Two hundred years have passed since the Abyss unleashed the Apocalyptic Blade to reshape the world.
Now, the nations rise once more—not as allies, but as rivals. The Abyss still holds the Blade, and its power threatens all
Lead your nation to glory—or to ruin. The Second Crusade begins.
Author: Greg (Stuttgart), 18-03-2025 10:27 Very beautiful map - The Second Crusade Finished on month 8, week 4, day 6 with red.
In my opinion Angel Wings are necessary to win the scenario, I can't think of a way to finish this only with berserk (too many creatures on the final heroes).
I first took the Angel Wings (which indeed should be a little bit harder to get), diploed the most interesting creatures and went for the cloak of the undead king to amass some liches :)
I liked that the creatures didn't automatically joined your army when strong enough (even with diplomacy cloak) and diplo therefore didn't mean auto-win.
Really liked this one!
Lê cong writes:
18-03-2025 23:28
Quest - The Second Crusade
How can u finish the quest " defeat rogues" with Red?
Greg (Stuttgart) writes:
18-03-2025 23:53
quest - The Second Crusade
I defeated the rogues with 4 liches (the one lich from start + 3 power liches you gain from defeating the peasants), about 40 skeletons from necromancy and from the skeleton transformer that transformed the peasants in front of it (the peasants always join you).
This should already be enough to defeat the rogues but I also had luck to find 2 magic elementals in the refugee camp :)
Le cong writes:
25-03-2025 16:14
:) - The Second Crusade
I play as Brown, release hero with fly to kill necromancer 's 98 to get fly for Dessa. then I kill Replica to get DD, take Amagadon Blade and win. There's no need to use CoTK or capture all castle s=))
Author: Kelben (Oslo, Norway), 15-03-2025 23:46 Campfires blocking? - The Second Crusade Maybe it's supposed to be this way. I just found summoned campfires blocking my way to the shore at one point.
Rice cooker (France) writes:
16-03-2025 00:22
campfire - The Second Crusade
Bug = definitely not
Why i did that = ?
Probably because i like detours =/
Author: Kelben (Oslo, Norway), 15-03-2025 19:18 Campfires blocking? - The Second Crusade Maybe it's supposed to be this way. I just found summoned campfires blocking my way to the shore at one point.
Author: G, 11-03-2025 09:25 Amazing map, but freezing constantly at later stages - The Second Crusade First 9 months went smoothly, but now I experience freezes when opponents turn. It takes 5 minutes for them to move.
I unlocked the map via fly & cartographer and it settled the freezes, but they returned after a few weeks.
Might try a fresh start, maybe that will solve it
Gulo (Xian,China) writes:
11-03-2025 09:43
Me too - The Second Crusade
Yes, I got a hero from the prison with fly magic, then every turn will freeze. After I dismissed it, the game became fine.
G writes:
11-03-2025 23:41
Worked! - The Second Crusade
Thanks, that solved it. Sucks not having the guy with Fly though :)
Author: G, 11-03-2025 07:47 Amazing map, but freezing constantly at later stages - The Second Crusade First 9 months went smoothly, but now I experience freezes when opponents turn. It takes 5 minutes for them to move.
I unlocked the map via fly & cartographer and it settled the freezes, but they returned after a few weeks.
Might try a fresh start, maybe that will solve it
Author: T.O.M., 23-02-2025 12:19 Like Random trees appear and block the way - The Second Crusade Hi all,
Is it just me or has someone else also experienced this?
I mean really - trees pop up out of nowhere and start blocking the way.
First I was so shocked I didn't even understand what is happening. Also when digging a hole a stone appears instead or a pine tree.
Is this a bug, or is this made with purpose by hacking the whole game? I'm not even sure if that's even possible, but who knows...
So please let me know. One example attached, but there are many and they keep coming, so a lot of paths get blocked.
Thx
Rice cooker (France) writes:
07-03-2025 23:50
New update - The Second Crusade
Hello
Thank you for your return
Concerning the bug, it is due to the grail of the inferno castle because one of its effects was the appearance of imps on the map each and after 10/11 months the imps transformed into other things like obstacles, resources, monsters (I don't know why but that's how it is) so I removed the grail of the inferno castle (PS: it was the grail of the last castle before you can end the game)
I spotted the bug 2 weeks ago but I also took the opportunity to modify the map and add features and test the pink camp which had a lot of problems so i will soon upload a new version and i hope you will give it a shot because it may be a little bit different
Rice cooker (France) writes:
09-03-2025 01:27
Update - The Second Crusade
New version upload
T.O.M. writes:
10-03-2025 12:29
update - The Second Crusade
Thank you, definitely I will start again, the map is beautiful, thanks a lot for your work, time, and energy!
Lê cong writes:
12-03-2025 15:43
Quest error - The Second Crusade
This quest can't be
finished
Author: Anton, 10-02-2025 22:06 Like Game error - The Second Crusade After 13/3/6 game crashed. I played 2 times for various players.
Author: Lorkis, 07-02-2025 14:10 Crashing - The Second Crusade 12/3/3 critical error after end of turn
Author: Gulo, 06-02-2025 07:01 Some minor issues,but still very excellent. - The Second Crusade The main feature of this map is very very complex, players have to be patient to find the way to enemy. But when you got Angel Winges, it’s very easy to continue. Those are my some thoughts:
1.About Enemies Boss: They are not powerful enough.They lack suitable treasures.
