Out for Blood! (Finale) - Heroes 3: Vampires Only, #3

The final episode of the vampires only "challenge". Vampire Lords are really, really good. So is Thant.
Go back to part one: • VAMPIRES ONLY Challeng...
Previous Halloween Special (1v7, Necropolis vs Castle): • Necropolis vs Castle, ...
Game version: Heroes of Might and Magic III: Shadow of Death
Map: Random Map
Map size: Large with Underground
Difficulty: Expert (160%)
Starting Town: Necropolis
Main Hero: Thant (Necromancer, Animate Dead Specialist)
The Norovo Halloween Special 2020.

[@RobertBrownieJr]

Vampire lords: fair and balanced since 1999

[@DOGEreal]

Archangels are even more OP.

[@alexwoodman7889]

Ghosts from the Heroes II: hold my beer pal 😅

[@danielpcowen]

@@DOGEreal Vampire Lords > Archangels

[@DOGEreal]

@@danielpcowen With a few Archangels you can easily clear the entire map, and while you get Vampire Lords a little faster, they aren't going to be an actually army against a real opponent who knows how to play the game.

[@Videokeiler]

This game ... I love and I hate, because once I start I cannot stop playing it

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

I enjoyed H3 so much, I wrote a novel & screenplay series which is heavily influenced by it .. *Reflection is a crucial key in understanding what lies 'beyond the veil'...* 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart & soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge--hope's strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... ...before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ -- Diamond Dragons (book 1)

[@wernerfels7584]

Damm this Bots ...

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

What bots? lol

[@jakubchmielewski7687]

LMAO when the vampires started moaning to the rhythm 3:42

[@SKiBOiDawah]

Finally commentary is so good you'll love it P.S: Vampire Lords are unmatched

[@caseyscott2474]

Wow Halloween special finished on time this year, true testament to the power of Vampire Lords!

[@sveniusz]

Man, you really should have built that Mana Vortex.

[@Ezymythril]

just binged the whole series and this was very exciting and i forgot that 2 hours had passed

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Even with all of the abominably silly mistakes (like not TP'ing Thant back to protect vs. Sandro), an all VL run against computer players is almost always a guaranteed win.

[@ElGoogKO]

I see you keep making one mistake. You attack ranged units when you block them. When you block off ranged units most of them have a huge damage penalty. So you should attack the melee units nearby instead of the blocked ranged unit. That is the benefit of blocking them especially with a unit that voids retaliation from the enemy attacked stack.

[@alvydasjokubauskas2587]

This is very good tip lol. Makes sense they are forced to melee. And they suck at it too...

[@aajlakapsio6715]

I thought about this as well. Sometimes he did attack the melee however

[@StopStealingMyNameTrolls]

You have expert Town Portal - yet you never used it to hop around in towns to gather your vampires or to defend against small attacking enemy troops. ..... Once you have expert Earth Magic and TP your can 1-hero most maps..............

[@evalaviniabucur1789]

My thoughts exactly. Though he did just fine even without those extra vampire lords.

[@criter96]

I always thought earth and air magic was kinda broken when it comes to exploration. For me, for any larger map, town portal and teleport is a must.

[@Trust2HIM]

great great series. I wonder why you didn’t use mana vortex at all?

[@DrKuryakin]

In HOMMV it gets even worse, with vampirism spell, vampiric hydras? Dont mind if i do lalalala :D

[@jdr4674]

0 losses? Silly AI, I can do better than that!

[@JoLiKMC]

Geez… Vampire Lords are stupidly overpowered. Are they this good in _Heroes II?_ Anyway, good show, man. I really enjoyed this "challenge" run!

[@danielpcowen]

Yep they are

[@007LvB]

How about going for counterstrike instead of raise dead? Wouldn't that give infinite life drain, and perhaps save some spell points?

[@tomhe286]

With vampire lords nothing matters

[@atmeyer16]

You should consider doing a challenge where you only use minotaurs and minotaur heroes. I would love that...

