HOMM/MM (Heroes of) Might & Magic(:Heroes) General

[Anonymous No.6038018]

"Death HoMMing" Edition

Previous thread: >>6009018
HoMM3 pastebin: https://pastebin.com/6G9B1cMA

[Anonymous No.6038030]

>>6038018
The last thread only had around 100 posts and 40 posters but it still managed to survive for 14 days. Let's hope this one will have more of both. Thanks to all of you who kept it alive by answering miscellaneous questions.

By the way one anon (>>6021919) asked if anybody has a guide for how to install HoMM3 with HD on a Archlinux enviroment, so if anyone could help them, that would be great.

[Anonymous No.6038039]

Here a few memes just to make sure jannies don't purge the thread.

[Anonymous No.6038041]

[Anonymous No.6038042]

[Anonymous No.6038068]

So, when will someone make an homm3 mod that turns every single unit into a monster girl variant? rip haven players

Why have a normal manticore when you can have this?

[Anonymous No.6038081]

>AI casts mass shield
>I cast mass stone skin
>Next round AI casts mass slow
>I cast standard haste on one unit and go block a shooter stack
>AI casts mass dispel next round
Well okay then.

[Anonymous No.6038334]

bleh

[Anonymous No.6038475]

post moves that you find satisfying

>when you cast expert berserk on enemy dendroids and they root half of his army

[Anonymous No.6038550]

>>6038039
that's really good

[Anonymous No.6038563]

>>6038039
>>6038041
what's wrong with angels and ammo carts?

[Anonymous No.6038570]

>>6038042
i know this is jojo meme, but who is the guy facing the black dragon? a zombie?

[Anonymous No.6038594]

>>6038475
casting clone on grand elves and 360 noscoping the opponents strongest units

[Anonymous No.6038620]

>>6038570
Looks like a peasant.

[Anonymous No.6038710]

>>6038334
sssssssssacha

[Anonymous No.6038725]

>>6038563
>what's wrong with angels and ammo carts?
From what I recall, AI has an unusual fixation with destroying machines (not the catapult tho). I presume it's because it detects it as the weakest creature in the stack. So, since Archangels have an extraordinary mobility but can only attack a single target, they go for the ammo card.

Here are a few more images that joke about this (it took me almost half an hour to find this one).

[Anonymous No.6038726]

>>6038725

[Anonymous No.6038963]

>>6038620
You're right.
Never use peasants so I didn't recognise it at first.
I only recruit peasant if I play Necro.
>>6038725
Now I remember, AI also use other units to attack the ammo cart too.

[Anonymous No.6039234]

[Anonymous No.6039336]

>>6038725
imagine if that was actually an intended behavior of archangels
considering the fact, that due to HOMM world lore fuckery, they are most likely fucking cyborgs, it would be kind of logical for them to prioritize inanimate objects, aka other cyborgs, robots and the like as potentially greater threat than any living creatures

[Anonymous No.6039346]

>>6038725
Am I the only one who's always seen a dwarf sitting in the ammo cart?

[Anonymous No.6039560]

>>6039346
I can see him now that you said it.

[Anonymous No.6039807]

[Anonymous No.6039908]

[Anonymous No.6039918]

>>6038068
Soon hopefuly.
I want to see those undead dragons

[Anonymous No.6040003]

>>6038550
I love this one.

[Anonymous No.6040497]

[Anonymous No.6040673]

[Anonymous No.6040793]

>>6039908
My fucking sides

[Anonymous No.6040795]

>>6039918
Damn, I would so take a shit in her mouth...

[Anonymous No.6040892]

>>6040795
>Implying she would be the one shitting down your pathetic throat

[Anonymous No.6041147]

>>6040497
Can someone explain this meme?
>>6040673
Yoda and who?

[Anonymous No.6041202]

>play HoMM4 aka HIV
>order campaign (Emilia Nightingale)
>5th scenario
>have to kill a specific hero
>capture every castle on the map, defeat every army I've come across
>wtf why didn't I win
>nwcprometheus
>I have cleared up literally the entire map
>check the map within the editor
>the hero I had to kill was supposed to be right before the last castle I captured, had a limited movement radius
>he just fucking disappeared during the playthrough

[Anonymous No.6041254]

>>6041147
>Can someone explain this meme?
Vey's specialty is in Ogres, so he's saving a tree trunk (which is what Ogres make clubs out of).

>>6040673
>Yoda and who?
>Apparently it's Yoda's baby from Mandalorian series.

