Capture the Singularity conflux castle. Hurry up in a few monthes before pink will get power enough to kill anybody on its way.
DD, TP, FL are allowed but not at regular castles, enemy is boosted both in resourses and creatures, decrease it if feeling too hard.
Author: Платон мне друг (Latvia), 26-04-2024 16:33 YOU WILL WIN...BUT WHEN? - crapcore Thx for joy.Humans rules. Finished on 5m2w5d. Made small mistake - delivered Graal to elf town for luck, but later took elf town with fixed Graal. Better to open map. In the end i had 11 heroes with TP to collect resources and panish enemies. With last one first send 2 heroes with 21 fire birds(7x3), armor of damned and expert fire magic and berserk each. These two kamikadze triple reduced enemies troops (no more lazur dragons and fire birds), but anyway last fight finished after 5th attempt and very long battle. Grindans last status with armor of damned was 88 82 99 92, all 4 magics. Dont make navigators - coz only one hat and no summon boat. I was lucky to found scroll with DD in the beginning of 4th month. Good luck everybody and enjoy the game!
Author: kps (Poland), 21-02-2024 19:21 WHY U HATE RAMPART - crapcore A very rich map where anything goes, damn the mapmaker for making rampart essentially a non faction I wanted to be filthy rich with treasuries, FILTHY RICH.
Anyway I had no problems starting with green(castle), here's a video of me beating up pink.
https://youtu.be/UlZQg-d7x_o
Yes the boats are broken as of HOTA 1.7.0 but it won't stop you from completing the map.
Author: RatMansion, 02-02-2024 16:26 Good, but needs an update - crapcore Very cool map with loads of detail. However, it seems the last patch of hota broke many of the docks so that purchased ships are not accessible.
Tested on red.
Author: Eternal35 (France), 12-08-2023 01:54 Like Great map - crapcore It is a great map with one way portal mecanics. A lot of quest and pandora boxes which a rewarding.
No need to kill all ennemies if you want to win. The last fight is tough.
Well done
Author: Andre Smith (South Africa), 30-05-2023 06:41 My favorite map of all time - crapcore What more can I say? I've replayed this map so many times with different factions. Love it!
Author: John (canada), 01-12-2022 09:36 Fix? - crapcore Sulfurous lair next to sanctum isn't accesible
Author: Masterhexes (Rm Valcea/Romania), 27-10-2022 10:07 Like Good map for me-crapcore - crapcore Played with CoveTown,finished in 12 month.
Author: DANDAN (Israel), 24-09-2022 21:10 Like Super fun and challenging map! - crapcore This map requires you to be aggressive, organized, and creative! incredibly well made, beautiful and challenging!
Managed to finish month 6, week 2 staring as tan (main hero Dessa)
the real challenge was beating final hero WITHOUT Liches or Fangarms!
here is how:
I used a maxed out Dessa with archery (and bow of sharpshooter) and intelligence (+double spell points from mana vortex).
had around 350 archangels, 1500 cyclop kings, 2500 enchanters, 400 Azure dragons, and the rest is phoenix stacks. first you survive the enemy attacking until blinding out all enemy stacks.(phoenix's regeneration is helpful for this!)
then you clone and resurrect your shooting stacks.
Then one by one you take an enemy stack to 0 defense with Disrupting ray (love this spell!) and kill it.
you can also clone your shooters, then frenzy, precision, prayer,bless as you want to maximize damage for each round of shots. make sure to slow enemy stack and then haste all your stacks. i enemy stack survives make sure to blind it and resume only on next round!
this takes patience and some luck (multiple times i tried and failed) . but I enjoy beating these battles without or necromancy!
thank you so much for this map!!!!!
DANDAN (Israel) writes:
24-09-2022 22:21
here is the result - crapcore
if anyone wants to try this battle, you can E-mail me at:
dan.alon55@gmail.com
I will send you the save file!
