HoMM4 - The Pirate's Daughter - Champion Difficulty - Level 1

A playthrough of the Heroes of Might and Magic 4 Chaos campaign on Champion difficulty. This is the first level "The Pirate's Daughter".
Unfortunately, KZbin has removed annotations from all videos, so the nice tutorials and "skip battle" buttons have disappeared now. I will still aim to explain reasons for each strategy in the comments when people ask.
Heroes of Might and Magic IV was made by New World Computing and 3DO.
This video contains some wonderful music arranged by Paul Romero, Rob King and Steve Baca. The video may contain parts of the following songs:
01. The Preserve
02. The Last Battle
03. Asylum
04. The Academy of Honor
05. Necropolis
06. Castle Stronghold
07. The Haven
08. Valhalla
09. The Prayer
10. A Wise Tail
11. Wandering
12. Hope
13. Floating Across Water
14. Searching For a Dream
15. Desolation
16. The Mountain Song
17. Subterranean
18. Battle I
19. Battle II
20. Battle III
21. Battle IV
22. Battle V
23. Battle VI
24. Credit Theme
25. The Gathering Storm

[@iunary]

HAIYARR! i always loved that sound the pirates make when attacking

[@OfficialDTHQDTC]

Kung fu pirate?

[@McLesser]

Dat minotaur RNG at 24:00

[@PierreLucSex]

Yummy

[@sandro5535]

Really like the way you play. Totally min-maxing everything.

[@davgah7249]

FUCKING RESPECT.

[@araxy8973]

Man you're so good at this game. Thanks for the video!

[@murlacose72]

holy crap a heroes 4 video

[@What-fv1yl]

Holy shit finał fantasy tactics portrait

[@nicomacdo]

The difficulty is extreme on this map. Very impressive!

[@StatswhatIlike]

This is amazing! I'm really hoping you every find the time to do the other parts of this campaign

[@Snurf35751]

Very impressive. Congratulations !

[@shrek9025]

i literally cant beat this on the lowest difficulty

[@stiken4421]

I'd say that lowest is harder than champion xd due to how AI is paralyzed by strong guards on champ while on lowest diff AI can expand easily.

[@shrek9025]

@@stiken4421 oh ive beaten it by now i forgot about this comment ngl

[@stiken4421]

@@shrek9025 demn, i got to immersed and overlooked the fact that I'm responding to a comment from 3 years ago under 9 years old vid xd Well... then it's time for a replay if you forget about it ;D

[@shrek9025]

@@stiken4421 happens to the best of us, might replay this campaign in the future as i really like the 2nd and the 3rd map

[@XmENLA1]

Hey Man! Nice video! Very good gameplay as well :D I would love to see the other levels as well some times. I subscribed so hopefully you come back with more! :)

[@gammadragon2]

I've been pretty busy with things recently, but now considering recording the next level of this soon. Stay tuned!

[@XmENLA1]

It was pretty egoistic of me to not take into consideration your current state and past. I read the previous comments and i hope everything is ok at your end of your part. Regards!

[@gammadragon2]

Not at all, hearing from people watching the videos always makes me plan some extra time to complete more videos :). Thanks for your comment!

[@spd7693]

I thought I'll never beat this level on Champion. Thanks!

[@nWoTataDEJVC]

I really like this game even if I'm really bad at it, and I play the easy level. You give good tiips.

[@Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский]

Very wonderful music

[@Tensownik]

Great work, finished WoW campaign recently and started doing classic on champion. Nice trick with the city, however you could split you thieves at the start of the game so you wouldn't lose that many pirates. Keep up the good work

[@Azuressunset]

I was playing on normal and since i went to the elves only after i completely genocided through the barbarians they had at least 2 armies with 40 magic dragons each, so the only solution was to wait until they leave the castle you have to capture unguarded.

[@youcancookBG]

Страхотен геймлей. Стоя ,гледам и ти се кефя. Играех я преде повечеот 10 години Пак я купих ще се забавлявам зимните месеци.

[@jeCktHeReal]

18:13 1 hp. calculated of course!

[@innuendomaker]

this guy is incredible in the early fights, which is all that matters in a heroes 4 campaign. because once you've got gm combat and gm magic resistance, the rest is details.

[@oskar4493]

I miss this channel :'(

[@susamekmek5032]

thank you i hope you can have time to finish and upload all the campains.

[@gammadragon2]

Me too :) I'm glad everyone is enjoying the journey.

