Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - Excluding Diplomacy HOMM3

hello there ladies and gentlemen I'm the spiffing Britain today you join me in Heroes of Might and Magic free the complete edition that's right they've actually finally finished this game you see with a kind of YouTube channel not to play brand new early access games instead we're playing games that were completed over 20 years ago that's right today we're here playing Heroes of Might and Magic free a game which first released all the way back in 1999 making this one of the oldest games we've featured yet on the channel yes it's somehow also one of the best my goodness this game is just downright fantastic it is glorious it is majestic and it also smells quite good yes retro smells the best kind or probably the worst yes generally the worst I don't really know how you can rate a game by smell but maybe that's where I Jen's been failing if they're doing reviews of games like fallout 76 and putting them really quite high and then I play the game and I know it's bad it's because their review simply lacked a smell rating not because they're exceedingly disenfranchised of the common gamer yes it's probably the smell review anyway all nasal based queries aside letters instead dive into this game where today I'll be playing this glorious cult classic and be demonstrating why this game is often regarded as the most exploitable game not because it has maybe the largest quantity of exploits but because the multiplayer scene of this game is just quite simply various exploiters trying to out exploit each other and my goodness is it a fantastic site Indies but today with so many exploits to choose from I had to narrow it down and so we'll be doing the most powerful of all the diplomacy exploit that's right this game has diplomacy and you can kind of get a diplomacy victory but diplomacy in this game does not mean making peace with the other players diplomacy in this game means choosing your army it's not fighting the random AI hordes around the map and instead recruiting some of the highest aid units in the game which are previously completely unacceptable instill oh mercy is my goodness so without further ado let's dive right into this game so firstly make sure you're sat back you relaxed you probably want a fan running in the background because goodness this summer is literal melted me to pieces and if you're especially fantastic and somewhat of a level 16000 power let yourself you might have given this video a like early my goodness you majestic saw Josh and maybe if you've played this game before any game in the Heroes of Might and Magic series you've jumped down into the comment section to give me a shout or more likely you've probably jumped down into the comment section to say what is this game why does it look like this that's not what human beings look like well actually you're wrong nonetheless thousands of you people voted for a video on this game so here we are and so without further ado thanks to all of you majestic people let's dive into a brand new game and see what the world holds for us oh by the way you know it's a very high quality game when there aren't even any options in the main menu you want to edit any of these games options you have to be in the physical game itself yes it's just that fantastic right now we're going to start a brand new single-player scenario where we play off against various enemies and hopefully we can win I mean there are some fantastical scenarios in this game and hopefully we won't play one too difficult because I don't have that many hours on this game there are people out there with thousands and thousands of hours but I'm afraid I am NOT one of them so for that reason we'll play a nice easy map difficulty against one of AI fantastic the map called a key to victory this looks perfect ladies and gentlemen a simple 1v1 against the AI what could go wrong in Heroes of Might and Magic now many of you might be thinking where does this game get its name from well it's called heroes as a representation of the fact that your armies are led by all-knowing all-powerful super attractive and super strong a weight of just listing off my own qualities yes your armies are led by effectively God tier heroes and then of course might comes from the Greek god mightiest the Greek god of ambiguity not quite sure if he's going to do something or not not to be confused of his brother may or may not occurs but nonetheless ladies and gentlemen let us dive into this game so as I mentioned we are going to be exploiting this game's diplomacy mechanic basically you can use diplomacy in this game to dodge fights and not only dodge fights but to also effective recruit massive armies for free with units that you wouldn't normally have access to and the reason you don't normally have access to them is because they are way too overpowered so here we are playing the game that's for some reason on this map we can't play as humans with the diplomacy ability we will instead play as the LV dwarf people because you know what they also have a second exploit thrown in for good measure so that's fine could be playing as the hero riland on his fantastical adventure to just heat his way through the universe and for a starting bonus you of course want to go for a starting artifact because artifacts in this game can be the difference between just having one extra damage or the ability to literally set the entire universe on fire at just the snap of your