HoMM/MM (of Might and Magic) Thread: "But what if Tazar was level 88?" Edition

[Anonymous No.5289031]

Astrologers Proclaim Month of the Dumb Desert Town
Oh well whatever at least Resistance was nerfed doubled.
>Previous Thread >>5256864
HoMM3 pastebin: https://pastebin.com/6G9B1cMA

[Anonymous No.5289034]

>>5289031
Right when I was going to ask if I should make a new thread

[Anonymous No.5289061]

wasn't there another thread already?

[Anonymous No.5289193]

>>5289061
Nope, the previous one hit bump limit and was page 9 when this started

[Anonymous No.5289221]

bleh

[Anonymous No.5289287]

Which one is the better choice if I want to waste my money (actual price notwithstanding, since I'd only buy either during a -75% sale): Heroes VI or VII? Does VI still require that idiotic online thing to unlock special items?

[Anonymous No.5289374]

>>5289031
>grail structure is a torn flag on a stick
The absolute state of Stronghold.

[Anonymous No.5289407]

>stupid expensive
>aesthetically fugly
Am I missing out neglecting this faction?

[Anonymous No.5289414]

>>5289407
I think they're a lot of fun to play, precisely because they're so hard to get off the ground.

[Anonymous No.5289416]

>>5289287
>Heroes VI or VII?
Heroes VI was at least trying to do something new with its Dynasty and Reputation systems so it's worth checking out at least. Limbic's attempt to take the best parts of all previous games and merge it into VII failed, giving us a game without any identity of its own. Still, you should watch a few episodes of Let's Plays to get an impression of how the games look and feel like before making your choice.

Also, for those people interested in my maps, I just wanted to share this pic because I was really pleased with how the waterfall turned out!

[Anonymous No.5289592]

>>5289407
I think they're worse than inferno on poor in terms of resources maps.

[Anonymous No.5289652]

>>5289592
Correct, you can't really do much unless you can afford nagas by at least week 2. Overall really bad Heroes as well, but I still enjoy playing them.

[Anonymous No.5289845]

>>5289416
very good blend of the dragon dwelling + mountains + reef

[Anonymous No.5289863]

>>5289287
Neither.
There is literally no reason to spend money on those abominations, not even guilty pleasure.

[Anonymous No.5289869]

>>5289407
You forgot another one
>Heroes are universally shit
>Most units are expensive and crap

[Anonymous No.5290021]

>>5289869
Ï don't know about that, I think Tower overall has one of the better armies. The cost and the shitty heroes are the problem.

[Anonymous No.5290030]

>>5290021
The problem with their units is universally low HP. And serious Speed issues.

[Anonymous No.5290103]

>>5289407
>>5289592
>>5289869
The reason Inferno is always shat on and Tower isn't is because the typical HoMM3 player takes 4 months to finish an M map and Titans and Solmyr are da bomb, but Devils have weak stats and are smelly and why would you care about non-retal on a superfast unit.

[Anonymous No.5290107]

>>5290103
lmao true Tbh

[Anonymous No.5290207]

>>5289869
Solmyr rushes great, Neela grows amazingly

[Anonymous No.5290214]

>>5290207
Not true by the way.

t. tower player

[Anonymous No.5290219]

>>5290214
It is
t. person who's smarter than you

[Anonymous No.5290231]

>>5290219
Here's how it works, you either pick Solmyr, in the hopes of getting a chance at a harder stack than you would otherwise be able to clear with chain lightning, or if you are playing on any template other than Jebus or on 200% you take Aine so that you can actually get anywhere within the first month. Then after doing this, you pray to god that your opponents didn't pick all of the decent barbarians and that there is one in your tavern.

[Anonymous No.5290250]

Solmyr is a great hero on maps that allow for quick skirmishes between players on week 1, because casters in general rock in these situations and even more so does CL. Gremlin rush with Solmyr is very formidable. Tower is solid in FFA MP, but in a 1v1 with a formidable buildup phase they struggle.

Also if you're playing without rules you can always pick Cyra.

[Anonymous No.5290304]

>>5289416
The waterfall looks splendid, but I'm not so sold on the dragon cliffs. They blend in well; the problem is the hard edge on the right. I know that's how the artist made it, but it looks like "canvas ran out"

[Anonymous No.5290513]

>>5290207
Neela could be amazing if not the fact she's Alchemist meaning you are almost guaranteed to get Learning, but forget about Water or Fire Magic. And on top of that her starting skill is already the fucking Scholar. Then comes the fact how stat grow for Alchemists.
At least Tazar and Mephala are good hero classes with good growth and skills to pick.

Solmyr is such a meme I don't even feel the need to explain why it's a fucking joke of a hero.
Cyra is the only good hero Tower has to offer and you didn't even bothered to mention her.

[Anonymous No.5290515]

>>5290513
Cyra is banned, that's why.

[Anonymous No.5290528]

>>5290515
Not always. But it tells you something about a faction where the only good hero of it (she's nothing special, really, it's the day 1 Diplomacy that leverages her to good) is usually disabled.

[Anonymous No.5290547]

>>5290528
Diplo is disabled with HW rules, of course you can play without them but its not common. But yes I agree, I play tower and basically you just take Solmyr or Aine then hope to get a good barbarian in tavern.

[Anonymous No.5290572]

>>5290513
>Solmyr is such a meme I don't even feel the need to explain why it's a fucking joke of a hero.
Tyranuxus (highly rated ladder player) endorses Solmyr as a starter hero choice on Jebus with the caveat that you always want to tavern-dive for something better than a Tower native hero.

Aside from the speculation that, presumedly, absolutely nobody endorses picking Tower at all.

[Anonymous No.5290582]

>>5290572
Exactly what has been said ITT for the last three hours other than by clueless fags that have presumably never played multi. Solmyr is an ok starting pick because you could potentially use your one cast of chain lightning to win a fight you otherwise couldn't.

[Anonymous No.5290602]

>>5289416
is this loss

[Anonymous No.5291214]

It's that time again spoiler]to play HoMM6![/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.5291217]

It's that time again to play HoMM6!
Heh didn't mess up this time.

[Anonymous No.5291416]

>>5290572
>>5290582

[Anonymous No.5291429]

>>5289221
>bleh
HoMM2's vampires are the coolest vampires in HoMM.

[Anonymous No.5291443]

>>5291416
>fucking meme joke of a hero
>actually he's probably one of the best starter choices for a town that suffers from real dearth of starting heroes
>le missing the point gif with no more arguments
Posting this reaction image for the 7th time when you get told (seriously, you're making a habit out of this) doesn't mean you haven't been wrong these 7 times.
Alternately, articulate yourself in a manner where people won't "miss your point" every single time you say something misleading.

[Anonymous No.5291450]

>>5291443
>/vr/ is just one person
The point was already stated by >>5290231. And I'm not him nor the >>5290513 anon.
How about this: Solmyr is a meme hero, because first of all, he's Tower hero, second he has Sorcery as starting skill (and extremely high chance to end up with crapload of shit-tier skills, like Intelligence, Scholar or Eagle Eye), he's a Wizard (already covered) and literally the only "good" thing about him is a Chain Lighting from the start in his spellbook. A spell that outright demands from you to either run with underpowered army (so there are enough enemy stacks) OR sacrifice your own units each and every time you use it.
And on top of that, Solmyr is often simply banned from the game, precisely due to his meme status.

tl;dr get fucked

[Anonymous No.5291454]

>>5291450
And to bash on entire Wizard class some more:
You are more likely to get Estates and Ballistics than you can get Earth, Fire or Water magic. Wizard my ass. And you can get easier First Aid than you can get Air Magic. Your biggest gains are in Knowledge for the crucial first 10 levels, along with your town giving +1 Knowledge to that. Because who needs spells that deal damage or army that has any combat value, right?
That's how bad Wizards are.

[Anonymous No.5291464]

>>5291450
>>5291454
Solymyr will chain lightning your arse

[Anonymous No.5291465]

>>5291450
>>5291454
Yes, literally all of those are well known problems with Tower.
>either run with underpowered army
The point is that you can take on - or soften - large blocker armies, and the fact that you're best off doing this with a small army (it's not unheard of for Tower to do some light creeping with just the week 2 Castle+Naga or Citadel+Naga growth, for example) means that you can chain and expand much more efficiently - that's like saying Luna's Firewall is terrible because it encourages you to creep with just a handful of Pixies.
Solmyr is also much stronger when you have steady access to wells nearby.

We all fucking know why Tower heroes are terrible and why Solmyr is not main hero material, literally every post here on the subject confirms these are problems and that he's merely advocated as a seeker of early game advantage (especially the example highlighted here >>5290250 )

>And on top of that, Solmyr is often simply banned from the game, precisely due to his meme status.
Maybe if you're playing with bads.

And yes, it's been the third thread where someone is posting the same fucking "woooosh" reaction images and acts like "unhf durr you just don't get it" when called out on retardation. Now it is evident that you can't read because none of the posters you were responding to required a litany of Wizard-bashing. Nobody here advocated main hero Solmyr. Nobody here said Solmyr is amazing or that he redeems Tower's flaws. He's merely been called an "okay starting pick" in a town where people were so desperate for a decent starter that at some point I saw people trying to utilize fucking Torosar. But Torosar isn't Gurnisson or even Arlach, he's a shitty Alchemist.

[Anonymous No.5291701]

>>5289416
looks great

[Anonymous No.5292758]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5292763]

>>5292758
what tier is mercedes limousine

[Anonymous No.5293079]

https://youtu.be/UNCHWJWC0wo?t=1110
I recognize this song from Heroes of Might and Magic IV, it's one of the overworld themes.
How on earth did it end up in an anime? I can't find anything on google about it.

[Anonymous No.5293117]

>>5293079
I think it's some kind of old musical theme or something like that, you can hear that in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CihrMnZXI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL6jvf9WccM
Speaking of this, I hope someone knows what the origin of this is, since it's kinda hard to search considering there's no actual lyrics.

[Anonymous No.5293128]

Let's say I'm playing Castle or Tower, and have to grab a main from the tavern. How would you rank the classes, disregarding specializations?
Barbarian>Overlord>Beastmaster>Ranger?
Are BM's and Rangers even worth considering if they're not Tazar/Kyrre/Mephala?

[Anonymous No.5293139]

>>5293128
Barbarian > Overlord > Ranger > Beastmaster (unless Tazar)

And no to the second part of your question. Unless they have some kind of skill that would be ok for a scout or defensive hero.

[Anonymous No.5293154]

>>5293139
>>5293128
Actually, even playing a knight would be better than playing a BM/ranger unless you get one of the ones you mentioned.

[Anonymous No.5294057]

What's with the Attack Skill/Offense meme anyway? Why do you people shill for barbarians so hard?
How is losing 30 wolf riders every time you fight some fast moving creeps better than... well, not losing them thanks to Defense?

[Anonymous No.5294095]

>>5294057
I wonder who is behind this post.

[Anonymous No.5294127]

>>5293079
A plenty of homm4 music was made by using samples from old celtic melodies and similar stuff.
The famous sea theme, for example, can be heard in few different games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7BlNwfE5s

[Anonymous No.5294173]

>>5293128
Knights are fairly mid-tier considering even Castle generally wants a non-native hero, but Tower ideally wants to play Orrin.
Also, with HotA, Captains are not a bad choice.
>>5294057
>Attack Skill/Offense meme
It's strong at all points of the game and helps you creep [nuking creeps down before they can hit you].