[@dziwnypanzestreama7769]

Dude my brother was playing HOMM 12 years and he didn't past this map without cheats

[@golternator333]

Opponent has many towns and player has none. This might be doable if u start with a lvl 18 decked out hero. But in the first scenario? Not so much.

[@dziwnypanzestreama7769]

@@golternator333 @Golter nator yeah youre right i dont even want to try this map anymore or even the chaos campain. I probably shoud but well i remember when i tried to play it. The guy at the end had a lot of black dragons but like a ton of them(i know this sounds childish but i havent play homm4 and especialy this campain in a long time) . To be honest i dont even remember writing that comment. Man its been 2 years they have pased so quickly. Gammadragon is a genius i hope he's doing okay and is going to be back . I love his content even if its only gameplay really its just amazing to watch. Sorry i've anwsered a year later.

[@tehIncide]

Thanks! Waited for this one for weeks :D

[@gammadragon2]

No probs, I took a bit of a break while I returned to the real world for a while. At 2:21:30 the 27th savegame is four months after the previous one :)

[@danielkabakov]

This intro, so legend

[@yohatanyohatan1408]

Could you upload the rest of this campaign because it is entertaining! It has been too many years brah...

[@HOJAKAVSOLO2TV]

The best game ever

[@Izicesz]

Thanks! This is great.

[@neidhardt5782]

amazing

[@demon54702nd]

Are you dead? I'd like to see the other level's because this campaign is particullary hard.

[@gammadragon2]

Still very much alive, just in hibernation

[@typicalplayer9344]

+gammadragon how about nowadays?

[@gammadragon2]

+TypicalPlayer Dealing with a few real-life situations at the moment. Maybe in a few months I might have time to record a few more :)

[@typicalplayer9344]

+gammadragon You got persistence man, keep it up! Good luck 😄👍🏽

[@gammadragon2]

I have a bit more free time now, so might be able to record a few more videos :)

[@annomattey7785]

I wonder why do you move nearby the items/resources/captures buildings and then you grab them, instead of moving straight towards them? From what I know picking them in such a way also takes 1 point of the movement.

[@gammadragon2]

Interacting with objects on the world map always takes movement points. The diagonals take less movement points than straight up /down / left / right. The automatic path calulated by the game is pretty good for movement efficiency, but it's based on where you click and can't read your mind to guess the hero's next destination. You can often save a movement point by planning the route out in advance, moving along that route, then interacting with the object along the way, rather than letting the game make assumptions.

[@tatertot57]

That's some crazy min/max nonsense, right there. I was wondering the same thing. Solid strategy, nevertheless.

[@Nonum0prematur]

Great work! I like your style of playing, man. Are you realy going to playthrough all the missions from original campaign? They were veeery boring, so i used to play only in scenarios.(some years ago)... Hope you complete remaining missions before people finally lose their interest. P.S. The most annoying part of the game is definitely target selection for Cyclops.

[@gammadragon2]

I like the campaigns much more than scenarios, because they have an RPG feel to them and the heroes become quite strong by the end. Not sure if I will complete every map because creating videos is quite time consuming, which is something I don't seem to have a lot of these days.

[@lpbfs]

Dead Silence Hides My Cries

[@subcage6644]

Which computer system are using to run this and how did you install it? I'm using windows 10 and it always fails me I use to use windows 7 before I accidentally upgraded, then tried on my laptop which does have windows 7 but failed again can you please respond I love this game and I miss it a ton please and thanks.

[@gammadragon2]

Windows 7, Intel i7, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 7500M. I'm using the gog.com version of the game but previously had a CD version which worked fine too.

[@subcage6644]

Ok because I tried doing both for the CD for windows 10 & 7 it doesn't work for both thanks for telling me about gog I'm going to look into it but I'm not very fond of spending 10$ on a game I already have do you think I may be installing it wrong?

[@RamadhanFA]

Subcage use compatibility mode and you'll be fine

[@subcage6644]

I tried that but nothing worked, I even did some research for about 2-3 hours and I got no results sadly I did EVERY combination but got no results if you know how to fix it please contact me

[@RamadhanFA]

I used windows 10, and it didn't work initially until I set the compatibility mode to windows XP SP3. Did you used cracks/no-CD patch ? If yes, it's possible that the fix is buggy. The expansion (The Gathering Storm/Winds of War) removes the DRM, so you can play without using cracks or no-CD patch.

[@plastonic]

Since Pete was doing the tanking, why not give him the elven chainmail?

