While i'm here, I may as well try and get a discussion going. So what better than deliberating over our favourite town types? I think i'm a real mixture, but I tend to use Castle, Dungeon and Inferno types when possible. So anyway, what town types does everyone else prefer?

My favourite town is Necropolis, because they always come back to life(or death) And Skeletons get into the thousands sometimes!!

I overlooked the Necropolis with my original post... To be honest, i'm a fan of pretty much all of the town types. That's what's good about the towns - each one has its own 'decent' units. One of my gripes is with the Fortress town though, as it can only have a level 3 mage guild, even though the magic-using witches are suited to it. Higher-level magic is vital to me.

I like all the towns because they all hav thier good units.
Really I don't think you should start a disscusion on whats your fav town but whats your fav unit

Now that's REALLY tough. I could list many that I like. Choosing your favourite town type works well because it makes you consider all of a town's units, even the ones you don't like. Why not start a separate thread about favourite creatures? I'll set one up in a few days anyway, if I think on.

My fav town i have to say is the tower because titans are really strong as well as the naga queens being the best 6th level unit in my opinion same with the titans.[u][/u]

I love the Rampart for dozens of reasons.

1. everything is cheap except dragon cliffs.
2. Centaurs are the second best lev 1 creature
3. Unicorns are the best value creature in the game
4. Their only weakness is the Dwarves, who suck.
5. Gold Dragons=better than black dragons. (proven)

Fortress = close second cause of Wyverns.

I agree with you, the Rampart is my favorite, i am good at all of them, i play my friends and i choose random and still kill them. The Rampart and the Dungeon are my favorite towns, i think the minatours(sp) are awesome, and i like the rampart because of the elves, and the centaurs, oh, and you said the centaurs are the second best lvl 1 unit, what do you think is the best, i think its the upgraded centaurs, speed and dmg are great for them.

i agree about liking rampart
but my favorite town of all time is the duu duu duu daaaaaaa























Inferno!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just because i like the easy process of its building, there are no sissy monsters except for imps and the imps
are great cannon fodder, as the AI loves to kill them, and you can have them in stakcs of really high numbers, so pit lords can resurect them as demons and later u can keep and upgrade them.

Dungeon is the best, why? Black Dragons Rule!

I dunno, you probably shouldn't base it on last level monsters. Lots of games you dont even get to that level, or dont have to. Sometimes its just a waste of money.

But that being said, my favorite town: Castle. And thats really only because I loved that town (Knight) in HOMM 1 and 2. they were cheap and powerful. and im HOMM 2 they had the most upgrades

I usually play with the Conflux, but the truth is:
IN AN LARGE OR XL GAME, THE NECROPOLIS ALWAYS WINS!!!!! THOSE SKELETS ARE TOO EASY TO ANIMATE. AFTER 4 OR 5 MONTHS 10K SKELETS CAN TEAR THROUGH ANY ARMY.
me and my friends never play with necro since we don't wanna spoil the fun.

Sorry for my english, I´m brazilian. The best town depends of the scenario.
It was written that in Large and XLarge, the best is Necropolis. WRONG!!!!. For this type of scenarios, specially with strog creatures on the map, You must have the Diplomacy ability, because you have time to get strong and get the creatures on the map. With necropolis, you just cannot do this because of low morale. And what really makes the difference in Necropolis are the Vampire Lords!
Inferno, like it was said, is not the best either. It has only one shooter, the gog, and it´s weak and slow. And the magogs can do only one shot, or he will kill his friends. Altough, it has the best or second third level creature, the cerberus, fast, no retaliation, and atack 3. The efreets are great too, because thei can cross the battle field, and it´s very important to fight against shooters. The Archidevil is weak (200 energy).
The best are Castle, Dungeon, Rampart and Conflux.
Conflux, because of, only with the sprites, you can do a lot of battles, It has no retaliation, is fast (9), 10 on the grass. You can fight agains all slow creatures, like walking deads, use wait... end the hero get strong very fast. It´s easy and cheap to build. Fenix is the faster creature of the game, the Firebird cross the battlefield even without upgrade!!! Fenix is, for example, better than ghost dragon, and you have 4 per week. And, in second and third levels, you have good shooters, mainly the storm elemental. With advanced bless it does 9 damage! And it has the magic university. Earth and air magic are essential!
The Dungeon, has a very very good second level unit, the Harpy Hags. Fast, atack and come back, and has no rataliation!!. You do lots of battles onlu with these cratures. Has 2 shooters, and the medusas have the stone gaze. Minotaurs are the best 5th level creature. Almost the same as manticores. And black dragons are very strong.
Rampart is really great. The dwarves and dendroids are slow... But it has a great first level unit, probably the best one. Grand Elves rules, it´s only one, but a grat shooter, wich you can build very fast. The mage guild is often good! The unicorns have a great caracteristic, the aura of magic resistance, that can break the enemy strategy if it protects a creature of a slow, for example. And has the fastest dragon. And speed is strengh, have the fastest creature of the battle almst makes you win! It has the treasury too, what can make you get lots of money.
And the Castle!!!! It´s very very very good. It has the stables. Movement is essencial. Has the Marksmen: 2 shots per turn, easy to build! And has 2 shooters, with the monks. The Royal Griffin retaliate anyone!!! The Champions have the justing bonus, 5% more damage per hex it walks befor atacking, the damage can be greatly increased! and... the Archangels!! The best creature of the game. Best levels (30 atack and defence), 18 speed (loses only to Fenix, atack the Archdevis befor, with 50% more damage, and ressurect allies. If you don´t have the ressurect magic, a clone of the Archangels does the job!
The problem of fortress and tower is speed. They simply don´t have a fast unit. It´s hard, for example, to get into Dragon Utopias, that are great structures.
For more discussions, my mail is luisnervo@msn.com.

And remember that, most of the times, the hero you fight is more decisive than the castle you use.

My favorite Town Type is Castle. Arch angles are the best troop IMO. They are the fastest what means you can get the first spell out (Apart from when a player can control the catapult in a castle seige). Very high attack and defence. +1 moreal and too top it all off they can resurrect 1 group of troops to a certain HP. Experrt Clone is great if you have arch angles since then you can the clone to resurrect any group INCLUDING THE ARCH ANGLES.

Also IMO Zealots are equal to minotaurs since Zealots have a massive range advantage they can hit Minotaurs twice before Minotaurs can even attack the zealots.

Then after Castle, Fortess is second and Rampant is thrid in my favorties.

Fortess has Hydras that can hit 3 enemy with no retation allowed. But they are slow and they can not fly. Gorgons give that horrifying time glass attack. Dragon Flies have an incredibly high speed giving an advantage over almost all troops.

Rampant is cheap and quick to build but only one long range troop. When it comes to tactics other castle types can just protect there archers to get a massive advantage. Only problem with protecting the archers is Gold Dragons but Castle has archangels what out do Gold Dragons in almost every aspect. Gold Dragons only get no relation if they hit 2 groups. Also Archangles can bring back the dreaded archers if they do die.

I think that Inferno is the worst castle since the troops are really weak apart from arch devils.

My favorites are tower and rampart. The tower has some of the strongest units but they arr expensive, whereas the rampart's units are much less expensive.