Money problems

[Blackadder]

Thanks for the advice fatt_shade, that was a pro's advice.


1) Royal thorns were may favourite troop in my first playthrough although I haven't found any yet. I have been ignoring thorns so far as they seem weak but I will get some in my army now as that is a good tactic and one I used in my last game.

2) I haven't found any yet but their special will be key when i do

3) Royal snakes were my staple in my first playthrough and I am about to get them now. I haven't got any griffins yet bar 2 eggs.

4) My rage box isn't great as I forgot for ages that I had to click on them to get them to work. I have Sleem and Zerock but only recently.

5) Great idea which I have encorporated now in my last throw of the dice army. If I cannot break even now I am screwed as I have taken all the treasure I can without having to face a big army. I have 1 archmage and he did the business in the last battle protecting my swordsman and ancient bears. The enemy does like to target him with ranged though so he may not survive long.

6) I have not found any yet but I will use them when I can. It is a shame about the morale penalty though as it will affect my other troops.

7) Trap is my favourite spell but I hate it when they sidestep around it, lol. My archmage's telekinesis can help there. I don't have alot of good spells but I mainly use fireball, magic poleaxe, trap and healing.

8 ) I was half trying to do it with no loss but I have lost twice so that went out the window. If I have to start again I will try but I doubt I could do it. I cannot kill the turtle I don't think as I am not strong enough. It has 4000 hit points and I am not that hard hitting which is a shame as I remember there being a lot of gold over there.

9) I read about that mod last week, it looks great but I thought I would wait until it is thoroughly tested and out of beta before trying it.


I went around and found all the underground treasure I could and also all the items I could get by luring and have my last gasp army. I have had 1 fight and now I am left with

archmage 1, inquisitors 14, swordsman 34, ancient bears 6 and a free slot which I am going to buy 1800 worth of royal snakes with.

I then have to go after all the armies which complete cash missions and hope I can make a profit. I need to make at least 12,000 before my army is dead, 8,000 at the least or I will reach a dead end.

[Fatt_Shade]

No prob my friend, just keep going and have fun. As for HoMM3babies mod, it is made by 1 man, and there is couple bugs, but i finished it 3 times with every class once and help found some of problems, in first play there were allot of them, but that was 4 months ago and many of those bugs were found and fixed. Last game i played was 2 weeks ago with paladin and everything were great no problems, but ofc it`s you`re choice i just recommended it for new experience and some ideas i liked in it (rebalanced spell system, challenging enemy heroes, nicer skill changes . . .).
Other note :
1) Did you take wife ? She gives nice bonuses and ofc item slots. My advice for marauders i forgot to mention that i had Rina then, and my marauders had 3 speed, and were easy to move them around without losses.
2) Whenever you find some item that is quest connected try to use it, right click and use option. For example stinky elixir that witch give you to destroy alchemist cauldron may give you 100-150 exp points depending on hero class. If you kill Noric zombie hero in swamps use his bag and find gold inside, i`m not sure how much but it`s 100+ i think. Before you return lost town chronicles to mage school use it and get some spell scroll from it and so on . . . Many quest items have something inside them, try using every one.
3) if you have fire arrow, use it instead magic axe, it`s similar dmg for same mana cost, but have burn% which decrease enemy units stats. Other than that use whatever you have at disposal, since Darion is first location and hardest to start for lack of everything (units, gold, items, spells).
4) uprgade your rage box asap

[Blackadder]

I haven't got a wife yet but I am halfway through the feanora quest so I will have one soon.

I have marauders now and they make me about 900 a round which helps me loads and I took a shot and threw all my runes into chaos magic 2 and it is paying off in fights.

I also got awarded a griffin king feather worth 23,000 from the witches daughter so if push comes to shove (I have trade 3) I can sell that if times get hard. I am half leaning towards keeping it could be useful.

Thanks for tip 2, I never would have thought to do that.