[@SKiBOiDawah]

I do wonder if you love so much RTS games can you play and make a series of Command & Conquer Remastered?

[@Norovo]

I haven't played it to be honest and new RTS games can take a lot of time to learn. Maybe one day.

[@SpazeOfficial]

Halloween special for this year as well? :D

[@GetGood5]

nice

[@thomasyuan9888]

very op did same challenge died on day 1

[@siliablackfame5771]

A Halloween special that finished before New Year? Is this 2016? 😃

[@johnkovacs1318]

not to backseat game you or anything,but at the 35 min mark you could have town portaled to your necro towns collected extra Vampire Lords portaled back to the tower town and Dimension dorr to the magic well all with out spending movement points more then you would have doing what you did lol, great job thou one unit type only (tat isn't skels) is not an easy task

[@nangld]

IIRC, vampires are even more OP in HoMM4. Dunno why Van Caneghem haven't introduced something to counter that. Say making the turns into day and night, so vampires would be powerful only during the night turns. Otherwise there is just no chance against a large enough stack of vampires. Only the HoMM1/HoMM2 ghosts are more broken.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Yup, in HoM&M4, vampires are even crazier with bloody 75HP. Compile that with some spellcasting and they're totally invulnerable. One major stupidity in that game was making each individual creature stack hold movement energy. TOTALLY breaks having "hero trains", and makes it pointless except to split weak troops into individuals and having them go berserk collecting loose resources. Friggin' stupid. What's the point of having "heroes" at that point?! Speaking of which, it was way crazy to have heroes fighting on the battlefield. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

[@PieknyMarian]

Is this remastered version of Heroes 3? I have H3 with all expansions yet my options etc look nowhere near like in the game you play, even trading troops etc.

[@Winnetou17]

Search for Heroes 3 HD mod (not to be confused with the insulting cash-grab that is Ubisoft's Heroes 3 HD). The HD mod is free.

[@PieknyMarian]

@@Winnetou17 Thank You! I have literally just came across it before I saw your comment. But it seems to be a bit laggy when I launch the game from mod launcher though

[@MidsummerNightScream]

which version is this? is it a mod?

[@dr_volberg]

21:25 - Fiona was one of the starting heroes on AI?

[@mike25500]

Play Hota totally harder and changed a lot in HEroes 3. Hota is Horn of the Abbys

[@Dynamighteee]

Way too easy!

[@svenjones4088]

Since you had expert air magic you could've used counterattack on the vamps so they would recover more health from all enemies in a turn. And I would've given another hero a few vamps just so they could sustain themselves with life drain against weak heroes and monsters to cover more of the map. I enjoyed this series and I'm looking forwards to more!

[@iare19]

Just played this map, so annoying, didnt find teleport spell....

[@angelolima9425]

It's a random map

[@StopStealingMyNameTrolls]

Also getting that flail artifact EARLY in your 2nd video would have made your vampires a lot more effective - also they deal more damage and they also regain more life.... any artifact that increases artifacts for vampire lords is a must.... also you could have gone for artifact merchant in the tower.....

[@Jon0007723]

Did he look like he needed any help making it easier? :P

[@burndead]

So many useless moves of you. Once you get TP and Dimension Door it's over. No need to use more heroes or other sheganigans. Also, not using View Air and View Earth to locate even faster the towns/heroes is a mistake in my eyes. Not using TP to def towns, winning battles on auto and then canceling the end result to play it again. Meh I guess, more content time for YT, huh...

[@Stoiko90]

lol. why so passive aggressive?

[@burndead]

@@Stoiko90 It's not passive. At all. kek

[@andriasmanukyan4435]

I think he played pretty well! Don´t be negative, you can play this game in 100 of ways, depends on what your goal is with it. When you play on almost impossible you kinda need more than 1 hero... even with TP, you can´t cover enough with only 1 hero when the map is large and you have several opponents. I play this game alot and it´s called "HEROES" for a reason. I use like 7-8 heroes often even with TP and DDoor :D