All kingdoms turn to war when a malevolent wizard appears and tries to bring them under his control. Defeat Evil Wizard and his pet dragon to restore peace and save the world!
Fly, townportal, DD and blind not found in mage guilds.
Author: grg (pl), 29-06-2020 20:00 great map - Element Land Abosulutely amazing map:) one month of my life has been erased. Thank you very much for that. Hope You will commit another map:)
I have two questions first on elcosed pic how to get to legion of archi magi next to old town.
And second one where the hell i will find 3 rogues on map? or i have to fulfill some quest?
phb writes:
27-08-2020 15:39
there is rogue cavern - Element Land
there is rogue cavern in underground
use map editor and you'll find that
Flou (France) writes:
18-08-2022 04:16
yes passage - Element Land
you can pass that way
Remixcc writes:
23-11-2023 20:07
Mr - Element Land
Just tried, the resource (ore) cannot be picked up from the well... a bug?
Flou writes:
23-11-2023 21:27
Elment Land - Element Land
Do you play with hota ?
Author: Shimon Bogomolov (Haifa, Israel), 28-04-2020 19:43 Awesome map! - Element Land This is truly one of the best designed maps I have ever played, I have won at the start of month 5 with Teal, and I wasn't even using mass berserk..
It was pretty easy once you optimize your pandora sequence.
I do have some suggestions to the map maker to make the map even better and maybe a bit challenging (most of the content wasn't needed t win).
BTW, the idea with the white tent is awesome!
1. Make the enemy heroes stronger, they barely access the white tents and except dragon god and the 600 azures, I haven't encountered any challenge since you get much more troops from pandoras .
2. When you get all the tents and capture Magic Palace and release element queen/king, you get enough troops to beat the game.
3. Horn of the abyss is barely needed.
4. Low neutral stacks
5. Dragon slayer wasn't needed although it looked like some decent content to gather Gorgons.
Looking forward for a new version!
PS. The Great Hero rocks!
Author: DanDan (ISRAEL), 27-04-2020 23:56 Like Incredible map! - Element Land Probably the best designed and most fun map I ever played. the theme is great, and in the beginning you can see Evil wizard get stronger and there is nothing you can do. really loved it!
I never play necromancers, but decided to try it in this map.Played on maximum difficulty.
It was very difficult and interesting until in month 5 i killed Dracula and got the "cloak of undead king" from him. maybe this is by accident but from there i was unstopable and everything got easy. by month 6 i could kill Evil wizard with auto-combat.
Maybe this is the power of the Necromancers' but i think maybe you should be careful with putting "Cloak of the undead king" on an AI hero (it was Orange AI) that can lose to the player.
But again, this is probably the best map I ever played! thank you so much Tadanga for all your hard work. you are a genius!
Flou (France) writes:
07-08-2022 18:05
Incredible map! - Element Land - Element Land
Same here, except I killed him on purpose, thx to you :);)
Because Orange player got Dragon God (Mutare Drake) and the power of dragon father, I feel more secure with 30k power liches. Btw, anyone knows how orange player (for example) managed to get the white tent ??
I investigated for hours to find out and I don't find how (no dragon azure joke event succeeded :), no dd)... complete mystery.
Oh and I forgot : top 10 map, amazing job Tadanga !! Thx you very much for the entertainment !
Flou (France) writes:
07-08-2022 18:53
Ended - Element Land
Succeeded in 143 days (6,1,3)
Tan player also had access to white tent... the mystery continues
Dandan writes:
10-08-2022 17:28
Glad to be of service! - Element Land
I've recently played it again and it's totally possible to finish in 5 months without necromancy.
I think somehow the map editor gave the AI white tent access automatically.
I love how it's by design in this map that you witness your enemies getting stronger. TADANGA is a bit of a troll
Author: Riku Vartiainen, 25-04-2020 19:35 Great map - Element Land Excellent planning and story. Finished 200 % difficulty with purple 1v7, took a bit less than 11 months.