fingers but I don't even need artifacts for that because I have the refreshing taste of Yorkshire tea that's right ladies and gentlemen for the low low cost of only three pounds ninety-nine or fourteen million Russian rubles you can buy yourself some Yorkshire tea and my goodness is it not fantastic 17,000 peasant warriors when stood at the top of a volcano said that York Shi T was one of the single greatest beverages they've ever tasted and please can you take us down from here Master spiffed so make sure to go get yours today because my goodness is it not fantastic anyway let's begin this game also what hurt factor we start out with all the view collar of conjuring this means all of my spells have an increased duration of one very nice this is especially useful whips powers like blind which allow you to basically turn an enemy unit blind preventing the removing or attacking yep it's perfectly balanced but anyway violent is special because he has basic diplomacy this allows him to negotiate with the various monsters on the map and if they're a weaker group they might choose to run away or join us oh it's fantastic well she was the speciality of den druids meaning that den droid soldiers in his armies do better something like that so we basically play as the hobbits I know we play as wacky bunch of literal mad lads just getting together for fun we can recruit things like dwarves centaurs and eventually we can unlock a building called the Treasury the treasure is rather unique because it means that whatever gold you have in your bank of the start of the week is instantly gains an interest of 10% yes that's perfectly balanced also if you have multiple cities with this you can build this multiple times so if you would have ten cities of the hobbit type of people you can get a 100% increase on whatever is in your Treasury at the start of your turn yes that's just how balanced it is but instead of focusing on that we're instead going to build our Town Hall and get an income of one thousand gold per turn going very nice and Vosper here we'll also recruit fourteen centers and eight torvi boys to join our army fantastic now as I mentioned each and every single unit in this game has a special modify for example dwarfs here have eight 20% magic resistance the centaurs however have their special ability which is that they're just cannon fodder as you can see each and every single unit has a stat Aven attack skill a defense skill at damage skill and health and speed as we have 37 centaurs each of those centaurs hit for between two to three damage in combat meaning our damage per turn of attack is 37 times 2 or free tools however have almost doubled the health and double the attack however they have the negative modifier of moving at the speed of a stone rolling up a hill anyway let us start the game by sending our hair on a magic adventure to grab all of the loot around our spawn or when it looks like we might be able to level him up fantastic we're going to level him up with advanced leadership very nice and there we go our first turn is complete oh and we've leveled up a second time fantastic now that we've gained a new level we can choose driver advance our archery skills or advance our diplomacy skills for ladies and gentlemen it has to be diplomacy there's also an artifact up here the rib cage we're going to grab that bad boy in our journeys but each turn you are able to build one building in your new village and one thing I'd like to rush out as fast as possible are the den roids they are absolutely lovely so for that we're going to need to build a homestead for the little elves to stay in there we go now we have a place for the elves and because we have a place for them we can also recruit them so there we go seven elves join the army my friends there we go we've just grabbed a rendered rib cage off of the floor fantastic please tell me Raynald what is this rib cage oh he's actually just wearing it it parently increases your power skill by two but basically your power skill is how strong your magical spells are so if you were to coerce magic missle with no power chances are you'll do one damage if you cast magic missle we've say 10 power chances are you'll shatter a hole through reality itself and that would be a bad idea wouldn't it rain out wouldn't it you note we're going to actually attack the help it is to our north we might as well they're standing right here oh we can attack them and apparently if we were to allow the computer to resolve this we're going to get a glorious victory in which we only lose six of our cannon fodder and the enemy lose twenty-six you know what I'm going to fight this manually show that I can demonstrate to you just how bad I am at the game but also how the combat works so this is the glorious and beautiful combat screen each unit goes turn by turn and we'll move across the map until they end up butting heads of each other our centaurs are very fast but absolutely useless so we're just going to plunk them right here if my character had any spells then want to turn we could cast them but I'm afraid Raynald over here has the magical abilities of a potato are elves however have the ability to shoot so we're going to use them to launch a volley of arrows at the enemy and whoa BAM - Habba days have just died and now it's up to the dwarves with their increased health but absolutely no movement speed or you know what watch through here we might as well begin charging into the enemy go my centaurs go Wow none