The downloadzip now includes an English walkthrough, written by Koni.
This is the adventure of Maximus.A warrior from Rome.He was banished from his homeland.He went away by sea.The ship sank.Maximus was the only survivor.He woke up on a beach with no memory of what have happened.Now Maximus must find his way back to Rome.
This is an edited version of the well known map of Darklord, which gives the player a warning about the annoying "bug", that the important AI hero God of fire may vanish without any reason in the beginning and how to react.
Author: Valery (France), 12-07-2012 18:46 No error There is no error, 1 million people already finished it, as you can read. And map is rather easy, so try again, maybe.
Author: Giandrone (Peru), 11-07-2012 18:37 I can not return to the quest guard Having penetrated the souls of lost artifacts and have gotten: blackshard of the death and the other, I can not go back because I lost the volume of water magic and earth magic tome, which prevents me invoke a boat or teleport. Please help, otherwise I will think that this map has an error.
Author: M-Z (USA), 01-07-2012 00:48 Power Lich makes everything boring!!! I acquired 100,000 PowerLiches and split them into 5 stacks of 20,000 ea. Accompanied by 2 stacks of AA of 1,000 ea. MOWED down EVERYTHING!!! Just bring ORB and MASS SLOW at beginning. Don't need other heroes but a LostSoul (for liches) and Max. Took 24 mons but because of getting liches took some time. (Liches has a bug, once Max get over 100K liches DO NOT stash in town or it will go away!!!) and Conflux King is hard to find, need to read walkthrough. Grail useless. Good and detail map afterall.
Author: romkaz (estonia tallinn), 23-06-2012 20:31 warning. You have to make sure you have enough room for your hero's backpack. Couldn't get last items to kill caesar in the land of death.
Map is quite easy, had luck with 4k cyclop kings joining me. Very interesting map btw. Hardest battles were fiur and death god, although it was easy aswell. If you know how to use slow, blind and clone for massive ressurection.
P.S: Does sacrifice work on cloned creatures?
Author: Perto (Filippines), 18-05-2012 00:45 Gelu recruitment How can you recruit Gelu? I build the tavern in King´s Castle, but he never appears...
Author: Alin (Cluj ,Romania), 05-04-2012 02:34 Great map Very nice and interesting map,one of the best I ever play.Good job,great work from Darklord,well done.
Darklord,I salut,u get the skills and talent for creating maps.
Now,what I really don't understand(I doesn't complain about this map,it is really a v good work,nothing to say against,only good things;but what I say will can make the game more interesting):
-why Maximus need so hard fire magic?Fire magic is worth just for berserk and u don't have it.Even if u have it,is really not important for this map.So,fire magic just take place from another better skill.Even armory is more important than fire magic in this game.
-than,why to avoid the fire camps in labirint??The creatures are v easy to defeat,with no losses and just a few points of mana(slow,blind,clon e) and they give u a lot of experience
In my oppinion,don't take fire magic.Also,I think all the heroes(after lord of water) should increse their troops at least 50% or more,because they are v easy to defeat.
Lord of air is easy to defeat,if u have the right army(and I don't think a real heroes 3 player will have different army than I had):
-archangels
-sharpshooters(split in 2 or 3)
-Champions
-Gold Dragons(Green Dragons before to find orb of vulnerability,to can resurect it,than upgrade to gold)
-zealots
And if is really necessary(I did it only to defeat lord of air),u may take the crusaders,but I hit with this troops only 2-3 times in that battle.
The spells u have(expert clone,blind ,slow or resurection) and this army(archangels and sharpshooters) can defeat anything,as long u can use magic.
Lord of air could have 2 x 15000 archangels(not just 2x 3500 arch) and still a easy battle,just a few min more.So,cast slow,than wait with all your troops ,and hit with everything u have only the air elements(never hit the archangels before finish all the air elements).2nd and 3th round cast blind on archangels and eliminate all the air elements.Than is v easy,clone the sharpsooters and zealots,than cast bless,bloodlust,hast e and wherever u like,than in a begining a new round and be sure u didn't use magic in that round,hit only with archangels(a blind creature never fight back) and than all your archers,then cast blind again(before is his turn to hit).Repeat this any time u like,I had spell point enough to defeat 30k archangels(2 x 15K).
And Caesar is v v weak,he really should have at least 100% more troops or different army,all that messages make me worry,but when I saw Caesar army...And what for to fight Caesar with the other 2 heroes??
The artifact Cloak of the underking dead, gives u a very big advantage(if u like to use it).U take a undead hero,give him all maximus army and u will have extra a lot of liches.
I'm gonna replay the map in this way too.
I lost some time in begining(1-2 months),but I finished the map in month 14,(without to take the troops from last week or the troops from last 3 castles,that would be 1000 sharpshoters and 300 gold dragons).My army(ammo cart also v important in some long battles):
-15k sharpshooters(spit in 3)
-1512 archangels
-2100 champions
-1500 gold dragons
- 3400 zealots
PS:alab or griffins should never be part of your army,in a game like this and almost never,if u have 2 different castles or u play just with computers.
lupint (Taoyuan, Taiwan) writes:
27-11-2013 08:28
defeat God of Air
How to defeat God of Air if you cannot blind Archangel? In fact, when archangel have maximum experience, it is immunized to blind spell (also mind spell). (I play at difficulty of impossible)
Author: iguebe (Italy), 20-02-2012 19:44 Merlin battle Hello wonderful map !!!