I don't like one way teleports and dark blue tent was hard for me to find, took almost 8 months. Those were only frustrating things.
Author: Faker (South Korea), 12-04-2020 11:08 Very Nice...map:) - Element Land Plz...add your map..
I wanna New your maps..
Your map is very fuuny
Author: Creaver, 10-04-2020 08:17 Bug on day 8 - Element Land Infinite loop when blue goes in and our of teleporter.... not sure whats going on but cannot continue
Tadanga writes:
11-04-2020 01:40
loop or crashes - Element Land
If the AI is stuck in a loop or map crashes: reload a save from 2 turns ago and the AI will normally take a different action allowing the game to continue. You can enable auto saves every turn with the HD mod.
If the problem still happens go back afew more days.
chris reed (Wellington) writes:
13-04-2020 23:04
Loop around week 2 day 3 - Element Land
It was a loop. We restarted the game and it fixed itself. We are 7 months in.... its a really hard map
Author: Archen, 03-04-2020 12:29 Like Best map I've played so far - Element Land What a journey! Im 6 months in with purple vs 7 allied AI's and had to hunt down brown that suddenly got 600 Azure dragons... Got him with quite a bit of loss of my force... Having the allied forces picking up stronger forces throughout the game is friggin awesome and makes the game challanging ! Thanks for an awesome map
Author: Pedro (Spain), 01-03-2020 17:13 Like 20/10 Map!!! - Element Land One the best maps, by far!
Finished in 11 months with Blue.
No crashes with 1.6.1 version.
I had the chance to defeat one of the purple heroes (not EW), and took him DD, TP and Horn of the abyss!!! After that, everything was easier.
I finished the game witk 55k fangarms - enough to defeat easily EW.
The strategy that works better for me: having heroes Expert on the 4 elements: Air for massive Haste, Earth for Resurrection and masive Slow, Water for Clone, and the most important one: Fire for massive Berserk!
Berserk was the spell that allows to defeat far stronger armies than mine.
And of course, always looking for Combination Artifacts (Angeli Alliance, Bow of the sharpshooter, Elixir of life...)
Author: Albin (Sweden), 19-02-2020 00:27 Absolutely fantastic! - Element Land If every map was as great as this one, I'd never stop playing! I tried it about three times before I understood how to make it, even changed team each time. As soon as I'll forget the layout I'll play it again, and enjoy every second! I'm truly amazed by how you've managed to make a gigantic map like this so perfectly balanced - Sincerely Thanks, very much appreciated 11/10 points!
Author: Ossi (Finland), 09-02-2020 00:29 Great map, maybe the best - Element Land Finished in month 9 by killing the crystal dragons, final score being 350. Evil wizard did not stand a change in final battle. My main was Kalt with 99 overall stats.
Took me multiple tries to get game really rolling and I tried almost every possible starting color. The most hard battle was against blue, who managed to find Dragon master and over 500 azure dragons on top of his other army.
Finally finding Town Portal made things quite a lot easier. I did not find white keymaster tent so I think i missed a lot of great rewards from prisons and pandoras boxes behind white border gates.
Great map, it took me quite a lot of time completing it and I enjoyed every second. Thank you for making such a good map.
PS. game kept crashing when I used hota 1.6. No problems with hota 1.5.
bigcitymama (greece) writes:
16-02-2020 19:19
white tent - Element Land
i think white tent is only for AI to boost,
theres no way to get it.
Colaps writes:
06-01-2021 01:01
white tent - Element Land - Element Land
You can get it, but only when you've gained a massive army and a hero with all the max stats, so it's not useful.
Author: Adrian (Bucharest, Romania), 29-01-2020 00:04 Like Nice map but crashed a lot - Element Land I started to love this map but crashes a lot of time. Sometime crashes when the other players move and you can't do much to avoid that. I'm using version 1.6.0.
See attached a print screen with a crash while the other player is moving.
Any idea why is crashing so much?
Thank you!
