HoMM4 - The Price of Peace - Champion Difficulty - Level 1

[@Leonion6]

3:18:06-3:30:20 - wow, I'm speechless. That was absolutely crazy for map 1 hero. I'm not sure I'd try something like that even with my end-game Emilia.

[@juliozayd7514]

I guess it's kind of off topic but does anybody know of a good place to watch new tv shows online ?

[@alfredernesto8386]

@Julio Zayd Flixportal :P

[@juliozayd7514]

@Alfred Ernesto thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I appreciate it !!

[@alfredernesto8386]

@Julio Zayd you are welcome :)

[@Izicesz]

This is perfect.Thanks for sharing! I love your playing very much.

[@misstreatgood]

You went through most of fights without losing any troops, your tactics blown my mind

[@xiaomingliu5272]

Amazing playthrough vid, many thanks for this! Greetings from China!

[@MikeAndersson]

that was amazing friend!

[@bloodthyrsty]

in 3:40 - fight vs devils, wasnt better to just dispel ice monster instead of teleporting? :P You cant dispell summoned enemy, just raised from dead?

[@vhejral]

Awesome, great job. Would you be able to show as well chaos approach in "To rule the world" from game "Winds Of War" with Spazz Maticus (2nd scenario: Rusted Desert) ?

[@gammadragon2]

When I'm done with this campaign, I'll do Spazz Maticus next :)

[@alparslansahin3262]

Song of peace is so freaking op. You can do whatever you want except killing the black dragons tho. I think 'song of peace' spell shouldnt block enemy's spell( like magi's damage spells etc.) it should be a fair nerf but we are in 2017 LUL

[@wolfofbenjamin]

omg .. love this game .. those evil eyes were a pain in the neckk ... roflmao ..

[@viking_II]

This game still not seeming a Heroes game but I think is one of the bests, like a really good spin-off in the saga, with great changes that you can like or hate but great all: caravans, not upgrades, chose buildings, etc. Thanks 3DO for Heroes 3 and 4, the bests.

[@zephyrred3366]

Such a shame youtube removed all annotations. If you are alive can you do something with it?

[@gammadragon2]

I could probably rewrite the annotations and reupload the videos with some edits. That would be a little too much work though and I always get about 5 copyright claims against the soundtrack, which is a pain to deal with

[@kendricchua]

Hi, thank you for the walk through! I have a question about the AI difficulty. Mine seems incredibly easy to beat no matter what difficulty I have on... do you know if there's a patch for this?

[@gammadragon2]

Yes there is - search for "Homm4 Equilibrus". Or you can just give the AI a headstart by waiting a week at the beginning of a map - that should raise the challenge level.

[@wolfofbenjamin]

but i have to say my favorite offensive and strategical hero must be those with the order magic skills .. i could do one with town gate and teleport .. two of the of my favorite skills in the game saves you time and gives you a chance to escape in a cool way .. lol ..

[@wolfofbenjamin]

those black dragons are kickass too ..

[@TovChapaev]

I think you risk Emilia way too much. First of all, in this scenario there is no reason to start using her and leveling her until you know exactly what skills are for free on the map, from magic universities schools of war etc. Any other non carry-over mage can do her job (with no risk of losing the map either owing to death, in case all goes south) and in fact there is no reason not to have another main hero or two, since you will still max out on level in this map no matter what. You took Healing and Combat on a level-up for example, when these might have been on offer for free in the other Academy town or a school of war, thus possibly wasting a level-up or two. Second, you keep putting Emilia uncovered in the first rank in those fights against spell-casting creatures like that big Genie stack or the Mages in that second Academy town. If any of them had gotten morale at the start, they could have wiped her out with Ice bolt or Magic Fist respectively. She would have been resurrected after the siege in the second instance anyway, granted, but still. As an added note, for anyone who cares, it is beneficial to hire a Death Knight to bring in those fights against big Genie stacks, of which there are a few in this campaign, both in Emilia's and Solmyr's maps. The Death Knight's Tactics will give your Genies the initiative (barring any lucky morale rolls from the enemy) to cast Song of Peace, Slow, Mirth etc on your first turn, and his Offense will make your Halflings just a little bit more effective damagewise. Just my two cents. Otherwise, well played.

