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

[Anonymous No.6363184]

Bracada Edition
HOMM/MM pastebin: https://pastebin.com/6G9B1cMA
Previous: >>6333634

[Anonymous No.6363201]

bleh

[Anonymous No.6363229]

Video game generals go on the Video Game Generals board.

>>>/vg/

[Anonymous No.6363236]

>>6363229
no u

[Anonymous No.6363251]

>>6363201

[Anonymous No.6363252]

>>6363229
>Look mom I posted it again!

[Anonymous No.6363290]

Someone mentioned you can make SoD work under hamachi.
I've tried many times, it never worked. So... how you are supposed to set it up?

[Anonymous No.6363509]

>>6363201
schliiing

[Anonymous No.6363836]

>>6363251
>>6363201

[Anonymous No.6364474]

Archibald did nothing wrong

[Anonymous No.6364515]

Sir Mullich and Paul Romero talking about HoMM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqiTmtJCM3o

[Anonymous No.6364532]

>>6364515
>"How do you feel about the fact that so many Russians dropped out of school, out of university, playing this game, and got conscripted into the army as a result of it?"

I'm fucking dying.

[Anonymous No.6364550]

>>6364532
You can't drop out of school in Russia. Basic education is mandatory and compulsory. Just saying. The bit about uni and draft is true, thou

[Anonymous No.6364553]

>>6364550
he probably said "out of school" to refer to uni, but made sure to say "out of uni" to clarify

[Anonymous No.6364608]

>>6364550
Ivan, the term "school" in this context refers to higher education too.

[Anonymous No.6364670]

>>6364515
based

[Anonymous No.6364679]

I have spent this and the last month playing the campaigns of this game for the first time ever

ROA was quite straightforward, basic and barebones but still fun

ARM BL felt much better, much more refined and was just overall a lot more enjoyable to play

I'm close to the end of SOD and I'm just not having as much fun as I did with ARM BL, the missions are much more tedious, not as enjoyable and just not as engaging as in ARM BL

Oh and I dont think I even need to mention that certain skills/spells can make or break a map and give you or your enemy a guaranteed win no matter what

[Anonymous No.6364721]

>>6364679
AB is fun, but the maps are positively GIGANTIC which was a turn off for me. Still the second best campaign after chronicles.

[Anonymous No.6364750]

>>6363290
Idk about hamachi but gameranger worked just fine for me

[Anonymous No.6364756]

>>6364679
>BL
Boy's Love

[Anonymous No.6364769]

Just started the first HOMM, this is great, I presume it only gets better from here, I like the combat, reminds me of King's Bounty or did this come first?
Downloaded the first 4 games and Chronicles.

[Anonymous No.6364818]

>>6364769
King's bounty came first

[Anonymous No.6364834]

>>6364769
I think chronicles isn't worth to play.

[Anonymous No.6364850]

>>6364769
>>6364818
King's Bounty (1990)
not King's Bounty: The Legend (2008)

[Anonymous No.6364934]

>>6364834
I kind of liked Chronicles, I sort of liked the campaign story but I lost interest at some point around the Dragon one. It's piss easy though, to the point that it's a chore effortlessly mopping up everything, maybe it's worth playing before HoMM3 for people new to the series.

[Anonymous No.6365035]

>>6364550
It's a joke you sperglord

[Anonymous No.6365213]

>>6364515

Holy shit, I didn't know that Sir Mullich also worked on another one of my favourite games, Vampire Bloodlines.It's fucking amazing what sort of people work on all sorts of great projects and you don't even really know about it.

[Anonymous No.6365245]

>>6365213
Romero composed for Everquest so that's like half my gaming as a kid on top of MM

[Anonymous No.6365347]

[Anonymous No.6365356]

How many posters ITT are Russians/slavs?

[Anonymous No.6365387]

>>6365356
99%

[Anonymous No.6365394]

>>6365356
0% to 94.4%

[Anonymous No.6365410]

>>6365356
All of them.

[Anonymous No.6365457]

>>6364515
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6kO9R0gUQI

[Anonymous No.6365551]

>>6365356
This thread reeks of teh bydlo trash.

[Anonymous No.6365571]

>>6364750
Worked or still works?