Adrian
qnphard (Romania) writes:
29-01-2020 14:31
try with hota 1.5 - Element Land
try it with hota 1.5
Tadanga writes:
11-04-2020 01:48
Crashes - Element Land
I have not played on 1.6, but even on the version of hota it was made, it would still crash every now and again for me. Loading a save from a few turns before the crash should fix it. You can auto save every turn with HD mod.
Adrian writes:
13-04-2020 17:39
Crashes - Element Land - Element Land
With version 1.5 it worked well without crashes. Thank you all for responses.
Author: Thrs (Poland), 27-01-2020 01:20 Nice - Element Land Nice one :) But keeps crashing constantly on hota 1.6. I was able to finish it on 1.5 only
Author: Stefan (Germany), 04-01-2020 13:59 Like Possibly the best map I ever played - Element Land This was like a whole game on it's own.
I finished the map as orange in 6 and half months and had quite a challenging fight at the end against Evil Wizard.
I loved how I got to fight with very unusual armies. One of my two main heroes had 38k sprites, 2k satyrs, 1k enchanters, 2k magic elementals, 500 faerie dragons and 6k gold golems. Doesn't happen too often in late game that you just rock the map with sprites! Ok, for Evil Wizard my 1k black dragons, 1,6k chaos hydras and 1,6k gold dragons were needed. :)
At some point I started putting armies into my mines because I didn't were to keep to many legions of everything.
The map design is amazing, too. Every corner of it seems unique, it's almost never predictable. Took me ages to finally find the light blue tent, which I consider that a good thing.
I can only imagine how many hours this must have taken you. It really feels like you enjoyed the hell out of those hours, too.
qNpHard (Romania) writes:
18-01-2020 17:57
regarding having too many armies - Element Land
you can sell them at the stronghold freelancer's guild and buy either other armies or azures/faeries/cryst al/rust dragons
Author: tomas7902 (Zilina, Slovakia), 25-12-2019 14:05 Excellent map - Element Land This is an excellent map, spend quite a time to finish it (was able to do so only with dark blue). Anyway perfection in all aspects
Author: Vajrapani (Rotterdam, Netherlands), 09-12-2019 08:57 What a map! - Element Land I have been at it for days. This map is so big and hard to decipher. Playing on impossible, have not finished it currently have month 6 save of playing with orange and on of playing with tan still no town portal in either of these games. Having so much fun though!
Highly recommend this map, it is like playing a big long ass campaign :)
Author: Yuriy (Ukraine), 09-12-2019 04:13 One of the best map I ever played. Thank you. - Element Land One of the best map I ever played. Thank you!
14 months with Teal. It was hard...
Author: Artem (Ukraine), 30-11-2019 08:22 A great map for a long play - Element Land Finished the Evil Wizard and then Dragon God somewhere on 11th month. Didn't use TP in spite of having it. Playing with TP isn't interesting.
First, tried to make AI's allies but it seems like map does'nt work properly after that and I got error twice in the mid game. Then, finished it as is.
Very good stuff, thanks to the author!
Artem (Ukraine) writes:
30-11-2019 08:26
Suggestion - Element Land
I'd suggest giving the Wizard immunity to Berserker, otherwise, it's quite simple to beat him.
Author: J (USA), 23-11-2019 09:12 Where is the purple keymaster tent? - Element Land Do you have to get to the white tent first? How do you take down the 10k bd, titans, and azure??
Excellent map
wasilix writes:
23-11-2019 17:49
Purple tent - Element Land
No, the purple tent is near one of one-way red teleport exits. It is guarded by a bunch of phoenixes.
J (USA) writes:
25-11-2019 22:58
thanks! - Element Land
found it.
Also, how do you play the 1 v 7 that people are posting about?
wasilix writes:
26-11-2019 16:38
1v7 - Element Land
There are 2 maps in the archive. One of them is playing for purple vs 7 allied AIs.