[Anonymous No.5294190]

>>5293128
If you play as Castle, then Barbarian>Overlord>Ranger>BM
If you play as Tower, then Barbarian=Ranger (guaranteed archery with 3 shooters? yes please!)>Overlord>BM
Rangers usefulness depends entirely on your gameplay style. I don't mind Luck nor Resistance at all and consider them valid skills, so it works for me. BMs that aren't Tazar are extremely mixed bag due to heroes themselves.

>>5294057
>30% increase of damage
>Meme
It's one of the best all-around skills that works with any faction and any hero. Next thing you will ask why people consider Logistics to be the most important skill to have. Surely it's just 30% more movement points, who needs that, right?

[Anonymous No.5294192]

>>5294190
Sorry, should be Castle, then Barbarian>Overlord=Ranger>BM

[Anonymous No.5294203]

What about battle mages, is Gundula really much worse than Crag?

[Anonymous No.5294204]

>>5293128
Why aren't you using native heroes for Castle? Knights aren't that bad. Sorsha is probably THE most undervalued hero in the entire game, we are talking . Orrin makes your shooters deal absurd damage. Rest of them is still pretty good.

[Anonymous No.5294208]

>>5294203
Not really. The funny part is how Crag regularly is banned, but Gundula isn't, while packing the exact same punch and having super-Slow

[Anonymous No.5294214]

Were you guys autistic enough to read all those text walls?

[Anonymous No.5294219]

>>5294214
It was well-written.
Reading bunch of those short lines in JRPGs is actual autism.

[Anonymous No.5294220]

>>5294214
>Single page of text
>Autistic enough to read
... is it already daytime in States?

[Anonymous No.5294223]

>>5294095

[Anonymous No.5294226]

>>5294223
>I will keep reposting this reverse meme until you like it

[Anonymous No.5294234]

>>5294223
Could someone redraw it the other way around? You know, to reflect reality

[Anonymous No.5294246]

>>5294234
>Could someone redraw it the other way around? You know, to reflect reality

[Anonymous No.5294252]

is this a good idea?

[Anonymous No.5294261]

>>5294252
*South of the Border starts playing*

[Anonymous No.5294303]

in 2012, before I ever came here, I got back into homm3 and was working on making a custom map, but my hard drive died and I lost it

It had 4 towns of every faction in their home terrain, but 1 of each was isolated from the others (so each terrain exists twice; once large, once small)
each (large) terrain had access to water that touched every other terrain, albeit not equally (water was mostly on the left half of map)
each faction's main necessary resource (for lvl 7's typically) was not present in their own terrain
each town started with nothing but a town hall (and all of them start out grey with weak defenders), and while there were plenty of monster dwellings, they were all guarded (by their own monsters)
all mines were "abandoned" and guarded, usually twice I think (once outside, once inside), but the resource type was hand-placed
you start with one random might hero and one random magic hero, each of your faction type
there were roads of each type in each terrain, but only to and from certain things and not many of them (I think typically the roads didn't lead out of the terrain, and may only have connected faction towns with each other, but I don't remember for sure)
there were border gates at each entrance to another terrain, each guarded by neutral (I think) monster types that were tough enough (or so I intended) that you'd need to be built up a bit to get past; I'm talking the border gatehouse things, not simply monster stacks
I did my best to balance the misc structures around the map so that nobody had a particular advantage

I like early game play, so I wanted the player to be weak for a long time, even though its an XL map

Aside from diplomacy, how might such a map be fucked? I know the actual layout and details matter and you can't see them, but still. I've never played competitively or had an interest in that; I just wanted a good enjoyable map that had everything without being gimmicky.

[Anonymous No.5294443]

>People bought HD version

imagine this cuckoldry

[Anonymous No.5294457]

>>5294443
>that shitty front

[Anonymous No.5294480]

>>5294457
>font*

[Anonymous No.5294505]

>>5294443
Hey, my wife's son loves HoMM3 HD, bucko!

[Anonymous No.5294515]

>>5294303
>town hall
I meant village hall, but even that's not right
they had taverns; you had to buy the village hall

[Anonymous No.5294518]

>>5294443
>HoMM3: Cheap Plastic Edition

[Anonymous No.5294565]

>>5294303
>in 2012, before I ever came here, I got back into homm3 and was working on making a custom map, but my hard drive died and I lost it
That's a bummer, I would've liked to see what you could do with it, considering how you envisioned it to be. Funnily enough, I'm in the process of making concept maps for each faction that could be joined at one point into one single gigantic map. The goal of that map would be digging out the Grail and building it in the middle of the map in a Conflux city. The thing is that each faction would be protected from being destroyed by Border Guards (for quite some time, at least), so everybody would get a chance to win even if they're not the strongest player out there. Likewise, you'd have a bunch of Obelisks scattered around the map, with the final eight being located right in the territory of each respective faction. This, coupled with the lack of mobility (eg. Teleport, Town Portal, Fly, Dimension Door) and spying (View Air, View Earth) spells, the fixed number of heroes, size of the map and number of neutral cities would mean that no single player can control the entirety of the map.
>Aside from diplomacy, how might such a map be fucked?
Mobility spells would play a huge role in deciding who would win, so removing all of them would be a good start to balance the factions. Banning OP heroes would be another good step, but this would impact some factions more than the other ones.
>I've never played competitively or had an interest in that; I just wanted a good enjoyable map that had everything without being gimmicky
Me too!

>>5289845
>>5290304
>>5291701
Thanks for the feedback! I'll see if I can position the Dragon Cliffs a bit better so it doesn't look like it's sticking out from the ground.

[Anonymous No.5294574]

>>5294443
>3D assets
>Turned into 2D pictures
>With half-assed photoshop blurring
Ubisoft, why are you so Ubisoft... Remember how literally a decade ago they were the only "good guy" big publisher out there?

[Anonymous No.5294621]

>>5294574
>Ubisoft
>Good

how?

[Anonymous No.5294707]

>>5294057
The more troops you kill when you slap them the less that can slap you back.

[Anonymous No.5294752]

>>5294057
>well, not losing them thanks to Defense?
lmaoing at this retard. The defense lets you lose 25 wolf riders instead.

[Anonymous No.5294770]

>>5294621
Current Settlers re-release is great. I'm so fucking surprised I'm still expecting some fuckery to come.

[Anonymous No.5294784]

>Gargoyles
>Can be stoned by Medusas and Basilisks

Explain this retardness

[Anonymous No.5294836]

>>5294784
an oversight or a quirk due to how the internal logic handles these status effects.

[Anonymous No.5294897]

I'm doing a solo Sorc run on MM7 and i wonder, which items of the Dragon in Emerals Island i should be looking for ? the fire magic crown looks okay, but i don't know if i will make use of it at this point, Old Nick looked hella nice but i cant use it.

[Anonymous No.5294914]

>>5294203
Less min-maxxed, but BM is probably the best magic hero class since it has both the highest attack skill growth and GUARANTEED logistics.

[Anonymous No.5295110]

>>5294252
SSSC is arguably the best dark side team there is. It will have a pretty weak early game, but poison spray, sparks, and bows will still carry you. It isn't bad light but you will rely on sparks/poison spray all game long.

>>5294897
Seven League Boots, a good bow, and some +hp items. Your main problem is you have no hp and can't tank anything but have to run into melee if you want to use the main damage dealing spells. You should keep an eye out for of medusa and of freedom items to avoid annoying instawipes, but scrolls of protection from magic will do the same thing.

[Anonymous No.5295123]

>>5294784
It also works on golems. And elementals.

[Anonymous No.5295351]

>>5295110
Can't find these damn boots and its hours that i've been reloading, may that Dragon just doesn't drop them ?

[Anonymous No.5295412]

>>5295351
Yes it drops. Getting a single specific artifact can take forever. When I run knight I savescum for Yoruba and it can be just as bad. If you manage to find a carnage bow you can stop anytime as that will carry you through the first half of the game by itself. Ulysses is nice as well but not nearly as good.

[Anonymous No.5295416]

>>5295351
>>5295412

[Anonymous No.5295740]

>>5294203
Gundy, unlike Crag, may get offered Water Magic. This is either a boon [Water Magic means you aren't screwed against certain debuffs that Mass Cure / Mass Dispel can defend against; it's also very, very good on grand single-player maps where you're expecting some really long battles to happen] or a problem [Water Magic is among the less preferred magic schools in MP].

Aside from that, Gundula has a more balanced stat spread, ergo not nuking as much as a Crag. This might be more of an issue than you'd think mostly because Stronghold has powerful, but fragile powerstacks and every little bit of ATK might count for a lot, especially in the early-game.

[Anonymous No.5295893]

>>5295416
Solo run? What class?

[Anonymous No.5296652]

>>5295893
Sorcerer

[Anonymous No.5296697]

>>5295416
why did they put the whiniest possible cunt voice to that cute elf?

[Anonymous No.5296705]

>>5296697

you can change it

[Anonymous No.5296990]

TIL: Magical Plains turns Dragon Flies' Weakness into a mass spell. Their dispel is unaffected.
Makes me wonder if it also affects other similar things like Dread Knight's Curse.

[Anonymous No.5297447]

Choose me or suffer

[Anonymous No.5297459]

>>5296990
According to wiki - Yes.
http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Black_Knight_and_Dread_Knight

[Anonymous No.5297925]

>>5295416
>playing as girl

disgusting

[Anonymous No.5298293]

So there's a lot of good Russian artists. Is there some sort of large fanart repository?

[Anonymous No.5299759]

>>5298293
Can you into cyrillic?

[Anonymous No.5299769]

>>5297447
Greetings and salutations!

[Anonymous No.5301121]

As someone who's only really played Heroes 3, how is the lore of the series? Is it interesting and worth checking out the other games in itself? I get the idea of it being sci-fi, the Kreegans being ayy lmaos and all that, what games are relevant canon-wise? I heard they do a soft-reboot in the rpg side after the third or fourth one, and again after the 8th before Ubisoft bought them.

Basically does the rest of the series have a big and dedicated lore that's worth checking out on its own, and what games are relevant to Heroes 3's lore?

[Anonymous No.5301305]

>>5301121
Read the story in the MM2 manual. If it grabs you then read MM3's manual and then start there. If you don't mind spoilers just lookup the MM3 ending as it explains a ton of the overall settings which are expanded on in the starship logs in MM5.

Generations are indicated in the pastebin, but yes after 5 they moved to Enroth with 6-8 being on different continents. 6 has loose tie-ins with HoMM2, 7 has some tie-ins with HoMM3 taking place on Antagarich, and Cove was based off parts of MM8. 9 is in the HoMM4 world and it's shit, ignore it.

[Anonymous No.5301320]

>>5301121
I guess if you are into that kind of stuff. From reading mission texts and so on it's quite goofy and silly stuff.

[Anonymous No.5301323]

>>5301121
For the games after MM5, at minimum watch the opening to MM6. "They" refers to the Kreegan (devils).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxCoE5rULNg

There are some letters in the manual that talk about Roland's adventures and then a 6th letter that you receive when you start the game that explains how he got captured. 7 takes place with a lot of the same zones as HoMM3 although Krewlod is notably missing and Bracada is a desert rather than a snowy region. The lore itself isn't very good compared to the first batch of games, but the games themselves are still quite good.

[Anonymous No.5301469]

>>5301121
> Is it interesting and worth checking out the other games in itself?

