Heroes 3 SKELETONS ONLY Challenge! - Part One

Is necromancy overpowered in Heroes of Might and Magic 3? In this Halloween special series, we put that to the test! On this impossible difficulty random map, we can only use Skeletons in battle. 💀
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Game version: Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Shadow of Death (vanilla)
Main Hero: Vidomina the Necromancer (Necromancy specialist)
Map size: XL
Difficulty: Impossible (200%)
Starting Town: Necropolis
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[@Norovo]

💀 All episodes (playlist): kzbin.info/www/bejne/anOwgqJth6iFitU

[@xXCottonXxx]

Your the best too for including your custom music pack for everyone to enjoy and use! I've been inspired to make my own youtube series on this cult classic game and it's very kind of you to share the music and help prevent others from getting those pesky copyright claims.

[@Mihawk16]

You feeling ok, Norovo? Been waiting for you next upload 😅

[@Simon-ue6ly]

@@Mihawk16 💀

[@amadeuslivanovich4870]

Norovo what do you press to split your skeletons into group of 1

[@MMRRSasuke]

Skeleton transformer is fine, the idea of grinding everything into basic skeletons is very Halloween fitting

[@ThePsyMinded]

There is something soothing about listening to your reasoning behind everything you do. I love playing Homm myself, but I really appreciate the way you play and talk. Good job!

[@robertschatz7781]

When I thought I couldn't care less about Halloween, here comes my favorite series. Wow, excellent; many thanks!

[@mateszabo9691]

there is something truly magical about this game. Im watching a guy do the same fights for an hour and still dont get bored

[@cyberpope2137]

Playing on max difficulty is much harder than he makes it look like

[@YIPPY-xf8pi]

I would have started with Isra personally. You will run into more attack and defense, plus you start with magic arrow instead of curse and run into tactics more often. Haste and slow are your best spells from the start, blind is great of you have animate undead. I also go straight for knowledge when im below 5 then anything works. I once started with 9 peasent gens made the game too easy. Anyhow cool vid.😎👍

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

Another use for gold is to buy all the core buildings in your towns to up the arrow tower damage.

[@germanij]

Is it only hota feature?

[@ronblaess1]

I can't wait for more episodes. This looks fantastic. I watched the video literally three times.

[@BAMGM]

From watching some streams and whatnot, I think what high level players do while fighting fast squishy neutrals like hobgoblins or sprites is, they split their power stack in half. This allows them to attack twice per turn, and the power of the halves is usually still enough to kill one enemy stack with every attack. Might be worth considering for the future! And yay, I'm super glad to see another h3 series! Edit: oh never mind, you started doing it later

[@andrews6180]

is it worth going for the skeleton transformer just to unlock access to the unearthed graves? That would give a bunch of extra skeleton production each week.

[@qkhuve]

Yes! :)

[@balazszsigmond826]

Not to mention you can make skeletons from everything. So if you have a bunch of unused units, say a bunch of hobbits that joined you, those are extra skeletons. This is how skeleton armies numbered in the thousands are made. Had a friend who hated bone dragons. He just bought them and sacrificed them to make skeletons out of. I say that was petty. But I get where he was coming from.

[@CidSilverWing]

@@balazszsigmond826Anything over level 2 or 3 troops is a net loss to throw in the Skeleton Transformer.

[@Alpha.Phenix]

I say you should allow yourself to use Earth Elementals and there are two reasons. 1. It's a spell unit, like come on, you are allowed to use spells! 2. Where do skeletons come from? Graves. And where are graves located? In the dirt. Dirt is earth. Conclusion, earth elementals have a high likelihood of containing skeletons. Due to your dirt coming from a Necropolis town, we can assume said likelihood is 100%.

[@livedandletdie]

Nah, not really. They're not skeletons. Hence no. It's the same thing with Wights, Zombies, Liches and Death Knights, there are skeletons inside them, but they're not skeleton the unit, so no. I mean almost all units in the game would have skeletons so should he be allowed to use pikemen because there's a 100% chance of containing skeletons...

[@Raziel_J]

Two series of HOMM3 going on at the same time? Best Halloween present ever! This run in particular looks tougher than usual but surely it keeps things interesting. Wish you and your army of skeletons the best of luck!