[@MrChaomen]

Nice thoughts. Having other hero as main is obvious, I can't believe I didn't think of it earlier. And nice catch with Death Knight also, will make fight against genies less painful.

[@Toxeensynth]

Man what a BEAST you are

[@ghandisnukes4358]

Interesting idea. I must say it is really beneficial in campaign such as this one since the first map is the one for preparations. Also nice idea with a death knight. I prefer teaching lord about tactics, not knight about finances. I realised my mistake

[@TovChapaev]

@@ghandisnukes4358 This is an old comment, but I realize I had made a small mistake; you can't hire Death aligned characters on this map (iirc), so no Death Knight, but a regular Knight will do the same job. You just need someone with Tactics so your Genies can act before the neutral Genies.

[@ayembic7933]

I'm pretty sure he would look at the map file data for research, if not just play through it completely to make notes on what to prioritize and what skills are available. He also saves and reloads (for seperate playing sessions, or to get the best outcomes)

[@Elchupanibres]

Any1 know where i can get these games\expansion packs, steam doesnt seam to have much homm games to buy , plz help

[@ghandisnukes4358]

I like to come back here from time to time. Do you happen to have some time to upload something new or stream a little? There are actually not that many people focused on older games, excluding homm3 and few titles that has become a forever tournament games inb4 I am not implying homm4 is such an old game, but gamma seems to be the one guy, who actually knows might and magic series and king's bounty

[@gammadragon2]

Thanks! Might and Magic was my childhood. I got busy and had some KZbin copyright claim issues, so took a break for a while. I might upload again at some point 😉

[@ghandisnukes4358]

@@gammadragon2 Good to hear that. Have you tried Twitch? I've seen only one guy streaming homm4 and he pretty much had no idea how to play expert or champion

[@gammadragon2]

@@ghandisnukes4358 Twitch is a possibility, might give it a go at some point 👍

[@NinjaSushi2]

5:30 Why waste her? Let her get the exp and lvl up.

[@ddshocktrooper5604]

You get revived for free at the end of a castle battle, provided you have at least 1 non-summoned unit alive at the end of it. This revive happens before exp is awarded, so you still get it.

[@KillmanPit]

Why do you save and immideatelly load ? It seems strange habbit to me

[@gammadragon2]

The final video is made up of many segments appended together which are recorded at different times (you can check the dates on the load game screen). I also plan out what I'm going to do between each save/load. This is mostly so that the video is interesting to watch and doesn't contain a lot of thinking time.

[@gammadragon2]

***** Thanks for the compliment!

[@RobertGabrielGafencu]

Thank you very much for this video! :> I find it very useful! :> just out of curiosity, do you know others games like this? :>

[@gammadragon2]

The King's Bounty series is probably one of the closest. The Heroes of Might and Magic series actually has it's roots in an old DOS game called King's Bounty (also by New World Computing) and I guess the creators of the new series bought the naming rights.

[@marisabecrna8531]

can you win ''Alexandra the great'' in scenario? if you can please show me how to win this

[@alfador.]

When the dispel came through @58

[@Maxime_Martyr]

Why do you keep saving then loading the save that you just made? 🤔

[@Kolobrnda009]

Why did you buy the Cloud castle, if you never used titans in battle? In case they attack your city? For defence?

[@gammadragon2]

In case the enemy ever gets close, or got too powerful and my army needed boost.

[@ZeroVisitor]

How do you know when the enemy's turn will be? Do you count manually, or I'm missing the most important part of this game?

