Game too hard ?

[Kaider]

I've never played a Might & Magic before, but I'm not even an idiot.

Today I started the game in easy mode, to try to understand the mechanics. I'm doing the first campaign with the Duke who must kill the wolf. I explored the map and tried to kill some neutral around and collect resources. I must say that it's been a while, and now I'm in trouble. I can not recruit more men, I lost several men in battles against the neutral and take the various fortresses and barracks.Now I have 3 different barracks but are still below number than the enemy, I went over to the Necropolis and the army enemy hero, exceeds the number of my men and I can not recruit others. What is wrong? I have to skip the neutrals? The pieces of equipment and resources in the map?

My hero is around level 7, I have tons of gold and resources but im pretty ♥♥♥♥ed and can't do anything..

(sorry for my english btw)

[Diplomacia]

Another useful tip on saving troops: Make good use of the wait action. If u have more initiative even if the pc wait too (which he will often do in hard mode) whoever has the highest initiative will act last if both sides wait.
Also keep in mind that most creatures in the game only retaliate once so there are a few things u can do to make good use of that in order to save troops: Either buff one of ur troops with defense skills/spells and make it always take the hit from counter attack hits or create a few 1 creature slots to serve as bait, use up ur enemy retaliate and then hit with no counter attacks saving u some more troops

[Deathman.Kenshi]

Also there is dirty, dirty way how to win all standart campaings pretty easy :)

The way is called
NECRO DYNASTY WEAPONS
Yes thats it :)
Necro Migt weapon called ARACHNE you can obtain fairly easy in 1st campaing map of necro faction (create custom difficulty, enemy AI = easy, creature spawns - normal, creature increses - low) and breeze trough this map with hints I provided sooner and obtain both necro weapons you can get (Arachne and one other I already forgot, but its for magic)

Now for that dirty little secret [WARNING WALL OF TEXT APROACHING, WARNING YOU ARE GOING TO BREAK CONFLUX, WARNING WHY THE HELL NOT ? ]

You can level your dynasty to platinum status in like 2 hours if you want but it would ruin any difficulty in game unless you play HARD (on the other hand it will allow you to unlock all dynasty traits and bunch of your faw heroes, of course do not forget all dynasty traits slot)

Arachne even after all nerfs is pretty great sword as it gives ALL your units 15% life steal
and all enemies have lowered morale by 15 points (what makes all non upgraded neutral units to almost never get double action)

Than if you have Dense macabre pack you will also have acces to Sandros staff (forgot name) which allows you to summon pack of SPECTRAL DRAGONS for free once per EACH battle which makes it best starter weapon for magic class.

Now how to level them, you can do it old fashioned way like playing tons of missions with them, playing all battles manualy (only manual battles and one little exception grant dynasty weapon xp) and level them up but that takes days of work (days like 48 hours real time not working days :))

Or you can just restart Necro campaing at this custom settings

Spawns - Highest
Strenght - Highest
others do not matter

Now depending on which weapon you want just customise main hero or create your own and give him dynasty weapon you want to MAX UP

Skip cinematics and stuff now you start and see bunch of ghouls, GET EM :)

Now other group is skeleton spearmans

DO NOT TOUCH THEM THEY ARE YOUR KEY TO MAX LEVEL :)

Just look at them how they smile at you and press END TURN like bazilion times (precisely enough times to get to month 28 week 1 day 1

Aproach them and hire them
You got 999,999 skeleton spearmans
Nice round number -1 I say
DISMISS your GHOULS
DIVIDE skeletons into all free slots INTO ROUGHLY SAME SIZED STACKS
Now continue down hall
You will see ANOTHER SKELETONS
Hire them, you will get roughly 740K MORE

Now aproach enemy guarding EXIT from UNDEGROUND

Attack them they will ALWAYS FLEE

Now you got it this is other way how to level any fleeing enemy gives double XP to dynasty weapon
Now you just seen flee 999,999 enemies with 30hp each what is just small number of 60.000.000 DYNASTY WEAPON XP
You got your dynasty weapon maxed up, you got like 25+ dynasty levels, 30k dynasty seals

And if you want like 8 aechievements in once if you already do not have them just attack enemy guarding obelisk of experience at start of map
You CANT win this battle in manual but in AUTO BATTLE you will always win
It will unlock you all damage/casulties related archievements

After this just restart campiang normaly and play with your new high leveled dynasty + weapon of your choice

Enjoy breaking your game

[Sentenc3d]

I started playing this game two three days ago and managed to beat the Griffin campaign after a bit of a headache. I have attempted the first map of the Necropolis campaign now and I have to say it's quite impossible for me. I am playing on normal difficulty and no matter what I do, I cannot beat the heroes that come out after I capture the second town. I lose zero units going into the battle for the second town but that fight is tough. I lose a good 1/3rd to 1/2 of my army in that fight no matter what I do. The enemy hero does too much damage. I focus all of my abilities on army preservation such as regeneration, life steal, and reinforcements. I can capture the second town but once the two other heroes come out from behind the walls I cannot beat both of them.

I have to say this game is beyond frustrating. In 25 years of playing video games rarely have I ever come across such a diffcult game on default difficulty. I've tried playing this map almost two dozen times now and I cannot beat it no matter what I do. I am debating asking for a refund. I paid $50 for a game that I have seemingly zero chance of ever finishing. I feel like I'm being trolled...

[Deathman.Kenshi]

Sentenc3d a écrit :

I started playing this game two three days ago and managed to beat the Griffin campaign after a bit of a headache. I have attempted the first map of the Necropolis campaign now and I have to say it's quite impossible for me. I am playing on normal difficulty and no matter what I do, I cannot beat the heroes that come out after I capture the second town. I lose zero units going into the battle for the second town but that fight is tough. I lose a good 1/3rd to 1/2 of my army in that fight no matter what I do. The enemy hero does too much damage. I focus all of my abilities on army preservation such as regeneration, life steal, and reinforcements. I can capture the second town but once the two other heroes come out from behind the walls I cannot beat both of them.