Now I have to defeat Merlin, but I have some difficulties.
Do yuo have some strategy about it?
I'm late with my army?
I am at begin at 12th month
7000 alab.
7312 sharpshooters
823 zelots
754 archangels
524 champions
1178 crusaders
1326 royal griffins
Author: Grendel (Belgrade, Serbia), 14-02-2012 15:44 Thank you I like this map so much, I don't mind replaying it. And it turned out Cornucopia is not crucial.
Author: Aeris Quamarine (China), 14-02-2012 09:11 Like Re Hello, about the random creature, the author forgot to avoid it, and you have no choice but to replay or cheat,
you can add an empty event there in the map to avoid creatures in the game
New map has been completely rid of the God of Fire's disappearance by replacing the pink main hero of another random one, who causes the trouble
Author: Grendel (Belgrade, Serbia), 13-02-2012 22:55 Random creature spawn bug? Fantastic map. But I have problem, random creature spawned and block space I was supposed to unload from boat just beside cornucopia. Is there a way to bypass this?
Author: Koni, 29-01-2012 00:43 weekend? The only thing what comes in my mind reagarding your problem, is: maybe youd didn't visit the stables at first day of the week.
Author: Pitt (Poland), 27-01-2012 17:54 Problem! I have a problem with this map...I defeated Brissa in the underground and tried to waterwalk to that spot south of the crypt but it seems i dont have enough movement! I got both boots of speed and equestian gloves, visited stables, rested at the shore...even got logistics and pathfindinhg and still cant reach it! I can get to the other quest quard which wants me tp deafeat fiur but cant get to him so I cant complete the map! :( can some1 help me with that? Any ideas how to do it? I even left all my troops and went there with only archangels...
Author: dalgo (New Zealand), 14-01-2012 02:53 Like Darklord I salute you This was the most complicated, involved, detailed and satisfying map I have ever played. I can scarcely imagine the amount of work that went into creating it. Thank you very much, and also thanks to Koni as I couldn't have completed the game without your walkthrough.
I made the final battle a team effort. First I sent in Hrodogrin (Level 48 Barbarian) with his Stronghold troops including 1024 Cyclops. He killed 2495 Zealots and all 8043 Griffins. Next up was Christian at Level 46 with 120 Phoenix in six stacks - and Armageddon! He took out a total of 3556 enemy creatures. Marion (Level 50) had her Rampart troops including 1660 Gold Dragons as well as 50 Azure Dragons and she targeted the Archangels, killing 268.
All three heroes retreated and I rehired them at Kings Castle before attacking with Maximus (level 62) with an all-Castle assault force led by 1488 Archangels. With Caesar already softened up it was an easy battle but I resurrected all my troops before winning the game in month 15 for a final score of 432.
Author: d3s7ruc71v3 (Bulgaria), 17-11-2011 22:29 Like Just share some gratitude & attainment That was the GREATEST Unique MAP i've ever played... After this really big , hard and fun QUEST(map) I think nothing can be hidden from my eyes... Ty - Creators !!!
Month 31 Week 4 day 4 without any crash... just care for too much resources and gold(with this treasuries u can crash the game - so i prefer to change all of your gold for one resource than ,the same resource spend it for gold and repeat that to reduce your gold at 10/20 kkk and don't forget never change the army positions or abandon it in towns after 10 month or if they are too huge...
I just got all from this map, without any help,than i played the map again and end it in month 11 week 2 day 4 without killing Air God(that was good challenge too)!Tank you makers for this pleasure - great job and hf to all
Author: Koni, 04-09-2011 14:12 Praise to Darklord I don't earn your praise. The author of this "creative" map is Stefan Kispalko aka Darklord. :)
Author: Sebt (Bydgoszcz, Poland), 04-09-2011 14:08 573 days, 426points, rank Archangel I didn't knock down the god of air, but in the last battle I blind enemy Archangels, beat all creatures without AA and cloned all units, gave Fury (that what gives max to attack and lower defense to 0) for my clnoed 1437 AA and that provides about 850 deaths of enemy AA in one strike.
Great map, you're very creative. You used hidden places, many events and I chalenged very strong heroes and monsters.
GRATULUJE!
Author: Valery, 27-05-2011 00:06 I disagree I disagree with most of your points:
"1. Map may crash after 12 month"
Not map's problem but Heroes bug, resources overflow. 3DO's fault.
"2. You can’t loose in this map, you always win its just a matter of the time (so there should be timer on the map – win Cesar before 12month)"
It is not the goal. The goal is to win all battles, if you don't have the skill to keep casualties very low, you will eventually lose. That's the goal in 99% of single maps.
"3. Up to God of Air everything is perfect, but he is totally unbalanced you defeat him and all rest enemies are nothing for you"
He is optional, you don't need to defeat him. As optional, it is normal to have him stronger than everyone. It is a test of skill and courage.
"4. No taverns in cities, "
There is one in the 5th castle you conquer. More than enough. I was able to recruit any hero I wanted, develop him and have strong secondary heros for various tasks.
"5. Difficult of the map is not impossible…since you can’t loose and you are not limited to time so I will put it to Normal. Of timer for 12 month and then it could be Impossible."
Debatable, see below. Not everyone is expert at Heroes, and placing a time limit would halve or even more the number of players. Nothing prohibits you to rush it as fast as you like.
