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Heroes 3: In the Wake of Gods + Era

"This will be a long hard journey. Long as a centennial war and hard as a DEADLIFT!"

Added: 25-10-2017

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DEADLIFT walkthrough

Description:

"This will be a long hard journey. Long as a centennial war and hard as a DEADLIFT!"

Notes Valery:

With Petar's agreement, the map was reworked a bit in order to fix some annoying bugs and offer a better gameplay experience. This map goal is to get an almost invincible hero, Tazar, up to 100/108 experience level, so he takes almost no damage from overwhelming armies. But, as Heroes 3 vanilla is terribly bad coded concerning experience levels after 74th, we had to implement erm scripts and make this leveling possible.

Therefore, Tazar is now cursed, he can't visit any tree of knowledge until level 64, so he can take pandora boxes and fights. Note that fights difficulty can be modified on the fly in this map, from easy to ouch mode. Won battles give spoils of war. Bigger battles = more spoils, more experience.

After 64th level, Tazar can visit trees again, until 74. At 74th level, Heroes becomes extremelly bugged, next level will be 88, the next will be 100 OR 108, and next, well .... it is 6000+ OR back to 0 and you lose all specialty bonuses. So better we stop at 100/108 because at 6000+ you will die clicking while leveling, and at 0 you will lose game.

So, how to remain at 100/108? Dig the grail then visit the Shrine of time, south of map. It will ask you for the grail, then it will freeze tazar in time, he will remain at 100/108 level and will gain no longer experience from battle. If you don't visit this shrine and continue battle, you will certainly be back at 0 level. So do it :)

Other features: Shaman mountain, near starting town. For gold, you can buy different upgrades, for your heroes and army.
Another building in the Enchanted tower, somewhere in the underground. You can buy, for mithril, enchantements for your army. Think to develop early heroes level 10, expert luck and raise their luck at +10 then park them in towns, because at 10 luck/10th level + expert estates, the hero produces one mithril/daily. And enchantements cost 1000 mithril each!

Difficulty change: there is a little button near the minimap. You can change difficulty any time. During AI's turns, difficulty is back to Easy. But: if you attack an AI on OUCH, his army is multiplied by 10. If you surrender, his army remains like that. So think well before attacking, change difficulty only if you think you can beat that hero.


Pressing F1 will display the current difficulty used.

Another button near the minimap will provide little help, from cycling through gardens and windmills to find mithril, to delete stacks of imps, delete spells from AI heroes (when it bugs) and such.


Buildings on map: each fortress monster has its academy, where it will automatically gain abilities. Here is the list, so you don't waste your resources buying them from emerald towers, as they will be given anyway.

ORCS: get immunity fire and no penalty in close combat. Academy at 115/51/0

Thunderbirds: get immunity fire, no enemy retaliation and attack twice. Academy at 48/136/0

Dragon flies: get immunity fire, no enemy retaliation and attack twice. +3 to growth. Academy at 107/52/0 (if you have them in army)

Behemots: get immunity fire, no enemy retaliation and attack all around (think to buy attack twice from emerald towers). Academy at 143/76/0.

Mighty Gorgons: get immunity fire and no retaliation (buy attack twice from emerald towers). Activated by the event at 23/94/0

Cyclop Kings: get immunity to fire, no close range penalty and attack twice. Academy at 61/71/0

Wiverns: get immunity fire, attack twice and no retaliation. Acadermy at 127/70/0.

Chaos Hydras: get immunity fire, fly. (buy attack twice from emerald towers). Activated when you pass through the monolith two ways at 143/138/1.

Emerald towers: can be visited only once, each. I suggest you improve growth of hydras and behemots, otehr then buying the abilities aformentioned.



AI armies: will increase each month by a certain percentage, so don't be extremelly slow.

Altair of sacrifice: will display a list of artifacts you must keep for various purposes.


**********WARNING************

Before playing, load Deadlift.dat from Mods/Deadlift folder. It contains the proper wog settings. If you change them, there is no guarantee the map can be finished.


Any interface mods are compatible with this map. I strongly recommend to play it with HD mod, then you will certainly need Overflow fix mod. All interface mods can be downloaded from wakeofgods.org/mods.
Then, in mod manager, right click on wog mod and activate the plugins: display primary skills over 99. This is extremelly important, as Heroes vanilla stops displaying their real value at 99, so you don't know when the limit of 125 is reached (after that they drop at 0).



SPOILERS:

Commander helm gives first aid. Use this to get all skills (equip the helm on your head, ctrl+click on experience icon to bring first aid in visible skills, remove the helm -give it back to commander,voila, you created a new free skill slot where a new skills can be teached).

Necromancy is removed from all heroes except necros. Yes, you can use mod invite tavern and get necros early, get millions of skeletons then literally kill the economy and the map, but you will get no fun (well, in my opinion). Necromancy is better out from such well tested maps :)