I have to say this game is beyond frustrating. In 25 years of playing video games rarely have I ever come across such a diffcult game on default difficulty. I've tried playing this map almost two dozen times now and I cannot beat it no matter what I do. I am debating asking for a refund. I paid $50 for a game that I have seemingly zero chance of ever finishing. I feel like I'm being trolled...

Most important building of Necropolis is ALTAR OF ETERNAL SERVITUDE
Build this ASAP
After that beating enemy heroes is easy
Just crush him, rebuy your army, crush another one
Rinse and repeat to total victory :)

I finished Necro campaing on hard at dynasty level 5 (than I found way how to max up dynasty fast making all other campaings as easy as necro one :)) and so far its prolly easiest on par with Haven one.

You just have to accept looses above 60% are acceptable if that means you wipe enemy heroes and have two weeks of breathing time before next wave (enemy heroes spawns each 4/3/2 weeks depending on difficulty I think) cause you are only loosing gold and gold is most of the time not a problem
Also each time they return your looses will be smaller as your army will constantly grows and they cant keep up with that :)

I even accepted totall army wipe in final battles of later necro missions and just rebought army and smashed it against enemy final guard once again until war of atrittioun brought me victory (of course you need to retreat in time to rebuy hero back :))

For low tier dynasty traits
+3 core units or 200 gold/day are prolly best one you should get
Also use your 1st 30 uplay points (if you finished tutorial you should have 40 by now)
to buy extra dynasty slot in game launcher (uplay)

But I had beaten that campaing without any dynasty bonuses/weapona at all, its pretty doable (you can try that too, just run game with disabled conflux :))

Last words
Most of the time 1st mission is hardest as you do not have enogh hero power to use it to tactical advantage and Might heroes are stronger the more army you have Magic heroes are ideal for rushing but loose power late game

[Rhianimal]

Don't forget to level Dynasty weapons in the Soul Forge, it can help you a lot.

[Kaider]

Well Guys, Now you have give to me and for everyone good advice..I have crush the first campaign and the necro. Thanks all :D

[goishen]

♥♥♥♥ it. I just quit. Literally, two minutes ago. Deleted that ♥♥♥♥ from my HDD as quickly as it would let me./ Didn't even let it finish synching with the Steam Cloud.

That's great if Ubi$oft wants to make impossible games. Just don't pass them off to me as playable. Hey, Ubi$oft, got a game for you. It's called four fingered willy.

[DEY123]

it is key to Try and keep your guys alive in battles. Healing is very helpful and I would not bother with more then 1 additional hero (at least not in the early missions.

[Eroean]

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[Ron AF Greve]

I am on the second map but have the same situation. Played it three times over already. This isn't exactly fun. The game should have been more balanced. If I select different skills it might be a little harder or easier but it shouldn't be unbeatable. Also if I see groups I can fight I would expect that it would make me stronger while in this game you earn some gold (but you can't buy troops with that, at least not enough to make up your losses) and some XP.

The game looks good but the gameplay , meeeh ...

[Deathman.Kenshi]

This game is far from impossible, its pretty tough but thats why I like it
Still its difficulty is laughable compared to HoMaM 3 Wake of Gods :)
You just need to expand fast and forcefully (Haven mission 2 is nice example of this, you can capture enemy city across the map in week 2 with like 40 praetorinas 40 crossbowmans and 20 sisters giving you huge edge early making this map only clean up opperation afterwards). This is 1st game I seen which auto resolve system allows you to win totally unwinable battles with relative low loses (and you can abuse that a lot)

[Zyco]

Necro campaign is kicking my ass bad. Its so unfair.. first attempt on Normal I built slow and got everything.. first Hero battle he had a Deadly (trivial) army to me.. I waited weeks and weeks for more troops and his army got twice as strong.

Went back, restarted and bum rushed him.. I ran right to him with starter army and was able to kill him. As I was building up a Hero came in with a super force again Deadly and wiped me.. I reloaded and retreated to original town and recruited every hero i could to take their 9 ghouls and 10 skeletongs and built up a force and barely beat the Hero who chanrged at me at my last base.

After that went to reclaim my lost Citys and on the way a 3rd Hero jumped me and he was rated Deadly.. I finally somehow run into the last cave, as I was looking for the Arachne and I get to the mobs there and its 3 stacks of 16 Pitlords once again rated Deadly to me. I lost that battle bad.. reload out and now everything left is rated High+ and if I wait a week for more troops.. they all go Deadly.

WTF.. I played slow and lost and played bumrush style and still lost.. game is total BS

[Deathman.Kenshi]

Eternal servitude is key if you play slow
When you rushing (what is not advisable at 1st map of most campaings) you just use starting troops to claim as much cities as you can and buy army at start of next week to hold them (when you of course need to build eternal servitude anyway :))

[Ron AF Greve]

Some people made an awesome manual. Just skimped trhough it but seems very helpful.
HMM6 Manual[forums.ubi.com]

[goishen]

Deathman.Kenshi a écrit :

This game is far from impossible,

Yah, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. 20 hours in and I'm still on the tutorial? No, ♥♥♥♥ that. I've played entire games where it took me less time to complete the entire game than that. I just kept saying to myself, "I gotta be doing something wrong. It's gotta be me."

Well, after seeing this thread, I realized that it's not me. I hope you're happy with your elite gamers Ubi$oft. I mean, I knew this game was dying. Now I see why.

I should've never bought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ that you call a game.