Author: Songo (Poland, Cracow), 09-05-2011 18:11 Feeling about the map...ideas...points Finished!!! 11m 1w 5d (played just one time)
Don’t understand people what are blaming author of this map.
Author did incredible job, and did it really good!!!, maps created by game makers are not even close to this map.
If you are looking for tuff times with enemies attacking you then start XL, 200% map against 7 computers (put them in one team), play according to WCL rules (hope you know what is it), if not here are most important: (don’t use dimension door, fly, don’t start playing conflux and necro, don’t take diplomacy)
and we will see how you stand it :) :).
This map is just different, its Hero adventure with lot of nice thing on the way.
I didn’t find any bugs in this map, it crashes after 15month but it’s just nothing we can do with it, we can just try finish map earlier.
Below I will mention some bad and good things of this map:
BAD (or what to consider):
1. Map may crash after 12 month
2. You can’t loose in this map, you always win its just a matter of the time (so there should be timer on the map – win Cesar before 12month)
3. Up to God of Air everything is perfect, but he is totally unbalanced you defeat him and all rest enemies are nothing for you, even Cesar is weaker then God of Air - it doesn’t make sense, all enemies before where balanced (every next one stronger then previous) so this is something to consider for sure.
4. No taverns in cities, I understand why not in Longbow, Unknown and First 2 Ramparts, but in next cities they are needed to take care of all small thing (Maximus time is just to important, he has no time to visit every mine and etc).
5. Difficult of the map is not impossible…since you can’t loose and you are not limited to time so I will put it to Normal. Of timer for 12 month and then it could be Impossible.
GOOD:
1. Map is unique, very professional and very well synchronized.
2. Map is very good for beginners to obtain good experience of the game.
Here comes some idea to people what would like to make game more interesting.
Try to finish it before 10month, its possible I have checked, just didn’t want to spend another 2 days to get it done.
Try to defeat God of Air on 7month.
Here is what I needed to get him killed:
Maximus
61/57/62/60
1200 spell points
Tactic Expert (obligatory)
Orb of Vulnerability
Army:
400 - Archangels
600 - Champions
750 - Zealots
1100 - Crusaders
1700 - Royal Griffins
5000 - Marksmen
5000 - Halberdiers
I defeated God of Air on 9 month with bigger Army and stats, then I fired some part of army and took off some artifacts to have stats like above and defeated him.
The time to defeat God of Air is right after you gain 2 new Castles (after Lost Souls) - go get Orb of Vulnerability and get guy down
If somebody wants/needs I can write more specific my tactic of defeating God of Air.
(POINT)
I make fun from people what are talking about thousands of Power Liches… its true you can have them, but you will never finish earlier then Maximus…. Map is constructed in way that you don’t stand wait for creatures you actually never have money to buy all of them.
And since Maximus hurries for revenge on Cesar the key is to finish as soon as possible!!!
Author: Tay Zonday (Canada), 05-03-2011 15:44 very good and fun map! lots of twists and turns and what not... I'm always moving my cursor around the mountains/forests to check for hidden paths =P. And the game gets VERY easy (as if it isn't already). It's easy in the first place because of expert clone + archangel revive. No matter how much damage you take, you can just leave one enemy alive and blind it, then continuously cast clone then have the cloned archangel revive. Then use like frost ring to dispel the clone. Rinse and repeat.
However it gets WAY easy when you obtain the "cloak of the undead king". At that point I was like OKAY. Go to Kings Castle's tavern and spam recruit heroes for a necropolis hero that has the Necromancy special (Videmania and Isra, in this case I got lucky with Isra), then have the necro hero take all the troops from Maximus and train on a huge monster stack (in this case I went back to near beginning and took out the crystal dragons guarding the Dragon Utopia). Now when the necro hero is decently trained I easily mained this hero instead and massed liches. So what if the necro hero's stats are like 40/40/40/40?
I had around 680 thousand (678814) liches when I faced the Caeser guy in the end. Everything that the liches hit when you have 20k+ of them is easily one hit KO. LEL should've left the Cloak out.
Author: YuuDai (Vietnam), 20-02-2011 18:15 nice story m12 w1 d4 kill ceasar with 20k power lich :D and 721 aa.
Author: manofwar (Turkey), 19-02-2011 15:35 best map so far perfect map, while i was thinking i m the best player of heroes 3, i saw there are many more guys now i m more happy, wish i can challange you all, losing or winning not mattters, playing against such players is the most important,
Author: Popa Bogdan (Bucharest,Romania), 08-01-2011 23:49 God of Air God of Air defeat(Imposible difficulty) on
M12 W1 D3
My army:
954 Archangels
1404 Champions
8433 Sharpshooters
822 Cyclop Kings
753 Gold Dragons(Had Orb of Vulnerability for them)
5025 Griffons
2296 Zealots
I didnt used the same strategy as Marius except the blind(I think this is universal)
Nerver underestimate Disruption Ray it could make even death vulnerable to death :D (I know it has no sense)
Author: Hazar (Moscow, Russia), 22-12-2010 20:24 извините, что не по-английски Я ничего не имею против вас или автора карты ))Наоборот, вы сделали большой труд. И как видите многим это нравится. Однако, как известно, мнение большинств а далеко не показатель качества. Все те недостатки , которые я описал ниже есть на карте. И даже если у карты будет рейтинг 100 из 10, недостатки от этого не исчезнут. Чем отличается стоящий неподвижно герой от обычного монстра на карте? Да практическ и ничем. И вот именно такой большой объём хвалебных комментари ев и побудил меня написать своё - альтернати вное мнение. И опять же большинств о со мной явно не согласится .