Author: Grimraven (Vancouver, WA, USA), 24-09-2022 16:53 Impressive map - crapcore This map was not easy to explore due to tents and gates system.
Lots of quest huts, but a lot of them give weak rewards.
Even late game, when you get 50 azures from quest, it does not seem like a lot.
Computers are very well boosted and mid game around month 5 you pretty much cannot touch them unless you learn berserk. But Berserk is learned in inferno towns and by that side of the map, so when I started with Castle, berserk was not available for quite a long time.
What disappointed me was that I did not even discover purple and brown tents, yet I was able to learn DD and FLY spells, which really ruins the difficulty. At that point, you know there is no way to lose, but even quests become irrelevant as you can just fly or dd over any obstacles or borders. In maps such as this DD and FLY spells should be even more restricted or banned altogether.
I defeated all enemies and only had pink left, but by month 10 I could not touch it, because even with berserking his army, he just kills your units way too quickly.
So I resorted to using hero with diplomacy, farming up to 5K arch angels and 900 Azures. Also kept hiring heroes from tavern until I got GELU and Dracon. So I had nearly 10k sharpshooters and enchanters. But even that was not enough. I had to get horn of abyss artifact (NOTE: Cloak of undead king does not raise liches, only skeletons anymore ).
SO with 45k mangrams, it was finally doable fight.
Now I will quickly compare this map with Elemental Land, and immediate conclusion is that Elemental Land is better in many ways. Quest rewards feel much more rewarding. Computer heroes are stronger and more threatening and much better thought out. For example, here in this map, computer heroes just have huge armies but poor spells and artifact combos, so when you fight them, you just berserk their army, blind the rest, clone 3k Archangels, resurrect your entire army (killing clone with fireball to reset ) and you lose no army ever. The only fight that gave me trouble was against purple who was necromancer, and had ring of oblivion. Only there I suffered some loses.
In comparison, Elemental Land has many heroes that not only has strong army, but also very powerful and interesting artifact combination and spells that make you really think hard how to beat them and not lose army.
Author: Danos (Romania), 02-09-2022 13:46 Impressive huge map with pointless grinding quests - crapcore - I liked the geography of this huge map, and the nice scenery and different themes on the islands. I appreciated the effort put into the map's creation.
- I enjoyed building a big army, having lots of battles and building up the heroes to the extreme. I also liked the fact that the oceans weren't easily accessible until someone figured out to start scuttling them boats.
- The enemies' strength was manageable so the gameplay went smooth, having more time to explore the map with less pressure for micro management. I opted to playing it cool with diplo and necro, this allowed a huge army size spread between 3 main heroes, for defence from multiple surprise attacks while continuing to explore and expand. Eventually with stats maxed and fully artifacted heroes, exploration lacked meaningfulness; most likely this is a downside specific to the creation of big maps where it becomes important to finely tune the amount of artifacts, objects and quests that reward skills.
- I did not like that it is not clear how to achieve the objectives. The map's message from day 1 felt rather vague (plus the map is huge) so I had to look on the internet and in the map editor for clues once all the enemies were defeated. I had to write a page full of notes to put together the order of the quests so that I can do the map objective without wasting any more time.
- If you have trouble finishing the map, the quests are indeed highlighted by the Eyes of the Magi. This involves finding a few imprisoned heroes and some artifact pendants.
- I give 8/10 for the potential that the map has. This is a big, detailed map with lots of troops to battle, many dragons to encounter and castles to conquer, but I feel that the quests and the main story should be reworked so that there is more logic and fun to them.
Author: Skeeve (United States), 25-01-2022 20:33 Crapcore - Enemy Heroes getting stuck - crapcore Has anyone noticed enemy heroes getting stuck at the Sirens object on this map?
I saw at least 4 enemy heroes on boats simply stuck right at this object and not moving turn after turn.
Some of these heroes were way stronger than I was, so it made the map a little easier for me, although still quite a tough challenge.