Author: kto-to, 19-11-2019 07:54 No balance. Easy random map. - Element Land Карта совершенно не сбалансиро вана. Долго копишь 1000 крестьян для квеста, а они оказываетс я все присоединя ются недалеко от стартовой зоны. Сейчас у тебя 5 ангелов и 100 лучников, а на следующий ход за какой то пустяковый квест дают 1000 лучников, потом 200 титанов, каждую неделю тебе по 100К денег присылают. Много присоединя ются юнитов, не хватает слотов, в замок постоянно отвозишь их, вдруг пригодятся , т.к. много квестов типа принеси 20 троглодито в и получи 2000 гарпий. Хаос, рандом, бои все легкие, очень много ресов сундуков, которы тебе уже нафиг не нужны, кликаешь тыщу раз. Много путей с односторон ним монолитом, в какой идти, будет ли возрат. х.з. бросил играть.
Author: Dexter (Edmonton, Canada), 13-11-2019 07:23 Too much going on - Element Land I was enjoying this map but it eventually became very tedious and unenjoyable.
Author: bigcitymama (greece), 10-11-2019 18:53 town portal - Element Land playing with blue and dont know wich way to go first,of course seems i can beat everytbing i meet,but im too far from home when purple reach my castles just after 2 months,i would realy realy love to have town portal ,just to try and beat an other bigger army.
but just the fact that i will have to watch a logistics specialist taking my castles in dt time makes me crazy and willing to stop !
i dont know how you guys can reach and beat purple so fast but for me 25 years of playing this game almost daily dont seem to help!
Morten (Aalborg) writes:
14-11-2019 20:22
Map Editor - Element Land
People most likely have looked in the map editor, to find the best paths to take - for example to find the tents :)
Author: bigcitymama (greece), 10-11-2019 18:22 town portal - Element Land playing with blue and dont know wich way to go first,of course seems i can beat everytbing i meet,but im too far from home when purple reach my castles just after 2 months,i would realy realy love to have town portal ,just to try and beat an other bigger army.
but just the fact that i will have to watch a logistics specialist taking my castles in dt time makes me crazy and willing to stop !
i dont know how you guys can reach and beat purple so fast but for me 25 years of playing this game almost daily dont seem to help!
Echo writes:
10-11-2019 23:34
Town Portal - Element Land
Acquiring Town Portal is one of the huge breakthroughs in this map. You have to make do without it for quite a while :) Look at it as a challenge and don't get discouraged if you lose a town or another. There's plenty to go around and quests are WAY more important than castle armies anyway.
wasilix writes:
11-11-2019 12:04
Captures your castles on 3rd month huh? - Element Land
Well, you must be extremely unlucky, because dark blue gates will defend your most important cities for most of the game. It's AI reaches the tent in the wilderness, they become dangerous, yet luckily not every player gets to visit it.
There are ways to attack you though through guarded gates, which are a weaker point, and possibly are the place where your enemy gets in. That's tough luck though, in my first games AI was derping so badly that at some point I just stopped paying attention to their movement.
In terms of TP scrolls, I found that the easiest to retrieve is the one requiring level 49 hero. There are 20+ trees on the map, and if I recall correctly there are generally around 10 within the reach of the blue player. I started collecting them at around 42ish level. Not sure what was the day when I eventually got my hands onto the scroll, I don't think it's anywhere near 311, but month 4 sounds pretty reasonable, considering that there are many fat fights in pandoras.
2 other relatively available options are (although, I think they are slower):
1. lvl 41 + all color tents (playing as purple I found this one much more appealing and I knew where the tents are)
2. 100 azure dragons (if you are lucky to stumble upon some big stacks of them joining you and have plenty of resources to buy them - teal player has many dwellings relatively close its spawn area - I also went for the teal because titans naturally end up in blue's army).
Cheers!
Author: wasilix, 04-11-2019 21:13 Like Don't rush capitol - Element Land Hi ks :)
I don't think, that rushing capitol makes sense on majority of maps, for maps like this one it's particularly the case. Consider this:
1. Spending time on building up to the capitol you aren't building your troops, that you often can and would deploy as soon as they are built, which would enable you to clear more and expand more aggressively. While building to capitol, you are leaving yourself without reinforcements for about a week thus limiting your aggressive options.
