezone and then there's THE B O N E Z O N E

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ryaku5

Heroes 3 is amazing. Inferno is my favorite faction there, even if it isn't the best. I would adore it if you could somehow exploit it...for research.

Yasin Aydın

In HOMM7 its the same, just paradrop the skeleton stack to the enemy line and watch them melt just by attacking that skeleton stack

Michael Selph

4y↑1

I once got an army of around 9,500 skeletons in Heroes of Might and magic 3. It was glorious. I walked over everything on the map including ridiculously powerful armies of dragons and archangels raising even more skeletons

Mazimi

4y↑1

Ahh yes HoMM V where I've had over 3k skeleton archers who one shot EVERYTHING and I've also had can't remember exactly how many hundred but anything between 500-1000 Master Hunters with a Unicorn Horn Bow equipped on my hero.

The MegaWrench

4y↑47

Necromancy may have been nerfed in the dlc, sure, but should this game ever be revisisted, think of these few balances:

Gating with a certain inferno hero is STILL perfectly balanced with no exploits

Blood Rage with a certain Stronghold hero is ALSO perfectly balanced with no exploits

And, last but not least, Fortress ultimate skill is perfectly balanced with no exploits what so ever!

Eric Souza

4y↑1

I already start cracking up when he says "its a perfectly balanced game!" 😂

Elias Eklund

Would loooove to see more homm3 videos! One of my favourite games and u are the only one who makes it entertaining to watch

Kryzeth

You know... it actually makes sense that a phoenix, magical creature that can come back from the dead, is working with a necromancer, who does that to other creatures on a daily basis.

Sean McGrath

4y↑30

Definitely gonna have to go with option C
Gotta love Rimworlds whackyness

Andy

HoMM 2 reigns supreme in my book. Basically a clean update and expansion of HoMM 1 without complication or silly attempts at 3D graphics. Much love for it.

Radan Valenta

I liked the 3D cities in HoMaM V overall it was good and I think the idea of going 3D was great.
For HoMaM IV more than exploit I remember cool way to play (that can turn out into exploit :D ) of making Army that is only made of Heroes >:)

Settra the Imperishable

If you break Sinitar enough (Dungeon), your spells do like 10 times the damage. I calculated that an implosion by sinitar can do more than 10 thousand damage if you level him up enough (and get lucky with elemental damage). I murdered so much with just spells (and the mandatory best unit in the entire game, Black Dragon)

Natuality

I've loved this game for years, sad it didn't get more popular :(

Tobbzn

4y↑5

Fun fact: In the early patches of Heroes 3 there was also the ability to cast the level 5 Fire spell "Sacrifice" to sacrifice ENEMY units and resurrect your own! The UI wouldn't make it seem like it was possible, but you could still click and it worked. Even on Black Dragons and other units that are normally immune to Sacrifice.

InStinct

My favourite thing in HoMM IV is getting a one man army of a hero with life and order magic. With the combination of martyr and hypnosis they become literally invincible.

Szszymon14 - Krytyk wszystkiego

You should also play Heroes 5.5 mod. It's fantastic in terms of balance and new vanilla-friendly functions and can be paired with NCF.

Patrick Rosner

I would love to see more games. Specially for 3 because that was the first one I had played

Gem's Dirty Kitchen

Speaking of Civilization and this specific strategy of converting enemy/neutral units, have you covered Alpha Centauri a her... ehm... worms?

I remember some mission/scenario in HoMaM 2 or 3 where you actually had only skeletons and this strategy was the key to victory. I remember it was quite fun :-)

You also get my like at 0:36 :-)

Bobsyagod

3y↑1

I was waiting for one of the AI players to sneak around behind him and take his castle while he was far away.

Just another Glorpsday morning

I think this was the first HoM&M game I played (not sure, I was a kid) I remember building an army of multiple stacks of pixies that could go anywhere on the battlefield, always went first and always won every fight before the enemies got to do anything.

Gammelbold

3y↑1

My brother and I have played this game since HoMM 2. Bro usually play Necromancer and I usually play Stronghold, which i'm highly skilled at, though i know there's always someone better then me, skillwheel does help a LOT. both he and I do love playing HoMM V, "Seven Lakes" is legendary map.

Everyone has an opinion

4y↑1

Another Necro exploit, any hero can turn enemy dead into skeleton archers early on if you fill up all unit spaces, but have only 1 space with skeleton archers (no normal skeletons). It forces all resurrected turned enemy into skeleton archers as there's no spot left for normal skeletons! Yay! More OP-ness!.

Jordan Smith

Loved this series and still play Heroes IV. would love to see if there are any exploits for that game!

Павел Лысенко

4y↑1

Ah, Heroes of M&M 5 was and still is my favorite strategic rpg game ever! So many good memories...

Павел Лысенко

@Seaworth err, dude, I played 3rd homm and didn't like it, so what? We are not allowed to have opinions anymore?

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