PS. а ещё на карте есть баг ;) 100%
Author: Koni, 22-12-2010 11:55 Thanks - спасибо Oh, what a long comment! But first, you have to complain at the author of the map - Stefan Kispalko. I am not the author. Second - it's your right, if you don't like the map. Sorry for wasting your time. But why did so many people enjoy this map?
О, какой длинный комментари й! Но сначала, Вы должны жаловаться в авторе карты - Штефан Киспалко. Я не автор. Секунда - это - Ваше право, если Вам не нравится карта. Извините за трату Вашего времени. Но почему сделал очень много людей, обладают этой картой?
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Author: Hazar (Moscow, Russia), 21-12-2010 20:42 Вы меня конечно извините, но я скажу. Я конечно человек не местный и в забугорном аглицком не силён, но ставить за это 10?!! За всю карту на меня не напал ни один враг. Вся стратегия сводится к тому, что ты идёшь по длинному запутанном у коридору, встречаешь сильного соперника, мирно дремлющего в проходе, умираешь, перезагруж аешься, идёшь в замки, сидишь копишь существ, опять в тот же коридор, валишь врага и входишь в следующий запутанный коридор. И так по кругу стопитсот раз. В бесконечно м цикле. Всё! Я описал весь сценарий. Ни одной идеи больше нет. Конечно это титаническ ий труд - нарисовать столько заныканных коридоров, но после стопервого заныканног о коридора как-то это однообрази е, мягко говоря, надоедает. Хуже того, в середине сценария валяется плащ короля нечисти. Ну и что в итоге? Максимус пинком улетает на пенсию и покупается некромант. Облачается сей мёртвый отрок в плащ и вперёд! Через пару месяцев после этого у меня уже около сотни тысяч личей в запазухе и сам чёрт, как говорится, мне не брат. Все дальнейшие легионы однообразн ых существ проходятся на автобое! Да, я конечно медленный. Некромант у меня не орёл, да и личи к этому не спосбствую т, а ещё автор в каждом коридоре поняпрятал кусков моря, для которого постоянно надо переодеват ься в сапоги левитации, так что после сотого раза я их просто перестал снимать. Да, я медленно и уныло брожу по карте и всех мочу не глядя. Как это мило. Как захватываю ще. Сколько экспрессии . Конечно заставить работать ИИ правильно - задача трудная. Зачем же заниматься решением трудных задач? Когда можно просто поставить галочку герою "стоять неподвижно ". К чёрту стратегию! Даёшь тактику! А даёшь ли? На автобое-то? Дрессировк а ИИ третьих героев дело неблагодар ное (уж поверьте), он принципиал ьно не слушается нормальног о человеческ ого языка. И поэтому мы получаем море подобных карт (мог бы перечислит ь и ещё примеры). Не буду оценивать эту карту. Ибо так до конца её и не прошёл (осилил три четверти этого уныния). Настолько однообразн о, что жутко скучно. Оставляю возможност ь оценивать такие карты тем, кто любит именно такое.
Author: Koni, 01-11-2010 11:20 More maps by Stefan Kispalko Besides The Empire of the World (1) there is a marvelous H4 map War of the Lords (for Winds of War). If you like to play H4 I recommend my edited version (available on this side, too).
Author: Farting Imp (Hell), 01-11-2010 01:55 nice Hi, just finished the map! Huh that was long, longer than some shorter campaign :P
The map is a great work, not perfect, but still good. You must have worked a lot creating it.
I had to invent some nasty tactics to finish it. I am sure sb bellow already wrote it. But i write it again in case sb dont want to read back that much,like me. :P
1.Clone Archangel -> Use its resurrect -> Terminate the Clone(fireball...) -> Begin again.
Dont clone if you dont have space, where they can spawn, coz it will be seriously buggy.
2.During the battle blind one enemy. At the end, resurrect all troops with clones before killing the blinded enemy. It is harder if you cant blind the enemy(at least until you get that black orb), but not impossible to create a stable battlefield. Just use a clone as a bait(AI likes attacking clones) or leave ranged enemy units.
3. IF the enemy much stronger, like 18000 Devil +..., then blind as many as you can and kill one at a time. When they blided cast slow on them and any curse and bless you want(I like cast frenzy on my clones). Hit them and blind again.
I finished before the 19th month.(unfortunately i did not had logistics skill)
Final army:
1420 Marksman
4002 Zealot
8000 Efreet Sultan (only joined ones)
2563 Champion
9786 Griff
1788 Archangel
2083 Gold Dragon
I could have more if i would wanted to.
Artifacts i used: Sword of the angelic alliance, water and earth magic book, golden bow, orb of vulnerability, elixir of life.
Author: bearslayer (Latvia), 31-10-2010 03:20 Like the best of all maps i just won Ceasar! i lost only 135 liches against him!
but...this map was the best i have played, so are there more maps, created by same author? i would like to take one more challenge!
my hat off to author!
Author: Delivor (Kiev, Ukraine), 25-09-2010 08:19 Masterpiece Best map I ever played.
Author: Koni, 08-08-2010 01:40 No affect if you manage all the fights taking the campfires it will not affect later game play
(1) Follow the road to the south.Kill the guard and pass through the
subterranean gate.The road north leads to the castle Longbow.Visit
the stable again to upgrade your cavaliers.Fight and kill the Cleric
Longbow.The castle will be built the next week,but not the Portal
of glory.
