Heroes 3 Castle strategy || Basic overview || Heroes 3 Castle guide || Alex_The_Magician

In this video I do a basic overview of Heroes 3 Castle strategy, including an overview of strengths, weaknesses, and a discussion of basic strategies.
A more detailed Heroes 3 Castle guide can be found here:
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[@rosezerg2502]

thanks for doing these, they have helped me get better and i hope you do the week 1 break like you have been doing with the other towns, once again thanks!

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Cheers :-), glad you’re finding these helpful. Yes, I will do overviews as well as week 1 + break demonstrations for all towns.

[@BA0777]

Hi Alex, personally my favorite town specially due to the Expert Clone + Archangels combo. I love using Adelaide as my starting hero due to her Advanced Wisdom and been able to personalize her with other skills.

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Nice, thanks for sharing!

[@koniu2308]

And eovacius + arch you win almost everything

[@nicocampos170]

I want to thank you for making these, they are great for people like me that are new to the game.

[@alex_the_magician9483]

You're welcome :), glad they're helping you!

[@manachatloha5062]

I'm new just purchased a week ago. You're my teachers now.

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Happy to help :)

[@brianmayabella5992]

Castle is slightly powered town. Units is very good, building cost is good and spell is good tends toward Water Magic. For me, Castle town starting adventure what i like about compared to underground towns or with terrain penalty. Conflux is a strongest town - very good heroes, units, spells but only high building cost

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Castle is good, but slow on JC usually. Love Conflux!

[@philliprichards3769]

Castle is fun!

[@TheTchamber]

You used a term a few times that I don't understand. You said, "on 1-1-3 or 1-1-4," what does that mean?

[@alex_the_magician9483]

month 1 week 1 day 3

[@TheTchamber]

@@alex_the_magician9483 thanks for replying

[@VajdaVilmos625]

I dont really get the external building thing? If you have a portal on castle why does it grow your stacks but if you have a cave on dungeon why it doesnt??

[@alex_the_magician9483]

So the way it works is for each external portal of glory that you flagged, your growth of angels in town will increase by 1 (provided that you build the portal of glory in your town). It's the same thing for dungeon, but the problem is that it is pretty much impossible to build dragons as dungeon by the end of week 1. You have to skip the troglodyte upgrade, and the portal of summoning, and then you're able to build them on day 7, but skipping the POS already means that you'll have 1 less dragon, and usually its much better to have 2 dragons on turn 2 (assuming you flagged a dragon cave on day 1), than to have 5 dragons on week 2 day 1. With castle, you can build angels by day 5, and while they are expensive, the build is much more viable, and it's much more common to see a castle player build them.

[@RabianskiT]

Nice overview 😎 I agree, Castle is strong, because of its creatures, but its heroes are lackluster. They are also partially responsible for slower snowballing. I’m more of a casual (large map vs computer on impossible difficulty) player, but the characteristics of Castle stay the same. You need to get lucky with a good main hero. Then you can unleash the beast!

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Yep, castle heroes are crap XD

[@pacho640]

Angels are nice and stuff but how do i defeat a stack of 7k skeleton warrions?

[@alex_the_magician9483]

With 300 Angels XD, or magic.

[@JackTheNoober]

Arch Angels and castle week 1? I'd like to see that.

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Angels week 1, not archangels. Usually you won't build archangels until 121, or later.

[@JackTheNoober]

@@alex_the_magician9483 well that makes more sense. :D

[@mm.4712]

id take the vamp lords over the crusaders in lvl 4 any day of the week tbh

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Sure, vamp lords are op. But actually in a 1v1 fight crusaders beat them. Notice I said that crusaders are the "strongest" tier 4 unit, not the "best".

[@aero0143]

@@alex_the_magician9483 sorry for the off topic question, but are there H3 running on Big Sur? Btw the best H3 content on youtube

[@alex_the_magician9483]

@@aero0143 Not 100% sure about Big Sur, but I ran it on Sierra using Wine when I played on my mac.

[@lokalnyork]

Except day 1, when You get skeletons!

