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Lord_Echo
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posted March 29, 2002 11:30 PM |
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you just gotta LOVE having a hero with 2 gargoyles ... up against 7 stacks of goblins ... and then hearing them die and scream at the same time.  quote]
ive tryed that with solmyrs Chainlighning and WOW it really works.. having 6 gremlins knockng down lots of cenataurs..
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Lord_Pegusus
Commanding Pegusi in Battle.
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posted April 01, 2002 04:19 PM |
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agree
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Magic heroes:
+ Thant with his Animate Dead
+ Loynis with his Prayer
+ and of course, Solymir with his ChainLightning!!!
Might heroes:
+ Tazar with his Armorer bonus
+ Kyrre with Logistics
+ and Crag Hack with Offense is good also
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hard to say... I guess my three first heroes are very good, but so are some of Might heroes... Solmyr is just great (I've won _another_ victory with him today ), but if I can, I ALWAYS choose Gelu. He's really the best hero in the game!!!
GO GELU!!!
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Lord_Pegusus
Commanding Pegusi in Battle.
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posted April 01, 2002 04:21 PM |
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I AGREE
ODVIN
I simply agree with you.
Either GELU or DRACON are truly the best!!!
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angelito
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Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted December 27, 2004 11:50 AM |
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Revived.
Anyone (who posted here before.. ) got some more experience and would change his choice again?..
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Consis
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Of Ruby
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posted December 27, 2004 03:52 PM |
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Best Hero Eh?
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The best hero is clearly Sir "Fakebeard" Mullich. +2 Speed to every unit is an outrageous special. The less I see him the better.
Yes I agree. I think this hero was named after one of the programmers. If he gets tactics it's game over basically.
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I generally favour Might over Magic as might heroes are more reliable than magic ones. With magic hero you have to rely on your mage guild and to the high level damage spells like Implosion or Meteor Shower, which doesn't appear too often in your guild. Might hero can get far with just level 1 spells (especially Haste). Furthermore, creatures of magic oriented hero are more or less like minced meat when engaging creatures of might oriented hero. Magic heroes also tend to gain Mysticism, Learning and Eagle Eye more easily.
Agreed.
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Knights
A quite good hero class (contains Sir Mullich and Orrin). Only bad hero is Sylvia (specialty in Navigation), but she is a handy secondary hero in water maps. Main drawback for Knights is that it isn't easy for them to get Earth Magic.
Best knight has always been any of +350 gold. The gold can't be overlooked unless someone is playing Mullich. Also, knights commonly see the estates skill which increases gold even further.
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Clerics
This heroes tend to advance rather balanced with their primary skills (little bit towards magic though). Loynis is indeed a good hero (the only drawback is that he starts with the learning), Adela has specialty in Bless and a Diplomacy secondary skill (another good choice). I wouldn't fancy much having Cuthbert, Ryan or Sanya.
Adela = the best
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Rangers
Rangers are one of my favourites and it isn't a miracle that they are as they are good. Ryland has a specialty in Denroids and has Diplomacy and Leadership, Kyrre has a specialty in Logistics, Jenova earns you money, Mephala has Armorer as a specialty and Leadership, Ivor has Offense and Archery and specializes in Elves, Thorgrim is every spell casters nightmare.
Clancy and Ufretin are bad, do not recruit them. Rangers will gain Defense.
Always with Ryland and Kyrre...nah...I say Jenova + Ryland.
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Druids
Not many pearls in these shells. Elleshar is propably the best choice for Druid but I would take Ranger instead.
LoL, Malcom. I say this because Rampart does not always see the blind spell in its guild.
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Alchemists
Neela is a good choice due to her specialty in Armorer. Torosar is a good choice due to his Tactics (serves Tower very well) otherwise he is crap. Thane might pay against Stronghold (only due to the speed bonus of Genies). Rissa is always welcome to share some of that Mercury. Overall Alchemists are quite bad heroes. Alchemists will gain their primary skills balanced. Piquedram seems to be the favourite of the computer players.
Golem girl - Josephine. I don't really like Alchemists but if I'm forced to choose then I pick golem girl.
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Wizards
Solmyr is the best Wizard available. Cyra might be good choice due to her diplomacy but I like to see haste specials with more might oriented heroes than what Wizards are. Not too many good wizards out there.
Cyra, period, end of story. People need to stop fantasizing about Astral's hypnotize spell. By the time he can use it with any real significance it's too late in the game.
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Demoniacs
Marius is the best Demoniac here is (special in Demons, creatures which can get quite numerous due to the Pit Lords, and an Advanced Armorer). Not many other good choices for hero. Ignatius has good secondary skills (Tactics and Resistance) but specializes in Imps. Rashka has specialty in Efreets but has Scholar secondary skill.