of them died that's actually fantastic and there we go the first halberdiers are down now it's up to the dwarves to finish and save the day go dogs go okay now the centrioles finish it this is the issue with not having many dwarves they can do absolutely nothing in combat anyway the day is ours and we only lost four centaurs fantastic oh and we can actually grab hold of this sawmill which will give us some wood resources basically around the map there'll be mines and stuff and you need to grab them and they give you resources to build buildings it's as simple as that anyway that stank of help it is that we attacked if we had a larger army we would be able to intimidate them using our diplomacy stat and potentially push them into working for us however because we don't have a large army they choose to just ignore us and laugh at us but whilst we're here we're going to grab the ability to actually recruit pegasi yes let us recruit pegasi fantastic because I have the ability to dampen all magic and our dental red guards have the ability to bind enemies in place basically once per turn they can just force an enemy unit to just sit where it isn't do nothing perfectly balanced as always anyway onwards with our adventure oh what's this a windmill fantastic it's full of fantastic gems lovely now to our north is a pack of magma elementals and if I'm honest I'd like to have them in my army so I'm going to see if I can wander around and avoid them up until the point where our he's vastly overpowered and they will most definitely join us is this a tower that just gives us a permanent increase in defense skill sure that seems great all beholders lovely this seems easy apparently wouldn't actually be that easy it'll be a glorious victory nonetheless so it's Reinold versus a pair of evil eyes now I'm gonna let the computer do this one I don't write note you're really getting your experience up there oh and the week has ended meaning all of our minds give us our resources and also our lovely town of air has suddenly respawned all of the units so logically you would be thinking spiff okay you can't have too much Reinold back to recruit all of those units no no no no this is why in the game you want to recruit a second hero we're going to recruits over Gretchen the barbarian or kiri the Ranger you know we'll go for the barbarian they seem like an absolute wild time wow they're just full of goblins goblins are terrible but I love them nonetheless and so their job is solely going to be recruiting an entire army and bringing it over to our main hero so that our hero doesn't have to wander all the way back here there we go right Gretchen go and deposit the new army so there we go the new army is created and glorious it is with a mix of silver pegasi and now some brand-new goblins who are even more meatshield II than the Centaurs anyway Gretchen you've done your job simply wander back to the town until you become useful again so we're going to attack the magma elementals and as you can see because of our high diplomacy stats we've suddenly triggered the diplomacy option basically the magma elementals here say they desired greater glory and they wish to join us this is because our army is so overwhelmingly powerful and it's time spur our diplomacy stat that they've decided to join so we're going to accept and we're going to take the macro elementals here who you can see are absolutely fantastic and we're going to swap out the all the Centaurs or the goblins well it's got to be the goblins because they're just useless so we're going to replace the goblins with our fantastic magma elementals now these magma elementals have the highest health pool of any of our units The Heist attack skilled defense skill the highest base damage and they are also completely immune to all mine spells so these are some very late-game units and we've just grabbed 20 of them you can see why it's a little bit wonky we've wandered into a lot of little outpost which allows us to see the entire map fantastic as it tells us where we should roughly be heading next and also we can see the enemy player now very nice so now our hero Reinold is faced with a decision do we go right or do we go left honestly we're gonna go right let's go see what this mercenary camp has to offer us go Reinold go oh they increase your attack skill very nice now the hero's attack skill basically increases the attack of your entire army which is as you can guess quite useful indeed let's visit this obelisk we're decoding the puzzle map very nice once we're here we might as well attack this pack of mummies oh the mummies are so scared by our incredible power that they try and scatter are we going to engage them anyway because it'll be good experience and honestly doesn't matter if we lose half our centres they are kind of useless oh and there we go you know a level 4 ranger sadly we don't get the option to improve your diplomacy but we can improve your leadership a higher leadership means you have more morale if for some reason your unit has exceptionally high morale they'll be able to attack twice or attack with a magical rainbow critical attack wow I just went into a prison and we've gained a brand new hero it's a level 7 cleric with advanced super woodsy oh no oh game you shouldn't have given me this and they have five angels in their army oh my this is very good so now we have two absolutely me me diplomacy armies to mess about with oh this can only get better you know what we're here we're going