[@petervlcko4858]

@@alex_the_magician9483 ogres with bloodlust v crusaderes?

[@AlNamrood554]

why are not all the angles in one ? and why dont you have they other units?

[@alex_the_magician9483]

I just used a cheat to reveal the map and also gave me archangel stacks, this was an overview, not a demonstration.

[@Tru3Feelings]

Is there any VOD for the game commentary?

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Which game commentary do you mean?

[@Tru3Feelings]

@@alex_the_magician9483 thanks for the quick reply. Asking about the JC tournament you mentioned in this video intro

[@alex_the_magician9483]

@@Tru3Feelings oh right, yes, you can find the vods for the games we casted here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXKbfZlnpZ2pf80

[@yoannmarchesse988]

Hey Alex, could you do a very basic guide for newcomers to the series? It's for a friend aha.. Otherwise thanks for the vids, very concise and useful informations that helped me sharpen my gameplay.

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Sure, do you mean basically a video for someone who has never played the game before? Describing what the game is about?

[@yoannmarchesse988]

@@alex_the_magician9483 well yea basically, I know you're videos are more advanced stuff, but when I search for heroes 3 guides I either find Super advanced strats or noobs that don't know what they're talking about lmao. So yea, breaking down town, heroes and the world map, ressources and buildings, level ups and artifacts. I'm not very sure really, but I feel like it'd make it easier for an unknowing audience to get into the game..

[@brianmayabella5992]

@@yoannmarchesse988 new comers should play first Stronghold or Castle town. Stronghold has very cheap building cost (wood n stone most of it), cheap units, heroes stats mainly for might/attack. Basically Stronghold is pretty straightforward strat - pure offense. Once finish playing this, you will realize stronghold weakness as months go by

[@PostTraumaticChessDisorder]

Great videos! But can you speak up a little bit? I have to crank up the volume to almost max on my Phone lol

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Glad you like the videos! Sure, will take that into account, thanks for the suggestion!

[@petervlcko4858]

level 4 vampire

[@Ruthless9o7]

whats the angle build path?

[@alex_the_magician9483]

blacksmith barracks mg1 monastery portal of glory

[@ottomann4846]

Are crusaders better than vampire lords?

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Crusaders are better in a 1v1 fight, but vamp lords have INSANE utility overall. There's a reason why vampire dwellings on Jebus Cross have the highest value out of any creature dwelling (even including portals of glory and dragon caves).

[@ottomann4846]

@@alex_the_magician9483 actually are Magi any good? Like how useful is the lowering of the manacost of things? If you have multiple 1 stacks of it does that reduce the manacost by more for each one?

[@alex_the_magician9483]

@@ottomann4846 No, it doesn't reduce the mana cost by any more than 2, but it's still an ok ability. Not super amazing, but somewhat useful nonetheless.

[@brianmayabella5992]

@@ottomann4846 magi is very good units IF you can build its dwelling. Benefecial mainly to spell caster hero especially Solmyr

[@KurtMidas1510]

On the right map and if you know how tower is unbeatable

[@alex_the_magician9483]

Well any town can be good with a good map, wouldn't really say that tower is unbeatable tbh.

[@pirga19]

What is biome gaming bruh :)

[@alex_the_magician9483]

It's when you stay in your biome (starting zone), and delay your break in favor of being stronger when you enter the desert, like by farming utopias in your biome and building Archangels.

[@pirga19]

@@alex_the_magician9483 Thx, i kind of got it by the end of the video, just wasn't quite sure.

[@kuj2887]

@@alex_the_magician9483 So "breaking" means "getting out of your initial zone" in a multiplayer game - and specifically on JC templates? I've played HoMM3 for a long time, but only against the computer and only SoD (and briefly WoG), so this whole world of competitive play is very new to me; I suppose it will remain so.

[@alex_the_magician9483]

@@kuj2887 Correct, that's what breaking means.

[@kuj2887]

@@alex_the_magician9483 Thanks for the very quick reply!

[@umutcansaliheryilmaz4901]

He said crusader is the best lvl 4 unit in the game... Not vampire lord but crusader...? I don't need to hear the rest of the video