[Anonymous No.6041762]

[Anonymous No.6041979]

Made this with the help of a bro a while back, only shown this to Sseth senpai and the merchants before.

[Anonymous No.6041985]

>>6041979
Tarnum just casually looting the Armageddon's Blade from an Ancestor

[Anonymous No.6041991]

>>6041985
Ah, Horn of the Abyss...

[Anonymous No.6042265]

>>6041979
Not bad. Some dude on VK posted this version but he gave Gelu some random sword instead of Armageddon's Blade.

>>6041985
Guess it shows just how little NWC cared about Chronicles if they couldn't bother with not allowing a key artifact to be spawned randomly.

[Anonymous No.6042273]

>>6042265
Shit, posted a wrong picture.

[Anonymous No.6042641]

>>6042265
Can someone explain this pic?

[Anonymous No.6042804]

>>6042265
>Can someone explain this pic?
Rissa (top), Calid (right), Sephinroth (bottom) and Saurug (right) are heroes whose special ability is to generate 1 unit of mercury, sulfur, crystal or gems per day, respectively.
Tower, Inferno, Dungeon and Stronghold need gems, mercury, sulfur and crystals the most, respectively. Basically, this is just showing each hero leaving their respective faction to the one that needs them the most.

[Anonymous No.6042920]

>>6041254
>Vey
Looks different from the game. I actually looked at the Stronghold hero list, but I failed to match any of them with the one in that meme.
>>6041762
Solmyr, Crag Hack, an Inferno hero and who?
Can someone explain this meme too?>>6041985
Can I install the HD mod on HoMM Chronicles?

[Anonymous No.6042924]

>>6041254
>Vey
Looks different from the game. I actually looked at the Stronghold hero list, but I failed to match any of them with the one in that meme.
>>6041762
Solmyr, Crag Hack, an Inferno hero and who?
Can someone explain this meme too?
>>6041985
Can I install the HD mod on HoMM Chronicles?

[Anonymous No.6042958]

>>6042924
In HotA Vey has a new portrait I think, but it's not a hero portrait anyway, it's ogre mage itself.

[Anonymous No.6043010]

>>6042804
I laughed for a solid minute at this one, post more

[Anonymous No.6043667]

>>6043010
Why is it funny?

[Anonymous No.6043980]

>>6038068
Fuck man now I want this too

[Anonymous No.6044171]

>>6038068
why do you want to kill cute girls?

[Anonymous No.6044179]

>>6042924
>Can I install the HD mod on HoMM Chronicles?
Hmm, I don't think you can? Or rather, I remember that I couldn't. My chronicles screenshots being 800x600 seems to confirm that too.

[Anonymous No.6044186]

>>6044179
Well fuck, apparently I'm partially wrong, seems there's kind of a way to play them by importing the chronicles maps into H3HD...
https://www.reddit.com/r/HoMM/comments/3r9785/heroes_chronicles_in_hd/

[Anonymous No.6044256]

>>6042924
>Can someone explain this meme too?

Let's start with the two in the middle: Xyron (Inferno hero) starts with Wisdom and Scholar, and his specialty is casting Inferno; Caitlin (Castle hero) starts with Wisdom and Intelligence, and her specialty is getting 350 gold each turn. Caitlin's starting skills are good enough for a main hero while Xyron is a solid secondary hero because of the Scholar skill but is not cut out to be a main.

Now the meme-y ones. There's a stereotype that low-level players like to use Solmyr and to rush a Capital, hence the huge stack of money. And you only needed to play the first few missions in SoD campaign to see Crag is canonically dumb as a bag of rocks, so no books or money for him (he'll steal it from Solmyr later).

[Anonymous No.6044258]

>>6043010

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[Anonymous No.6044329]

>>6044171
I wouldn't just be killing them.
I'd be breeding them to increase the size of my army.
I'd hypnotize enemy monster girls to fall in love with me and turn on their precious master.
I'd use diplomacy to make neutral monster girls want to join my harem.

[Anonymous No.6044386]

>>6044256
Thanks for the explanation. So the books are wisdom (and intelligence) of the hero? Solmyr is 2+3 (Int+Wis), Caitlin is 2+2, Xyron is 2+1 and Crag Hack is 1+1?
>new pic
What's Solmyr relation with those conglomerates? Related to the capitol rush?

[Anonymous No.6044498]

>>6044386
>So the books are wisdom (and intelligence) of the hero?
Seems like that. Personally, I think its main purpose is just memeing on the Solmyr-Crag duo, i.e Solmyr (player Capitol rushing) having a ton of money but ending up losing because Crag Hack (i.e player prioritizing armies) 121'ed straight to his main town.
>Related to the capitol rush?
Yep.