[@a_dane_and_the_world]

Imagine my surprise, when my favorite youtuber spoils us with two uploads in two days. I love your content Norovo! 10/10 would watch again.

[@kukoorooza1941]

This video truly sends a shiver down my spine! Thanks for the special, happy Halloween 🎃

[@LightMageMike]

*Lord Corlagon has entered the chat.* Thanks for the video! Really fun for a Halloween treat!

[@Nodde1991]

Brilliant, thanks so much for great gameplay and commentary. Really do like your style of editing by the way. Hardly noticeable and really not disruptive and adds to the cadence of the video!

[@nunyanunya4147]

great taste! M&M > ff heroes > M&M Necromancy > everything That is not dead which eternally may lie, what strange aeons this where even Death must die

[@Parasmunt]

Very good, i may revisit this game. The starting of the map is the most fun imho. There is a point where it rapidly goes one way or another, you become unbeatable (boring on huge maps) or you get outclassed and realise it is the end.

[@OXhuls]

Damn thought it’s going to be a normal Monday but here you are. Awesome!

[@xXCottonXxx]

So I'd like your thoughts on two things I noticed in this video. 1) Is your movement economy more important then strengthening your main hero with the strong spells you picked up like slow? Or mainly what was the thought behind not really picking up scrolls with the main hero/ relaying the spells back to them with your other heroes. 2) Why not get the skeleton transformer early and then keep the other units you get from buying heroes in the castle to turn them into use able skeletons? Was that just to make the challenge harder or is this more a necromance skill challenge then a skeleton challenge?

[@Andylatch]

Ya, I am also wondering about not strengthening your main hero but I'm just 47 min at this point. I think he didn't get the transformer to be as pure to the skeleton challenge as possible.

[@homosexplosion]

Hah! Good luck. Not that you really need it, us necromancers are too powerful for our own good!

[@OOCMonster]

I was surprised that you don't take XP from treasure chests early-game to get those levels you were interested in.

[@theshahofiran1323]

always gold early to get economy going

[@prawtism]

gold is so scarce, I went from always taking XP to always taking gold :D

[@jacekstankiewicz1594]

@@prawtism feel like it varies a lot more in homm3, like in 5 there is practically no scenario where you would ever take exp, but in 3 you might sometime take a single chest

[@thomasneal9291]

my rule in the early game was always to convert chests with exactly 1500 gold to 1000 xp. keep the gold from 500 and 2000 gold chests. never served me wrong in over 20 years of playing that game.

[@marius5683]

Sooo, you haven’t played the undead then 😂 Did the 50/50.

[@backflipmann]

Yay another challenge series :D 1:24:18 Pretty sure I heard somewhere that Cover of Darkness only works for human players :/

[@aladeenmaddafacka9575]

This guy never miss

[@nickhembree]

You're a hero! Another Halloween special 🎃

[@ahmadabughazaleh0]

Its contain Bone Dragon too ? He is undead Skeleton too , but dragon not human body RIGHT ? 3:33 Why ? Save them in Town until you transform them to skeletons , if that too dismissed in this challenge , it will be completely unbeatable . 11:40 Wait two portal in same place ? WHY ?!

[@ProtonCannon]

1:44:07 Go for shrine hoping for Animate Dead... Get Destroy Undead instead... GAAAAH! I actually felt the pain there.

[@jeschinstad]

32:17: That was a mistake. If you had chosen to be weak rather than strong, then the lizards would split up into more groups and your death ripple would be much stronger. It feels weird and scary to intentionally make yourself weak, but it is the right way to go.

[@thispersonwriting1889]

You tenacious legend, I didn’t think it could be done!

[@TheCryptanalysis]

You just made my night Norovo! 👍

[@YizkiM]

definitely looking forward to the episode 2! Thanks for starting this series! :)

[@raphaelk4509]

1:40:49 - 1:40:52 I rewatched that part 10 times. Text, music and action just perfectly timed, I love it!

[@verholdt]

I just found your series and love your style and commentary- there are so few good HOMM commentators. It’s like playing with an old friend which is exactly how these games play best.

[@JoLiKMC]

This is really interesting to watch. I've never really sat down and watched anyone play these games, before - much less someone who clearly knows what they're doing! I learned quite a bit in tactics from just this first part. Definitely gonna enjoy this. Also? I chuckled when the game gave you Destroy Undead. That is the exact _opposite_ of what's needed, here! Hopefully, you do find Raise Dead, though!