[@gammadragon2]

In battle, the order in which each unit acts is very predictable if you know the speed of each unit. In more detail, the order in which units act is determined by each unit's speed including modifers such as the Tactics skill or Haste/Slow spells. Units with higher speed act first. Units with the same speed alternate - the first unit in the attacking party goes first, then the first unit in the defending party, then the second unit in the attacking party, then the second unit in the defending party, etc. In rounds where the unit gets a morale boost (higher chance with greater morale statistic), the high-morale units act first. If multiple units get a morale boost, the ones with higher speed act first. Low morale penalties have the opposite effect, forcing the unit to act after all other units. You can also order a unit to Wait, which will allow that unit to act after every unit has had a turn - unless another unit also Waits, forcing your slower unit to act first. This can be used to great advantage in many battles. After playing enough, you'll get the hang of it :)

[@ZeroVisitor]

This actually sounds more complicated than I thought in the first place ;)

[@SnailBeast]

Adrijan Arsovski it's simple. First ones to move are ones who good-moraled, from fastest to slowest. Then no-morles from fastest to slowest. Bad-morales act last

[@cryso7508]

Hey Gammadragon, where are all your notes in the videos?? Did you delete them?

[@gammadragon2]

Looks like KZbin has removed them :( www.engadget.com/2018/11/27/youtube-remove-pop-up-annotations-january-15th/

[@cryso7508]

@@gammadragon2 That's too bad :(

[@robinheidrich8657]

I think Order Campaign´s are by far the easiest besides facing Black Dragons. Song of Peace aswell as Poison are so broken at just simply fights or capturing towns. Bit late comment but I was interested in how you solved this level. Ended out as I expected. Because lot of people struggle with Black Dragons

[@ddshocktrooper5604]

Easiest campaign is the life campaign. The first map is filled with free stuff for your heroes, and there are zero challenging fights in it. All the tough fights are in map 2, and you'll have a team of 4 level 18 paladins ready to face it.

[@adipe3217]

lots of spells to help boost defense and regeneration. getting basic nature magic means a maxed out luck (from a summoning unit that will be attacked by the dragons in the equivalent turn to summon them) which will help decrease damage income (25% if i remember correctly). chaos ward, defender, stone skin (nature), potions to increase hit points and fire resistance... and getting all the permanent powerups to increase defense besides the grandmaster combat skill. it can be done even without the minor boost from nature magic (stoneskin, leprechauns) but you might have to almost deplete your mana by constantly healing on top of regeneration to keep pace in the first turns. AND if you defend instead of attacking you get a boost to defense (retaliate and heal only from regeneration). no real need to rush increasing melee/ranged skills as they only help in making the fights shorter and saving some vulnerable units from a prolonged fight this way. being able to regenerate with high effectiveness and taking as less damage as possible every turn is more useful than offense skills. delay those as much as you can and max out the effectiveness of regeneration spell and make sure you have all the skills to be able to cast the most surviving/defense spells in the first turns. hypnotize/berserk are costly, don't rush order magic (you can work out with just expert) but rather grandmaster combat, expert life magic, max our spirituality etc.

[@franciscojeronimo5881]

Do you believe Paladins have better chances to clear the map early then anyother class? Even Rangers?

[@ddshocktrooper5604]

Demonologists are usually better at rapid clears. Though I should specify the caveat that by rapid I mean ingame time. Paladins are certainly the fastest at clearing the game in real time, since demonologists make every battle take forever.

[@geraldtan8588]

any idea where to download the game for free or to purchase it?

[@geraldtan8588]

thanks

[@VaderCZE]

Try GOG. Good support, compatible with most OS, easy to install and complete series for a decent price. www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_4_complete

[@SpaunShaDie]

Why do you always save/reload during these homm videos?

[@adipe3217]

the capturing video needed to be cut down in compression and the unsuccessful attempts needed to be cut down from the playthrough (when reloading). the video would have been odd if cutting the save/load frames from the segments. and maybe the need to make sure that the save is alright and safe. a habit maybe. or a bit longer visual mark for annotations/editing...