Author: Krp (Vladivostok), 27-12-2021 08:47 Like Hueta - crapcore Good
Author: Event66 (Екатеринбург), 05-12-2021 13:49 crapcore - crapcore Прошел за 8 месяцев, карта понравилась. Первая попытка была за инферно, но показалось слишком сложным, так как не понятно куда идти, в какой портал. Вторая попытка - за цитадель, была очень успешной. Согласен, что артефактов очень много, приходилось их постоянно продавать. С односторонними порталами много зависит от везения. Но когда появился городской портал и полет, все стало легче. К финальному боссу нужно попасть с помощью полета.
Спасибо автору, карта интересная
Author: Ben Shoemaker (Austin, United States), 21-09-2021 09:20 Like Love this map! - crapcore Author - I love big, complex maps like this. Do you have suggestions for others like it? I also liked Devil is in the Detail.
I agree with others - I wish the one way monoliths were two-ways - very tedious getting to the right destination sometimes, and doesn't add to the gameplay.
Red writes:
07-12-2021 03:42
rapidcore - crapcore
Not that big (only xl) but you may try “rapidcore” on this site which is the much harder subversion of this
Author: the master, 15-09-2021 13:31 Help - crapcore I reached the final castle, but couldn't find the required hero anywhere, any help on his location would be appreciated.
Author: MIMUL (Perth, Australia), 26-05-2021 14:17 Like great map - crapcore Very enjoyable map thanks
Author: bigcitymama (greece), 27-03-2021 19:26 goldcore - crapcore i believe this map is very old or isnt it?
that was an sod map or not?
Author: Stone (France), 28-01-2021 22:12 My Opinion about this map - crapcore Great map. I had a lot of pleasure to explore this map where human player has always the initiative. But there are some critical problems !
Too much artefacts ; You must destroy most of them.
Too much prisons ; as you have destroyed most of the bulky artefacts you can't open most of the gates that lead to the prisons.
So when you're in front of Singularity you have to find Predicator to open the gate and fight the keeper of this victory town, you're fucked. I give up.
After 21 months of great fun, I'm frustrated.
bigcitymama (greece) writes:
27-03-2021 19:34
inevitability - crapcore
played this map many times until today and the only think i regret every time is wasting a skil for fire magic and bersek.
this map is only beated with liches and it is a fact.
you will get 2 cloacks for the undead and work with them till you get about 100k liches and finish the map.
but...the HOTA version is tricky,cause of the cape of silence,wich demands expert fire magic and bersek or kiss nuts.
if you want to hear an old man ban cape of silence in your map editor and start and finish without fire magic and bersek.
bigcitymama (greece) writes:
27-03-2021 19:38
artifacts - crapcore
playing 27 years homm and just recently learned that i could not only buy experience with artifacts but that i could also sell them and that made my last crapcore game realy much easier.
Grimraven (Vancouver, WA, USA) writes:
19-09-2022 08:48
not true - crapcore
You don't need liches to win. In fact, the cloak of undead king does not even give you liches anymore so...
Author: sphinxx (Berlin), 14-01-2021 06:10 To big - crapcore Finished the map in 10 months. Did it with berserk and 30k lichess. Didn't even discover at least half of the map. Just got dd and jumped to singularity. These gigantic maps are almost always unnecessary because u can't fill the the whole map with useful content.
So it was a little bit boring in the end but the boss fight was OK.
7/10
Author: Colaps, 21-12-2020 00:05 Like Great map - crapcore Great map! I read somewhere that the final boss has dragon father armor, but mine didn't. Honestly if he did, I don't know if it would be possible to kill, because his army was huge.
Keep up the good work!