[Anonymous No.6044857]

New mobile game is getting ass blasted in the reviews.

I wonder why?

[Anonymous No.6044880]

>>6044498
hahaha

[Anonymous No.6044884]

>>6044857
>I wonder why?
You know why.

[Anonymous No.6044935]

>>6044857
Good. If their mobage turned out really successful, that'd mean they'd keep the franchise. If it fails, they'll either have to try again with 8 or sell the rights to the franchise to someone else. Unless they plan to just keep it for the hell of it.

[Anonymous No.6044959]

>>6044498
What is 121?
I heard Tower is pretty weak in multiplayer.
>>6044935
Isn't gachashit popular? Lots of my friend play them.

[Anonymous No.6044976]

>>6044959
It is, criminally so. Especially if you can attract a Chinese playerbase. I'm sure they'd make more money with a gachage than any main entry game.

[Anonymous No.6044989]

>>6044959
Gacha is just gambling covered in sprinkles. I dont think thats the main issue though. Reading the reviews, people seem mainly pissed that they released a game with the Heroes of Might and Magic stamp that is missing pretty much everything that made HOMM what it is.

Just reading the reviews it looks like they would have had a good release had they stuck to the core fundamentals of the franchise. Instead, the game design started in a corporate conference room with, "how can we make some money with very little effort?"

Sad. This gaming in the current year.

[Anonymous No.6045005]

>>6044959
121 is a month 1 week 2 day 1 rush with stronghold. You build to Behemoths ASAP, daisy chain those to your main, and go to town.

[Anonymous No.6045060]

>>6044880
Here's a few more with the same theme.

[Anonymous No.6045061]

>>6045060

[Anonymous No.6045062]

>>6045061

[Anonymous No.6045063]

>>6045062

[Anonymous No.6045072]

>>6045063
And a final one from me. To save non-Slav anons the trouble of going to Google Translate, Yog's Twitter profile basically has all these fancy titles (Genie, Scourge of the necromancers, Wielder of the Angelic Alliance) and Crag's basically says 'You know who I am'.

[Anonymous No.6045086]

>>6045072
But Yog is a Barbarian too. I'm pretty slow in understanding HoMM memes. Can you explain it too?

[Anonymous No.6045090]

>>6042641
Each of those heroes has a resource speciality that doesn't fit their faction, but it does fit the next one, in clock-wise order.
I mean it's not that hard to get, once you remember which hero has which speciality.

[Anonymous No.6045097]

>>6043980
She wants you too, anon

[Anonymous No.6045105]

>>6045086
>Can you explain it too?
The gist of it is that Yog is trying too hard to set himself up as being a badass (remember that Yog's part of the SoD campaign is just him trying to prove that he was cut out to be a Barbarian). Crag doesn't have to do any of those things.

[Anonymous No.6045117]

>>6045105
If you read the bio, you realize that Kyrre is a gal

[Anonymous No.6045167]

>>6045086
iirc it's a refrence to Twitter profiles of Mark Ruffalo and RDJ

[Anonymous No.6045168]

>>6045117
>gender: elf

[Anonymous No.6045229]

>>6045117
so?

[Anonymous No.6045260]

>>6038018
So who is the stupidest character in the Homm "history"?

I'd probably vote for Winston Boragus myself

>Hey look, there's this runaway genie guy who wants to become a barbarian warlord for me
>I'm not sure he has the right stuff.
>So I'l give him an absolutely monstrously powerful mega combination artifact
>And tell him to smash it and scatter the pieces across the continent
>So at the end of it all, I can have a warlord who is probably less effective than most of my other warlords since he won't do magic at all.

[Anonymous No.6045371]

>>6045260
>we are starving so lets go to war

[Anonymous No.6045684]

>>6045117
thatsthejoke.jpg

[Anonymous No.6045728]

>>6045105
Yog's campaign was so hard, I didn't finish it.
Damn genie hates magic so no spell book.
Got blinded by the Wizard enemy hero all the time.
Even my behemoths are no match.
>>6045117
There's a male Kyrre in HoMM IV.
Don't know if it's same character or not.

[Anonymous No.6045813]

Anyone knows who the first girl in the pic?

[Anonymous No.6045819]

Who's the guy in the left?

