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>>1173085
I've said this so many times. Heroes 3 designs are functional. When you are equipping an army, you don't give them retarded bling, you give them armor that protects them and weapons that let them hurt the enemy better.

Heroes 5, WoW, etc, all have designs which boil down to having the most spikes and most bling bling, stuff that would be too brittle in ACTUAL battle, would give no function beyond looks, and too expensive to deploy in an army worth of numbers. So in warfare, they would be useless.

HOMM3 designs don't have that, they are all functional - realistic even. With only few exceptions, like how the Sword of Judgment has a sine curve for a blade - but it's supposed to be the flaming sword used by archangels (an extremely high ranking artefact, which it is in-game), so it gets a pass.

But don't tell me that shit like a Lich, employed by the hundreds, need a chain skirt and a skull belt with carefully crafted bronze belt buckles in skull shapes, and a torso armor that is a skull with bat wings and a hat that is also has bat wings or a sword with a detailed sculpture as the fucking handle. Warfare isn't a fucking cosplay convention.