Author: Colaps, 14-12-2020 16:11 Like Cannot build another boat - crapcore Hi guys, I just started the map and I see that in every shipyard I get the message Cannot build another boat. Is this a map setting or something went wrong on my side? Just checking :)
sphinxx (Berlin) writes:
14-01-2021 06:11
Boats - crapcore
U have to destroy another boat first to summon a boat
Skeeve (United States) writes:
25-01-2022 20:28
Boats - Crapcore - crapcore
There is a distinct strategic advantage in this map to making sure that only you have control over building a boat.
Author: nikarina (London), 18-10-2020 07:35 Fun map to explore but end game suffers - crapcore The map is fun at the beginning and at the middle phase when you are exploring and finding ways to defeat enemies. It was also fun to unlock useful prison heroes and completing some rewarding quest huts. There were still few minor obstacles that blocked the desired way but overall they did not seem to be critical.
But the map has also annoyances, here are the worst experiences. I really dislike the randomness of 1-way monoliths. At the start you could get stuck against too powerful foe or ambush so you lost some valuable hero. Then at the end you had to have luck on landing enemy territory which could take many times maybe even wasting your days of movements. Replace them with 2-way monolitths.
Then some quest gates asked random things that I needed to backtrack many times to proceed. For example, I find new landing area, explore it, find quest gate that require 500 oceanids. I backtrack, bring them and open the gate, but soon I get another quest gate that ask for air orb. Backtrack again, repeat, etc. So either remove such irrelevant blockers or make them less random such. I tried to avoid using wings/fly/DD at all but at the end when the final battle quest gate required specific hero, I decided to use them to finish the map sooner.
Author: RV (Finland), 19-05-2020 21:38 Great map - crapcore Killed all, took 15 months and 3 weeks. Used a lot of time to explore the map and do quests. Was sure to kill the last castle easily but the enemy kicked my ass. Had to start collecting more units with horn of the abyss.
Author: Doc Sumann (Montenegro), 16-05-2020 15:18 Like Nice work - crapcore First time that I got Horn of Abyss artifact. I am new in Hotta.
With two extra strong heroes, on with Horn and Necromancer with Cloack, I started to built my way to victory.
Fly&DD arrived just in right time,6th -7th month)
Author: Doc Sumann (Montenegro), 16-05-2020 13:23 Like 10 points - crapcore It's a little bit confusing to oriented on such big map, with so many monoliths and portals.
You need some luck to be teleported on right side, in right moment.
But I enjoyed it a lot...
Think that new combination of HOTA's artifacts (helm, armor, shield...) is needed.
It could give you advantage on sea battles, add +2 speed and cast Shiedl, for example...
Author: Doc Sumann (Montenegro), 16-05-2020 13:15 Like Nice work - crapcore First time that I got Horn of Abyss artifact. I am new in Hotta.
With two extra strong heroes, on with Horn and Necromancer with Cloack, I started to built my way to victory.
Fly&DD arrived just in right time,6th -7th month)
Author: Mendi (San Francisco), 10-05-2020 05:29 Crap Great - crapcore One of the best maps, thank you!
Finished end of month 9, had to reshuffle my army 3 times for the last combat.
Author: Hans Vaneker (Ugchelen), 19-11-2019 15:53 Like crapcore - crapcore Best ever
Author: oleh n (kh,ua), 03-11-2019 21:36 Author's FIXES from 03 NOV 2019 (v 1.03) - crapcore (v 1.03) Hi all, many thanks for comments and spotted bugs, i am sorry for such a bunch of obstacles, never had time to test all paths. i have fixed reported path blockers so far, fixed Astra bug and relaxed way to the target castle. Also, number of boats is decreased, but i cant fix total hota limit of 64 so just destroy (or summon existing, then destroy) one. AI is buffet a bit more, also more gold for it to buy out accumulated troops. The final guy is also has no more Dragon father power.
Paatrick (poland) writes:
18-03-2020 18:38
update - crapcore
Where i find this map updated?
Author: Derr (Bucharest, Romania), 31-10-2019 15:46 Like Also... - crapcore this was the first map where I had several 99 skill heroes. Makes you rethink the equipment they need.
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