[@arcturus64]

Loving the idea, it's crazy to believe this is possible on the hardest difficulty.

[@aBadPlayer]

Cover of Darkness do not work on the AI, but it'll increase your towers' damage, so there's that.

[@Raziel_J]

Exactly. Every building constructed in the town, except for the creatures dwellings ones, will increase the tower's damage.

[@dusan-renat]

Possibly a bit random comment, but does anybody else feel that Vidomina looks a lot like Sigourney Weaver?

[@JohnTibbitt]

Watched all your HOMM3 playlists and finally caught up to recent ones. Amazing playthrus, learnt a lot watching a proficient player play.

[@somakarpati9847]

Is there a difference between Vidomina and Isra? Genius idea for a halloween special btw.

[@Norovo]

Vidomina is Necromancer class and Isra is Death Knight. Necromancers are more likely to get magic skills and knowledge/spell power, which I think is slightly better here

[@DIREWOLFx75]

Hehe, when you talk about Galthran being the best for skellies, i was thinking "nah, that's Vidomina" and what character do you pick a moment later... *lol* Well that, or the one that gives you extra gold(Nagash?) per turn since you took such a difficult starting setup.

[@billymiles6870]

I know this has been 1 year but I think you might have made a mistake about not going for the skeleton transformer. You can even transform your own undead units to skeletons.

[@fikujez]

I think you should really build Unearthed Graves, a couple of skeletons more each week will add up

[@davidbozic9768]

Hello. Why are you not using skeleton transformer? You could have saved your town 😊 great game though, loving the maelstrom series as well

[@FizzleFX]

Oh please I did that day 1 when the game was out. Necromancer ftw Skeletons one shotting dragons is hilarious 😆

[@d347hm4n]

Spooky scary skellingtons!

[@Winnetou17]

So many graves were not unearthed in this part. May they rest in peace!

[@FernandoOliveira-qs1il]

the grail would be absolutely great for this challenge

[@o8livion]

hello! a question: do you know a tbs game like heroes of might and magic, but with hexgrit battles and a strong focus on partymanagement? in other words: do you know a game like battlebrothers where you can play as a race of age of wonders and use the aow magicsystem?

[@clavranos]

Love that your playing this! You got me playing it again after years

[@iiklaa]

I would certainly allow skeleton transformer, as it fits the theme and would help a bit keeping up with the opposition. And if you think about it, bone dragons are skeletons as well... :)

[@013thijsje]

Hey Norovo, I've watched all the HOMM3 series, and this is the last one! I'm siked for it and I hope you will continue to do these series!

[@dalep3891]

As good as always, thanks again for the HOMM3 content ^°

[@joshuagagnon8387]

You are m'y favorite KZbinr, INSANE videos

[@Kaimas7]

plzz part 2, part 1 was so fun. I am checking daily now

[@ipraytovodka]

stacking them all into one main stack with a bunch of 1s has actually hurt ur survival rate...12 sprites can be one shot by like 30 skeles...

[@meandfriendstv]

Finally I found good HOMM3 content in English besides my beloved mekick. Thank you so much❤

[@vladimirbondzic5850]

Congrats for hitting 20 k

[@b.d.1112]

Why is this so entertaining? Thanks for burning some of my sleepless time in the late night.

[@allanturmaine5496]

So much calcium. There's calcium everywhere.

[@CWasho]

Another series!!! You made my day!!

[@kevinlagerqvist161]

Great content!! Well done, a bit over the top with ads but yeah well done!!!

[@fyrestorme]

for anyone wondering, see video description for UI mods links

[@DasOhneEnde]

necro is one of strongest masters you can take ;)

[@danielmaher5352]

would be fun to see you play some multiplayr games too!

[@sidhionoakbranch4871]

I tried the campaign, and the intro mission on the easiest difficulty completely assblasted me.. it's like the enemy is on 2x speed compared to me, I just don't get it.

[@ivanalantiev2397]

@Norovo could you explain please when it's better to use stone skin and when to use shield? From what I've read I got an impression with creature fights shield would always give better damage reduction..

[@caseydill7714]

I'm looking forward to part two!!