[@elamsar6839]

i defeat 30 thunderbird on week 2, by 8 genie + 21 mage + 8 naga, hard fought!

[@wolfofbenjamin]

i just get so impatient when i have to move my horse .. especially when there's no ranger type hero in your army .. lol!! ..

[@spd7693]

I prefer to focus all my heroes on 2 skills only to master and take what I need. I'm not sure if you're showing the easiest way to complete these missions or not but I play on this difficulty level, I play completely differently and at a lot slower pace and I almost always succeed. (With Glory Of Days Past being the only exception.) To me it's completely irrelevant if Emilia has Combat and Magic Resistance. I *can* beat the campaign with Order and Life Magic only for her. (I always pick Tactics as 3rd skill and usually no other.) So please tell me - Is this the ultimate easiest way you've found or you just play like this? I can tell you focus too much on Combat skills.

[@gammadragon2]

spd7693 I like to play this game in "RPG" style and rely as little on creatures as possible. Your style of playing (along with others) are equally sound. There are certain fights which heroes just cannot win if going solo without Combat (e.g. against Black Dragons). Heroes are also usually the only things that transition to the next scenario, so I like to spend some effort making them as powerful as possible to reduce the time it takes to get started on the next maps. Combat / Life Magic focused heroes seem to result in the least amount of game time spent in each scenario as well, as they quickly become self-sufficient and rarely need to wait for creature population growth to defeat enemies.

[@spd7693]

gammadragon I appreciate that but... your videos just seem too convincive for my taste. For me it usually takes 4 days (real time) to beat this scenario. (12 hours total, 'cause I rarely game more than 3, even more than 2 hours.) But that's the way I like it - in "RTS" style if I can say it this way. I never pretend being one of the best players of HOMM4, although I play on the highest difficulty. Anyway, I have to agree there are missions I have to do it your way, like Glory Of Days Past Mission 1. I've never beaten it on Champion. Same is with the A Pirate's Daughter campain, but on Expert it's hard enough for me. On Champion Tawni Balfour's story is just a nightmare.  Also I've noticed you don't always reach the maximum Experiance Level of a carry-over hero in a scenario. While doing the game my way, I don't manage to achieve it only on one campaign - The True Blade, because mission 2 has way too few fights for that. It also happened last time when I played Elwin and Shaera and surprisingly I didn't achieve the max on mission 3. (I still wonder how.) But I always aim for that and it really works for the rest of the campaign.

[@ddshocktrooper5604]

I prefer to use troops like expendable ammunition to rapidly gain exp on my main hero. The goal is to run out around when the hero can start soloing everything, while saving up for a lategame level 3/4 unit push using all towns to finish the map. Works extremely well in the undead campaign in the post necromancy nerf of Equilibris. Just buy up literally anything you can early game, split them into stacks and use them as cannon fodder for stealing retaliations, stalling fights for summons/ranged attacks, corralling berserkers around the battlefield, etc In regards to your approach, I don't really like it all that much unless I have advanced life magic. Martyr is pretty much required for any hero intending to do stuff without GM combat and magic resistance. There's too many things in this game that can just bs instakill your hero if they don't have those skills or active martyr.

[@Seb_Agustin]

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[@AS0wn3D]

Thank you so much! 22 subscribers:( piar yourself

[@zomgdrhax]

Lol dat ogre magi xD

[@wolfofbenjamin]

omg f***ing berserkers .. lol ..

[@RobertSmith-bz5ug]

Heroes made this game unbalanced.. Most fights you needed no army.. LOL

[@ddshocktrooper5604]

So? Just adapt the way you're thinking about the game. This game is not about the troops. Troops are a tool to get exp on your hero.

[@TovChapaev]

That only happens in the campaigns, where you have carry over heroes. Something similar happens in some of the HOMM3 campaigns where you have heroes carry over from previous missions. In regular HOMM4 maps, especially user made challenge maps, you need a well functioning army.