2. On maps like this, you have a lot of resources available across the spawn locations, using most of the chests for gold also helps with money in the beginning (especially the smaller ones and on secondary heroes).
3. While defenders are pretty easy to penetrate in home locations making it a good option to develop troops and go for the fast expand.
To be honest, I don't think I did get much of a bang out of it playing blue. I think I was short on resources and not knowing the map doesn't help at all :) I built up to maybe monks on week 1, and even though I managed to build angels on week 2, the start wasn't spectacularly fast. I did upgrade the archers though, which helped me play more aggressively in the beginning.
Playing purple though, the start is blazing fast. I think, I had 5 cities fully built up on the end of week 3. At least in terms of the very early game, purple kills it, to which I was referring in my reply to your original message.
Further though, I agree that expansion options seem to dry out a bit. I'm yet to see whether purple is actually easier, because I've just started playing it. TPs seem to be much more scarce for purple than blue which may turn out to be an issue. Having Gunnar though after playing blue is like a gift of heavens :D Even 2 pairs of boots to boot...
Cheers!
Author: ks, 04-11-2019 14:22 hi - Element Land I mean 7th level + capitol (always build capitol first) Next 3castles too, we can get it in a week.
But the problem, I see now (maybe yr right) in the lack of rapid hero. This giant map should be playing with logistic hero. This is the main problem with "red" ver.
Reaching to the tens and portals and many others is also easyer tnan "purple ver", but the slower heroes nerv me really very much :)
Author: wasilix, 04-11-2019 13:04 Like The map is wonderful - Element Land I second what @Reverie said earlier. The balance is extremely complex. I'm sure the map is imbalanced, yet due to its complexity and infinite ways of development for each side perfect balance isn't that important.
I love the map, played it as blue. Now started as purple.
A few things I spotted during first playthrough:
1. The quest guard at 120x13 underground is unreachable. Probably need to change obstacles to the right of the magic well at 122x15.
2. The evil wizard died after I captured all purple cities. The Golden palace was taken by Pink, so I didn't even get to find the entrance there. Naturally I was rushing to kill them as fast as possible, when I noticed that every tent they rich he gets to another pandora box probably becoming stronger and stronger. Possibly may be a decent idea to add a town in the area he inhabits later in the game. Unless of course, the way it is currently done is the intended way making it a bit more difficult.
All in all, an excellent map!
Derakusa (Estonia) writes:
07-11-2019 23:46
I agree with the purple part too - Element Land
I played as teal and I missed the boss fight against the evil wizard. Neela vs some magic hero wouldve been a great showdown. I also thought that he should have the last town next to him
Reverie writes:
10-11-2019 23:33
Evaporating Wizard - Element Land
Perhaps putting one purple town somewhere with a quest guard requiring the player to kill Evil Wizard could do the trick here? That way he couldn't be just evaporated by the 7 days rule.
I don't know how AI would treat such a town given a Town Portal but perhaps a one-way monolith by the town would prevent him choosing to sit there for some reason.
Author: wasilix, 04-11-2019 11:31 Not sure if non-purple is easier - Element Land I initially played blue until I accidentally wiped out purple before killing the Evil wizard. On maps like this, having a lvl7 dwelling on week 2 is fairly common. Playing as purple I built lvl7 on the first week along with castle + one other town already has all dwellings built from the get go.
Not saying, that purple is easier to play. Although on week 3 it certainly seems like the start is ridiculously quick and strong unlike it was for blue. Blue had a very strong midgame though thanks to the 100 halflings quest.
Author: Vyacheslav (moscow), 03-11-2019 17:36 Like Element Land hota - Element Land пришлите ссылку для скачивания этой карты. Element Land
Author: Reverie, 03-11-2019 07:14 Like Hands down one of the best HoMM3 maps - Element Land This map is wonderful. I played the 1v7 Purple version as the Evil Wizard and I am in awe. Despite being Giant, the map is extremely detailed and the locations actually offer unique, worthwhile rewards. It reqlly promotes exploration.