[@yogevgershon3424]

Can I suggest a challange for you? non living challenge - you are with nacropilis, vs 7 towers in 1 team, you are allowed to use only non living creatures if you get a tower castle, you are not allowed to buy / join living (farmers for example) and make them skeletons

[@mattatuckmanful]

Isnt exp more important than gold in this challenge?

[@iubar9654]

Not sure if i miss something, but at around 1:00:21 you talk about the town being defended, but it shows no creatures, wen you click it? is there still some defense there? i thought you could just go and get it

[@Norovo]

You need to own at least one tavern to know what defenders are there. I knew there were defenders from the cursor showing a sword instead of a horse

[@iubar9654]

ah thanks i didnt know that. tbh rarely play myself mostly just watch your videos, so thanks for those :)

[@NonExclusive6669]

Ah the memories ty for bringing back old funz 😊.

[@MaksLangerd]

I think gold could be used for buying extra heroes from tavern just for their units. Sometimes they have very good amount of them and you can turn them into skeletons. If you have 18 000 gold there is no problem in buying them and turn their units to skeletons. edit: Nvm saw your second video :D

[@qzman3900]

I really hope you are gonna get through this :) Unearthed graves and dedicated hero at external dweling will add some extra skeletons... And, i hope its not too late for this but, you should REALLY let Vidomina harvest as much as posible skeletons...cause she is actually best resource of skeletons..and level up Gala with chests and stuff...maybe send him to front lines instead. After he is ready, ofc

[@nevillelongbottom7687]

Vampires only was a good series. I tried it myselfe afterwards^^

[@agbrenv]

26:03 wait, what the hell, why is Mirth learnable in a Necropolice Mage Guild, it's literally useless for your main army, unless you recruit some random creatures from other towns

[@recorderman9502]

Nice! Ive been waiting for this thx

[@Nezyrael]

Just discovered your channel, really fun watching your playthroughs. Keep it up

[@kinagrill]

I see it a lot but... why not the upgrade of the Town Hall cuz more money per turn?

[@vilperi29]

1:38:13 One step closer to the edge and i'm about to break!

[@Szmorike]

I hope skipping water with Vidomina and tacticks with Galthran will not backfire. Both would really usefull against ranged and water also good for sieges

[@mr.silence6415]

I’m surprised that you don’t have more subscribers and likes, keep up the work, here is sub from me

[@TheYazza1]

Remember to collect the skele dwelling every week, it's not like in hota where it accumulates. You missed a week.

[@mattbrown8384]

Ahhh I'm so excited about this 🤣🤣

[@ninalau6975]

You are the true hero of might and magic!

[@heppaella8918]

Lovely halloween treat

[@GipoGipo-ts9th]

When part two is comming out I need my fix :(

[@alexisherbeck3469]

Been watching a lot of your videoes lately, great fun. You can select random map when creating a game? is that a addon or download thing? just got HoM on steam :P

[@kvernesdotten]

I only have the HD version on steam, this looks so different

[@GDPanda69]

Man, now this is inspiring me to do something similar in Songs of Conquest!

[@nikolaisafronov3452]

Why take gold? You need XP from the chests badly. You can't buy an army anyway.

[@MrZebub]

19:12 Nice euphemism. :D

[@mateusz9264]

On what platform do you play? I've just installed today H3 on Steam platform for the first time. I love that game, but I played single all the time on H3 WOG version 😉. How to find all those modes like you are able to see all those data during the fight i.e. numbers of possibility killls or such a quick dividing your units🤔. It is very quick🧐

[@shareeclifton2265]

Does the skeleton transformer not work on undead?

[@Pieckers]

vidomina's reaction at 42:38 is pretty damn funny

[@Lizard4lyfe]

How did you get this map is this like a dlc map or something?

[@PatrickMurray-patmur2010]

Loving this playthrough!!

[@cmvideos3501]

Just got back into HoMM3 and really appreciate your content! I'd got the HD mod and the SoD_SP Plugin, but I can't seem to find a feature you have. When you hover over an enemy creature it highlights hexes they can move to. How do I turn this on?

[@j.e8759]

Ctrl 👍

[@Matty1174]

Do you use any mods? Your sceren looks different from mine...

[@kaandervis6276]

An english speaking H3 player, subscribed..

[@Jonoth]

Rattle'em, boys!