MM6 but
it's very weird and specific
playing this game is like doing a video game archeology
I love this game but it's tedious to play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPa3HBVM4_E

[Anonymous No.5301669]

>>5258689
>>Someone thought that this is his hair
>Geez people are retarded
Don't be a meanie!

[Anonymous No.5303491]

>>5299769
>>5297447

..Good Show...

[Anonymous No.5303892]

Jadame HoMM?

How do you think Jadame Homm would look like?
If they won't make HoMM IV on Axeoth but on Jadame instead with no that gay ass sucking retarded day of reckoning

[Anonymous No.5303897]

>>5301469
No it's not. Use the fan patch you clueless nigga.

[Anonymous No.5303909]

>>5303897
it's tedious to play if you are not autistic enough

[Anonymous No.5303925]

>Cove
>Uses swamp as native terrain instead of sand
Why

[Anonymous No.5303973]

>>5303892
>ZOG's Fortress
what did they mean by this?

[Anonymous No.5304047]

>>5303925
How the fuck do you expect to sail in the desert?

[Anonymous No.5304072]

>>5304047
Are you stupid or just shitposting?

[Anonymous No.5304095]

>>5303925
They would be too op.

[Anonymous No.5304104]

>>5304072
You can't though, the only water around would be an oasis and those are small, isolated pockets of water. You would probably not even be able to fit anything but a sloop and maybe a small brig, but even then you would quickly run out of space.

[Anonymous No.5304158]

>>5304104
so i guess the joke here is you don't know what a beach is?

[Anonymous No.5304589]

>>5294057
Tazar, go back to your swamp.

>>5294214
>reading story text is autistic
You genuinely have a problem.

>>5294443
I like it.

[Anonymous No.5304617]

>>5304047
This guy has a point. Beaches =/= deserts.
If anything pirate faction should be linked to jungle like environment of Caribbean Islands. And swamp is the closest thing to jungle in this H3.

[Anonymous No.5304654]

>HoMM IV portraits in original large scale

YUCK!

[Anonymous No.5304694]

>>5304158
Usually a narrow strip of sand or rock near the ocean or a lake.

[Anonymous No.5304727]

>>5303909
>BAWWWW

[Anonymous No.5304848]

HOLY SHIT!

Paul Anthony Romero was in Family Feud and gave a little concert there

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hkjy5

[Anonymous No.5304862]

>>5304848
An ok performance, I quite like his springy near staccato articulation, but his tempo is too ad lib for my tastes.

[Anonymous No.5304892]

>>5304848
based as fuck

[Anonymous No.5305875]

Is the horn of the abyss 1.5.4 installer download fucked for anyone else? I'm on the google doc that the official forum post links to but the download button just redirects me to the download page without sending anything.

[Anonymous No.5306130]

>>5303973
he doesn't play mm8

[Anonymous No.5306982]

Ancient behemoths or Arch angels?

[Anonymous No.5306997]

>>5306982
is it ever not arch angels?

[Anonymous No.5307015]

>>5306982
Arch angels are overall better in every case, even though Ancient Behemoth has more potential damage (though this could be mitigated with for example disrupting ray)

[Anonymous No.5307018]

>>5306997
Phoenix?

[Anonymous No.5307024]

>>5307018
Phoenix are only better for guaranteed first move and increased growth. By all other respects Arch Angel is better.

[Anonymous No.5307034]

>>5307018
>conflux

[Anonymous No.5307320]

were they wrong to make arch angels so good?
I get they wanted to make castle the strongest faction this time around (not that it technically is, in practice) when it was the weakest before
but they seem too good

is there some reason why (if) they're fine exactly as they are?

[Anonymous No.5307362]

>>5307320
The power creeps going from T5 to T6 is pretty big.
Power creep from T6 to T7 upgraded is one of the best decisions they made and is part of what makes HOMM a good game.

Meanwhile the Dragons are batshit strong because you can't clump units or start losing 2x stacks fast. Arch Devils have no retaliation
Behemoths shreds things they touch.
Hydra's are somewhat weaker and rely on teleport or haste sheenigans.
Phoenixes are not that strong, but their cumulative number advantage and speed gets them into a really powerful spot.

[Anonymous No.5307364]

>>5307320
It's balanced by the relative cost and low growth rate. Castle also lacks particularly strong heroes (not that they're bad) and has a relatively slower start. There are more factors at play when discussing balance than simply how powerful a creature is.

[Anonymous No.5308056]

>>5307362
Don't forget that Phoenixes and Fire Birds are immune to fire, so you can use Armageddon.

[Anonymous No.5308072]

>>5308056
This is one of those marginal things barely worth mentioning IMO, same as when people argue that water magic is better than Air on the off-chance that you get prayer (or conversely, even bother to build lv. 4 mage guild). The thing that makes Phoenixes so broken is their vastly superior speed, UNIQUE double growth rate, auto-res mechanic AND good statistics, their only flaw being low health.

[Anonymous No.5308089]

>>5308072
Oh and they're also BY FAR THE CHEAPEST upgraded tier 7 creature! Really quite absurd, I don't understand how they were able to make such a blatantly overpowered faction.

[Anonymous No.5308141]

>>5304654
Cute!

[Anonymous No.5308357]

My map folder, some small some big, some "story like" some for balancing

https://mega.nz/#F!BM8QjSpC!7EWs1nfDYlkxkpka0pmH4Q

[Anonymous No.5308359]

>>5308089
>Oh and they're also BY FAR THE CHEAPEST upgraded tier 7 creature! Really quite absurd, I don't understand how they were able to make such a blatantly overpowered faction.
Lack of consideration for multiplayer. Singleplayer mapmakers rarely give you Conflux as the main town simply because much of the army is immune to Resurrection which makes it difficult to create combat puzzles with the implicit understanding the player doesn't lose anything. Similarly, they don't really impress nearly as much in the very, very late game - considerations that extreme late game would be worth jack shit is probably what got Tower into the spot it's in (Tower IS capable of fighting a lot of towns on equal or superior footing if they can achieve full buy with timely Giants and all that, but good luck getting there).
HoMM3 wasn't made as a competitive game and its elevation to this status is a happy accident maintained by community (with HW Rules and shit like that) rather than the devs. Just like Starcraft, really.

[Anonymous No.5308519]

>>5289031
FINALLY SUCC

[Anonymous No.5308556]

>>5308519
Meme mod

[Anonymous No.5309718]

In MM6, do temporary stat bonuses from equipment count towards stat requirements for things like Expert Learning?

[Anonymous No.5309882]

>>5309718
I don't remember at all, but I do remember how it works:
The game considers the stat on the right.
So for 100/60 it would say you have 60 of that stat if it checked it, but 100 during combat/mana/health/speed/debuff checks

[Anonymous No.5310358]

>>5309882
>Having two same faces in the team

wtf

[Anonymous No.5310492]

Just finished HoMM2 for the first time, which I fucking loved, and not just because I didn't have to deal with armageddon spam like in HoMM1. Almost tempted to redo Descendants for perfect scores but eh, time is too precious these days and I could quite possibly end up taking longer anyways.

Not entirely sold on the HoMM3 artstyle but I've been told it's pretty much HoMM2 but better, so really looking forward to that. I'll take a break for now though so I don't get too burned out (maybe try some of the "epic" custom maps where you can develop uber heroes, as you couldn't really get that from the base campaigns).

[Anonymous No.5310703]

>>5308519
>0.8 beta
wait a couple of years till they get to 1.x and more patch

[Anonymous No.5310713]

>>5289031
Does anyone here have any experience with MMEditor? I'm wondering how the fuck I can rotate buildings I've copied or edit their geometry. I'm guessing that I need some other program to edit the actual model?

[Anonymous No.5310745]

>>5310713
Its a classic level editor anon. It has no edition functionality, it can merely place pieces and edit scripts.

There should be a hotkey to rotate, if its anything like similar editors. It might not support scaling of models.

[Anonymous No.5310781]

>>5310745
So what editor is everyone using then?

[Anonymous No.5310801]

>>5310781
The exact same one.
>if its anything like similar editors.
Do not imply anything. Its more of a tone to those of us who have touched other early 3D level editors, such as for Call of Duty.
You basically have to import anything, and finding the right button/function/hotkey is generally undocumented.

[Anonymous No.5310835]

>After a generous tip, the barkeep whispers:

[Anonymous No.5311216]

>>5310358
Maybe they're twins.

[Anonymous No.5311470]

>>5311216
doppelganger

[Anonymous No.5312762]

So my lil brother wants to play heroes 3 again (he played it when he was even younger) I will download the GOG version and install the HD patch, anything else I should be doing?

I want to play on LAN with him too

[Anonymous No.5312854]

>>5312762
Honestly, unless you live in the same house I'd install HOTA just for more convenient online play.

[Anonymous No.5313140]

>>5312762
Install SUCC WARS mod

[Anonymous No.5313186]

Have there been any decent new singleplayer maps for HoMM3 made in the past decade?

Something in the vein of Sander's Folly or Ringing of Victory. Preferably not as bullshit difficult as Unleashing the Bloodthirsty though (that one's just plain impossible if you don't luck out with Sphere of Permanence, or I'm not getting something).

[Anonymous No.5313258]

>>5313186
UtB is honestly not as hard as the Chinese puzzle maps and I think it should be managable by an expert player who understands all the ways to use spells. It's like top "reasonable" difficulty IMHO, not really bullshit.

For some classics, I'd look into The Empire of the World (a series that has had 4 maps by now, the latest ones working on WoG/ERA). Otherwise I'd just go to maps4heroes and sort by opinions or authors. Salamandre's maps are generally well made, for example.
Some of the better maps require WOG/ERA or HotA for some bonus features for mapmakers, be advised.

[Anonymous No.5313319]

https://www.celestialheavens.com/news/h4-hdmod-current-status

Not dead.

[Anonymous No.5313330]

>>5313319
I didn't even know this existed, nice. But I hope they are also trying to make the game more stable and optimized on anything above Win XP.

[Anonymous No.5313586]

>>5313258
>I think it should be managable by an expert player who understands all the ways to use spell
I dunno. From what I understand, most of it relies on force field + shooter stack cheese and this falls apart spectacularly once you run into someone who can use Dispel.

[Anonymous No.5313601]

Ahhhh...time to play HoMM6 again!

[Anonymous No.5313606]

>>5313319
Oh cool, something new to feel hyped and then disappointed about.

[Anonymous No.5313652]

>>5313601
>Ahhhh...time to play HoMM6 again!

>>5308357
>Dios
I think I remember you from one of the previous threads - thanks for sharing your maps!

[Anonymous No.5313657]

>>5310835
>It's free real estate

[Anonymous No.5313969]

>>5313319
Oh cool. I've spent a huge amount of time in H4 and its nice to know it isn't completely forgotten. Still has my favorite magic system of any Heroes game.

[Anonymous No.5314141]

>>5313319
>Homm IV

Who fucking cares?

[Anonymous No.5314212]

>>5289031
>succ wars
Are they going to "integrate" with HotA frontend?

[Anonymous No.5314375]

>>5313652
yep... like one or two years ago. i dont play it any more so i dont make new ones.

[Anonymous No.5314392]

>>5312762
nvm the GOG version doesn't have spanish for some reason lmao

[Anonymous No.5314440]

>>5314141
I'll replay campaigns when I have more time.

[Anonymous No.5314619]

>>5314141
some guys who loves spanking pixies

[Anonymous No.5315042]

>>5314392
Found a patch, it's not perfect but it will do

[Anonymous No.5315492]

>>5314212
Succ is Wog

[Anonymous No.5316084]

How do I get good at this fucking game?
I can rarely beat the AI on easy mode.
It's so gay.