to make a temporary kind of new army going to grab some of our best units we go to March them into this pack of wolves and the wolf scatter but we're going to attack them anyway and get some nice experience lovely stuff now we're going to be switching to end using adela as our main hero because she is out right just so fantastic and so we're going to be transferring all of Ronald's lovely gear and loot the team managed to collect over to her and sorry Ryan old you've now become completely obsolete when you know what there's a large band of rogues over here that seems like a perfect stack of units for us to convince to join us although actually I probably be better off just stealing all of the lizard men yes that does seem like a better idea the lizard men are in awe of our incredible power and instead of choosing to join us they decide to scatter so we're going to pursue them and absolutely defeat them lovely stuff when a large amount of whites we're going to grab them next turn so Adela over here is going to meet the white and lo and behold they scatter as well and we're going to chase them down twelve or twenty of them defeated with no casualties perfectly balanced and Adela has leveled up and we can give her expert diplomacy fantastic there we go in the gem pond is ours now what we've just built is a majors guild in our main city the mages guild can basically be looked at with any hero provided they have a spell book and it generates a random amount of spells the spells range from completely normal to absolutely bonkers brigade we've been given magic arrow which isn't bad Stoneskin which is pretty decent and cure which is absolutely necessary if you don't have this bow you've basically lost the game there we go a new turn begins and so all dwellings on the map increase in population this means we can suddenly recruit more units but it also means the random bags of units you see wandering around have increased in population so we're going to grab our cleric over here the brand new exploit diplomacy and wander over to the Magel - I'll just go in to flee because they're so bad at the game and there we go the sulfur mine is now ours now we're going to travel to the underworld a little bit with our fantastic adela is hopefully down here in the subterranean lair underneath the world which we all know exists there will be a couple of very high-level beastie boys which you wouldn't normally have access to in the game and hopefully we can use our overwhelming power to either scare them into submission and running away or to convince them into joining our fantastic cause here we go fantastic there's a pack of dwarves we can grab them no problem they're guarding some kind of large quantity of loose and stuff so that's a good sign for us and there we go is we've got a chest I'm going to choose to take the gold although normally in every other situation you should take the experience added Ella here has already got expert level diplomacy so we don't really have that much intention of leveling her up anymore oh and because they are swayed by our fantastic diplomatic tongue dwarves standing here decide they will join our army for the low low cost of 2,640 now because of our high diplomacy this is slightly less than it actually would cost to recruit 22 dwarves so we're going to grab them as now we have an army with 38 dwarves in them and all the fantastic tanks because of their fantastic magic resistance now let's go see if the ice elementals want to be friends oh yes the ice elementals wit have a massive desire for greater glory will we accept them joining us of course we will ice elementals because you are absolutely crazy you have higher vulnerability but ice immunity lovely so we're going to get rid of our generic pegasi and replace them with the ice elementals that's because the pegasi do five to nine damage and have 30 health whereas these boys do three to seven and have thirty health but they also have a ranged attack which does twenty-four twenty-four as a ranged attack is absolutely mental I mean yes you can basically shred almost anything with that and we've also grabbed the angel feather arrows now this is important because we can use them ourselves to improve all of our archers if we return it to a place on the overworld over here they'll give us an extra special item which is exactly what we're going to do you know this seems like a job for Gretchen so go Gretchen travel into the underworld now Ryan orders finally managed to recruit up a actually decent looking army so we're going to send him back to the frontlines to do some fantastic fight he stuff for us meanwhile Gretchen is finally going to be able to borrow the angel feather arrows off of our main hero and she's going to return them to the quest giver now should we grab some water elementals yes let's grab some water elementals they choose to scatter do we wish to pursue them of course let's get some experience while we lose no one and just wipe out the water elementals oh my goodness look at those water elementals now that is terrifying that is the kind of unit design which is going to give people nightmares game what is this lots of iron golems or iron golems of fantastic tanks aren't they they're awed by our power should we choose to engage them sure fine let's get some experience in apparently they were actually quite easy to defeat well my golems they have terrible attack but my goodness can they do some fantastic stuff back to you we're going to get advanced our