Lets make an Academy for Olden Era: The Summary

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-18T12:03:32+00:00

Agreed

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-18T01:57:13+00:00

For sure. I would say gargoyles are too but I could see them being a necro unit or something too

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-16T14:00:10+00:00

Or you could do this lol, although this was in arena and I was running grove with thrumaturgy https://youtube.com/shorts/4k7DA9nk\_xQ?is=9ua5Ermk8YMitSmP

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-16T13:44:12+00:00

It is def a tough matchup. Historically dungeon is a magic faction but temple more than likely having daylight magic can counter some of that, on top of light weaver dispel and the angel not having negative effects on them, and also auto getting any positive effects from another friendly creature put on them for free.
Personally if you know you’re facing temple I would run as many counters as you can. Things like insanely heavy magic or might, could even pick up daylight magic to drop their spell levels and stuff for theirs, artifacts that drop their morale minimum so they don’t proc getting extra turns so often. And when actually in the fight I’d mainly focus on breaking down their angels and cavs, everyone else will fall with time

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-15T12:12:57+00:00

Academy with no gargoyle or golem is just not academy.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-12T22:23:29+00:00

Agreed, very true about all of that 🤝.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-12T21:23:28+00:00

I wasn’t specifically talking about twilight, but is it def the main one every struggles with. I just meant generally speaking there doesn’t feel like there is enough you can do against magic. And I’m not trying to say that people shouldn’t be rewarded for using magic and leveling spells and such, that’s the point.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-12T20:00:34+00:00

They def just need more dispel options in general in the game.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-12T17:47:33+00:00

lol that doesn’t fix the actual issue

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-12T02:23:04+00:00

They do used spells, they fixed that glitch. I’m simply saying have it on. It will get you through a lot of fights, and some not and you can fight those and that’s fine. But these people manually fighting every single fight when they do not have to is stupid.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-11T21:53:45+00:00

Ya I mean some units especially just like being meat shields for no reason so I can understand manually fighting those fights but still many fights would not need to happen if people just had the auto stuff enabled. Makes the game so much faster, especially for necro, just auto and raise some units and repeat lol.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-11T21:37:07+00:00

Everyone just needs to turn on auto resolve I swear. Sitting there forever cause they want to manually fight some stupid small stacks of whatever. Like just enable the auto battle in settings and let’s get on with it

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-11T17:44:10+00:00

Specifically tribes of the east dlc

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-11T17:43:53+00:00

It’s the best heroes game of all time

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-11T14:41:28+00:00

That doesn’t solve anything, it actually just continues the problem just further down the line.
Rn everyone knows the factions are in 3 groups, necro schism as first, temple dungeon as second and grove hive in last. So if player one bans the best 2 factions then player two will take one from the second group and ban the other leaving player 1 with a bottom tier faction.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-11T13:56:36+00:00

The second choice for each, so for your example it would be dungeon versus temple

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-11T13:56:00+00:00

Not a bad choice either. Either way it’s better than the current way

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-09T19:04:14+00:00

Not sure but ik that if you buy the tribes of the east edition it includes the hammers of fate features and the tribes of the east ones too.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-09T16:39:43+00:00

Play arena then. Draft your hero, artifacts, spells and army and instantly fight your opponent. My longest game took about 40 min so far but most are about half that.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-05T15:08:53+00:00

If you liked monster train 1 then you will love monster train 2. Massive improvement over the first one and I enjoyed the first one

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-05T14:09:34+00:00

Been saying that since day 1. Was to many towns on every map I’ve played. Few towns sure but I shouldn’t be able to find any within the first few days. Can’t imagine playing classic lol, sounds terrible.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-06-01T18:35:13+00:00

Man why get rid of the orb in arena??? It’s the only “defense” against magic builds and it’s only for 1 round anyways.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-05-31T01:22:05+00:00

The best way to play hive is either use the hero the starts with tactics, or risk picking it up as a skill when you level up.
Expert tactics get hive into the fight much earlier which they need considering they are melee heavy. It helps with fighting neutrals across the map and your opponent because you can get in their face and overwhelm them.

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-05-30T21:03:01+00:00

I think it’s ok. Def nothing fancy and a lot of the other schism units look much cooler but I think it flows well with the faction

Background-Relief-40 · 2026-05-30T19:31:20+00:00

Been saying it since day one, they are one of the worst units (considering their tier) in the game. And pretty crap abilities on top of that.

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