[Anonymous No.5316091]

>>5316084
Get more heroes, expand your territory quickly to gather more resources and troops. Don't afraid to lose some units, profit will be greater in most cases.

[Anonymous No.5316127]

>>5316091
So if I gather it right I should have a lot of heroes, and transfer the low level units of the new heroes into 1-2 main armies and use that for pushing unit stacks on the map, and have the weak heroes sweep up the resources.

[Anonymous No.5316167]

>>5316127
Ideally you should be chaining.

[Anonymous No.5316198]

>>5316084
>Me retarded
>Wat du
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.5316806]

>>5312762
Followup question: Is there any way of playing coop vs the computer on pre-made maps or random maps, we're using the same wifi

[Anonymous No.5317885]

>>5316806
Yes, you can easily edit the team settings with HD+. Otherwise you need to open the map editor.

[Anonymous No.5318096]

How do you snowball Luna? I spent entire week looking for fights but only got level 5 with 6 spellpower. All these streamers can remove the main guard to the central zone on jebus by this time.

[Anonymous No.5318226]

>>5318096
Seconding this, I realize the power of Conflux but am generally bad at playing them other than rushing mass slow with Grindan

[Anonymous No.5318398]

>2 castles and a tower
oh baby it's time for archangels and titans

[Anonymous No.5319059]

>>5318398
But how will you get the money?

[Anonymous No.5319131]

Started playing HoMM back in 1999 on my uncles computer.

Got back after two decades, just installed HotA (i want Cathedral so bad bois).

[Anonymous No.5319151]

>>5319131
Cathedral Town was kinda edgy, but damn the idea grew on me the more I thought about it. It does look extremely aesthetic, and there are some fun ideas, like a Tier 1 unit with 3 upgrades.

I hope if they added it they would add a deciduous terrain to go with it, an autumn themed terrain would be max comfy. Sadly I imagine it's probably on the backburner indefinitely if they decided to work on Factory over it.

One of the ideas I liked about Cathedral is it came with a neat Neutral Unit idea, a Leper, which were like peasants but immune to plague week. A fun unit concept.

[Anonymous No.5319169]

>>5319151
I´ve always played as Rampart/Fortress, until i started 2y ago with full Castle.

Spreading faith with a blazing sword is quite based desu.

Should i go for the campaigns in HoMM III? I did not touch them back in the days because i was a stupid kid.

[Anonymous No.5319173]

>>5319169
Of course, campaigns are pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.5319214]

>>5319131
>>5319151
Cathedral? Last time I played HotA, it only has Cove as a new town.

[Anonymous No.5319221]

>>5319214
The initial plan for HotA was Cove, and two other towns. Kronverk, a Norse/Viking/Dwarf snow town, and Cathedral, an inquisition themed town. The plans seemed to have been abandoned, but the assets are out there.

[Anonymous No.5320578]

How do you know where will enemy stack go?

[Anonymous No.5320592]

>>5320578
You mean it on battle screen or with roaming stacks from HoMM4?

[Anonymous No.5320613]

>>5320592
In homm3 in battles. I noticed sometimes they attack your nearest stack, sometimes move to attack another. Or even go back if you place your flying unit behind them.

[Anonymous No.5320675]

Just started playing MM7 again yesterday. Jesus Christ this game can be tedious. I'm trying to get town portal asap so I don't have to walk all around the world.

Any tips from experts?

[Anonymous No.5320680]

>>5320613
It's about damage per round. If it can't do damage on this turn, it will go towards the weakest perceived stack.

[Anonymous No.5320687]

>>5320675
Get a gate master and a wind master.

[Anonymous No.5320698]

>>5320680
Thanks. Also I noticed some stacks are smarter and wait until fire wall ended(in the gryphon conservatory), how do I b8 them properly?

[Anonymous No.5320703]

>>5320698
Don't play memewall.

[Anonymous No.5320724]

>>5320703
How is it a meme? It's absolute legit tactic.

[Anonymous No.5320732]

>>5320724
Doesn't look like it, considering your struggles with grypnons.

[Anonymous No.5320741]

>>5320732
Stormbirds are not taking the bait too, I thought it was because of units speed, but my angel is faster anyway.

[Anonymous No.5320742]

Anyone here aware why has VCMI development seems to have slowed to a crawl? I really wish they launch 1.0 already and update their HotA package. Some bugs seem to be taking forever to fix, so I really wonder what has the dev team been up to. Also Oasis town WHEN?

[Anonymous No.5320745]

>>5320742
It's the fate of all open source projects. Don't take 1.0 release for granted for any of them.

[Anonymous No.5320785]

>>5320742
>Android vcmi never ever

[Anonymous No.5320823]

>>5320785
What do you mean? It already runs on android. I had one of the past builds on my phone.

[Anonymous No.5320836]

>>5320823
Last time I checked it's in a worse state than the PC version, doesn't work more often than it does and is generally a buggy mess. Also all development was dropped.

[Anonymous No.5320894]

Is Era II compatible with HD Mod?

[Anonymous No.5320990]

>>5320894
After trying it, the higher screen resolution works but some of HD features don't work, eg:
- Can't move last stack to other hero (in HD, left 1 creature for original stack owner)
- Can't buy troops by clicking the unit growth in town screen

[Anonymous No.5321735]

>>5294057
You are meant to grab both offense and defense, that way you lose 0 wolf riders

[Anonymous No.5321990]

>>5315492
>Succ is wog
Apperently they stripped it away its feels more like vanilla with H3 features.
>sad frog.jpg

[Anonymous No.5322460]

>>5321990
SUCC features:
bugs
no campaign
meme mod

[Anonymous No.5322473]

>>5322460
The virgin succ vs the chad hota

[Anonymous No.5322782]

*blocks your path*

[Anonymous No.5322904]

>decide to reinstall after like 10 years to learn how to play
>previous strategy was to turtle with one hero and buy out my dwellings every week until i had fat stacked army, then get steamrolled by pcs who had 5 armies of equally fat amounts
>aka i had literally zero idea of how to play the game in the slightest and just liked the pretty buildings and cool monsters

Recently actually won my first campaign - picked stronkhold and rushed orcs/cyclops. Basically just had a bunch of scouts that would constantly replenish crag hack with new ranged units by running between the stronghold and wherever on the other side of the map he was pillaging. It worked on a All for One at 80% rating, but obviously it shouldn't work nearly as well if I go harder. Problems I was finding was that all the castles I captured were basically just gold farms that I built a city hall on and then ignored because I didn't have the gold to recruit units from them. Is that normal or am I fucking my gold income somehow?

[Anonymous No.5322986]

>>5322904
You should pick gold from chests instead of exp in almost every case. Also holy trinity of stronghold units are wolf raiders, rocs and behemoths, you can build structures for them on the first week.

[Anonymous No.5323081]

>>5322904
Sell resources. Eventually you will have everything build up and 3-5 Marketplaces, giving you a decent price for your resources.
Also, as mentioned, it's almost always a better idea to pick money from chests. Not counting super special cases, money > random item > exp

[Anonymous No.5323228]

>>5289031
Lets be honest, Stronghold and Fortress bros are both Chads, the real virgins are castle fags, imagine having to waste a skill slot on leadership, your army would be wiped out before morale even activates, maybe the units are so strong to apologise for the crappy heroes, literally any foreign hero would make a better main

[Anonymous No.5323427]

>>5319221
Evil Castle. I like it.

[Anonymous No.5323443]

>>5323228
Archangels are CHADs.

[Anonymous No.5323560]

Which HoMMs are good?
From what I understand 3 is the most loved one, 1 is the most primitive one, 4 is an unsuccessful experiment of splicing homm and aow, 6 and 7 suck
What about 2 and 5?

[Anonymous No.5323565]

>>5323560
Two is the best

[Anonymous No.5323575]

>>5323560
Both HoMM2 and 5 are good. HoMM5 was a love letter, outsourced to a Russian studio, and it's generally trying to iterate on 3. Some people prefer it to 3 even, but it's not as greatly acclaimed in the fanbase. It's still worth playing, though. My main gripe with 5 is that, for all its cool features, it also has quite a bit of slowdown and it makes it a fairly clunky game to play in MP.
2 is great. Most of its mechanics were directly transitioned into 3 (most of the unit stats and stuff like dwelling costs are actually from HoMM2; direct damage spells were sorta nerfed in 3 because they have most of the same damage values as in 2 but without really scaling well with the HP bloat of 3), but it has some nifty maps and a great audiovisual layer.
HoMM3 is usually considered best.

[Anonymous No.5323637]

>>5323560
I suggest you to give homm4 a try.

[Anonymous No.5324119]

>>5323560
don't listen to >>5323637

I really tried to enjoy HOMM4 but at the end of the day it is incredibly unbalanced, unpolished, and unfinished.

Mixing inferno and necro into one town was stupid, might heroes are unkillable machines and magic heroes have to resort to also pick might skills to not get one shot by even low level creatures.

Heroes no longer have unique specialties, the AI is very dumb, some magic schools need more variety and i could go on on many things they've fucked up.

Ah, and that equilibris mod doesn't solve most problems.

[Anonymous No.5324246]

Galthran vs Isra?
Who's better?

[Anonymous No.5324280]

I think my game is broken. AI doesn't bother upgrading their castles. What do?

[Anonymous No.5324286]

>>5324280
Which game (expansion)?

[Anonymous No.5324292]

>>5324286
3 complete.

[Anonymous No.5324294]

>>5324246
I think nobody can compete with Galthran. He was even replaced by a different hero in hota.

[Anonymous No.5324312]

>>5324246
Isra is better in theory, but Galthran is much better in practical terms.

[Anonymous No.5324315]

>>5324294
>>5324312
Is Galthran better than Isra in XL maps?
Isra would accumulate much more skelly than Galthran, right?

[Anonymous No.5324324]

>>5324315
Theoretically yes, but Galthran would start with more skeletons and significantly stronger skeletons, and thus have a much easier time clearing the starting area. Isra would have to be pretty high level as well for the numbers difference to be great enough to be worth it.

[Anonymous No.5324326]

If you could remake any of the Heroes 3 towns, what would you pick? You keep the general theme, but you can change the look of the town, what units there are, their gimmicks and designs, etc.?

For me, I would pick Tower. It just seems like such a bizarre clusterfuck that's unappealing, the unit designs don't feel like they go well together, the town looks ugly, and gameplay-wise isn't that interesting or fun.

[Anonymous No.5324334]

>>5324326
I hate Fortress. Only 1 shooter and it's really weak + no specialty.

[Anonymous No.5324337]

>>5324324
Actually never mind, I think Galthran is better anyway because the difference in necromancy skill can be largely off-set with necro amplifier, artifacts etc., and necro skill can't go above 100% for obvious reasons. He is just plain better no matter what.

[Anonymous No.5324357]

>>5324326
Inferno/conflux need a little rework.

[Anonymous No.5324372]

>>5324357
I only realized just recently that all the Might heroes of Conflux share the same four specialties. As someone who never plays Conflux, why? Aren't they effectively identical at that point?

[Anonymous No.5324379]

>>5324372
Monere has logistics.

[Anonymous No.5324389]

>>5324372
They have different secondary skills, eg Monore (Magic Elemental) and Pasis (Psychic Elemental) have the same specialty (Psychic Elementals). But Monore has Basic Offense and Basic Logistics, while Pasis has Basic Offense and Basic Artillery.