(2) The next 2-3 weeks you should take control of the area around Longbow.
You should build the Portal of glory before the end of month 1.
If you don`t have enough resources,visit the Trading post.
(3) When you have about 7-10 Arch Angels in your army go northeast to
the Unknown castle and take it.And free the prisoner there.Remember
the seer`s hut behind the prison for later.It will give you The
Tome of earth artifact.Go to the subterranean gate behind the castle
to visit the blue keymasters tent.
(4) When you have about 15-20 Arch Angels you should go south from your
castle Longbow to the blue border guards.Follow the river by boat
til`you get to the Sherwood forest.Take the Crown of the supreme magi
from the Dendroid guards first.Kill Robin Hood.But be careful
that he don`t flee with your boat,then all will be lost.
(5) Now Cristian can pass the border guard south of the unknown castle
and visit the green keymasters tent.And Maximus can visit the seer`s
hut to the north of Sherwood forest to learn water walk.Let Maximus
water walk his way back west towards the unknown castle and visit the
seer`s hut to get the Tome of earth artifact.
(6) Now it`s time for Maximus to go to the hall of gods.Just behind Longbow
is a two way monolith that leads to it.Don`t be afraid of the gods,
they can`t move.Kill only God of water.Then you can pass to the south
on the river that lead to sherwood forest.
(7) Go straight to the east and land your boat.Then go south towards Brother Tuck.
Kill Brother Tuck.Free Marion just behind Brother Tucks castle.
(8) Go by boat again(visit the islands)til`you get to the island where
Prince John and King Arthur lives.To get to King Arthur you have to
water walk.
(9) Now when you have killed King Arthur you can pass the border guard
that leads to the WHIRLPOOL.
(10)You will get to the island where Xyron lives.You can not kill him.
Listen very careful to the peasants.They are your only chance to pass
Xyron.Take the one way monolith that leads to Mongolia(don`t town portal
back for more troops til`you get to the next castle).
(11)Now you are in the black sea.Summon a boat.Get to land.
You don`t have to fight the Green Dragons to get the artifact.
When you reach the border guard that needs 4000 wood,you shold go north
between the two Gorgon`s lair(hidden passage)to the subterranean gate.
There to the south you will find a castle and the wood you need.
To the south of the castle is a hidden passage.You will need the Dragons.
Go back to the border guard.
(12)Kill everything in Mongolia if you can.The Chaos hydras for gold,the
Fearie Dragons for primary skills.Water walk to the west where the sign
says "swimming only"to get the Cornuccopia.
To the west of the magic well is the hidden passage that gets you
further into Mongolia.
(13)Kill the Red Keeper at King Lugasus grave to visit the red keymasters tent.
Summon a boat after you have killed Arjuna.Come back later for the Seerґs hut.
(14)Go by boat to the Chaos Island.Kill Semgal Khan to open the Quest guard.
You can open the pandoras box there to(no guards).
Go west til`you get to the garrison.You don`t have to fight the troops
in the garrison,there is another way in.
Kill Genghis Khan.
(15)Now you can pass the Quest guard at Kings castle.
(16)Search through the ocean,go north first and visit the Lighthouses(water walk).
Remember the Quest guard there for later(important).The Seer`s hut will
give you "Orb of vulnebarity"when you reach level 50.
Go south west by boat.You don`t have to fight God of fire yet,to pass
the Quest guard.Go further west first.Visit The Pit lords island.
And you don`t have to fight all the Crystal Dragons to get to the
monolith.You can come back much later.
(17)Go to the Hall of the gods.Kill God of fire.
(18)Go back to the Quest guard in the ocean that has the garrison behind.
Leave all your troops except a couple of Arch Angels in the garrison.
Go north.Don`t open the red border guard,go through the red border gate.
When yo reach the last red border guard,stay there
through the night.Then pass it to get to the purple keymasters tent.
Remember to build a tavern in Kings castle first.Surrender when
Merlin attacks you.Then rehire Maximus in Kings castle`s tavern.
Go back for the troops in the garrison.
(19)Now you can go south from Brother Tucks castle,and pass the purple
border guard.You have to kill the Faerie dragons.Go through the subterranean
gate.
(20)Kill the guard to get to the two way monolith.It will lead yo to
"Shadowlands".There are only 3 heroes in shadowlands.Kill all.
(21)Now you have to find the hidden passage Below the Unknown castle,west.
Then you will reach a border guard.Kill God of earth in "the hall of
the gods"to pass it.
(22)Now you enter the "wild barbarians land"Lookout for hidden passages.
About half of the map is covered now.If you have any problems with
the rest of the map,please email me.//Darklord
The Empire of the World II
map by Stefan Kispalko aka Darklord for H3 - SoD
English Walkthrough
written by Konrad Leweling aka Koni
Note before you start playing: In the updated version of the map an Enchated Spring (Purple) is placed near God of fire, so you can check if the God is standing there after day one. Restart if he has gone (what can happen, but makes the map unplayable.) !!!