[Anonymous No.6045853]

>>6045819
>Who's the guy in the left?
Erwan Le Breton, credited as either a producer and/or a writer of Heroes V TOE expansion, VI, VII and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

[Anonymous No.6045908]

>>6045853
imagine having all those on your resume, how embarassing

[Anonymous No.6045916]

>>6045728
>Kyre is male
Someone clearly didn't read up on the lore.
Or it's true what new D&D edition says about elves.

[Anonymous No.6045940]

>>6045908
>imagine having all those on your resume
Hey, Dark Messiah is unironically good (from a gameplay standpoint at least)! Also Xena best succubus waifu.

[Anonymous No.6045947]

>>6045940
>tfw you picked the mage girl by accident
I really need to replay this game at some point.

[Anonymous No.6045986]

>>6045940
You're right, sorry. I bet it would have been pretty successful too if they had a better budget.

[Anonymous No.6046130]

>>6045072
Yog:
>Warrior
>Mage
>Possessor of blue blood
>scourge of the necromancers
>Lord of the Cyclops
>Ambassador of the Angellic Alliance

[Anonymous No.6046136]

>>6045167
>>6046130
Thanks for the clarification.

[Anonymous No.6046146]

>>6046136
All good. Thank you for the memes. I'm a Slavonic, so I naturally play Heroes 3. Here's a cool full town photo. I have all of them (except Conflux and Cove, as these are from the HD edition) auto-rotating as my wallpaper.

[Anonymous No.6046201]

Tower is the best faction because it has the most shooters.
-A friend, ~15 years ago.

[Anonymous No.6046230]

>>6046201
tower and dungeon
the strongest casters
tower has three shooters, dungeon has three fliers, each the respective most

[Anonymous No.6046252]

>>6046146
post stronghold

[Anonymous No.6046258]

>>6046252

[Anonymous No.6046565]

>>6045947
>tfw you picked the mage girl by accident
She's pretty great all things considered, but she just can't compete with a succubus living inside your head.

[Anonymous No.6046848]

>>6046230
>the strongest casters
Dungeon absolutely mogs Tower.
1. Tower only has a Chain Lightning spec, while Dungeon has two (!) resurrection guys and one meteor shower.
2. Dungeon heroes have better skill predisposition, while Tower heroes are likely to get garbage like Learning.
3. Incredible unique buildings - War Academy (basically, a free level up for a new hero) + Mana vortex (warlocks naturally have high spellpower, so with this building they just blow out wizards when it comes to mana pool despite the fact that they main knowledge) + Portal.
4. Mage dwelling is inadequately priced and hinders build-up
5. Two mid-level shooters with no melee penalty > one mid-level shooter with no melee penalty for the most of the game.

[Anonymous No.6046857]

>>6046201
I always thought this was true of the Sorceress in II. Grand Elves/Great Druids in the T3/T4 slots

[Anonymous No.6046859]

>>6045819
who cares but just wanna add what a crapshot that green aesthetical bullshit is that they forced on necropolis. it makes newer heroes games seem so uncreative. you really don't need one color scheme that represents a particular faction. same with dungeon getting revamped into dark elves. sephinroth used to be human and not some stupid elf and so the self-insert immersion was easier. guess I'm a humanfag but it's just more interesting sometimes than playing a fantasy creature, a furry or even worse a djinn.

[Anonymous No.6046861]

Thanks RNGsus.

[Anonymous No.6047425]

>>6046861
RNGsus giveth and taketh away.

[Anonymous No.6047503]

>>6046861
It can get worse.

[Anonymous No.6048392]

[Anonymous No.6048398]

>>6047503
His smile and moral: gone.

[Anonymous No.6049198]

>>6045940
Correct on all counts.

[Anonymous No.6049389]

>>6048398
Can someone explain this one too please, I don't get why the guy is crying.

[Anonymous No.6049435]

>>6049389
That's just an image from the Sorrow spell, which lowers morale. He's highlighting it to express his sorrow over having an entire Mage's guild full of worthless spells.

[Anonymous No.6049450]

>>6046861
At least you've got direct damage spell. That's a lot. My favourite is getting summon/destroy ships, because I never play on maps with water.

>>6048392
Animal cruelty isn't funny.

[Anonymous No.6049454]

>>6045940
Man, this game was the shit. It's still hard to find anything that even remotely compares.
My biggest issue is how one of the last patches nerfed kicking. The whole fucking game was build around kicking people into obstacles, WHY would you nerf it?!
And yeah, the succubus was best waif, period. Jesus, they really outdid themselves with Xana

[Anonymous No.6049515]

>>6049450
>Animal cruelty isn't funny
Cats being fat is animal cruelty now?