Ignatius + Octavia all the way. Tactics is a must and with the extra gold you can buy more Pit Lords.
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Heretics
Inferno has the worst selection of heroes and the Heretics won't make it any better. Calid is always wanted due to his sulfur special. Besides Calid only Ayden makes some sense due to his Intelligence.
Xyron comes with the inferno spell. I love it.
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Death Knights
Every Necropolis hero has Necromancy as secondary skill. Galthran has special in skeletons which makes him good choice for main. Isra has special in Necromancy which makes her great.
Clavius has special in money. Moandor looks charismatic but has learning (so he's crap hero). Straker is junk. Tamika has special in Dread Knights and Offense. Vokial has special in Vampires but has artillery as secondary skill. Charna has Tactics but also the special in Wights.
Isra....and it's not fair on randoms but hey.....he can't be argued with.
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Necromancers
Aislinn (specialty in Meteor Shower), Thant (specialty in Animate Dead) and Vidomina (specialty in Necromancy) are all great heroes. Nagash has special in money. Nimbus and Septienna are crap heroes and Sandro isn't great either.
Aislinn? No way, I say Thant....and of course he is usually banned too.
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Overlords
Gunnar is greatest Overlord. Damacon gains money for you and Dace has specialty in Minotaurs. Shakti comes with good number of Troglodytes so he is good starting hero but lacks effectiveness later. Avoid rest.
Lorelei + Damacon = money to buy lots of best Lv2 creature in game.
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Warlocks
Alamar and Jeddite specializes in Resurrection. From those two Jeddite is better. Deemer has better special but has scouting also. Sephiroth is a living crystal mine. Jaegar and Geon makes it straight through to the garbage. Darkstorn and Malekith lacks finesse. Warlocks gain most magic primary skills, so every other hero class will beat them in might.
I say Deemer.
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Barbarians
Crag Hack is great. Shiva may pay against Tower or another Stronghold due to the speed gain of Thunderbirds. Tyraxor has Tactics but his special is a little drawback in some cases. Rest of the Barbarians rates more or less of average.
Shiva = scouting + fastest built Lv5 unit in the game.
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Battle Mages
Terek is the best hero Stronghold has. He has both Haste and Tactics and Haste special. Dessa has Logistics special. Gundula has offense special. Saurug earns gems. Rest are more or less average except Orin, who is great due to her Eagle Eye.
Terek.
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Beast Masters
Tazar is great. Alkin is good also due to his Gorgon special and Offense and Armorer. Bron will bring some Basilisks when you recruit him, and he also has Resistance. Drakon is also good at the beginning, while rest are more or less garbage.
Korbac + Tazar = Korbac makes up until Tazar gets expert armorer.
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Witches
Witches can take their brooms and fly away from Fortress.
Um....what? I say Merist. No hero has shield spell as specialty so next best thing!
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Evil_Warrior
Famous Hero
Duke of Demon
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posted March 30, 2006 07:36 AM |
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Might:
1. Gelu
2. Xeron
3. Sir Mullich
Magic :
1. Solmyr
2. Dracon
3. Deemer
Overall :
1. Gelu
2. Solmyr
3. Dracon
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supersonic
Famous Hero
being digested. E=mc^2, s=vt
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posted March 30, 2006 09:17 PM |
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Might:
Crag HACK! (I just love that f@t@$$ messing with others)
Tazar (Nobody messes with this guy)
Orrin (Shoot 'em both dude!)
Magic:
Deemer (I love him)
Sephinroth (I don't care about crystals, intelligence is nice)
Ciele (magic Arrow!)
Campaign heroes:
Adrienne (well, she's nice)
Gelu (Gelu)
Dracon (Dracon)
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Anil
Known Hero
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posted April 24, 2016 11:00 PM |
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Edited by Anil at 23:01, 24 Apr 2016.
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Hard to say but in xl maps; attack,armorer,sorcery,necromancy,estate,logistics,resistance sipacialities are very good.
Logistics is best speciality.
Units speciality is not good (except Galthran).
Armorer specialty is better than attack specialty.
Sorcery speciality is better than magic specialty (except thant,luna jeddite)
+2 speed bonus is good but i prefer armorer specialty.
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted April 25, 2016 12:42 AM |
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Anil said:
Armorer specialty is better than attack specialty.
+2 speed bonus is good but i prefer armorer specialty.
Why? I don't play enouch MP to talk about but I never pick armorer by a simple reason, I don't find much use for it. Early game I need to use my stacks of one unit to suck retal (they will die with or without armorer) and my shooters, so archery and offense will be better then armorer, two extra speed will make first battles a lot easier. Mid game when taking cons and topes armorer would be usefull but expert shield will work too and earth has other uses like slowing the griffins. Also in the first confronts with enemy heroes armorer will avoid some losses but normally soon after taking the first player I start getting OP enouch to be more worried about the possibility of enemies fleeing with all their artifacts then of losing too much army, so again Offense, Archery (and Tactics) will be of better use.
