u/Bastisheen92

6 factions, Galadriel, Aragorn, me(Gandalf), Suladan(Haradrim), Saruman, Sauron.

The scenario i had in mind: Aragorn, Galadriel and me team up and the evil guys team up.

What happened: Sauron in perma-war with Haradrim, i beat Saruman early and got Galadriel as ally early. Then Haradrim done as well. Sauron and Aragorn team up FOR WHATEVER REASON. In the end it was me and Galadriel vs. Aragorn. Epic last siege. Auto-resolve gave me a heavy defeat so i played it manually 18vs18. It was tedious but i managed to win with only loosing 2 units. No idea what auto-resolve was smoking, lol.

And i got the achievement for having a Wizard King winning with Halflings.

I love this game.

Achievement

End-Screen

Zu mir: Mitte 30, verheiratet, kleines Kind.
Urlaube werden gemeinsam mit Frau abgeglichen, macht ja auch Sinn.
Jetzt ist es so, dass ich mir seit Monaten wünsche, mal so eine Woche, zumindest die Vormittage, für mich alleine zu haben. Einfach weil ich das Gefühl habe, ich muss mich mental einfach mal resetten. Das ist aber so gut wie nie möglich wegen Arbeit und gemeinsamer Familien Urlaube.
Ich bin sehr gut mit meinem Chef auf der Arbeit. Ich mach die Arbeit super, aber er meinte ich mache den Eindruck, als würde ich momentan etwas in den Seilen hängen, was sich nicht ganz so falsch ist.
Er kann gut abschätzen, wann wir welche Auslastung haben und hat einen Freitag zu mir gesagt „du holst dir am Montag n gelben für die Woche. Alles gut. Entspann dich etwas und dann stehst du fit wieder auf der Matte.“
Ich liebe den Typen dafür.
Jetzt kam der Montag. Und genau an diesem Montag…genau. Wird das Kind krank. Jetzt bin ich mit krankem Kind die ganze Woche zu Hause.
Natürlich macht mir das so überhaupt nichts aus, ich liebe mein Kind und es tut mir weh, den kleinen so krank zu sehen. Für mich geht nichts auf der Welt vor ihm.

Aber er war seit über 10 Monaten nichtmehr krank und genau diese Woche, in der ich mal etwas für mich sein wollte (nichtmal die vollen Tage, nur die Vormittage), passiert das. Kann doch nicht wahr sein…diese Ruhe und Einmalige Pause nur für mich selbst hätte ich wirklich mal so dringend gebraucht.

Playing the story in the game and leveling up was fun, but the TRUE fun and core of the game for me is now in the giga-endgame and to just maximize my orcs and getting any kind of slight bonus to my gear (although i have best in slot already). Do you just start over? I am where i want to be, just doing sieges or defending. On boring days just walking around the map, going on a killing spree.

Currently MiniMax H3 is the "frontier" on local consumer hardware as it seems. I used this as well but for longer generations, like a 4-5 minute music video for example, my hardware is just not strong enough (12GB VRAM, 3080 ti, 32 GB RAM). With 480p and Turbo LoRa i might slowly getting there but this is not what i am looking for.

Now i am interested if people actively tested LTX-2.5 and have some tips how to improve outputs. For example i wanted to make an anime fight scene. I was able to have a good result in an 8 Second Test with MiniMax H3, but LTX provided a very weak unusable result. Afaik LTX does not really have a strict prompt-structure like H3, but still struggled with the commands.

Any tips for making LTX-2.5 more usuable would be appreciated.

Is someone actively using Maestro in Pinokio to use the local models? Currently i am using it exclusively but i barely find users to talk to. So far i am happy with it and its easy to setup and use.

I would like to know if someone used both, ComfyUI and Maestro and is able to provide a detailed comparison, because so far i did not try any workflows with Comfy.

Hello everyone.

I am very new to this game, finished the first story realm and started two other matches but did not go past the ~20 hour mark in total yet because real-life called and stuff.

Now i want to return and i was wondering (since i am mostly an offline player) how capable is the AI in making use of all the given systems? Is it utilizing the tomes/unit abilities/spells as a player would do? Or do they just choose their tomes but never use the cool spells that come with it?

Would be interesting to know what your experience with this would be.

Hi everyone. I recently bought HoMM: Olden Era (Did not have time to play it yet, but will do so in the next days) and also played a lot of Songs of Conquest.

The gameplay itself is one thing, but i really dig these games because i just love to have a lot of cool mighty fantasy units to control. Now i wanted to ask which games in this (or similar) genre has the biggest variety of factions and units, as this is a big factor for myself when it comes to replayability.