[Anonymous No.6049574]

>>6047503
>>6048398

[Anonymous No.6050204]

>>6049574

[Anonymous No.6050212]

>>6050204
Oh god damnit

[Anonymous No.6050406]

>>6039918
Who's the artist? I love Hime cuts

[Anonymous No.6050484]

How do you calculate damage in HoMM 1,2,3? Most of the time, I can't even tell how well I can do against a stack of enemy units.
What's the difference between attack and damage?
Are you even supposed to calculate everything, or is combat limited to "stack a bunch of units and slap the shit out of your enemies"?

[Anonymous No.6050486]

>>6050484
Like, are you supposed to play this game with a calculator in one hand? I'm serious, btw.

[Anonymous No.6050494]

>>6050486
You add your heroes attack and defense to the unit's base state. Every point of attack over the enemy's defense does 10%/5% more damage, or every point of defense over attack reduces damage by 5%/2.5% (HoMM2/HoMM3).

You just kind of eyeball it. If your attack is 10 greater you're doing half-again damage, etc.

[Anonymous No.6050523]

>>6050494
I see, thanks. I remember playing Heroes Chronicles when I was younger. Good times.

[Anonymous No.6050535]

>>6050484
In heroes 3 you go to a combat, go to options, tick show advanced unit statistics or something and then you see your damage in the bottom centre before attacking. Also shows how many of the enemy stack will die.

[Anonymous No.6050538]

>>6050535
Oh, that's handy.

[Anonymous No.6050598]

>>6044857
The other m&m mobile gacha game ubisoft made was rated much better, probably because it wasn't pretending to be anything else. I'm glad this shit isn't doing so well.

[Anonymous No.6050615]

>>6049454
>The whole fucking game was build around kicking people into obstacles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnxgQMSsc8c

[Anonymous No.6051318]

How long do your games usually take?
I'm in a three-hour game right now, and I only uncovered half of the map. Am I rarted?

[Anonymous No.6051373]

>>6049515
Any animal being routinely overweight is animal cruelty, since ever. In this case, this gets double points, because they already have an overweight cat and proceed to produce another out of a kitten. So it not only means you take bad care of the animal, but that you're a retard.

[Anonymous No.6051376]

>>6050484
>What's the difference between attack and damage?
Damage is about dealing actual damage, attack is a computation to overcome enemies defense and potentially deal additional damage if your attack greatly outweights their defense

[Anonymous No.6051382]

>>6050615
>All of it got nerfed to the ground
WHY?! You can't even pirate the pre-nerf version of the game anymore!
Also, fuck Ubisoft for preventing release of the mod kit. We had a gam of its generation and it got fucked over just because.

[Anonymous No.6052612]

>>6041202
is it the map where you start with allied town?
he's meant to lose while saving you time but sometimes he actually manages to BTFO the mad Santa and fucks up the game

[Anonymous No.6052620]

>>6051373
>Any animal being routinely overweight is animal cruelty, since ever
Were the cats force-fed? If not, then I have difficulties seeing it as being animal cruelty. Sure, its owners are retards that offer their cats food in excessive amounts but that's a long way from cutting their whiskers, pouring glue on its fur or lighting its tail on fire.

[Anonymous No.6053425]

There's this bot that got Armageddon in early game. That son of a bitch just suicides into my army with <15 guys, and just casts the damn spell, taking all my fucking shit with him.

[Anonymous No.6053445]

>>6053425
pray you find the recanters cloak or orb of inhibition
black dragons would be nice too

[Anonymous No.6053518]

Which side is the best in the original game?
I chose the knight, and I'm getting my ass kicked.
The forest guys seem OP.

[Anonymous No.6053540]

>>6053518
Sorcerer has dragons.

[Anonymous No.6053705]

>>6049435
I was just asking that to make fun of the guy from earlier ITT, damn you guys are too pure.

[Anonymous No.6054105]

>>6053705
the autism is real
nothing can be unsaid

[Anonymous No.6054770]

>>6053540
Isn't that a warlock thing? Or are you talking about phoenixes?

[Anonymous No.6055571]

>>6053518
>Which side is the best in the original game?
Warlock. His gargs and griffs are exceptionally good beefy flyers that easily suppress any shooters. He basically recks Sorceress, and has good counter in minos against Barb and Knight in melee.
>I chose the knight, and I'm getting my ass kicked.
Knight is supposed to be a fast, rushing faction but it feels totally opposite. He starts with slow troops, has a sluggish buildup (he needs tavern and well for very basic 3 & 4 level walkers). And for some reason his associated with snow, so in H1 and H2 he often starts in snow terrain and suffers terrible movement penalty.