tree because that means our hero is now given all of our ranged units an extra 25% attack very nice that means those ice elementals don't shoot for 24 anymore no no no they shoot for 30 and there's 18 of them so yeah now you can start seeing how these wacky calculations are getting going well and there we go the weekends and all populations increase in size right Gretchen return it now yes what do we get hopefully something good 500 experience seriously is that all no no I don't wish to trade it do not trade the arrows away the arrows give us 15 percent increased our true skill do not return the arrows right now ladies and gentle we've managed to build the perfect combination of buildings the Treasury which gives us a 10% on whatever our starting Treasuries and the capital building which gives us 4000 gold per turn combined this means our gold which is currently sitting at 465 is going to start increasing at a rather alarming rate I mean it's now for some reason of 5765 I don't know how the maps there is worked out but all I know is that we have a very large amount of money now anyway let us return the magical arrow for five thousand experience and level of Reinold with expert diplomacy basic scouting advanced scouting there we go he is now suddenly level seventh very nice indeed let us all the iron golems want to join us okay now I can demonstrate why iron golems are so good they're basically dwarves but better in every regard so damage from any spells they receive is reduced by 75% so they're almost impossible to kill with magic they do four to five damage each very high-tech and defense skill and just like the two of their movement speed isn't that great although it is much better you know what yes we're going to get rid of those dwarves and replace them with iron golem sorry thirty-eight dwarves I'm just going to leave you standing around here feeling very confused Oh what's this artifact vial of lifeblood that seems pretty fun increases the health of all units by plus two sure that's fine when you increase the help of a unit that means each and every one of these twenty magma elementals has their health increased by two so you now need to do 42 damage to this stack of magma elementals to kill one that's why this combat is so unique honestly this game is lovely I really would like to stream it at one point it's really wacky right hopefully my lovely here or here Reinold is going to convince these Rangers over here to join our cause oh and they will they will all 31 of them Oh lovely and have the spying ability oh that's nice now the thing is recruiting units is really expensive you notice we sink a huge amount of golden to it for example these 10 Pegasus is here 275 gold each to recruit that's a lot of money oh my goodness 27 beholders want to join us for the sum of 6750 behold is a pretty wacky I honestly might take them up on this offer also it means we spend six thousand seven hundred fifty and even if we don't take them they're gonna get out of the way now the reason why I like beholders is because they don't suffer a melee penalty like all other range units and their ranged attack is three to five which means they do the same range attack as our archers but there's a lot more of them and also I'm pretty sure they have much more health so I'm sorry Alfie boys I'm just gonna basically thirteen identical-looking elves right here in the pits of I mean it's undescribable horror and they can find their own way I'm sure what a loaf is this Adela's just stumbled intellect some kind of ruins and says I've discovered an old dwarven miner who's kept several maps from he's been working on it so basically you'll sell us a map for a thousand gold which will probably reveal the entire area yes let's go for that Wow fantastic we can now see almost all of the underground area well done little dwarf didn't really cost us that much over anyway what we're going to do is this little towel which basically separates our two kingdoms I'm going to break because the AI hasn't actually reached this area yet I'm going to be stealing all of the artifacts that they were meant to grab oh my and probably also recruiting this pack of Royal Griffins oh they look very nice oh no astrologers proclaim a plague all populations have been halved oh that's terrible that means our recruitment pool is being greatly diminished and also all of these people standing around here have been diminished that's very sad now let's get the necklace of dragon teeth that seems good oh no the storm elementals want to join us instead of fighting storm elementals what do you do I mean you're not really that good from what I'm seeing suddenly not better than anything else in our army so I'm afraid storm elementals we're not going to hire you but thank you for not even putting up a fight whilst we steal the relic you meant to be guarding anyway we've just managed to pick up a wacky necklace which increases on knowledge and power stats 511 and 7 meaning any suppose we do have a very broken others sadly we've got to grab any spells of this hero let's see if the Royal Griffin's want to join us of course they will 18 royal Griffin's they have unlimited retaliations now basically in combat if you move a unit next to a unit you get a retaliation attack these guys can retaliate unlimited amount of times normally are only allowed to retaliate once yeah right we're replacing the silver pegasi bye-bye we've got some royal Griffin Knights anyway now that we're here we're just going to