Heroes 2 Expert Playthrough 1, part 2 of 4

Map: Pyramid
Difficulty: Impossible

[@gtestkey]

thieves guild to see enemy cities defences

[@Chris67132]

gtestkey AHA! Ok thanks for clearing that up.

[@Archredbeard]

Chris67132 Also, the more thieves guilds you own, the more info you get, up to a certain point, where you can see all stats on enemys mainheros, if you check it in the guild

[@yoyomcg]

absolutely love your videos homm2/homm3 vids dude, please make more!

[@CreeperJ44]

I still have my original Homm2 cd. I sucked so bad at it but played the crap out of it at the same time on my gateway 2000. Thanks to you I finally understand how to play this wonderful game that I was so horrible at. Enjoy your videos man be safe!

[@Wind_Falcon]

This has been thoroughly enjoyable, way more than some of your Heroes III playthroughs, mainly because this map is just so fun, there are so many way's to play it, it's just designed very well. Wonder who was the mapmaker over at NWC...

[@7000_Skeletons]

How dare you attack me Chris! Don't you ever get in the way of my plans again, for next time you won't be so lucky! And screw you, I am not expandable!

[@7000_Skeletons]

***** Foolish peasant, they do not scare me!

[@7000_Skeletons]

***** Good luck, I'm behind 7000 skeletons.

[@7000_Skeletons]

***** Your words fall of deaf ears. Is this what passes for threatening these days?

[@jaceklutrzykowski]

Heroes 2 cool games ❗💻🖥️🕹️🎮🗡️🏰😁👍😁👍

[@muvado11]

I like the chess elements in this game :) Are you good at chess chris?

[@Chris67132]

mark van der zee I used to be alright. I don't find chess all that entertaining though.

[@EpicSnakes]

i think the best strat in this map is to rush sulfur and wait day 7 to rush 1 yellow castle. Then dragon, then you win.

[@daniellongworth7513]

Thats how I did it after several attempts.

[@letchlord]

hey mate, I love the videos , great job :) just wanted to ask, at 1:06:22 seems like you didn't see the boots artifact? One of my favorites.

[@gtestkey]

Why you hate berzerker so much??

[@Chris67132]

gtestkey Doesn't do any good vs dragons and the undead.

[@Fingolfin3423]

Berzerker is an incredibly powerful spell. I have won games with that spell alone. Not only this, but I know with 100% certainty that I would have lost if I didn't have it - the composition of a certain big battle depended on my ability to have berzerker. It has incredibly powerful moments, specifically where you can force a large stack who has higher speed then the next deadly stack. A good example would be berzerking a stack of phoenix, greater minotaurs, cyclops, who's in line first. They take a chunk out of the dragons or titans, and then they get countered and lose a big stack, too, all while keeping the zerked mob on the far side of the room. This can synergize even better when you can stack up mobs and intentionally create "bad breath" attacks, killing more of their own troops. Another great thing about berzerker is that if the zerked mob kills the stack, it stays zerked. On top of this, zerked mobs are even stronger if they can't be retaliated against. Hydras are a beautiful example, especially since they have a 360 strike. Lots of minutia to talk about.

[@NicRiser]

Obviously i don't have any big knowledge about this game, but I'd like to ask why is that so, that might heroes tend to be weaker in the end game? Is it mainly talking about outisde combat in terms of the dimensional door and town portal etc. Because I can't really see any of the dmg spells being useful in the late game, I think a well casted mass haste could be more devastating with a good army on a decent might hero.

[@Chris67132]

Notice Me Senpai! In the late game you need certain spells to effectively take control of the map. A magic hero 1. has wisdom which is not guaranteed to a hero like in H3 2. Has more spell points and more spell power. This means more dimensional doors / town portals / summon elemental / animate dead / resurrect true / chain lightning etc. The knight and especially the barbarian just don't gain enough stat points in power and knowledge to become even decent spellcasters unless you are on a large map with many artifacts and stat boosting sites. Also they don't start with wisdom and have a very poor chance to learn it ( especially the barbarian ), which means no spell can be learned above level 2. Which means if you don't pick up wisdom your are really screwed late game. Not to mention the fact that a late start in getting wisdom means you may have to wait a very long time to gain expert wisdom, meaning you can't use the really great spells about the time you're going to really need them. I find the knight and barbarian doing well early - mid game, then come late game the enemy will start to wear down your armies and eventually you'll have a strong hero but no troops to use, because of the hoards of enemy heroes you'll face that will bit-by-bit take pieces out of your army. Either with spells or troops. Eventually you need a way to resurrect your losses / or pull some cheese like dragon / chain lightning / armageddon, or summon elemental. Magic users are just better at this for all the above reasons. Oh yeah and the damage spells in this game tend to be WAY more effective then in H3 because of the lower hitpoints of most creatures. What's the highest HP for the knight creatures? 65 for the crusader. Of course you have the Black dragon and Titan at 300, but everything else is 150 and under.

[@NicRiser]

Thx for the response, that indeed makes sense. I should've kind of made myself clear that my question didn't only apply on Heroes 2. Something tells me that might heroes can be a lot more useful on Heroes 3 with expert wisdom and decent stats just like you said. What I really meant was that in a Battle, a might hero would probably be able to take out a spellcaster as the only useful spells in such time would be the ones that debuff or buff certain creatures, rather than doing any dmg, therefore a simple mass haste from a Might hero could be devistating because of the huge stat bonuses on Attack and defense. Obviously that is just a hypothetical scenaro. It really all depends on a lot of things like the artifacts, heroes, army types etc.

[@Chris67132]

Heroes 3 is different. The common wisdom in Heroes 3 is that might heroes are better then magic heroes. In H3 that may be the case. In H2 it is not, at least not for maps vs multiple AI's in my experience. In Heroes 2: Yes a might hero with a lot of troops can typically wipe the floor with a magic hero, for one battle... until he just throws a nasty damage spell and then runs. Then he will do that same hit and run tactic again and again... and you will soon be a super might hero with no troops, which won't help you much. The only thing you can do is maybe play warlock or wizard and hope you can get a good stack of dragons or titans before the AI comes for you. Problem in H2 it isn't so easy to afford those unit structures until well into the game where the AI is probably already barging into your territory and giving you problems...

[@minostarosig3551]

I remember this map. How about those genielambs Southern west?

[@compolomus9719]

use well in town =) and travelers guild building

[@wildwild4502]

ty for series

[@zlobert9877]

What version is this mate?

[@norm7897]

It was so stupid what you did on 48th minute You should slow those minotaurs, then just wait, with disrupting ray on every turn, until they unblind. Then shoot them as long as they come close to your shooters and only then let wolves and others go on minos. So stupid. So, so stupid. Although you have good tactic decisions in other battles. I give you that 58:00 you should build thwt frecking bridge, take your main hero in that castle, take troops and teleport further And why you don't use castle wels to see,how much troops you can recruit from the castle