Phase I. The Start (month 1-4)
- Maximus seeks his way to his first town on the upperworld, visit the seer (Spell power level 3), collect troops, defeat The Guard and go above,
- head north and capture Longbow (Red castle and hero), open Quest Guard (5000 g) and learn water and fire magic and pathfinding (very important!!),
- head east and free Christian from prison, take castle Unknown, visit the seer (seeks crown), both head back for troops, visit shrines for Haste and Slow,
- Christian opens Quest Guard for Crusaders, Maximus with all troops enters Subterranean gate behind Unknown and visits the lightblue keymaster,
- explore all the area south of Longbow including the starting area below, open guards and visit the seer (Equestrian gloves for 40 gems),
- enter a ship at the yard and follow the river, get the Crown of the Supreme Magi and enter Sherwood forest, defeat Robin Hood and capture Sherwood (Angle Feather Arrows and Shackles),
- meanwhile let Christian collect troops and resources, and after the defeat of Robin he visits the Green tent south of Unknown,
- Maximus opens the Guard and gets the spell Water walk from the seer, then he walks back to Unknown via stables getting the Ring, Boots and Necklace and visiting all objects on the way,
- the seer trades the Crown for the Tome of Earth Magic with the important Town Portal spell, meanwhile should be built the Portal of Glory in both castles,
- Maximus can visit the Quest-Guard (demands defeat of King Arthur), while Christian upgrades the angels at the hill fort as long as the Portals aren't upgraded.
Phase II. God of Water - King Arthur (month 5)
- Open Green Border Guard at the shore to the North and enter the hidden 2-way-monolith (behind Castle Longbow) into the Hall of the Gods, visit all objects and slay God of water first,
- with the tome of Water Magic (Clone spell etc. available by now!) and the Admiral's Hat equipped back to the river and open the Quest-Guard (defeat God of water), continue east,
- defeat Brother Tuck ant take his rampart Jeddite, open the Quest-Guard (well hidden behind the town) and free Marion from prison, open Quest-Guard north to Sherwood forest,
- let Marion collect some shooters and call a boat for her, in order that she can sail the river and reach Christian, who can learn spells by her and visit other objects via river by now,
- with Maximus back to the river, seer gives artifact Buckler, explore the river and visit all training objects (Pandora box by Waterwalk), capture Princetown with Prince John,
- collect troops per Town Portal and cross the cursed grounds using Waterwalk near the School of War, defeat King Arthur in Kings Castle and Red is eliminated,
- take the gems behind the first Quest-Guard and build a tavern [Clue: You could try to recruit Gelu, who is placed in the garrison and can upgrade all your shooters to Sharpshooters by now.].
Phase III. Mongolia and GenghisKhan (month 6-7)
- Collect all available troops (I needed Archangels, Zealots, Champions, Gold Dragon and Sharpshooters only), open Quest-Guard (defeat King Arthur), and enter the whirlpool (One-way only!),
- sail north (passing your starting place) and land, proceed to stables [Save!] and follow the instructions of the Horsekeeper and the events on the way exactly (!!!), and you will escape Xyron.
- enter the One-Way portal to Mongolia, at the exit do a step forward, call a ship and cross the Black Sea, disembark and follow the way to a Quest Guard (4000 wood),
- head north passing between the 2 gorgon lairs, and find the way (hidden pile of ore) to the Subterranean gate, follow the road south and conquer the Forest rampart with its Dwarf Master,
- after refreshing your army take the pile of 4000 wood and find the hidden passage to the Gold Dragons (blocking Garden of revelation north of the Green Dragons), the seer (wants Vial),
- back to Quest-Guard (4000 wood), visit the obelisks (or later), open the Pandora's Box, the Quest-Guard (defeat Titan master) you will open much later!,
- at the sign "Swimming only" you first have to find your way west via Garden of revelation and some Watering holes, having reached the Tree of knowledge use the spell View Earth/Air,
- you will detect the hidden artifact Cornucopia, which you can only reach by Waterwalk back from the sign, with the Cornucopia (let it always with Maximus, you will need it later!),
- continue west and take the Fortress of Wystan, proceed west to the Grave of King Lugasus, defeat Red Keeper and monsters behind, get the Titan's Cuirass and visit the Red tent,
- cross the Mystical Gardens and conquer Fort Kunhikutta with Arjuna, a seer (defeat GenghisKhan) gives a hint: call a ship, explore the whole sea (visit Library, mermaids and gate are decoration only),
- land at the Chaos Island, defeat Semgal Khan, with a boat to the Pandora's Box, open Quest-Guard and find your way to the garrison, defeat GenghisKhan and conquer Mongolia, Teal eliminated.
- before you townportal back to Longbow, don't forget to take your reward from the seer. [Hidden Feature: a Sword of Judgement behind the Crypt (!), reaching by boat only.]
Phase IV. God of Fire - Shadowlands (months 8-10)
- Eliminate God of Fire, take the artifact Power of the Dragon Father (hidden behind the Enchanted Spring), open the Quest-Guard (defeat GenghisKhan) near Kings Castle (the Tavern is ready??!!),
- call a ship and explore the sea north, a Quest Guard (return with 4 artifacts for the combo Armor of the Damned) can't be opened, attention at the Lighthouses (!), visit the 3 obelisks, sail back,
- in the western area you can visit an island with Pit lords for gold and a Pandora's Box and follow a path of obelisks to a Two-Way-Monolith leading into the Area of the Grail (alternative),
- you have to land in front of the Quest Guard (defeat God of Fire), follow strictly the given advices [SAVE before!]: parking your troops except 2 singel angels in the garrison, always take the left passages,
- your goal is, to pass Merlin (by NOT opening the first Red gate), reach the Purple tent to the right (you can visit the seer on the way), stay there (without Shackles equipped!) and let Merlin attack you,
- flee the battle, and re-recruit him in the Kings Castle tavern, that is the Merlin trick.