[Anonymous No.5324590]

>>5324326
>gameplay-wise isn't that interesting or fun.
Disagree Tbh, Tower is such an unpredictable trainwreck that I almost always have fun playing them.

[Anonymous No.5324956]

Do you guys normally play scenarios, or just random maps? What kind of difficulty modifiers do you think is the best balance of fair and challenging?

[Anonymous No.5325079]

>me and last remaining ai running to each others towns on the other sides of the map
>i get to his castle first and capture it
>it's day 6 and this moron still left recruitable units here
>sell all my resources, upgrade his portal of glory and recruit 3 archangels
>defending hero also dropped a tome of earth magic
>town portal.gif
>he was 5 moves away from my front door
>blitzkrieg his last hero with his own gods
>this all happened in a single turn

this game is one month away from its 20 year anniversary and i'm only just now scratching the surface of having serious fucking fun with it, god bless bros

[Anonymous No.5325540]

>>5324280
Reinstalled and it seems to work fine now. Weird.

[Anonymous No.5325624]

>>5324956
>Do you guys normally play scenarios, or just random maps?
Download scenarios from the internet to play SP, play random in multi
>What kind of difficulty modifiers do you think is the best balance of fair and challenging?
200% for SP because the AI is dumb, 130%+ for multi because only at "Rook" difficulty does the AI (in form of random enemy stacks) perform at its best

[Anonymous No.5325628]

>>5324956
I finished all the campaigns, then played some scenarios like war of sexes and now I'm trying to play jebus cross just like those pro players, but with getting into the centre only in the second month.

[Anonymous No.5325636]

>>5324956
I play both, though lately it's been more random maps since I've played almost all S and M scenarios.
Scenarios I typically play with 130% because they're sometimes resource poor and you can fuck yourself by using all the available resources on dwellings + citadel on week 1 only to realize the AI is pusing in on week 2 and you only have a village hall for income.
Random maps on 160% because I play Jebus and it throws so many resources at you that it's not funny. Not 200% because fuck that.

[Anonymous No.5325707]

Would it be easy to mod the town music to sometimes play their analogue from other homm games? barbarian music from homm1 at the stronghold, sorceress music from homm2 at the rampart, etc. You could apply the same idea to overworld/battle music as well obviously, I think it would be a good way to broaden the game's charm by adding some nostalgic nods to the previous titles.

[Anonymous No.5325713]

>>5325707
Why would you ever want to replace the HoMM3 Stronghold theme? It's literally the best piece of music in the series.

[Anonymous No.5325737]

>>5325713
Homm3 stronghold is certainly beautiful and I would never outright replace it - the idea was the mod would infrequently play one of the first two tracks for a bit of variety. Sort of like how spelunky HD would have rare levels that played the tracks from the original version. I personally find the barbarian track from homm2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WCnjRlef_4)) to be subjectively just as enjoyable as the stronghold's theme, with the same kind of noble savagery aesthetic but with added sweet opera vocals.

[Anonymous No.5325865]

>>5325713
HoMM2 town CD music is the best

[Anonymous No.5326079]

>>5324119
Not least because Equilibris died just before releasing a major update.

[Anonymous No.5326164]

How do you normally clear cyclops compound?

[Anonymous No.5326186]

>>5326164
Their melee damage is pitiful, that's how.

[Anonymous No.5326240]

>>5326186
Yes, but they still wreck shit.

[Anonymous No.5326254]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaAxroM7KTg

[Anonymous No.5326361]

>>5324326
Tower, too. The general aesthetics do appeal to me, but the town itself is an ugly hodge-podge.
And the unit design goes pretty well, as long as you repeat like a mantra "Araaaaabian Niiiiight... but in South Pole". And ignore entirely Titans. Titans simply don't fucking fit the rest.

>>5326240
>Those loses
Are you actually retarded?

[Anonymous No.5326386]

>>5326361
That's my best result, AI even lost it somehow. I tried to do chain lightning shenanigans, but it's usually kills as much my units as cyclops would do.
Maybe I'm far from those pro who can beat utopias on the first week, but have some experience.

[Anonymous No.5326416]

>>5326386
That's pretty bad, but you did also have rather unideal army composition.

[Anonymous No.5326443]

>>5326416
I place ranged units in centre when attack creature banks.
Also I decided to replay in unusual way, I attacked only with gargoules, casted 2 lightnings and retreated (I bought him back in the capitol), so my second hero with main units killed 11 cyclops who's left.
I don't really know how more effectively clear it, even if you block cyclops with fliers, they can walk pretty far and attack fragile shooters.
It seems to me this creature bank is not really helpful because you need a decent army to clear it without significant losses and at this point you probably don't need these resources anyway, maybe just money.

[Anonymous No.5326467]

>>5326386
Mate, all you need to do is split your gargs to get a single unit stack. Land right next to a cyclop stack. Now they can't shoot and will waste their move on the gargs.
Wow, that was soooo hard and such a "high level pro" move

[Anonymous No.5326538]

>>5326467
>just block their shots, bro xD
Even if they would attack gargoules, there's not enough troops to kill this amount of cyclops.

[Anonymous No.5326554]

>>5326538
The Cyclop Kings have 8 speed so they move to your center ranged unit. Do you have expert slow?

[Anonymous No.5326565]

>>5326554
Nope, I was able to get only air and intelligence.
It doesn't matter, I killed most of them with lightning as I said above and retreated.

[Anonymous No.5326595]

>>5326467
it's this retarded faggot with shitty antagonistic posts and useless reaction images
this is the only time he isn't wrong when posting this image but even then he's a fag about it

[Anonymous No.5326741]

>HoMM2 runs fine
>Start the game today
>Cursor is invisible
>Switching it to plain mode helps
>Win a battle
>Game freezes when the unit stack is removed from the adventure map
Fuck this shit.

[Anonymous No.5326770]

>>5326741
>Tried replaying HoMM2 2-3 years ago
>Last time I played was in late 90's before HoMM3 was released
>Used to be so good at HoMM3, playing at hardest difficulty
>No wait command, fliers have unlimited range to move
>Fell really awkward, lost several Rocs againsts medium neutrals
Rage quit.
I should play it again one day.
At least now I remember what HoMM2 can't do.

[Anonymous No.5326775]

>>5326770
>Fell
Felt

[Anonymous No.5326929]

>>5326554
>>5326565
It's like with vampires in full crypts, you don't put valuable stacks in the center (unless you have slow and know you will move first). Cyclops stockpile always has cyclops king.

[Anonymous No.5326946]

>>5326538
What I actually wonder about is why do you have Archmagi but no Nagas.

A number of Naga Queens with some Gargoyles as fodder would have a better chance fighting here. You have Cure as >>5326565 shows, so even more so.

[Anonymous No.5326961]

>>5326929
I thought they attack the most vulnerable stack rather than central one?
>>5326946
I've got 15 archmages from a pandora's box.

[Anonymous No.5327087]

>>5326538
>>5326595
Not my fault you are both morons

[Anonymous No.5327526]

>>5324956
Scenarios since I still haven't played all of them. I'm playing "Before the Storm" right now, it's decent but starting in a sand area is kind of fucked up

[Anonymous No.5327827]

>>5326961
>I thought they attack the most vulnerable stack rather than central one?
You're generally correct (there's a lot to muse about on AI behavior but generally they prioritize 1) whatever they can reach on their current turn while 2) avoiding losses in retaliation and 3) dealing as much damage as possible. This can be used to exploit them a lot with single fodder stacks.) but also kinda missed the conclusion - your most vulnerable stack in this case also happens to be the central one.

How you generally take buildings like this is with a number of powerstacks and rest being cheap fodder. The goal is to ensure you never lose any units in the powerstack from retaliation, so you use ranged units and use your fodder 1-mans to both bodyblock and to take away retaliation from the turn. You're indeed kind of in a bad spot here because this is a lowish army size with presumably low phys stats (Wizard) against ranged level 6s, but ideally your main Gremlin stack would be in a corner and then your first effort would be to nuke the Cykes in said corner while slowing down everything else with fodder, and then start clearing.
However, you don't have Expert Slow and the only setup in which your CL has a chance of doing anything remotely beneficial (outside of suicide tactics and cleanup later) is some weird strat where you take your Golems with you and let them soak the final bits of CL with their slight resistance to magic damage. Even Expert Water would have been better here because of Mass Forgetfulness. Your best bet would probably be to move first (Archmagi should have equal speed to Cyke Kings due to native terrain and you're attacking) by moving to the corner with units and casting Haste on MGrems.
>>5327087
Your advice wasn't even correct considering gargoyles as fodder stacks in this case don't even cause the AI to waste their action on attacking the bait, so I don't know why you just had to add this much salt when trying to advise.

[Anonymous No.5327846]

>>5327827
But yeah overall don't even bother touching this stuff without Expert Magic if you're not a micro whiz or aren't playing an early game powerhouse of sorts with a high ATK hero. If you had Expert Air (very doable by week 2 on a Wizard, along with 5 Nagas etc.) you could probably just have Hasted Nagas nuke a good chunk of the Cykes and perhaps even carry the whole fight with a good amount of fodder support, Cure and Shield (without bringing Gremlins into the battle at all, sometimes less is more when manipulating the AI)

The resources this particular bank offers are good though because by the point you should be ready to take them you might either be fueling an expensive T7, climbing up Mage Guild to get lucky and get something like Resurrection or Implosion, or perhaps even just pooling the resources into a Trading Post and just simply getting timing out a stronger army in the next week. But I wouldn't bother it without a strong Attack hero, expert magic, or both. Or Luna with firewall. Or improved Gargs or Genies to ensure initiative at all times.

[Anonymous No.5328094]

>>5327846
How is Luna would have been useful here against shooters?

[Anonymous No.5328308]

>>5328094
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NHbfRndpek

[Anonymous No.5328364]

>>5328308
I learned something today.
I never thought Luna's Firewall trick could be used against ranged enemies.

[Anonymous No.5328385]

>>5328364
Of course it does, you just have to make them unable to use ranged.

[Anonymous No.5328584]

>>5326770
>No wait command
This is one of the reason i disliked homm 2 but succ wars fixed that

[Anonymous No.5328585]

>>5328584
succ meme wars
ftfy

[Anonymous No.5328587]

>>5328584
>succ wars fixed that
t. Orzie

[Anonymous No.5328671]

>>5327827
>Shooter unit can't shoot
>REEEEE WHY ARE YOU TELLING WRONG ADVICES
And why can't you use your brain?

[Anonymous No.5328682]

>>5328671
>shooter unit can't shoot
>original comment was "Now they can't shoot and will waste their move on the gargs."
>they didn't

[Anonymous No.5328712]

>>5328682
>Is retaded
>Keeps reminding everyone
>In every single thread
Do you have some sort of attention deficit in your life or something?

[Anonymous No.5328723]

Post heroes you thought were the most powerful based on their portrait

[Anonymous No.5329050]

>>5308556
>>5322460
>>5328585
I don't get it the "succ meme wars". But then I went back to Homm series after a decade, so go figure.

[Anonymous No.5329268]

>>5329050
>succ mod features:
>installation error
>can't start the game
>game crashes during play
>no campaigns
>only version 0.8 instead full version (been almost 10 years since they started the mod)
>arrogant mod maker telling people to get the fuck off

[Anonymous No.5329301]

>>5329268
Huh. Anyway, I tried this mod for the first time and it was pretty solid. But as you mentioned, I got few times CToD during next turn.
Perhaps I am more optimistic as I never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.5329343]

>>5329301
It's a shit mod for aestheticsfags that are honest enough to admit that Heroes 2 has inferior gameplay.