>The forest guys seem OP.
Sorceress is good against Knight and barbarian given their lack of flyers (assuming they don't get morale on their fast troops and manage to block your shooters before you close your ranks). But solely on her own, she's wrecked by Warlock.

[Anonymous No.6055598]

https://youtu.be/GD75wi4_6Ow
https://youtu.be/sw8v5__Ytf4
https://youtu.be/I9Dz8mKgeOs

[Anonymous No.6055602]

[Anonymous No.6055738]

>>6055571
>Knight is supposed to be a fast, rushing faction but it feels totally opposite. He starts with slow troops, has a sluggish buildup
So how do you reconcile this, because I've heard that said ITT before too.

[Anonymous No.6056818]

>>6055738
you dont play knight

[Anonymous No.6056967]

>>6056818
Fuck man I absolutely love that theme from HoMM 2 though, never knew why the organ existed as an instrument until I heard that.
Even after doing both vanilla campaigns and most of the DLC ones, including the scenario where the AI starts with hundreds of bone dragons, winning a typical scenario with Knight on 200% still seems 2daunting4me.

[Anonymous No.6057126]

>>6056967
Actually I was being a pussy and I'll have swordsmen by week 2.
Still kinda just running around grabbing stuff though, guess I should strike out with my week 2 army since I'm supposed to be rushing.

[Anonymous No.6057172]

>>6057126
Let it be known I am a faggot scrub who stayed on his island collecting chests and artifacts until week 3 and barbarian just showed up to call me a little bitch.

[Anonymous No.6057246]

>>6057172
Thought I could make up for it, Thought if I took everything from the jeering bastard I'd have a solid foundation to win on...

[Anonymous No.6057248]

Until this shit shows up.

[Anonymous No.6057254]

>>6057248
>17 spell power
>This terrible army
I hope you managed to kill him before he ran away.

[Anonymous No.6057258]

>>6057248
Casualties caused by a single death ripple.

[Anonymous No.6057271]

>>6057254
I never even checked his stats, assumed he was some rag-tag hero and just threw a fireball, couldn't finish him after the ripple.
had mass haste too

[Anonymous No.6057296]

>>6057248
Looks like Ranloo is hoarding lots of artifacts.

[Anonymous No.6057305]

>>6057258
>death ripple
*Death wave
Ripple is 2nd lvl and does 5*Spell Power damage, while Wave is 3rd lvl and does 10*SP. I assume he did 170 damage judging by your pic.

[Anonymous No.6057334]

>>6057305
Death Wave is really cool in HoMM2.
Meanwhile Death Ripple in HoMM3 is like this:
Damage = (SP * 5) + bonus
Bonus = 10 (Basic Earth), 20 (Advanced Earth) or 30 (Expert Earth)
I hate those pesky suicide AI casting Death Ripple, Death Wave, Elemental Storm & Armageddon

[Anonymous No.6057380]

>>6057334
Imagine HoMM1 where even 1 lvl one Barb could learn and cast Meteor Shower or Armageddon.

Btw has anyone played Hammer of the Gods? It's like MoM with tactical combat from King's Bounty in a quasi-historical Viking setting but with dragons, wizards and shiet. You gotta raid and pillage Christian folk, complete pagan gods' quests, etc. There's even diplomacy (you can play as basic humans, elves, dwarves or trolls).

Looks pretty dope.

[Anonymous No.6057383]

>>6057380
I used that Armaggedon tactic when I played the Knight campaign in HoMM1.
>Hammer of the Gods
Read it in Computer Gaming World long time ago.
Saw a video several days ago in Youtube.

[Anonymous No.6057410]

>>6057383
I love that cheeky tribute to Tolkien in the dragon description.

[Anonymous No.6057446]

[Anonymous No.6057453]

>>6056818
>you dont play knight
You can, but you absolutely need to hire a warlock or wizard to dump on him your main army overnight and speed up your main hero with a gargoyle or boar.

[Anonymous No.6058706]

>>6057410
>lest it be stolen
To be fair, it was only one (admittedly really fancy) diamond.

[Anonymous No.6059008]

>>6049515
Cats are cunts and play inferno exclusively

[Anonymous No.6059274]

>>6058706
No, Bilbo steals a goblet his first time in Smaug's hoard. He only picks up the Arkenstone when he along with the Dwarves ransack through the place after Smaug goes and attacks Lake-town.

