HoMM4 - Half-Dead - Champion Difficulty - Level 1

[@RuSosan]

*"I AM GAULDOTH HALF-DEAD!!!"* **Summons fairies in combat** That made me laugh WAY more than it should have. x'D

[@Geroika_h]

В Ютубе не очень много русскоязычных каналов которые снимают ролики по героям 4. Наш входит в эту не большую группу, так что если Вам интересны герои 4 можете посмотреть наши видео. Это кампания из классической версии.

[@RuSosan]

@@Geroika_h I don't speak hieroglyph.

[@Geroika_h]

@@RuSosan I'm sorry. I made mistake. I think you speak Russian.

[@mr_metal.]

@@Geroika_h he/she wrote in English and you thought right away he/she speaks Russian. wtf?

[@Geroika_h]

@@mr_metal. l'm sorry. I made mistake(

[@Emerald56]

All story dialogue boxes that appear, yes I looked for those for some reason: 0:21 0:27 4:22 8:11 12:36 1:07:07 1:24:36 1:25:01 P.S. I'm not sure if I missed any when watching this

[@nomooon]

your no voice commentary style is perfect for artistic games such as HoMM. Very brilliant concept.

[@Weigazod]

nomooon I agree.

[@PierreLucSex]

Indeed !

[@toto_feather8732]

Why did I spent the whole 5 minutes watching a behemoth trying to chase down Gauldoth? ^^

[@sandro5535]

21:28 For those wonder why he is not carrying the armour it is because although giving 10 armour. It reduces movement and increases spell cost by 2 points. That is why barbarian armour +5 armour without negative stats is the only one worth buying/using.

[@noelallenbose972]

Those poisoned behemoths and ogre magi.. I never thought of that cheap and effective strategy! Great guide btw!

[@fisher00769]

You know the balance team did a good job when 10 vampires slaughter 24 venom spawns both being level 3 creatures lmao

[@gammadragon2]

I actually like that some creatures are more effective vs other specific creatures. It adds to the strategy of the game, knowing which would be best placed to win a battle. It's no different in other HoMM games either.

[@fisher00769]

@@gammadragon2 that is true, I still feel like venom spawns are really underwhelming compared to vampires in most situations though. Most creatures that the vampire can't use it's regen against also cannot be poisoned, and being able to fly and have no retaliation is much better than having range. I mean for Heaven, even if in most cases I go for the Monk, a lot of the times I will consider Crusaders. Their stats are okay, and they hit hard, really their only downside is their speed. There has to be like an absolute necessity for strong ranged attacks and a complete lack of alternatives for me to even think about picking up venom spawns instead of vampires though.

[@michalmizerak2102]

@@fisher00769 Honestly, I do not why, I used to prefer venom spawns for vampires in some cases. They are rather healthy beasts (100HP) and the only archer unit available for undead. I found them better working against mechanical focused units, such as Order.

[@1ShepardCZ]

44:30 Awesome strategy!

[@TheStavrin]

Holy cow man , that was some slick playing !

[@MassHaste]

Fucking hate KZbin for removing the captions. That's bullshit.

[@RolandTemplar]

Good game with a great OST, but that unbalance is very strong, specially never ending spells

[@davidtaylor1305]

44:31 / 54:18 This is incredible.......

[@michalmizerak2102]

Yeah, and he could have done it a bit easier for himself as well by hiring one Ghost. Hitting the behemoth with a ghost would apply "aging", cutting the movement speed of the unit in half. This way he wouldn't need to move so frequently and just skip some turns, making the fight a bit faster. Unfortunately, he didn't have the spell "Slow". If he had, the behemoth would be stuck literally in a place.

[@Weigazod]

I can't even win the easy mode. Who are you superman? What planet are you from?

[@wolker213]

I can feel you man, i am one who never beat not even one HOMM game on 100%, i just don't like use more than 1 hero, anyway HOMM4 is super hard.

[@Weigazod]

@@wolker213 Other HOMM games are so much easier when you can build all kinds of units from your cities and upgrade them. HOMM4 forced me to choose which units i want to build so it becomes much harder since you have to build your heroes around your unit's decision. Heck, having groups of smaller units running around the map to collect resource while having 4-6 heroes around collecting consumable items, doing missions and events are a lot of work for 1 turn.

[@wolker213]

@@Weigazod Thats why im not fan of homm, i'd rather play kings bounty.

[@peasant8246]

Love this game. I am enjoying this No-Commentary gameplay.