[Anonymous No.5329810]

>>5328308
Does anyone know what the combat music is? Is it a WoG mod or something?

[Anonymous No.5329832]

>>5329810
Read the comments in youtube.

[Anonymous No.5329836]

>>5329832
Ah, my bad, I saw the top comment with the same question yet it was unanswered, and I don't usually like trawling through youtube comments.

Pretty stupid algorithms if a question that gets answered is so far down the page

[Anonymous No.5329839]

>>5329810
I would turn it off after two fights if that was the actual combat music.

[Anonymous No.5329843]

>>5329839
Same, I wouldn't actually use it in game, but instead I added it to my playlist of vidya music

[Anonymous No.5329928]

>>5328723
Here's a lad who takes his bulls by the horns

[Anonymous No.5329930]

>>5325079
Tell me about it. I beat Roland's campaign on Hard ~ Oct 2018 and it was quite something. The last mission is a tactical master piece

[Anonymous No.5331117]

I can't fix HoMM2. It just simply freezes whenever I do something on the map and then it only reacts to the escape button.

Anybody ever ran it on a virtual machine?

[Anonymous No.5331193]

>>5331117
Why not just using the GOG version?

[Anonymous No.5331213]

How much different is World of Xeen from Isles of Terra? Currently near finishing Isles of Terra and I'm not sure I can handle two more games with this same interface. I'd rather just jump into Mandate of Heaven if the fourth and fifth games are more of the same.

[Anonymous No.5331215]

>>5331193
There is a GOG version?
I've been using my 10 year old ubisoft release.
Interesting that there is a GOG release.
Strange.

[Anonymous No.5331216]

>>5331213
Memory is a bit hazy, played in 90s:
Same engine.
Almost the same.
Ranger/Druid-only magics are available as Sorcerer/Cleric spells.
Max 6 persons in party, no recruitable NPC.

You might want to check Swords of Xeen too. It's a bonus game in MM Trilogy (III, IV and V).

[Anonymous No.5331218]

>>5331215
It's in this bundle:
https://www.gog.com/game/might_and_magic_6_limited_edition

[Anonymous No.5331219]

>>5331215
>Good OLD Games
>Strange
I mean it's there since... I think it was from the start of GOG, but I might be wrong. Either way, it's perfectly fine and works without any issues.

[Anonymous No.5331327]

>>5331193
>>5331215
>GOG version
pssst... read the pastebin

[Anonymous No.5331612]

>>5331117
Every version of HOMM2 exist on Russian websites as full downloads. No need to torrent or pay Gog

[Anonymous No.5331616]

>>5331612
forgot img related

[Anonymous No.5331619]

>>5331612
>>5331616
>implying I would have paid for a digital version as an Eastern Euro

[Anonymous No.5331689]

>>5331612
Anon, here's a clue:
When you pirate, you pirate GOG releases anyway. Nobody said anything about paying them.

t. Pole

[Anonymous No.5331894]

>>5328723
as a kid I always picked him
but then I realized he has the worst skills

[Anonymous No.5332415]

>>5331689
>t. Pole
Hehe dzięki za ludka z Komixxów xD

[Anonymous No.5332818]

>>5331213
Items are separated so much better in Xeen. Quest items are just stored and don't count, each character gets 9 slots for weapons, armor, accessories, and miscellaneous items each. The armor limit can be annoying, but it is still a massive improvement. The 18 slot inventory for everything is incredibly obnoxious in IoT. They also add an autonotes/fountain/quest tracker so you won't need to write down much outside of the actual dungeon puzzles.

In terms of the interface it will be similar, but they add some things like the Clairvoyance spell which adds information about things you search with safety and treasure indicators. A lot of the menus look a lot smoother, but remember that the games are still primarily designed with keyboard use in mind. If you are using the mouse everywhere the games will feel a lot clunkier than they should be. The GoG version works properly with the voices for NPCs which helps a lot with immersion despite some terrible voice acting at times (Vertigo mayor).

As for going to MM6, you can do so at any time and come back for WoX later if you want. MM5 is the "end" of the main franchise and the endgame finishes the Sheltem and Corak storyline. Other than explaining some characters origins in MM7 (the "advisors" are the starting party in MM3), the 1-5 worlds are completely separate from the 6-8 world.

[Anonymous No.5333049]

The HotA people did an interview which shows new images and making of of the concepts. It isn't translated yet but two big things to note

>It is a Halfling Themed Town
>The Halfling, Incinerator (name not final), and Gunslinger (Up. Name Bounty Hunter) are the ONLY humanoid units, the rest are mechs or beasts
>The Gunslinger/Bounty Hunter isn't a Tier 3 shooter, but a higher tier creature

[Anonymous No.5333053]

>>5333049
I would link to the interview but the 4chan system says my post is spam with the link, so sorry. It shouldn't be hard to find though.

[Anonymous No.5333058]

>>5333053
just replace a period with 'DOT' or something, it's really not that hard

[Anonymous No.5333060]

>>5333058
I tried fifty fucking methods to split up and hide the url, I'll try more but this shit ain't working

vk DOT com SLASH @tavern_homam-horn-of-the-abyss-docent-picolan-factory

[Anonymous No.5333064]

>>5333060
that works, thanks!

[Anonymous No.5333076]

>>5333049
I hope that terrain is also not final, because it'll clash pretty bad with any other terrain.

[Anonymous No.5333083]

>>5333049
halflings and tech, sounds pretty retarded desu

[Anonymous No.5333085]

>>5333076
The interview said that this terrain is still in early development, they jsut rushed it a bit in order to make an announcement for the new year,. Just like the time, when Hota was first released.

[Anonymous No.5333119]

So, professional opinion on HoMM 5.5. Should I bother?
I always considered HoMM 5 to be "very flawed, if having a serious potential to be really good". And Tribes of the East seemed to be quite legit IMO.
I've heard mixed opinions about 5.5, with some saying that it makes HoMM V the best in the series, while others calling it a overcomplicated mess.

>>5331689
Skąd ja kurwa wiedziałem, że na kanale poświęconym Heroesom właduję się na Polaków?

[Anonymous No.5333495]

>>5333119
Pro here and here's my opinion:
It's flat out better than vanilla HoMM V. Adds shit on the map that you can interact with. Generally maps in H5 are very empty so this alone is enough to make me install it.

[Anonymous No.5333507]

>>5333495
Not that guy, but is there a way to keep the original TotE classes and skill wheel, while having these map additions (or any other feature of 5.5)? The modded wheel and classes just look so fucking boring and safe.

[Anonymous No.5333603]

>>5333119
5 is a very good game so any straight upgrade to it is more than welcome. 5 mostly didn't catch on because it's too slow-paced to enjoy in casual MP settings, both due to loading times and optimization and both due to the layers of complexity on the usual simple model. Also 3 is more iconic and runs on any potato, in the year of release all the Slavs that compose the HoMM fanbase probably didn't enjoy the fairly unoptimized game that much
moja twarz gdy anon myśli że w tym fredzie nie ma co najmniej dwudziestu Słowian

[Anonymous No.5333986]

>>5333119
The by far best part of 5.5 is the quantomas AI, which IIRC you can get stand alone. It gives you AI and loadtimes you can live with, and makes the game actually playable.
The bloated skillwheel and fucking 3 classes per faction part of 5.5 I'm not so super sold on, and I'm not sure why anyone felt the need to add that to the game. Up to you if you feel it's worth it.

[Anonymous No.5334180]

>New Hota town

Blleeeegh

[Anonymous No.5334204]

>>5334180
>>5333049
FUCK YOU GUYS

I TOLD you there's a town with evil hobbits. And sandy terrain with black lakes. And you didn't believe me?

WHO IS THE WINNER NOW

[Anonymous No.5334256]

>>5334204

[Anonymous No.5334313]

>>5334204
>new town
>evil hobbits
will hota become a meme mod like succ wars?

[Anonymous No.5334650]

>>5334204
and also like 90% of your super secret leak was retarded shit that wasn't true

[Anonymous No.5335475]

>>5334204
>"Evil hobbits"
>Town is neutral
Yikes

>"Black Lakes"
>Tar
Yiikes

[Anonymous No.5335481]

>>5334313
>Implying HotA isn't already meme mod
>Implying they didn't bring it on themselves intentionally
>Implying anyone in the mod team has still touch with reality
Nigger, we are talking about mod that ever since first announcement was made years ago treats itself as the OFFICIAL game and the only real way to play HoMM3.

[Anonymous No.5335482]

>>5335481
>treats itself as the OFFICIAL game and the only real way to play HoMM3
Citation please?

[Anonymous No.5335491]

>>5335481
Let me guess; you were looking forward to the SUCC mod weren't you?

[Anonymous No.5335528]

>>5335482
Ever read just about anything from the mod team? Guess not

>>5335491
>Retarded aesthetics mod that turns the most iconic graphics into ugly HoMM2 shit
>Looking forward
Try harder with your ad homs

[Anonymous No.5335531]

>>5333119
>HoMM threads
>Surprised about Polish presence
>Surprised about Slav presence in general
You do realise we make quarter of the total active scene... right?

[Anonymous No.5335535]

>>5333119
And as for your HoMM5 question, it's really simple:
Do you actually like HoMM5?
If not, don't bother with 5.5. It definitely won't change your already negative stance toward the game itself.

[Anonymous No.5335538]

>>5335528
>just about anything
So please point me to where they said it. It shouldn't be that hard according to you, right?

[Anonymous No.5335718]

>>5334204
Yeah, you also said the town would just be full of existing neutral monsters and MEGADRAGONS on top of a fuckton other retarded shit, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.5335753]

>>5335718
So we are instead stuck with Cowboy Town and Todd?

[Anonymous No.5335756]

>>5335528
>Ever read just about anything from the mod team? Guess not
I, too, am curious where they say that.

[Anonymous No.5335775]

Are there hota heroes portraits in higher resolution anywhere?

[Anonymous No.5335841]

>move Town Portal to Water Magic
>rename Implosion to Incinerate and move it to Fire Magic
Hey, look, I just fixed HOMM3's spell school balance

[Anonymous No.5335851]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KomEJDa309w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfy3Zu1mBGA

[Anonymous No.5335902]

>>5335753
>Basedboy Town

[Anonymous No.5335903]

>>5335902
aww what is this auto editing
S-O-Y-B-O-Y Town

[Anonymous No.5335941]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdbRbO0qOA

[Anonymous No.5336081]

>>5335841
Town Portal is only earth-based movement spell. It should stay where it is.
Dimension Door however should be moved to Fire Magic. Air haveing it and Fly is too OP. Plus would fit nicely with Devils.

[Anonymous No.5336085]

>>5336081
It's not about just movement, earth has a lot of top spells like resurrection, mass slow, shield, etc.

[Anonymous No.5336103]

>In Might & Magic games Earth magic is the worst
>In Homm III Earth magic is the best

What did they mean by this?

[Anonymous No.5336164]

>>5336103
>Earth magic is the worst
Mind is the worst. Earth is actually decent (in MM6 at least) in real-time with mouselook.
Also I think we already had this conversation couple of threads ago.