But the biggest part of it is the quest hut/box system that lets the AI organically scale and provide a challenge that incentivizes the player to be proactive and prevent the AI from getting put of control. It's not super hard for an experienced player, but it should keep you on your toes. And that's awesome. It's not often a map can be both challenging and relaxing at the same time, not frustrating but rewarding at the same time. As much as I appreciate the details in design, it's this balance that made this a treat for me.
Huge respect to the creator and I love that there was this Wizard version of the map. It feels like a single player, tailored experience moreso than a possible hotseat adventure. Plus it was fun to play as the "enemy", starting with a small empire and growing outwards instead of searching for the evil empire from the outside :)
11/10. Thank you.
Author: ks, 01-11-2019 00:20 Like 10x - Element Land 10x, very good map, maybe best on hota till now :)
Finished with "purple" ver. in 11months. Found TP scroll too late.. 8m
Near best gameplay and strong battles.
Now playing "red" ver. and I can say that its easyer version. Build ForsakenP on week 2 on imp. :))
No recomendations on this map.. just perfect. 10x again!
кс writes:
05-11-2019 01:30
ре - Element Land
And let,s not forget that the difference between "normal ver. - red, blue, purlpe.. etc" and "PURPLE VER" is very huge. Mapmaker set completely different settings for thеse maps.
I mean that the settings for "red ver" of the map is really different than the settings for "purple ver" of the map
I.E playing as "puprle" in "red ver" is much easyer than playing as purple in "purple ver".
I hope u can understant (my bad eng) what I mean, and u can check it in two ver, of the maps. I already playing two ver. and found really big difference between them.
But Im agree with opinion that "red" is not very easy (personaly - becouse of luck of rapid hero, especially for me) at all
Im glad to have here good maps, like this, to be commend and daring :) cos we all see that this game is still not dead!!
wasilix writes:
05-11-2019 12:15
Different map versions - Element Land
Of course, I meant the Purple version playing for purple.
Differences though, while huge on surface, seem pretty subtle, as I dived into the map editor on this map. The author in my opinion did a stellar job in the way he made it harder for the player in both versions of this map while keeping them almost same.
wasilix writes:
05-11-2019 12:21
Anyway, it is a great map - Element Land
Anyway, this is a great map, and I even tend to agree with the sentiment that this is the best hota map I played. I'm enjoying purple a lot and may play it again with some other side again in the original version and wish you and everyone here to have as much fun with it as possible :)
Cheers!
ks writes:
12-11-2019 09:58
re - Element Land
Ohh finished with red :) To late again 12m2w
Playing all game with Xeron till I found Gunnar. But he hadnt neither fire, watter, air, earth... :(((((
And continue the game with both heroes, latter with Blitzkrieg also (only he had earth)
And very, very complicated. Alternating every battle and conquering castles with different heroes (my 3 main)
Tried to kill Evilwizard, but no luck to catch him on magic plaints :(
EW became increasingly stronger and stronger and the time was walking.. :)
ks writes:
12-11-2019 09:59
re - Element Land
Finaly catch him with my both Xeron and Gunnar. I sacrificed Xeron full with golems, berz, berz, berz.. :) but the 22K fangarms was extremely strong.. and hyp me every time.
Ok Xeron destroyed all army except fangarms, I lose it, but Gunnar instantly after that, beat these stupid fangarms (not very easy again) with minimal losses.
And thats all with "red. ver." hah :)
Very rare playing two times one map, but this one Im sure will play ones again, maybe with blue or green
Spend really good time again, and big 10x to the Author again :)
Author: arton10 (Lublin, Poland), 30-10-2019 15:04 Very Nice - Element Land - Element Land One of the best ever - thanks man.
I finished on month 7 week 3 day 2.
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