[@11XxXxHeadshoTxXxX11]

Unfortunately, with Equilibris, blue shows up at 1-3-1 and wipes me out :(

[@RolandTemplar]

the franchise is good but the trick is to know to rush the enemy, so u can really dominate sceneraio, except in that u require some grinding as attacking a super stack of enemies

[@MrEarx]

Did you know you can rename hired heroes on tavern screen? With this trick you can for example choose which hero will be your new Gauldoth :D Maybe a one with life magic. Or scouting...

[@stevereallyevil]

the fact youre playing on normal speed makes me feel very good inside

[@kaloyanashikow7589]

So I do the barbarians on the same day but have like 30 more...

[@opa-1770]

Have you tried campaigns with equilibris mod? I beat the first map on champion but i think that I'm going to be in trouble because they nerfed Necromancy big time. Also there is a bug in game: when you leave hero in town you don't get benefits of estates, gold bags etc. so you should always leave those heroes somewhere else (nearby mines for example).

[@gammadragon2]

opa1770 I don't use the equilibris mod, it fundamentally reshapes much of the combat style of the game to be more in the style of previous Heroes titles. That's fine if you like it that way, but I actually enjoy the whole "heroes fighting on the battlefield" aspect. Didn't know about that bug - really useful to know, thanks!

[@Metathronxyz]

+gammadragon Not sure what you mean by enjoying 'the whole heroes fighting on the battlefield aspect' - equilibris doesn't change that, it makes some creatures better (like the ogre magi) and it does nerf the necromancy skill though, so obviously this level (and others) is easier without the mod.

[@Strrroke]

Something is wrong. That first army's different from what I'm seeing (40 zerkers, 19 centaurs and a hero)

[@smo202]

Yeah...this has to be the novice difficulty. When he went after the lumber mill he should have been attacked by bandits if it wasn't novice. Little things like what you mentioned. No way this is a higher difficulty...

[@statisticserinokripperino]

@@smo202 it literally can't be novice because they start with 0 gold... I also don't get attacked by bandits on day 1 of tryings this on Grandmaster, idk what you are talking about here.

[@statisticserinokripperino]

This is what the AI does if you don't attack its town on your very first turn -- it buys out the town and gets itself a hero.

[@TheSharpmarksman]

wouldn't it be more effective to make a demonologist than an assassin? his summing skills are quite unmatched

[@poryg5350]

In the first scenario at this difficulty it is rather irrelevant, since you don't have access to high enough level spells for it to actually matter. Combat gives you at least some defence from enemy damage.

[@ghandisnukes4358]

My favourite campaign. Not only can you benefit from death-nature magic combination, but since the beggining you have to manage your troops. I love it. My preferable strategy was to get the highest necromancy possible on the map and slowly grind vampires, but there were at least two more working strats. It's much better than Life campaign, where your main goal was just to remember all the places to upgrade your hero and develop more than one castle at the time

[@alexandre.grando]

How do you enable that blue movement range in battle mode?

[@xxxtimeghostxxx]

use settings during combat and check everything

[@wargumbyx]

my game is bugged on this mission ive taken everything from green but they are not being eliminated by the game for some reason, and its happened now on multiple runs of this mission on both champ and inter

[@Fizek89]

Hi, is there a way to get annotation back? I've read that YT got rid of them in 2017. I watched those gameplays before this change and wanted to revisit them but without annotations it's too dry for me :C

[@gammadragon2]

Unfortunately not, YT deleted them. I probably should have tried to copy them all before they disappeared, but with the amount of copyright claims against these videos, it would be very painful to have to reupload them again.

[@Fizek89]

@@gammadragon2 Oh :C That's a shame. Thanks for answering a comment under a 6 year old video :D

[@piwbenzyna]

Great walktrough even without voice commentary. Video quality is great, which is a problem in many (not so many to be honest) HOMM IV walktroughts ;) BTW. why when you save you are loading the save after doing it. Is this some kind of precausion method or you are making "cuts"?

[@gammadragon2]

The pieces are recorded at different times whenever I have a free moment. You can see on the load/save screens that the timestamps of some of the savegames are on different days. Also, if I get some really bad luck then I can reload and record it again.

[@paulmares9815]

Why did he let you pass there ( 1:13:59 ) ? I have long defeated Green and am dominating the map and in controll of three cities garissoned with big armies but the guard at the gate still says - even when I approach with only Gauldoth: "Are you Gauldoth the Half-Dead? Have you eliminated Green Player? No? then fuck off!" Is this some sort of sick joke??? :-/

[@Membersman]

Subcribed for the quality content :d Which is your favourite campaign of HOMM4?

[@gammadragon2]

Probably "Half-Dead" or "The Price of Peace". They are long enough to get a good story going and are not quite as black and white as some of the others. It's great how the writers explore the world from the complicated viewpoints of different alignments.