[Anonymous No.5336210]

>>5336103
Earth still have bees
Worse Sharpnel
Rock Blast(still better than Fireball and Inferno)
Protection From Magic
Mass Distortion

I would argue Water is the worst school, since you get it for teleportation and enchantment. Outside of that its basically a waste of skillpoints, in MM6 at the least.

And all the Faith stuff is pretty terrible outside of buffs.

[Anonymous No.5336225]

>>5336210
>I would argue Water is the worst school

[Anonymous No.5336243]

>>5336225
This isn't 7 anon.

[Anonymous No.5336250]

>>5336225
>9+5*skill avg. damage
>of POISON type
>to 1 target
>for 15 MP
And your point is?

[Anonymous No.5336281]

>>5336210
Maybe they should've locked water mastery behind Archmage quest instead of air so you could feel actual accomplishment and increase in capabilities after gaining it, instead of "now I don't need to can cast Fly so often, neat I guess".

[Anonymous No.5336472]

>tfw your country has not only one but two factions based on it
Which factions are based on your country, /hommg/?

[Anonymous No.5336481]

>>5336210
Water has excellent damage with poison spray in melee and ice bolt (which almost nothing is immune to) in ranged combat. That you have these damage dealers on top of essential spells is what makes water so powerful. Mind is the worst by far as even Telekinesis is fine at level 1 mind.

[Anonymous No.5336487]

>>5336472
Anuncjo Vobis

[Anonymous No.5336546]

>>5336472
Care to elaborate which country and which factions exactly? I'm not an architecture expert and can only recognize Castle as something Western-European, Rampart Japanese, Fortress Mesoamerican and Conflux... I dunno. Middle-Eastern? Indian?

[Anonymous No.5336584]

>>5336546
In Heroes IV, it's a lot more clear-cut with the campaigns and units.

>Stronghold
Vikings/the North (berserkers)
>Asylum (H3 Fortress + Dungeon)
Arabs (djinns, ifrit)
>Haven (H3 Castle)
England (names, obvious Christianity)
>Academy (H3 Tower)
Sweden (many cities have Swedish-sounding names, one is even named Westeros [Västerås], snow terrain)
>Necropolis (H3 Necropolis + Inferno)
>Preserve (H3 Rampart + Conflux)
No obvious nationality

[Anonymous No.5336628]

>>5336487
>Tier 7 Tupolew

[Anonymous No.5336634]

>>5336584
>>Stronghold
>Vikings/the North (berserkers)
Niggers, Stronghold is literally Conan: The Faction. Movie Conan, the one with Arnie. Which if anything, is Mexico with people wearing quasi-bronze age costumes with lots of fur on them, despite, you know, desert.

[Anonymous No.5336645]

>>5336584
Oh, units. I thought you mean town screens for some reason.
>Arabs (djinns, ifrit)
Isn't Genie an Academy unit in H4?
>No obvious nationality
Preserve/Rampart is probably something Celtic (Druids, Elves&Fairies, y'know).
Also, there is a crapon of Greek creatures in almost all factions, so to say "it's based on X country" with confidence based on units alone... I dunno.

[Anonymous No.5336649]

>>5336645
*a crapton

[Anonymous No.5336685]

>>5336645
Right, I got them confused. Ifrit are recolored genies, djinns don't exist.
>Preserve/Rampart is probably something Celtic
Yeah, that's true.

>Also, there is a crapon of Greek creatures in almost all factions, so to say "it's based on X country" with confidence based on units alone... I dunno.
Not just units, but what mythology it's based on.

[Anonymous No.5336730]

>>5336685
>what mythology it's based on
Like 2/3 of monsters are from classic Greek mythology, rest are Biblical, medieval European, modern DnD knock-offs, and only couple of Arabian (Genie/Efreet, Roc) and Indian (Naga) ones. Not much to base whole town-country connection.

[Anonymous No.5336749]

>>5336730
>what is music
>what are town names
>what are campaigns

[Anonymous No.5336771]

>>5336749
>what is music
Some fantasy stuff? I'm not really a music person.
>what are town names
English words?
>campaigns
What about them?
And how all of that relates to "what mythology it's based on" anyway?

[Anonymous No.5336953]

>>5336749
Castle - Christians
Inferno - Muslims
Tower - Jews
Necropolis - Nazis
Stronghold - Niggers
Dungeon - Commies
Fortress - Subhumans
Rampart - Liberals

[Anonymous No.5337009]

>>5336953
Ok, I chuckled, but I'd change Dungeon to Australians. With their dragons, winged scorpion-lions, serpents that turn to stone, tentacled eyes and bipedal pickles. Their heroes are probably poisonous too.

[Anonymous No.5337029]

>This thread right now
Can /pol/ leave already?

[Anonymous No.5337107]

How's the multiplayer scene of HoMM3? Full of nothing but tryhard slavs? Just plain dead?

I've grown bored of single player and how bad the AI is. Tried small maps, large maps, scenarios, random maps, campaigns, everything. There is no challenge, only tedium, and some maps where you have to know the map beforehand or you lose. Maybe MP could prove an alternative. Tho I'm not interested in competitive since it's perfectly clear that homm is a terrible game for it.

[Anonymous No.5337108]

>>5337029
You have to be 18 to post here

[Anonymous No.5337165]

>>5337107
>How's the multiplayer scene of HoMM3? Full of nothing but tryhard slavs? Just plain dead?
HotA has a nice lobby system with a ladder. Go try out some Arena, it's a nice setup where you level up instantly to like level 20 and have an end-game fight with a couple weeks' worth of units, souped up hero, artifacts and spells. If you want something more casual (FFAs for example) and/or SoD, you might want to look on GameRanger instead.

That said, what you're looking for is sorta contradictory to me - you want a "challenge", but you also don't want to even think about competitive play and dismiss it out of hand, because there's tryhards in there. Well, if you want to keep being challenged, I'm not sure how you would reconcile these.

[Anonymous No.5337583]

TAZAR!

Why is there no Homm general on /vg/?

[Anonymous No.5337741]

>>5335902
>all this jpeg
>soiposting
go away

[Anonymous No.5337863]

>>5337107
There are Slavs, which are half-decent if you are lucky, obnoxious if not
There are HotA fags pushing their mod, because they are too big pussies to arrange a match online
There are tourney guys which you want to avoid, because they have three layers of meta in their playstyle
There are random people you might catch that play for shit and giggles, so it's like playing against AI, but good.

tl;dr depends who you get

[Anonymous No.5337864]

>>5322782
Cloak of the *balanced* King.

[Anonymous No.5338063]

>>5337863
>There are HotA fags pushing their mod, because they are too big pussies to arrange a match online
?
But... HotA has an online lobby? ...and a lot of people play it? What's the logic here?
>There are random people you might catch that play for shit and giggles, so it's like playing against AI, but good.
idk, I figure 1v1ing a Capitolrusher is probably easier than 1v7 200%.

[Anonymous No.5338178]

So was Sandro actually human for the first half of SoD or a lich all along?

[Anonymous No.5338193]

>>5338178
He's a skeltal all the way back in Heroes 1, he was merely using an illusion.

[Anonymous No.5338394]

Those feels when solo run is easier than normal 4 character play because you have maximized character

[Anonymous No.5338432]

>>5338394
But you're locked from high level spells by pretty challenging quests anyway.

[Anonymous No.5338627]

Has anyone ever remade Dominion from heroes 2 into a heroes 3 version? That was a god teir map. Id love to play it in 3.
I always started off as yellow warlock on the eastern peninsula.

[Anonymous No.5338630]

>>5304654
Cute!

[Anonymous No.5338886]

>>5337583
I tried to start one but they sent me here amd shortly after it got archived.

[Anonymous No.5339145]

>>5338394
>he doesn't just circle the dragon on Emerald Isle and pluck Artifacts from its limp corpse
I might even be able to make a Ranger work one day, doing that

I'm pretty much hard sold on a team comp like Paladin/Archer/Cleric/Sorceror, I finished the game with Paladin/Monk/Cleric/Sorceror and found that the Monk just wasn't as crazy cool as I expected. Are they not meant to use GM Unarmed/Staves?

I find the only problem with these games is that going from 6 members to 4 pretty much just cuts classes like Robber out because you really want that two-and-two split of two fat melee, and two fat casters. I couldn't imagine not running Cleric/Sorcerer.

Currently running Knight/Cleric/Druid/Sorceror, Druid is pretty useful, moreso if you plug those first Horseshoes into them. I'm worrying that they're going to fall off endgame, thinking they'll have to rely on Implosion. But they'll help a lot with healing off damage, since Cleric/Sorceror tend to be beacons for Light or Dark by endgame rather than their actual elements.

[Anonymous No.5339351]

>>5339145
GM Staff actually causes a DPS loss until really high armsmaster skill because you start using a much slower weapon. Thieves aren't necessary because the damage from chests can be ignored and healed through plus stealing is garbage. Hybrid classes in general suffer although Archers and Paladins light path have some use as due to all the Light magic buffing spells plus Paralyze/Destroy Undead making melee characters stronger. On dark path though the whole game centers around Shrapmetal and how many people can cast it. Once you get it the strongest team by far is CSSS and anything other than maybe a knight will feel like dead weight.

Yes Druids are horrible late game. Their damage doesn't scale and they just get master in self magic. They really need GM body magic (which they don't get) and with no light/dark or grandmaster magic skills meditation GM is wasted, and you can buy black potions already in Celeste and The Pit. Unlike other classes that get a power spike on promotion, druids are basically the same after the second one (and the Warlock quest is obnoxious).

[Anonymous No.5339749]

>>5289031
Are there mobile heroes games?

[Anonymous No.5340014]

Is "Broken Alliance" a hard map to win as a beginner?

[Anonymous No.5340168]

>>5335538
Why won't you stroll through HotA threads on heroescommunity and see for yourself? They even call it "expansion" ffs.

[Anonymous No.5340171]

>>5333507
>The modded wheel and classes just look so fucking boring and safe.
Yeah, 3 classes per town instead of 1 is so boring and safe.

[Anonymous No.5340208]

>>5340168
>Thread is 341 pages long
Why won't you show me where exactly they said its an OFFICIAL game or only real way to play? Can't you back up your own words with proofs?
>On a more conceptual level – HotA is an attempt to continue legendary series RoE-AB-SoD as close to the original as it could have been done by NWC team
>attempt
>as close to the original as it could
There?
>Original developers, alas, no longer exist as a team and current franchise owners are not really interested in continuing old storyline. So, no, we are not that official.
Or there?

[Anonymous No.5340215]

>>5340208
>Thread is 341 pages long
>Spoon-feed me, please
Different anon, but go fuck yourself, HotA fag. I bet you consider the rework on Resistance to be a good thing

[Anonymous No.5340220]

>>5340215
>He likes the way old resistance worked
>He doesn't know there's a branch of HotA that has old resistance for old boomers like him
>Or that they're going to introduce a new skill so that old/new resistance both exist and mapmakers can choose which they prefer themselves
Oh no sweetie, sorry... this isn't your day...

[Anonymous No.5340221]

>>5340168
>being so buttblasted by a fucking mod

[Anonymous No.5340225]

>>5340215
>HotA fag
Never ever played it. You go fuck yourself, seething idiot. If he can't prove his word why should I trust them?

[Anonymous No.5340228]

>>5340220
>He plays mods
>Ever

[Anonymous No.5340230]

>>5340225
>I don't know shit nor care about the mod
>but you have to prove me wrong
Nice try, hotafag.

[Anonymous No.5340236]

>>5340225
If you aren't playing the mod, why you even bother?