2.About Angel Wings.To fight with Axsis and Isra, players have to use AW, AW will destroy the complexity of map , you can’t let players get it so easy and early.I think replacing Purple border gate to black in front of AW is more reasonable.
3.Titan at (244,91,0), you should set quantity does not grow.
4.Enemies heroes can be killed when all theirs towns be taken.It can set some quest guards that need kill specific enemies heroes to get special treasure or open the gates.Just like Nagash ,Zydar The unknown,all need not to fight.
That’s all ,thanks for your great work.
Lê cong writes:
09-02-2025 17:58
Aw - The Second Crusade
I agree with u about aw, we can set some gates like u said instead of using aw to fight with Bosses. and we should remove grail of tower and cartographer to make this map more challenging
Author: G, 06-02-2025 00:03 .. - The Second Crusade When you get angel wings, it becomes a little bit boring - then you just get cloak of undead, orb of inhibition and berserk, and then its boring battles
Author: gnollking, 04-02-2025 00:18 Blocked - The Second Crusade 63,227,0 is unpassable for Fortress, blocks progress completely.
gnollking writes:
04-02-2025 00:20
double post - The Second Crusade
sorry, double post while refreshing the page
Author: gnollking, 03-02-2025 20:26 Blocked - The Second Crusade 63,227,0 is unpassable for Fortress, blocks progress completely.
Rice cooker writes:
03-02-2025 21:30
I hope it helps - The Second Crusade
:(
My bad, you can still access to this area and the fortress at the center by using a whirlpool but you have to be lvl 20 and have some troops and good spells so you can handle the monsters of this area
Then with the TP, it will be much easier
There is a capitol in this fortress so it's worth the shot and whirlpool may be risky but risks also provides rewards ;)
gnollking writes:
04-02-2025 00:33
Feedback - The Second Crusade
No problem! So far it feels like an interesting and very well crafted map, but it feels like not all colors were tested even one time. The potential is there, but with all the errors pointed out by the people so far, we'll probably have to wait for a more polished version to get a real play-through and the opportunity to give better feedback.
Author: gnollking, 03-02-2025 19:39 Passable Border Guard - The Second Crusade You can pass the Border Guard at 191,58,0 by going through the Spit.
Author: Rice cooker (France), 02-02-2025 14:58 new version - The Second Crusade map updated
Hope you can give it a shot :)
Lê cong writes:
03-02-2025 06:41
TP - The Second Crusade
How can I get TP,Fly and DD on this map? Tks
Rice cooker writes:
03-02-2025 19:22
TP, fly and DD - The Second Crusade
Every playable camp can access to a TP with a lvl 4 shrine that you can find after some exploring
on the other hand, fly and DD exist but don't waste your time looking for it in a castle, i made them extremely difficult to get (but not impossible ;)
(PS: there is only 1 angel wing on the entire map)
Author: Rice cooker (France), 02-02-2025 03:38 Map Update - The Second Crusade Hello there
I am the creator of this map and first of all Thank you for your feedback because it helped me a lot in correcting my map.
Concerning the texture bugs that crashed your games (enemies or imaginary gold) it is a problem that I had already been confronted with and which resulted in particular from the weight of the map.
Thanks to your feedback I have since updated my map to make it compatible with the latest version of HotA 1.7.2, hoping that it will reduce the bugs for the players (I tested the scenario and over 12 months of campaign, it crashed 1 time but nothing serious I went back to autosave and it was back)
And Concerning the enemies and monsters, I improved the number, hostility and mobility of most of them
Now I'm just waiting for the site to reupload the corrected version of my map and I hope that the corrected version will not bug on your side
Gulo writes:
02-02-2025 05:46
Thanks for your great work - The Second Crusade
My dear , the map looks so beautiful and so impressive, likes an art work 。
Author: Gulo, 01-02-2025 02:29 Looks very great, but too easy. - The Second Crusade Many Creatures will join you after your army only has several 7 level creature.Enemy heroes are too weak when you met them. Too easy and quickly Players will lose interest to continue.
Author: Random User, 01-02-2025 00:15 Crash log file - The Second Crusade The game is crushed on month 4, when orange attacked some pirates, that dont exist on the map
Author: Gulo, 31-01-2025 17:30 Looks very great, but too easy. - The Second Crusade Many Creatures will join you after your army only has several 7 level creature.Enemy heroes are too weak when you met them. Too easy and quickly Players will lose interest to continue.
Author: Pechkin, 31-01-2025 12:24 Pechkin - The Second Crusade 5.1.1. 213 236 created bugged gold (?), 153 245 crashed with ore, played brown 5.3.3 no crashed
Pechkin writes:
31-01-2025 23:34
/ - The Second Crusade
created bugged wood
Pechkin writes:
31-01-2025 23:37
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Author: 32167, 31-01-2025 11:24 4.1.1 - game crashed - The Second Crusade The game crashed when Azir attacked the minotaurs standing at the dundeon gates.
Author: Slawek (Poland), 30-01-2025 23:08 :) - The Second Crusade Hey, the map looked great, but unfortunately there was a bug and the game crashed. (4.1.1)
The option to play teal is probably a mistake.
With such a map, angel wings in a dragon utopia are also unacceptable.
The colors that the computer plays should have boosts and taverns. They were unable to leave their locations during these four months.
Overall, the map looks nice, it would be worth improving it :)
Lukas (Poland) writes:
31-01-2025 11:54
errors - The Second Crusade
I have the same problem. The same day.
Another error I found is shipyard 180/50, you cannot enter the ship.