- Continue south of Rampart Jeddite, open the Purple Border Guard, defeat the 500 Faerie Dragons and pay attention crossing the Cursed Grounds by Waterwalk to the Trees of Knowledge,
- open the Quest-Guard (defeat the Faerie Dragons) and enter the gate to the underworld, conquer the Vial of Mercury behind the 2800 Enchanters and defeat the Pink Guard in front of the monolith,
- open the Quest-Guard (Vial of Mercury) and enter the Subgate into the Shadowlands, defeat Sandro and Nosferatu and conquer the 2 Necropolis towns, defeat Dracula as well (imprisoned before),
[Hint: You could try and recruit Dracula in the tavern, equipped with the combo artefact Cloak of the Undead-King and clever lead into battles he could provide you with legions of liches!!]
- Don't forget about the Seer's (defeat Nosferatu) reward (100 Champions), back to Longbow
Phase V. God of Earth - Barbarian Lands - Lost Souls - Merlin's Tower (months 11-13)
- Defeat God of Earth and take the Elixier of Life and the Armageddon Blade, from Castle Unknown seek the hidden passway behind the Barracks (pile of Wood blocks!!!),
- before you explore the Barbarian Lands you should take the whirlpool a second time and defeat Xyron in his Inferno town, you get his Boots of Levitation,
- with Xyron defeated open the Quest Guard (defeat God of Earth) and find the way to the 2 Strongholds of Gretchin and Hrodogrin (to both only by Waterwalk from the northern side),
[Hint: there is a hidden passway to a Pandora's Box (with Statue of Legion) via a Watering hole and a Rogue cavern, starting from the Wolf pen to the west],
- visit the Seer (defeat Cyclop king), open the Quest Guard (defeat Xyron) and head southeast, summon a boat and sail down the river,
- follow the Cyclops path to a Quest Guard (return with Orb of Vulnerability), which you will find only by defeating the legion of Green Dragons north of it
[Hint: the artifact is well hidden behind a Tree of Knowledge in front of the Library], open the Guard and defeat the Cyclop king in his Stronghold, the Seer gives 154 Royal Griffins as reward,
- passing the Troll Bridge (attention: a water area) only by Summon ship, Waterwalk spell or Boots of Levitation equipped, you reach the Quest Guard (defeat Cyclop king).
- Entering the Gate to the Underground you now are in the Land of the 'Lost Souls', have Maximus the Boots of Levitation equipped, because you will lose all your spell points step by step,
- 3 Quest Guards take your Tome of Earth Magic, Admiral's Hut, and Tome of Water Magic, a Lost Soul hero 'grants' his Skull Helmet, a Quest Guard (behind a volcano) wants a Sentinel's Shield,
- a Seer (behind another volcano via Garden of Revelation) wants the 3 Mana artifacts, pass the School of Magic and head north to another Lost Soul (with Shield of the Yawning Dead),
- the dead end with the (poisoned) Magic Well is a trap, you will lose all your refreshed Mana on the way back, you desperately walk back, but can find a hidden way via a Rogue cavern (volcano!),
- before you reach the Subterranean Gate you trigger an event, where you can find the 2 missing artifacts Rib Cage and Blackshard (for the seer in the sea, but don't combine them),
- behind the Gate above you find a Black Border Guard blocking your way, follow the advice to make a step forward and you will find the 3 Mana artifacts for the seer below,
- back to the seer change the 3 artifacts for the Sentinel's Shield and head back to the Quest-Guard, who now opens the exit, follow the path north and visit the 2 seers, summon a boat,
- you arrive in a 'paradise' with 2 castles and a lot of friendly castle creatures, a seer to the north grants Maximus a new Tome of Earth Magic, so he can recruit new troops from all towns.
- The 2-Way-Monolith behind the Purple Guard leads to a small island north of Merlin's Tower, but before you can get your revenge you have to find the Black keymaster, explore the sea to the west,
- land at the south coast of the Dreamlands island and visit the windmills, you will have some 'dreams' and 'nightmares', before you can enter the Monolith to the Cavern of Dragons with the Black tent,
- back to Merlin's island open the Black Border Guard and visit the Darkblue tent, then defeat Merlin (Helmet of Heavenly Enlightenment) and capture his tower, the Seer gives the Sandals of the Saint,
- back via 'Paradis' and through the Land of the Lost Souls to the Black Border Guard behind the Subterranean Gate above.
Phase VI. Viking Lands - Lands of the Titans - Labyrinth of the Four - Death God (month 14-15)
- Follow the path and pass the Garden of Revelation, capture the Rampart town and reinforce your army, back to the south open the Quest Guard (10000 gold) and beat the Ancient Behemoths,
[Hint: behind the Rampart you will find the Combo-artifact Magic Well, guarded by 3000 War unicorns],
- head north and open the Black Border Guard, you can free joining creatures by slaying all the monsters to the right and left, in the Viking land you can collect all the gold in the Dwarf territory,
- defeat the last Blue hero Viking in his Stronghold and open the Quest Guard (defeat Ancient Behemoths), follow the windmills path and open the Quest Guard (Cornucopia needed), visit the White tent,
- Head back to the White Border Guard south of the Rampart and cross the little water by Waterwalk, follow the white 'foot prints' to the land of the titans,
- explore the snowy area and conquer all 4 Towers by defeating the heroes Guard, The Mage, Master Genie, Naga Queen and the Titan Master (Celestial Necklace of Bliss)
[Hint: by defeating all the Golems besiegen you can get 300 gems and 80000 gold), the seer (defeat God of Air) would give 100 Archangels (but you don't need, do you?)]