recruit our entire army that we possibly can the maximum of all forces and then we're going to hand them all over to Reinold so we go Reinold comes into town and suddenly instead of recruiting dwarves we have battle dwarves so I'm going to upgrade our existing dwarves into battle dwarves oh my they're even better with 40% magic resistance now yes so naturally we'll recruit all of those battle dwarves we're going to recruit the elves but ghazal grandiose instead of shooting once they shoot twice which if you can imagine there's doing a damage of about by if twice per turn and there's seven of them yet it gets pretty wacky so we're going to upgrade our elves anyway they would Ronald's army is looking very good I think we can probably March him off to combat really he's looking ready anyway Adela is down here and she spotted an enemy hero it is girlfriend the deaf night as we can see down here yes girlfriend the deaf night I don't know what army they have I have no way of knowing but I'm basically going to attack them anyway because chances are we'll be able to win oh my oh my oh my the game Auto predicts a glorious victory in which we lose only one casualty Oh girlfriend the deaf night I'm so sorry I made you diplomatic Lee convinced a large quantity of monsters that would never normally work together to work together oh and I've just stolen all of your loot thank you very much girlfriend the deaf night Wow suddenly Adela is now becoming really powerful she has a 12 power skill and yet no spells that she can actually use all the mango begin to scatter no let us defeat them yes 23 may go dead we let us teach a basic air magic and hopefully she'll grab a spell when she's out and about anyway riland is now actually going to march into the enemy territory and he's probably going to be able to take it oh my goodness a group of zombies desire to join twenty nine zombies with the special ability of disease what to join no I'm sorry I'm not going to accept Mimi's thirty Mimi zombies no no no no no thank you for the offer though it is time for us to leave right where i know'd you're going to march up through the middle and there we go we've managed to tear down the scenery and we can now wander into the enemy territory and there we go it's the enemy city yes it turns out we're fighting it's a necropolis who are a group of necromancer's and Skelly boys oh and there's the last of the enemy army it's said tina the necromancer what we're probably going to take you out next term so this is the fantastic turn Reinold here with an army consisting of 47 central captains and actually just our regular normal army excluding the 31 rogues are going to go marching straight into the necropolis and I think we have just managed to take it immediately yes they didn't actually have anything defending it well that's magical you know instead of actually taking out the enemy army we're instead going to use our time here to try and locate where the hidden treasure is because basically these lovely little obelisks here have been giving us parts of a treasure map and when we eventually reveal where it is probably somewhere around here on the map we'll be able to do a dig and hopefully find a very item right Gretchen it's up to you now you're going to have to randomly dig and hopefully we'll find something no nothing here where could it be okay probably the spot just north of you then it's somewhere around here there we go we finally discovered it where x marks the spot okay right I think I know roughly where that is that is take a look at the puzzle map R it looks like it's this spot here yes the one just beneath where I've dug is great right Gretchen you're gonna have to go over here and dig although you need a full turn to actually dig okay right hopefully the enemy army does not accidentally just throw itself into me and we can actually see what the hidden item is Blue has banished and left the game seriously Gretchen was just about to dig no game don't game no Gretchen was just about to find the artifact game oh my goodness well nonetheless ladies and gentlemen here we are thank you very much for watching I've just demonstrated a little bit of why here's the mighty magic freeze diplomacy is very wacky the launch of the map the WAC here it gets the more crazy units you can end up throwing into armies together you can create an absolute mess at the end of the day it is very good fun and we have many more exploits for this game so if you're interested in seeing anything else in here as a bita magic-free then do give me a shout well I'll say when this video hits about 20,000 likes I'll get on with making a video about how the skeleton snowball has the Necropolis faction is completely utterly overpowered because they have the ability to reanimate any units which die including their own and the enemies yes it's perfectly fine anyway ladies and gentlemen I've been the sweeping Briton if you enjoyed watching here today then feel free to give the video a like it would really help me out and is always a massive thank you to each and every one of my patrons for making these fantastically delightful videos possible give yourselves a pat on the back you lovely people and if you're wondering what video you should probably watch next then look no further than this one on screen now trust me it's been handpicked by myself to be right up 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Length: 28min 21sec (1701 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 29 2019