[@giedriusnakas5795]

how come you don't run out of mama while using bind wound? also using it with the wand, I usually get to use it twice and that's it, why do you have it unlimited? :)

[@gammadragon2]

Not sure exactly where in the video you refer to, but I probably drank a mana potion. With the wand, it recharges a little mana every turn. You can use it twice, then one turn break, then twice again, then another break...

[@giedriusnakas5795]

around 1:00:00 when you're fighting the cyclopes - your mana stays at 20 even after using the spell like 10 times :)@@gammadragon2 does the wand uses it's 'own mana'?

[@gammadragon2]

Ah I see now. The wand doesn't use up the character's mana. It has its own small rechargeable supply.

[@rlcboy0188]

wtf, you only fight 39 cyclopes and have to fight 51 and i am doing it 1 week later but they can't stack so much in 1 week

[@ekoi1995]

slow + poison + misfortune + sorrow =

[@whitefox25]

awesome so glad to see someone doing homm4 vids will u ever do commentary?

[@gammadragon2]

Glad you are enjoying them. I probably won't do any commentary - the annotations are a decent way of explaining the strategies and I don't like the sound of my own voice.

[@whitefox25]

gammadragon yeah i can see what ur saying the annotations are just different and hard to get used to. But please keep doing these vids i swear there are like none on youtube besides russian ones.

[@silentstorm9902]

Why is ur movement so big tho in game like the fight vs the 98 ogres.

[@gammadragon2]

Gauldoth became the Assassin specialty class, which gains extra combat movement as it's bonus.

[@АндрейИпполитов-ж6ю]

Самая лучшая игрушка в мире

[@franciscojeronimo5881]

Why to turn a potential demonologist into an assassin? It even goes against the plot.

[@SirChucklenutsTM]

idk I kinda lost interest in the isometric perspective and just preferred a flat surface like 1-3 had, in the battles mind you

[@rae8323]

To me personally heroes 4 view felt unpolished. There was little tactics could do there, everything felt like just bum rushing the other team. Unlike in HOMM3/2 where there were tons of things like positioning your archers, hit and run attacks, blocking paths of enemies, calculating the enemies move points so you stay just out of range to get first strike on them. The whole field felt like a big chess board and an experienced player could literally annihilate new players. Now if they did something like XCOM 2 style view it would have been epic. Tactics of the first games AND 3d. Not to mention there were a lot of things which heroes 4 did really well- like music and campaign story (expansions sucked though).

[@dulohsuaib3265]

Any info where to download the game for free?

[@SRnr16]

cant even find where to buy it, lost my old CD a few years ago and woke up yestarday and wanted to play it again.

[@okplay9446]

A bit late to the comment, but there is a web page called IGG and I'm pretty sure you can find it there for free. It's a bit hard to install but it works.

[@gammadragon2]

Buy it from gog.com - I had the CD back in the day but the gog version seems pretty great. Sometimes they have a 75% off sale too.

[@mobiuslu2754]

id like to hear ur voice with commentary😃

[@zes3813]

no such thing as difficulx or might or etc, idts

[@smo202]

A couple of things that bug the every loving crap outta me on this. The odd way he moves his units next to the destination and then another click to the destination. Just click it already. Secondly...I don't understand why you are saving the game every 5 seconds and then why are you loading the game you just saved? Just don't understand the play style and reasoning...

[@gammadragon2]

The strange movement is because it gets an extra half a move point every now and then. The game can't predict where you want to go after interacting with something, so it's better to move to the spot that best optimises that yourself. Saving/loading is because I recorded each part when I had time, then strung the videos together afterwards.

[@jarekwidurski]

might and magic 3 looks and feels a lot better am i alone on that

[@ChannelForHaters]

youre a pleb like most people

[@nazarvilchakovskyi5308]

Homm4 sucks compared to homm3

[@rewq_qwer]

where mod equlibrium?!!) omg. vanila version suck)

[@JackassJimbo]

HoMM 3 > HoMM 4 any day!

[@Metathronxyz]

If vanilla's your favourite ice cream flavour, then yes. :)

[@janpetrov9855]

Its just another view on the strategy in this genre, i think...

[@ForGlory]

CLICK FASTER! NAVIGATE FASTER! QUIT TAKING SO LONG TO THINK ABOUT THINGS, KNEE JERK, KNEE JERK, KNEE JERK! ...HEY! I CAUGHT YOU BREATHING...!

[@cyberpope2137]

Jesus christ, the game is good but it's just so goddamn ugly... especially after homm3