Strategy and clear thinking is a must in this game, if you gamble, chances are you will lose. Never go in a situation without knowing what will you face, if in trouble make sure you can backpedal to a defendeble position. It is very important to rely on the walls, keep in mind where can opponents be and know where can you retreat if the coast is not clear.
Does anyone know when does this game submit scores? I regularly make in the higher 10 thousands and normally all I see is like a few hundred points on the daily score list, even if I reload the page.
I just got ~9500 points for a city I haven't even controlled. I had one paladin in it, while the other players had 2 and 4 respectively. They got no points for it. I think there might be a bug in the scoring system.
Well, if you just want a playable demo that is small, get rid of the Strength, Wisdom and Agility tests, Great Cloud and Whirlpool of Destiny. change the item creation to a deterministic one similar to the full version, and maybe add a chance to get runes from victories. If you want to simulate warping just give a chance to warp whenever a spell is leveled up, the higher the level of the spell is, the more chance to warp. Maybe a bit more money wouldn't hurt either, since you want in the demo demonstrate all the nice goodies we can have.
New Game -> Play -> Tavern -> Silver Cup -> OK -> Hire 3 heroes -> Arrange them -> Start Battle -> exit battle -> Exit -> Back -> Delete Game -> OK -> Start new Game ... I think this is a bit too much to be required from the players, and it has to be done sometimes 5-6 times until the hero I want to try gets selected, and then restart after the 5th battle again, because it gave only a bronze cup... and start over several times again ... until the first hero is the right One and I can get a strong one for the second.
Unfortunately the steam game is not much better, some stuff is more powerful here than there, for example there the polymorph spell will affect only low level enemies. But at least if things don't work out very well at the beginning you are not against a mountain of farming before you can have some fun. The disadvantage of the flashgame is that often it is just less time consuming to start over than to farm enough to iron out the disadvantages you get from the uneven rewards.
This is not the game where you max out everything, here you have to balance your spending. You can not just spend on troops, because they need at least some artifacts, you need at least some spells, etc... Even specializing in a single spell is suboptimal. You need a really well balanced spending portfolio, and you need to get lucky too. sometimes the crucial things just won't come your way no matter how hard you try. Then you just scrap the game and have to start over. In the 90s there used to be plenty of games like this where you needed to die often to get a satisfying game. It makes sense, it is nos easy, and you have to earn success. 5/5 just for reviving this concept. The game is winnable if that is your goal and doesn't even need a lot of farming if you play it right, but it is not easy to find the balance among the various spending options. This is true even for the steam game, and there the situation is a much more predictable.
You need at least one spell caster with polymorph, without that the game is way more hard. With polymorph there is a quick grinding level too. It also helps if you have an oppensive spell like fireslow at level 10 in 6 slots. Level 10 spells realy deliver a punch, 2 of them takes out elf archers, 6 of them rips out the entire army except the toughest units.
It would feel less of a grind if I could clear all stages, even at the price of loosing all my 1-3 star heroes with their equipment. Even if this came as an event instead of a button: 1% chance after each battle there would be some kind of Dark Moon spell let loose on the planes that would kill all my 1-3 star heroes and mark all the battlefields unconquered. The ninjas of the main boss kill every hero and every troop not strong enough, and his minions take over all the lands.
I like this game much more than the steam version. We get more money there, but that also becomes the solution, I can just throw money at problems. More thinking is needed here. The game would have a potential at making very custom armies and hitting different stages with different armies, but the resources are still too scarce in the steam game to do so, which makes it a dumb solve your problems with money type of game. This could be also an interesting alchemy based game, but that would need way more resources or control at how higher level artifacts can be made, for example a space in blueprint where additional material could be placed to improve quality. No such luck in the steam game either.
On top of my wishlist is a restart button that would let me restart the game and keep my spells and spell levels and all the heroes with at least 3 star and their skills and artifacts.
I give 5/5 in advance for the potential. To make it more enjoyable:
1) summoning:restrict summoning, for example only to the edge of the battlefield.
2) blacksmith: needs more control or it needs to be free of charge.
3) levelups should be free even if I need to spend some money on skills
4) recruiting: again either more control is needed or more opportunities for starred heroes.
5) Spells: it would be more interesting if I could not mount the same spell multiple times. If you change this then buying more spell slots should be cheaper too.
I like the idea that I can not have it all, I have to focus on something to advance in it or just make a balanced team. The problem is that for some obstacles a pretty much maxed out team is neaded or something special that does not necessarily come at my way at all, like transmogrify spell casters (for example transmogrifiers).
Sometimes there is a character missmatch: now I got Tedi the nature mage, and got the extra spell with it, however he wants to use a spear for some reason instead of the usual staff.
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