Thanks! That would indeed motivate me to run again haha

For the record, so I don't forget, I believe it is actually possible to execute the rush strat even with the hp-boosted crystals + witch + mermaid, it's just significantly harder. If I recall correctly, out of the 10+ test runs of COT4 I did, I think 3/5 of them had this more annoying version, and I believe I succeeded just one of those times.

Oh, and I put your runs on the leaderboards: www.speedrun.com/epic_war_3#Warlord_100

@@TheSamiG Thank you! Yeah in my practice runs, I was only ever able to beat COT3 without retreating if the titan came out around the first revenge wave. Otherwise, I was forced to use invincibility and berzerker too early where they wouldn't even last until the 3rd revenge wave. Also this titan is one tough mofo so it's much harder to kill at the castle unlike fire and water titans, which I was able to kill normally even at the castle. Unfortunately, i was too slow to getting to the castle here so I used those spells too early and rip. Also the ice storm and phoenix timings worked really nicely when the titan came out around the same time as the first revenge wave: I was usually able to ice the first revenge wave (which completely demolishes it due to berzerker), then typically I had enough time to trigger both the 2nd and 3rd revenge waves which my phoenix would then destroy handily as well, and gg. But it was all based on getting to the castle fast enough. As in my practice runs, those HP-boosted thunder crystals were so damn annoying. I didn't really settle on a strategy to killing them fast and I guess that bit me in the butt here. I didn't want to use all my non-range units on them so they'd still have health in case my invincibility ran out towards the end of the 3rd revenge wave, but in retrospect maybe I should have used both knights and phantom armor to save those precious 5-10 seconds to trigger the first revenge wave earlier, as it's not like full-hp knights make much of a difference against a titan and a COT-esque revenge wave lol. Hm well I'm definitely done speed running for awhile... Don't really feel much motivation now that I got sub-3:30. Frankly, I was just going to take a break from it no matter what I got as long as there weren't any obvious places to significantly improve (which p much requires getting a sub-3:40 though lol). I think over the next month or so I'll probably upload first-time playthroughs of the non-red heros. I've personally only done red, orange, green, and light blue fully, and man the other 3 took so long. Like, orange's range AND non-range units both suck, and non-level 5 heal also sucks (experience from light blue lmao). Also, before I found out about speedrunning, I figured out a way to beat the COTs with 1300 mana, so I plan on recording that too. It's pretty boring though, as basically I just retreat to the middle before every revenge wave so I can fully beat the revenge wave before triggering the next one. This actually works on COT4, but takes a bit of luck. COT5 it also takes some luck to not let the OP goblin get an attack off, after which it is pretty much game over. Not having ice/thunder storms to freeze the goblin in place as well as blow up some bombs before they can take out engi/goblins is quite tough. I would upload some more "fun" things, perhaps with the titans, like using all the titans or smth but it's just really really tedious to wait 4 minutes for them to charge up, then another 4 minutes for them to make their way to the castle lmao. I guess my purpose in all this is just to have recorded thoroughly beating this game, which I think I'm pretty close to. The things I mentioned above more or less cover that, as once you go through a campaign the subsequent ones are largely quite easy. Like, I'm DEFINITELY not going to do all 6*5*4*3*2*1 = 720 combinations of hero campaign orders lmaoo. But different ways to beat COTs (mana limited, with all the titans, range/non-range units only, etc) are more reasonable and were stuff I personally was curious about when I first played this game like 8-9 years ago haha.

sorry for another essay :P

Oh sorry. sure i guess

lol good question. maybe not that low but definitely a point where I feel satisfied that there weren't any mistakes or "anomalies" (e.g. 1:02 for red hero).

@@halebopp9962 ok thats cool. I wish you luck on your journey!

Exact same thing in this wr: you beat the game in 3:53:29

Oh hey! I was actually inspired by you to use the exit and continue if lost fight-auto trick to force my last 3 battles to blue, saving a lot of time. :)

@@halebopp9962 You're welcome :) In all seriousness, If you do need any advice in saving time, please do message me (usually most active on my reddit page)