Via Wystan's Fortress or Forest of the Dwarf King to the Quest-Guard (defeat Titan Master) and enter the One-Way-Monolith, you exit in the Labyrinth of the Four, explore it by ship, avoiding the fires, - follow the advices, there are only two landing points: one to the far north, which leads to Brissa's Conflux blocked by a Quest Guard (defeat Conflux King), you find him hiding nearby behind a volcano,
- defeat him and conquer Brissa's Conflux (Orange eliminated); the second point is at the two holes, you find them sailing the river arm south of the Library in eastern direction (neglect the warning),
[Hint: by Waterwalk and Summon boat you reach the 'path of tests', having completed the 3 tests you can claim the Lion's Shield of Courage].
- Now it gets complicated: the second conflux with Fiur to the south you can't reach by ship, but only with Waterwalk and good speed, so teleport back to Wystan's Fortress and start on day 1,
- with Boots of travel and Equestrian gloves equipped visit the stables near the monolith, rest at the shore south of the exit, cast Waterwalk and you should reach the spot south of the crypt
- open the Quest Guard (defeat Brissa), defeat Fiur and take his Conflux, Tan's last town
[Hint: If you want to defeat God of Air, you should try it in the next 7 days, because he as a Tan hero will vanish within 7 days after having lost his last town.]
- Using the same method you must reach the spot left hand of another crypt or north of the 3 wagons, but you should clear the straight way to the crypt passing the rallye flag before,
- Having reached the landing spot by Waterwalk open the QuestGuard (defeat Fiur) and summon a boat, head south (deadly dragon ambush to the north!) and land in front of the Deathclouds,
- find your way through the dark clouds till the Inferno of Death God via a pair of 2-Way-Monoliths, defeat Death God in his town.
Phase VII. God of Air - Dragon King - Lands of Inferno (month 16-18)
- After God of Air has vanished, the One-Way Monolith behind his place is free. You exit near a windmill south of a Rampart, take it and use it as new operating base.
- the Quest Guard to the west (by Waterwalk only) demands the 3 Diplomat's artifacts. You get them from the next opponents. First is the Dragon King.
- find the hidden way behind the Enchanted Spring (near the windmill) and you reach 2 Quest Guards: 1) open the Guard (defeat Death God) and sail the long was down the river Styx.
- having passed his own tomb Maximus enters the lands of the Dragons, fighting through the Dragon's lair follow the path to the west, then north till the heavy guarded garrison of Dragons.
- a hidden diversion leads north only blocked by thousands of Rust Dragons, defeat them and head east till you find the Dungeon of the Dragon King, your loot is the Ambassador's Sash and the Vial,
[Hint: Don't forget to take your reward for the Vial of Dragon Blood from the seer in the dragon's lair south of Forest rampart (225 Gold Dragons).]
- With reinforcements now head from the new Rampart base to the other Quest Guard: 2) open the Guard (defeat Dragon King) and enter the fiery Lands of Inferno.
- take the first garrison and head west, before you attack the second garrison cross the lava lake in western direction, you find the tomb of Fidor, brother of Maximus, with the Tome of Fire Magic,
- you can take a Breastplate and then head back to the garrison, with the Tome of Fire equipped you have new spells, which are helpfull beating the legions of Efreet Sultans (Protection of Fire, Berserk), - explore the land, conquer the 3 Inferno towns and slay the heroes Rashka, Marius and Ash, you will get the 2 artifacts Statesman's Medal and Diplomat's Ring.
- visit the two seer's for the reward (100 Archangels and 200 Champions), and open the Pandora's Box behind the Quest Guard (for Maximus only) to get a nice boost.
Phase VIII. Back in Rome - Final Battle against Caesar (month 19)
- Now open the Quest Guard (return with 3 Diplomat's artifacts) and enter the One Way Entrance to the Rome area, explore all area to the north,
- the thankful peasants grant Maximus the Armor of Wonder, the last artifact for the Angelic Alliance,
- conquer Castle Treasurehand in the SW corner and proceed north. Take the Tome of Earth Magic from below, and fetch Christian to Rome,
- take castle Southern Rome with Tyris and get the third Tome of Earth Magic for Marion. Defeat Nero in Nero Castle and conquer all 3 Ramparts,
- with Nero defeated open the QuestGuard to the 2 Dwarven Treasury and let Christian and Marion enter the One-way Monolith hidden behind them,
- both Marion and Christian find a Quest Guard below, with a Pandora's Box for their boosting and Creatures (which you actually don't need),
- open the Quest Guard (needs Tome of Fire Magic) on the way to Caesar's Palace and visit all objects, east of the Library you find an area with notes of the mapmaker Darklord,
- enter the Subgate left of the Palace and visit the brown/tan keymaster. Now the way is free for your revenge against Caesar, but be well prepared for the Final Battle.
Congratulations, you have managed this masterpiece of a map!!
[Hint: pay attention, if you should combine your legions of liches, danger of a -minus stack!!]
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