[Anonymous No.6059347]

>>6059274
Ah, fair enough. I read the book a decade or so ago so the movies must've influenced how I remembered things happening.

[Anonymous No.6060838]

[Anonymous No.6060840]

>>6051382
>You can't even pirate the pre-nerf version of the game anymore!

Aww shit I knew I should have kept it on my old HDD forever

[Anonymous No.6060847]

>>6051382
not available in archive.org?

[Anonymous No.6060851]

>>6060838
why did they change the design in hota?
any other unit designs changed?

[Anonymous No.6060869]

Guys, is there a way to know if you visited an obelisk in the first three games?
I use pen and paper to mark them.

[Anonymous No.6060876]

>>6060869
In HoMM3, you can see if you have visited a structure on the map in the status bar (above the resources bar).

[Anonymous No.6060886]

>>6060869

[Anonymous No.6060942]

>>6060869
>Being this fucking retarded
How new to HoMM are you, exactly? I mean my mother, THE most casual of casual players, knows about in-game tooltips

[Anonymous No.6060946]

>>6060847
Tried, couldn't find it. But that was two years ago.

[Anonymous No.6060950]

>>6052620
>Give animal too much food to eat
>B-but it ate it at its own will!
Any animal that's overweight suffers from whole fucking lot issues, especially if they are something like cat, since their joints literally can't manage. So you end up with an animal that mostly just sleeps and eats, getting fatter and getting additional problems. Just because it's not kicked and gets fed doesn't mean it's not cruelty.
Ask literally ANY vet about it.

[Anonymous No.6060981]

>>6060942
What's wrong with being new to any game, cunt?
Also, the first game doesn't have tooltips.

[Anonymous No.6060997]

>>6060851
>any other unit designs changed?
AFAIK, Orc, Pikeman and Dendroid (and their upgrades). Out of the three, only the Dendroid change made sense and was an actual improvement.

[Anonymous No.6061012]

>>6045853
>>6045940
Tribes of the East is also nice.

[Anonymous No.6061151]

>>6061012
You know, as a kid I loved homm5 just as much as I loved 3 and 4. Played it a lot. But now? Jesus Christ I can't stand it and 9/10th of the maps being town locked, small in size, and having only 1-2 opponents doesn't help.

[Anonymous No.6061158]

>>6061151
I've been playing it recently and, well, just pick the bigger maps with more opponents? I'm sure there's got to be more big maps to download somewhere as well.

[Anonymous No.6061306]

>>6060997
I've been playing HoMM3 since 90s and I keep forgetting which Dendroid is the upgrade. They look almost the same and their names don't mean much. At least in HoTA the upgraded ones have red eyes.

[Anonymous No.6061397]

>>6061158
Not the guy that you just ignorantly assumed you knew better than, but I can tell you that there essentially are no good maps for V, there are a handful of maps shipped with the game that meet anon's specifications but the one I remember as being one of the maps more inclined to give the AI a decent army was just a shitty, lazy design with a single track connecting all the towns along the perimeters of the map with a resource-filled desert in the middle. It really didn't get much better than that.
You mentioned custom maps but despite the respect you may have for the creativity that went into the map, they almost never make for a good game. Out of the ones I tried for V from maps4heroes, none of them worked as intended though they did some interesting things with the scenery.
And random maps don't work either, AI didn't even leave it's town on the ones I tried.
You said you only picked up the game recently.
It's an enjoyable game with enough depth and variation to have you play through the campaigns and the big maps a few times each, might even keep you playing for the better part of a year but it won't have you coming back years later like the 3DO HOMMs do, least it doesn't for me.

[Anonymous No.6061850]

Reminder that true Chads make their own maps instead of RMG

[Anonymous No.6061853]

>>6061850
I'm in the middle of making a hellish H size map, it takes so fucking long if youre being detailed and balanced.

[Anonymous No.6062076]

>>6061306
I think the red is their leafy eyebrows

and anyway, its generally obvious "dendroid" "dendroid soldier", well gee I wonder which one is better?

[Anonymous No.6062090]

>>6062076
It's Dendroid Guard and Dendroid Soldier.

[Anonymous No.6062093]

>>6062076
You don't even remember the unupgraded Dendroid name.

[Anonymous No.6062101]

>>6062090
okay, but still
"soldier" generally means a competent fighter
"guard" ...not so much

[Anonymous No.6062190]

>>6061151
>as a kid I loved homm5
I'm just going to throw out "You have to be 18 to post here" and shut my eyes that it might not apply

[Anonymous No.6062227]

>>6062190
Anon, HoMMV was released in 2006. That means that even a kid who by some miracle was given this game to play when they were 6 would be over 18 years of age now. Face it, we're old.