After I conquer and develop two or three towns of the same type, (specially if with some external dwellings) my main's army gets so OP only the magic skills and spells like Slow, Blind and Resurrection matter, my raw power is enouch to take any battle the problem is only how to avoid to have my enemies running at first chance. So faster units are at any point a better thing then tougher units.
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Anil
Known Hero
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posted April 26, 2016 05:32 PM |
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Edited by Anil at 17:41, 26 Apr 2016.
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bloodsucker said:
Anil said:
Armorer specialty is better than attack specialty.
+2 speed bonus is good but i prefer armorer specialty.
Why? I don't play enouch MP to talk about but I never pick armorer by a simple reason, I don't find much use for it. Early game I need to use my stacks of one unit to suck retal (they will die with or without armorer) and my shooters, so archery and offense will be better then armorer, two extra speed will make first battles a lot easier. Mid game when taking cons and topes armorer would be usefull but expert shield will work too and earth has other uses like slowing the griffins. Also in the first confronts with enemy heroes armorer will avoid some losses but normally soon after taking the first player I start getting OP enouch to be more worried about the possibility of enemies fleeing with all their artifacts then of losing too much army, so again Offense, Archery (and Tactics) will be of better use.
After I conquer and develop two or three towns of the same type, (specially if with some external dwellings) my main's army gets so OP only the magic skills and spells like Slow, Blind and Resurrection matter, my raw power is enouch to take any battle the problem is only how to avoid to have my enemies running at first chance. So faster units are at any point a better thing then tougher units.
in my rank for large maps;
1) Logistics: Number one; best Hero specialty.
2) Armorer: When you are take recanters cloak or orb of Inhibiton, you are unbeatable.
3) Attack:
4) Resistance:
5) Socery:
6) +2 Speed:
7) Archer:
8) Estate:
I watched a lot of tazar vs hack matches. I myself tested. Tazar is better hero %100. Because hack is very need mass haste spell for rush to one tazar's unit. But tazar no need magic for own army. Also tazar can disrupt to hack's mass haste spell with mass slow. Also Rush to one unit tactics is useless against Tazar because armorer sipeciality always useful. But attack specialty is useless when tazar rush to one hack's unit. Because you have only one retaliation. In next rounds, hack's army are vulnerable.
Also i think fortress is more better than stronghold.
Archery speciality is not better than attack and defense specialities i think. Because this speciality is only effective for ranger units. So easy counter with blind to shooter, air shield etc...
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bloodsucker
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posted April 26, 2016 06:36 PM |
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Anil said:
I watched a lot of tazar vs hack matches.
I know that with even armies and skill Tazar will survive but that only happens in MP games.
If playing against AI I'm not just saying I find Armorer specialists worst, I'm saying I find Armorer skill pretty useless cause my enemies will probably flee the moment I put a dent on them, unless I have shackles or find a trick to keep them in battle. And here I often use tricks that need me to take some losses, at least till I find a way of resurrecting them. Does your AI experience differs a lot from this?
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Orrinisthebest
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Invest in your future.
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posted July 22, 2017 03:20 PM |
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Best magic heroes: Gundula,Dessa and heroes with intelligence specialty.
As to might heroes: Orrin,Mephala,Gunnar ( because all of them start with 2 good sec. skills which means you're less likely to get crappy ones like ballistics/artillery on your hero).
Overall my favorite: Orrin. Especially in HotA.
Honorable mentions: Tazar,Kyrre,Crag Hack,Corkes,Thorgrim,Eovacious,Aine,Alamar,Isra,Grindan,Sir Mullich.
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted July 22, 2017 11:11 PM |
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My favorite hero in WoG was Gundula.
Talking about RMG, Crag Hack is behind doubt the stronger SoD hero, followed by the Logistics specialists in this order: 1. Gunnar; 2.Kyrre; 3.Dessa.
Corkes hability to (easily) learn Water by himself makes him my favorite hero ever and the main reason I'm so addicted to HotA and Cove.
Neither Gundula or Corkes objectively beat Crag but I hate to be so stressed to find a witch hut with Water before I run out of SS slots. With the expansion to XXL maps, Logistics specialists became even better then they were and they are better if you are a SP player trying to beat a record on a custom maps, if not Offense gets you OP much sooner then Logistics and with more income and less need of reinforcements, you can train other heroes sooner and you can cover more terrain with three fighting heroes then with one that covers 100% more terrain.
I've played PxP but it's not my cup of tea. I don't want to finish a match hating someone to the core and that's what happens when I lose. I am a pretty sore loser 
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