[@xxxxPomaHxxxx]

Че то тут не чисто, много раз катал эту первую миссию, моя любимая карта, так вот как бы быстро я не бежал в этот первый зеленый город там всегда был и герой с небольшой армией снаружи и гарнизон который пробивается максимально на тоненького, плюс в городе нету ни здания кочевников ни циклопов, вопрос если здания уже стоят почему у бота нету этих юнитов то? я бы посмотрел как он будет циклопов даже 1-2 убивать с героями 2 и 4 левла

[@dane-c7g]

nice vid ! i always return to the game when im bored of my main game xddd

[@georgeseranidis2710]

This heroes is the best

[@LatisARG]

uf, i remember this one, was hard as hell

[@yohatan234]

I want this campaign finished :( pls

[@alaingarciahernandez637]

Puto amo , master bro!

[@mindmonsterxx]

where can i buy this game from ? wanna play this again its been so long but its not on steam or anywhere

[@gammadragon2]

You can buy it from gog.com . They even have 75% off sales occasionally (check gogdb for the most recent one)

[@tomasprejda4165]

May I ask what is the point of saving and reloading afterwards? Does it reset something?

[@gammadragon2]

The videos were recorded in parts and then joined together later on.

[@Eye_Exist]

I don't know at what point did the developers come to this idea that this actually looks better than the beautiful medieval painting style of HoMM 1-3.

[@earth2saka]

Because it does. Cope harder.

[@TLAizaakZtriker]

3:50:33 Uuuuhhh.... What?

[@spd7693]

13:13 - I think I can handle with Combat and Scouting skills only though. Game has never given me magic neither for Tawni nor for Pete.

[@sandro5535]

You show skill, but why pick gold over experience from treasure chests? I thought the experience was much more worth.

[@patapon5960]

Why do you reload every time you save the game?

[@orirune3079]

Because he played it in multiple sessions and joined the videos together afterward.

[@MrManiskop]

this campaign is has the hardest first level but other levels is tooo simple if you grandmaster chaos magic and tactic with pete further you will get queen medusa and if you grandmaster it too you can just click quick combat in setting and walk with 2 heroes only I beat the game like that. if your rival is too strong just close quick combat and you will handle it with 2 mages. but first level is very hard .

[@TovChapaev]

Nah, hardest map is the first one in the Waerjak Barbarian campaign. It is almost down to luck whether you can even beat that one on Champion without a few restarts, while I can't think of any other first scenario that is not beatable right off the bat.

[@Razorflame1a]

Well nice played but you made a mistake on start the bandit can steal the hat and trade it with the BOAT so you don't lose any AP on the boat then just sail to the north town or even steal something underway cause with the seamans hat you don't lose turns for getting aboard and off i would like to see some champion TGS or WOW ;)

[@clarkb2697]

I'm sorry but this game looks so ugly compared to homm 3 The interface at times looks so much older I look at the units and realize I can't tell what I'm looking at.

[@henrikljungstrand2036]

Yes the graphics may be not the best (since the game was rushed), but the concepts of game mechanics are awesome and the story of Heroes 4 vanilla campaigns is superb. Still the graphics are not really bad, just unfinished, many of the models look superb imho. This could easily have been the best part of the series so far if NWC had had a good economy (within or without 3DO). Whereas the Heroes 5 of Nival, outsourced by Ubisoft has superb graphics and musics but boring game mechanics and lousy story. In my humble opinion. Haven't played any later "Heroes" series, but i love Heroes 2, Heroes 3 and Heroes 4. Not so much Heroes 1, it is too unbalanced, with no marketplace and other faulty mechanics. I would love to play the Succession Wars mod for Heroes 3, which is very much in H2 style, really well made mod, beautiful and balanced. Some day. And Horn of the Abyss, a more balanced mod than WoG. Less buggy too i think. For Heroes 4 i know of no good mod except Equilibris. For Heroes 2 there was a somewhat promising mod project called Ironfist, but it seems to be almost dead.

[@XConstantinopelX]

What a garbage sequel after HOMM 3. Good play though. :)

[@henrikljungstrand2036]

Are you kidding me? If 3DO was not nearing bancrupcy at the time, Heroes 4 would have been even better than Heroes 3! So many wonderful ideas that Ubisoft just dismissed in their joke of a continuation of the series. But yeah, the AI is crap in Heroes 4, they should have worked more on it if it was not so rushed.

[@nicolainilsen5101]

Heroes 4 is an absolute dumpsterfire.

[@playerplayer925]

Бегать пол игры с двумя бомжами и семью циклопами это нечто)