[Anonymous No.6062407]

>>6062190
Did you just wake up from a coma? It's not 2010.
I was 12 when homm5 came out. It's been 13 years since then.

[Anonymous No.6063158]

>>6062190
I used to play Homm5 in high school during the late 2000s.

[Anonymous No.6063896]

>Hey there fellas. Sorry to bring the bad news, but Factory probably wont come on the News year (1.1.2020)
>That thread on HotA's discord made it sound like not even the Wasteland is likely to come on New Year's, which is... disappointing to have to hear second-hand.
Well, maybe next year.

[Anonymous No.6063908]

>>6063896
not like we'll just suddenly stop playing this game in another year
we've kept it up for 20 so far, why rush?
better be getting more mods when I'm 50

[Anonymous No.6063923]

>>6062227
>HoMMV was released in 2006
Shiiiit, I would have said like 2010

[Anonymous No.6064910]

>>6057248
>playing castle

Truth is kid, the game was rigged from the start.

[Anonymous No.6065415]

Is the Homm5.5 mod any good? Also, how do you guys rank the HOMM5 factions?

[Anonymous No.6065569]

>>6065415
>Is the Homm5.5 mod any good?
I heard some good things about is, specifically about AI's turn times being drastically improved, but I am not a particular fan of the revamped skills.

>Also, how do you guys rank the HOMM5 factions?
I only played against AI in campaigns and a couple of scenarios, but I was min-maxing my heroes to an autistic degree in them, so I hope that counts at least. I attempted to obtain the ultimate skill where I could (e.g. I was unable to get the super OP ultimate skill for Sylvans because Findan starts with Tactics instead of Frenzy) and when it made sense (Haven's and Necro's ultimates are pretty useless so I didn't get them) and they were all great in their own way. In case you're just playing a casual scenario, certain combinations of skills are a blast to have (or at least seem that way), such as:

Sylvan's Imbue Ballista + Triple Ballista (personal favorite);
Haven's Guardian Angel + Last Stand;
Dungeon's Warlock's Luck + Erratic Mana;
Necro's Sorcery + Cold Death;
Fortress' Protection + Magic Resistance + Dwarven Luck;
Inferno's Swift Gating + Swarming Gate (though they're also the prerequisites for the ultimate skill)

Note: these are just vanilla and HoF skill combos, can't remember the ones from ToE.

As far as units are concerned, I can't pick a single faction that's obviously superior - Necro's Ghosts and Vampires are annoying as fuck to deal with and fantastic to have when you play them, Stronghold's Executioners can cleave through entire armies, Dungeon's Black Dragons and Haven's Archangels are as OP as they've always been, properly runed-up Fortress units are a nightmare to deal with, Sylvans can luck-crit you out of existence and Inferno can create free canon fodder with gating (though these rely on their Faction's hero abilities) and Academy... well, maybe you can do something with them with Artificers skill.

[Anonymous No.6065583]

>>6061853
Based, post it here when it's done.

[Anonymous No.6065716]

Was it autism?

[Anonymous No.6066529]

>>6065716
Yes. Sometimes, bullying is good, and nowhere was that more evident than with NWC and that abomination.

[Anonymous No.6066854]

>>6065716
>>6066529
>dev can't lay out his artistic vision because a bunch of nerd incels got uppity
You're the reason the industry is so shit nowadays, it's only the trannies, wimmin gamer girls and SJW's crying out loudly about products now.

[Anonymous No.6067483]

>>6066854
It's aesthetically shit though. Don't know about the balance with other factions.

Maybe if they work a bit more in the design it would be better.

[Anonymous No.6068310]

i really like the way they did skills in HOMM V

[Anonymous No.6068340]

What do you guys like more? The normal hero? Or the kind offered in 4?
Not that theyve been any good so far, but I hope that if they ever make an 8, and if they actually end up making it good, thag it has the type of heroes that were in 4.

[Anonymous No.6068528]

I've never felt so powerful before.
Also, Jesus Christ, I forgot how long A New Day Tomorrow takes. 183 days took 13 hours.

[Anonymous No.6069432]

Next thread: >>6069431

[Anonymous No.6069636]

>>6046201
it was me

[Anonymous No.6069637]

>>6068340
Heroes of 4 were bullshit, all you neededbin your party was a couple of high level heroes and they would kill absolutely every army