Heroes 3 question

[socketboy]

This is something I ahve always been curious about.
It says griffin has unlimited retaliation, but I have never seen it retaliate more than once!

So shouldn't it be if two griffins are fighting they just keep fighting to the death?

[Buddhi_West]

Unlimited retalitation doesnâ´t mean that the griffins will strike unlimited against one enemy, it means that they will always strike back, even if they are attacked by more than one enemy in one round

[Zamolxis108]

Yeah. I thing basic Griffin has 2 retaliations, and Royal Griffin unlimited. And yes, it's like Buddhi_West says - unlimited retaliation to different enemies, not retaliation to retaliation against the same one.

[socketboy]

Ahhhhhh! lol
Thanks!

Every time I play I keep wanting a fight to the death retalitation fight but it never happens!
oh well. I guess multiple enemies is ok too

[bakmaita]

Hmm much interesting thing is if vampire [lord] and [war] troll meet one on one... I think such a fight will have no end? One is regenerating while another is draining life?

[SuperCyp]

Something really funny happened to me once while playing HoMM3. I had an army with like 10 archangels, 20 royal griffins and 100 marksmen and fought a town with some small stacks of low level undead units:
-the liches (from the castle) hit the marksmen
-my archangels ressurected the marksmen
-my griffins attacked one enemy stack and killed it
-then, all the other enemy stacks hit the griffin and it killed them all http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I didn't even have to use the archangel to attack http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/35.gif

omg! bakmaita, u were right! http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif
I made a map with only 1 hero with no attack, def, spells, skills and only 1 vampire. next to him I put 1 troll. I started playing and the fight couldn't end! I pressed the auto combat and still no progress... the troll was still with full hp and the vampire also.

[bakmaita]

hehe yep griffins are cool with this special. I like to cast a first strke on them in h4 and then watching as all weaker units die one by one when trying to hit them without dealing any damage. Looks funny http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif

[socketboy]

lol, so in 5 two vampires attack each other gaining life back and forth never winning...
In that case we will need to be able to gain spell points after so many turns so you could use a spell to end it

[UndeadDontDie]

Originally posted by socketboy:
lol, so in 5 two vampires attack each other gaining life back and forth never winning...
In that case we will need to be able to gain spell points after so many turns so you could use a spell to end it
Or... Make it so they regain only a percentage of the damage they deal in HP, say 75%.

[Szatany47]

Originally posted by socketboy:
lol, so in 5 two vampires attack each other gaining life back and forth never winning...
In that case we will need to be able to gain spell points after so many turns so you could use a spell to end it I doubt very much vampires will be able to regain life from undead, and vampires are undead. Your example won't work.

[snadar]

vampires get only 50% of the damege they deal (atleast at HOMM4, but I think that also in 3).
so that kind of battle (Vemp Vs. Vemp) will end.