View Poll Results: Which Special Unit is your Favorite?
Sharpshooters 5 62.50%
Enchanters 0 0%
Rogues 0 0%
Nomads 0 0%
Hobbits 0 0%
Rust Dragons 0 0%
Azure Dragons 0 0%
Crystal Dragons 0 0%
Faery Dragons 2 25.00%
Other 1: To be Mentioned Below 0 0%
Other 2: To be Mentioned Below 1 12.50%
Other 3: To be Mentioned Below 0 0%
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Old September 3, 2002, 23:03   #1
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HoMM: Special Units
Just wondering... Which units do you think are the best SPECIALS...

Examples:

The Sharpshooters
The Enchanters
Nomads
Peasants
Rogues
The Hobbits :thumbsdown:
Crystal Dragons
Rust Dragons
Faery Dragons
Azure Dragons

Specials are those creatures you can't recruit in a town, but must find their creature dwellings.

I'd have to say that Sharpshooters or Enchanters are my favorites as the Sharpshooters are wicked with teh bow and the enchanters have GREAT expert-level spells as well as being great range fighters.

The Azure dragons run closely because of their sheer power.

The Crystal and Rust ones cost too much.

As for the Faery dragons- by the time you get them in the game... unless you have 2-5, they'll be fairly weak and easily wiped out.

As for rogues, nomads and hobbits- the less said the better
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Sharpshootters.
for they mix well with my Castle troops (repleasing pikemen.), aren't that expencive and have deadly ranged attack.
others aren't that good or they cost too much. (tough, Enchanters are good)
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It's a coin-toss between Azure Dragons and Faery Dragons. Azure Dragons are the fastest unit in the game (helps out my Necro army quite a bit), but Faery Dragons are also quite fast and can be kept safely in the back row using their spellcasting ability (which is useful to a Necro army that can't Resurrect a fallen Azure Dragon or Faery Dragon). Regardless, only the Dragon units are worth having in a Necro army, since the morale penalties make the other special units a lot less helpful. (You've still got morale penalties with the Dragons, but it's worth it.)
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Im confused which HoMM does this Poll target on? Homm3:AB or Homm IV?
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Old September 4, 2002, 12:43   #5
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I'd assume HOMM3, since Faery Dragons aren't special units in HOMM4.
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mhh but Sharpshooters are regular Castle Units?
Well at least in the German Version thats what the Upgraded Castle Archers are called.
mhh as i think about It I have the Strange Feeling those units meant abiove are called Rangers or smth. cant remember...
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In the English version the upgraded Castle Archers are called Marksmen, with Sharpshooters being the neutral unit.
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Yes, this was for Heroes 3... I probably should have specified
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In the German Version its Scharfschützen which means exactly Sharpshooters
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I played the first HOMM3. I don't think it had specials.
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I think the Poll is about Armaggeddons Blade At least tahts the only One that i knwo for sure involved RustDragons
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yah

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Jon Miller- get the expansion pack
Or Heroes Chronicles That's where I found out about the usefulness of Sharpshooters/Enchanters
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Quote:
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I played the first HOMM3. I don't think it had specials.
yes, it did.
elementals (those 4 not upgrated ones) were special units before the conflux towns arrived.
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grabs Manual and also:
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( Elements could be summounded in Combat...)
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Touche, Andemagne.
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Touche, Andemagne.
what do you mean "Touche"? did I say something stupid?
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No, you have defeated him in verbal combat. You get 3 bonus points for not even realizing it.
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Sharpshooters, definately. You can literally recruit hordes of them, since Elves and Aerchers are fairly basic units. Shame that they die in droves - they dish out a hell of a lot of damage.
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Andemagne- he meant touche' with a ' over the e

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ah yes, the golems- too slow to be useful however
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yeah but -95% magic Damage means they have to Die in Actual handTohandCombat
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IIRC, Liches and Power Liches don't do any damage against golems, which means that it's impossible for Necros to pick them off from a distance.
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Well Golems are Mechanical Units and the lichs fire this Death/poison/black Cloud ;9
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I'll try again:

Touché
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I did that a really low tech way:

Type Touche in MS Word.
Spell checker corrects to Touché
Copy/Paste into 'poly.

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There's an ANSI key for it, but I'm not sure what it is...However, I know it is NOT 150-170

(it being e')
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There are more ANSII keys than I have slots in my memory for. Some people are good with that stuff, but not me.
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é? No Ascii needed for that one
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Quote:
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Touché
DAMNATION! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY!?
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DAMNATION! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY!?
He said that there weren't special units in HoMM3. You said "There were elementals." You win! +12 points to you!
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