[Anonymous No.5340240]

>>5340221
>Surprised people are agry about mod that obnoxiously must announce its "superiority" each and every time
>Surprised people are angry about mod that has turbo-autistic fanbase that will just never shut the fuck up how great their mod is
I never played HotA and it's entirely it's fanbase fault. Their non-stop bragging that I couldn't care less made me eventually just dismiss the mod entirely. It wouldn't be the first time when fandom ruins something for everyone else, so not even really surprised

[Anonymous No.5340242]

>>5340230
>you have to prove me wrong
You have to prove yourself right. If you aren't trying to convince others in your opinion, why even post about it and when back off?
>>5340236
Because it picked my interest? I dunno.

[Anonymous No.5340253]

>>5340240
>I never played Hota
>yet I hate it becuase a lot of people like to brag about it's superiority
Why would you give a single iota of a fuck about what people say and like? Don't you have your own opinion?
You give me an impresson of some faggot hipster type of person, who hates things not becuase of personal preferences, but becuase the some large group of people tends to like it a lot.

[Anonymous No.5340294]

>>5340220
They should have reworked eagle eye in the first place.

[Anonymous No.5340821]

>>5340242
*piqued, fuck.

[Anonymous No.5341027]

>>5340253
It's like you are purposefully missing the point here. I DON'T care what people have to say. Which means niggers that non-stop brag about their mod are annoying and thus I'm burned toward it by proxy.
It's like you never heard about anti-hype and effect it can have on people previously not affected by "proper" hype.
And I couldn't be arsed anyway, because it's a mod that adds things to game, rather than just fixing errors. That's bad by itself. But being sold as "bestest thing evah" makes it much worse.

[Anonymous No.5342132]

>>5341027
>Which means niggers that non-stop brag about their mod are annoying and thus I'm burned toward it by proxy.
In my experience posts about HotA are something like this:
>Well, you can do X, Y, and Z if you're playing Stronghold on Jebus Cross. Oh, and, on a complete side note, I guess HotA makes it so that the Cyclopi dwelling is less expensive, so that's an option as well if you're playing that.
Meanwhile the posts that bash HotA are usually something like
>Nobody even talks about HotA much in this thread yet but HotA KEKS have to GO, fucking Resistance rework is the worst thing that happened to humanity and I will claim it was a skill on par with logistics, if you disagree with me you're a Russian, "HotA fags push their mod because they are too big pussies to arrange a match online" is a logic that makes sense to me even though HotA is easier to setup for multiplayer than SoD
>and yet these same people have the gall to claim that HotA has a turboautistic fanbase

[Anonymous No.5342385]

>>5341027
So, I'm assuming you still play RoE? You know, since both AB and SoD "add things to game, rather than just fix errors", and god forbid something like that happens.
Anyway, gtfo 4channel omegafag, you are too autistic even for this place.

[Anonymous No.5342440]

Fuck does it mean Spells -5?
Is this a cap on luck?
Campaign only?

[Anonymous No.5342449]

>>5342440
Looks like cap, because max luck is +3.

[Anonymous No.5342450]

>>5342449
Remove your +luck artifacts one by one and check this "spells" value.

[Anonymous No.5342476]

>>5342449
>>5342450
Artifact and map luck don't count because fuck me.
Why do this on the Druid Campiagn, no wonder 3DO are dead.

[Anonymous No.5342516]

>>5342476
It's like that at any map, because max luck is +3. This new spells variable is probably exist only to prevent luck variable to overflow.

[Anonymous No.5342525]

can someone post George Costanza Crag Hack? Cheers!

[Anonymous No.5342601]

>>5342516
I think because I played 5 before 3 I always assumed it went up to ten, so this means luck as a skill is way worse than I thought since you can get to max luck pretty easily with map+artifacts?

[Anonymous No.5342619]

>>5342601
Exactly.

[Anonymous No.5342739]

[Anonymous No.5342764]

>>5342525
>implying he's banned in google

[Anonymous No.5342928]

Drago Breach... Home...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACmlHA5ASE

[Anonymous No.5343007]

>>5342440
What map is that? Is it campaign?

[Anonymous No.5343009]

>>5343007
That's the second or third map in Gem campaign from SoD IIRC

[Anonymous No.5343024]

>>5340014
Broken Alliance is ok but definitely not my fave. Its kinda fast paced desu.

Im personally a dominion guy myself.

[Anonymous No.5343025]

>>5342619
Same with morale/leadership?

[Anonymous No.5343028]

>>5343009
Thanks!
I figured it must be after the second post. Tbh i never really got into the campaigns. Way too linear.

[Anonymous No.5343041]

>>5343025
Morale is more useful because you'll most likely end up with units from various castles.
But it's not as useful as attack/logistics/earth magic of course.

[Anonymous No.5343125]

>>5343025
More than luck, but a lot less than other thigns.

[Anonymous No.5343214]

>>5342764
Why are the horns on the side? Always bothered me.

[Anonymous No.5343481]

>>5343041
>>5343125
Right but I mean if I have +3 morale its also useless to go to a temple or whatever?

[Anonymous No.5343513]

>>5343481
Yes, wasted movement.

[Anonymous No.5343515]

>>5339351
I did Druid on Light so the quest wasn't bad at all. Invisibility and walk through some Gogs, ono.

CSSS sounds awful but I want to try it anyway. I had lots of fun with Shrapmetal with just two solid casters on the Dark run, it's great to stand in something's gonch and just blast it with Shrapmetal.

I figure PACS is the 'safest' pick, you get 4 casters, two for each school of magic, two B and two GM Mirrored.
CSSS, unless you customarily Ring Around the Dragon, is going to have a lot of trouble-- IIRC don't the rogues around Erathia prioritize Sorcs?

Of course, once you get Dark magic that would basically be it...

[Anonymous No.5343592]

>>5343515
>CSSS sounds awful but I want to try it anyway.
Rule of thumb is that Dark Side playthroughs favor full caster parties and Light Side playthroughs enjoy being more melee-heavy.

[Anonymous No.5343760]

I got a problem that's breaking a few maps that rely on swan lakes as bottlenecks.
Classic behavior: (w/ HD patch, no difference)
>Hero in boat visits swan pond
>Boat moves over the swan pond tile
HotA behavior:
>Hero in boat visits swan pond
>Boat remains in adjacent tile rather move
Any idea how or why has this behavior changed? I've gone over the .ini but nothing there seems to be the culprit.

[Anonymous No.5343769]

>>5324326
I'm no fan of gremlins, but otherwise the tower units are just fine. I don't like the byzantine look either, but the castle itself is pretty sweet.

Inferno and Stronghold need some shoring up. All factions have a "castle" name, except inferno; shoulda been bastion or something (actually necropolis has the same problem, but not as bad). I can't even remember what most of the inferno dwellings look like; just kennels/fire lake/forsaken palace. All the heroes look the same. It needs a better design in general.

Stronghold is very bland and heavy-handed, and has the same problem with the dwellings (and their grail is shit-tier; a fucking spiky flag pole? rly). I also don't like behemoths; I get it, a big furry monster in a cave, the ultimate generic "monster", but it's just a sasquatch werewolf, and it doesn't fit the rest of the faction. I would have added homm2 style cyclopses with their cool black armor, stone/crystal pyramid, and eye lasers, and switched the rock-throwing to homm2 style trolls, who regenerate (and live in caves). Their grail should have been a colliseum or something; something grander. I think rock-throwing probably fits giant cyclopses better, while trolls are typically claw slashers, but that eye laser is too cool.

[Anonymous No.5344140]

Goddammit, I just finished HoMM2 and thought the whole time that luck and leadership were some of the best skills to get on your heroes, not realizing that they capped at +3.

Well I guess it doesn't matter, it's not like there are many good skills in HoMM2 anyways but I still feel like a retard stacking luck charms on my main hero that had expert luck, they felt like they would be more useful to have than shitty +1 attack/defense artifacts.

It's probably a case of RTFM. Good to know for HoMM3, as that seems a lot tighter on skill slots.

[Anonymous No.5344358]

>learning the game by just doing every scenario alphabetically by each expansion, get to Dragon Orb
>sphere of permanence is blatantly hidden behind a brown two way portal
>see another brown two way portal that leads to another orb/treasure
>get tower grail and scour the map, literally where the fuck, cannot see another brown two way portal that leads to either treasure
>say fuck it and just kill everyone for victory

to this day i do not understand these portals

[Anonymous No.5344370]

>>5344358
These portals can be more than just 2-way. Press spacebar few times and you'll get in third place and forth.

[Anonymous No.5344905]

>>5344370
>>5344358
This should be done every time you come across a two-way portal by the way, it's literally free scouting.

[Anonymous No.5344965]

>>5344370
>Press spacebar
huh, I always figured there should be a way to access something without going away and coming back

[Anonymous No.5344989]

>>5344965
There was a pic with tips for homm3 in the previous thread, check it in archive.

[Anonymous No.5345310]

>>5343760
>Any idea how or why has this behavior changed?
I think you should try to contact the HotA team directly, though I'm not sure where they're the most active.

[Anonymous No.5345414]

>>5340253
Not him, but let me ask you this:
Why don't you try eating ass? I mean you should at least try, before you know it's bad. And it's not like you are going to instantly turn into scat faggot after eating ass just once. After all, a large group of people like eating ass and they all claim it's great

[Anonymous No.5345435]

>>5345414
>Food analogies

[Anonymous No.5345517]

>>5345435
>Eating ass
>Food analogies
Sides: on their way to Mars

[Anonymous No.5345771]

>>5345414
>implying there's anything wrong with eating ass

[Anonymous No.5345824]

>>5345771
t. depraved and homosex

[Anonymous No.5345857]

>>5291217
>tfw i still see new messages in the campaigns when replaying
It is a good feeling

[Anonymous No.5346176]

is it worth making a series of reviews about all homm games?

[Anonymous No.5346946]

>>5346176
I don't really see who it would be for, maybe for recruiting new players on /v/?

[Anonymous No.5346989]

>>5346176
Follow your dreams

[Anonymous No.5347195]

>>5346176
Yes if you won't shit on Homm4 which is really underrated.

[Anonymous No.5347206]

But in all honesty, why bother playing any game other than HoMM3?

[Anonymous No.5347249]

>>5347206
I like 2 because it's a bit simplier. And i also like how you can build 3 types of dragons in one castle instead of them being spread across multiple castles.

I remember 3 felt overloaded with content sometimes (and i also had really bad framerate for me, turns took ages).

[Anonymous No.5347260]

>>5347206
Not everyone has an imprinting nostalgia from homm3.

[Anonymous No.5347608]

>>5347249
I started with 2 and moved on to 3
I definitely like 2 better in some ways and I'm really looking forward to succ wars

[Anonymous No.5347810]

>>5347608
t. Orzie

[Anonymous No.5347903]

>>5345771
>implying I implied anything

[Anonymous No.5347949]

>>5347260
>Superior HoMM experience of all games released in the series
>N-nostalgia! B-blinded!
I wish they had time to finish HoMM4, but they didn't. Which means 3 is the peak.

[Anonymous No.5348243]

How do i play online? Got the old physical copy.

Do i need GoG complete one?

[Anonymous No.5348263]

>aurora borealis doesn't give armageddon in hota

really harshing my vibe here bruh

[Anonymous No.5348490]

Was 4chan not bumping earlier for some reason?

[Anonymous No.5348494]

>>5348490
It's seems like it's STILL not bumping for certain threads. Was something changed or is the board fucking up?