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Failed too - Attraction

I've had an insanely hard time with this map. The more I tried, the more frustrated I got. I reached the moment when I released one hero from a prison in the middle of the map who had boots of levitation with him (like you, instead you acquired them in the dragon utopia). They didn't help me much. I thought maybe I could trick the computer enemy by invading their land and capturing the cities over and over again to win some time and perhaps inhibit them a bit from moving forward. All in vain, until then they had become so powerful I hadn't been able to resist their troops. Not to mention enormously packed neutral creatures on the map. No idea how to succeed either :/ I wrote to the author of this map and he claims that it has been tested, and it is doable indeed. There is a map called 'A long way' which is a modified version of 'Attraction', but the differences are way to extensive to rely on any walkthrough on YouTube that could possibly help learn some tactics and implement them in this map. I definitely give up this map, I reloaded it too many times and I'm just exhausted and discouraged.

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feel the same - Attraction

Well, ye, agree. Kind of discouraging. This map could be for really hardcore players. I know some maps which I can't do, but some people play and win. I'd really love to see how it's done on this map. But there's no videos for this map.

And at my level even if I go as fast as I can and have some luck (with said boots of levitation), computer is too strong. And to kill neutral creatures and get strong yourself you either need really tough army, or good spells. And somehow I don't see how to achieve this.

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Done! - Attraction

I don't know where my determination comes from, but I replayed this map and completed it! The only thing is that I decided to make it on easy level. After so many failures, I told myself that I should just do whatever it takes to consider this business done. No matter what legal and avilable measures would it take, only to complete this in a manner excluding any cheating. Actually, I made my own custom settings before launching the map, i.e. I set premium artifacts to all players (of course, including myself) and made them play Fortress. However, I left the purple with a Tower as previously I had have some other plan on how to deal with this map. Anyway, given this easy level attempt, the enemy is way less aggressive in comparison to higher difficulty levels. They still rush to conquer my original location, but you can admit it's way easier to hold them off. I've found out that the turning point of this map could be the moment you leave your starting location and start moving west going past the narrow passage with some mines that is blocked with mobs. I gathered some troops, while struggling to neutralise subsequent waves of the enemy attacks, and killed two stacks of monsters only to find out that some of them would join me. In the screen, you can see that I'm starting to get a bunch of useful units to include minotaur kings, master genies, liches, dendroid soldiers, and earth elementals (all coming in stacks of 44 each). Not to mention a great pack of treasure chests that allow you to advance multiple levels in a short time. From this point I was able to scare the enemy off a bit, at least for some time to charge the batteries and further strengthen my position. I believe this moment is a real gamechanger at higher difficulty levels, though it had helped me on easy as well. Back to the point, I progressed sufficiently enough over time to dominate a pretty huge fragment of the map by attacking the enemy with more heroes and capturing their towns. Sometimes, when switching to Malekith, I did use a sort of guerrilla tactics involving efreets/sultan efreets supported by the 'Armageddon' spell, namely 'cast-and-run' attacks to weaken the foe, surrender, and then strike again after recruiting the heroe in a tavern. The gameplay was long, sometimes I had to fight quite strong heroes, and you need to remember that it's impossible to eliminate all the computer players since we cannot get to their land due to one-way monoliths (the purple one cannot be accessed). That's why you need to always stay nearby the exit doors not to let enemy heroes invade your areas. In fact, there's a huge problem with neutral creatures guarding key points of the map. They are set to accumulate, so after some time their numbers had grown to huge values, making it hard to access crucial adventure-specific areas. Despite many obstacles, I finally completed this map. Keep it in mind that this is an EASY case for the scenario. Personally, I don't feel bad for choosing this difficulty level. I'm satisfied and glad that I've succeeded at all. I've played all Heroes III campaigns offered by the original title and its successive expansion sets, and I've completed all of them. But custom maps created by other players... That's a completely different story. Some of them are intended for some sick hardcore players :) If you don't mind lowering difficulty, feel free to give it a try and play this terrific map on easy. Cheers!

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Done! - Attraction

Last day before seizure.

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