[Anonymous No.6365576]

>>6365356
Pole here, so I qualify under "slav".
And I just finished match with friends. Rekted them hard, because we used HotA and I've accidently assembled bunch of garbage items into HotA's combinatory artifact, giving me insane combat bonuses.

[Anonymous No.6365760]

>>6365571
I don't know about now since I'm using hota multiplayer nowdays, but i think it still should work.

[Anonymous No.6365774]

>>6365356
Also a Pole here

[Anonymous No.6365795]

>>6365760
We played HotA and we all hated it. If there is some sort of config of the game, then great, but as for now, even the fact such simple things as "press Space to interact with things you are already standing on" have been disabled, which is simply grating to play. Plus the mentioned doom hammer made out of some of the shittiest items in the game into utter game-breaker (and I was playing Tazar, so yeah, gimme those counter-attacks and fire shield)

[Anonymous No.6365917]

>>6365795
>simple things as "press Space to interact with things you are already standing on" have been disabled
What? No it isn't, what are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.6365932]

>>6365917
If three people realise that pressing space does shit, instead of interacting with the building, then something is off.
We used the version on Jaskinia Behemota, then updated to the most recent patch. Didn't touch shit in options or configs, just went straight to the lobby.

[Anonymous No.6365938]

>>6365932
I don't know what to tell you, man, works on my machine.

[Anonymous No.6365952]

>>6365938
I would understand if it didn't work on single PC. But all three had the same problem.
Either way, that wasn't the main issue. The problem was mostly about adding to the game stuff we didn't really want and no clear way to disable it (like in WoG, where everything that isn't basic utility is just squashed). Also didn't have fun with having to figure out some bullshit pirate units and what tier they are, while the map was infested with them to the brim. Then happend the doom hammer and the game was pretty much done.
The only reason we even played it at all was due to the fact we couldn't find any other way to run SoD online, but the experience was... lacking.

[Anonymous No.6366042]

>>6365952
All I can say is maybe all three of you are retarded, because it definately works for me as well. Also if you dont want to bother with learning the new units or seeing them on the map, then dont play the HotA maps, play the originals.

[Anonymous No.6366084]

>>6366042
>Confirmation bias: The Post
We played random map. Random map automatically loads in HotA crap into it

[Anonymous No.6366124]

>>6366084
Then open up default homm3, and create the random map, genius. Random maps are saved in the random_maps folder, so you can play them again--as well as online with friends. Nothing from HotA will be generated, and get this, you can still play those when you open up HotA.

[Anonymous No.6366171]

Does anyone have a link to the spreadsheet with all units stats in Heroes 2?

Im playing it now and theres no good wikis like thelazy for HOMM2

[Anonymous No.6366194]

>>6365356
I'm an Amerislavmutt so count me for 3/5th

[Anonymous No.6366235]

Any advice for getting into the blobbers? I was playing 6 but it wasn't sticking.

[Anonymous No.6366587]

>>6366235
If you just got stuck at the start read the pastebin and get bows. If you just don't like the game you can go back and try out WoX or jump to 7 which has a tutorial starting zone but you probably won't like any of them.

[Anonymous No.6366786]

>>6366171
http://www.heroesofmightandmagic.com/heroes2/neutralcreatures.shtml
??

[Anonymous No.6366795]

>>6366235
There is one brick wall at the start: Learning enough of the mechanics(i.e run/walk toggle) to start playing.
But once past that you should be able to kill your way across the lands until you reach New Haven.

[Anonymous No.6368013]

>>6365356
https://www.strawpoll.me/19858397

>but what if I'm canadian
do you know if you're of slavic descent? If so you're amerislav.
If you don't know? Unknown/other american.

[Anonymous No.6369005]

Any news in factory coming out

[Anonymous No.6370004]

>>6369005
They announced they were scrapping it to do a proper Forge

[Anonymous No.6370104]

I'm playing MM6 again. Trying a theme party based off the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Leonardo is a knight that will eventually use double swords. Donatello is a druid that will use staff, and started with learning. Rafael uses is an archer that uses double daggers. Michaelangelo is a cleric that uses a mace, since it seem similar to nunchaku.

Basically there is little magic allowed, but wands and scrolls are okay. Wizard eye is okay since it's like their ninja senses. Bows are okay, they are like throwing stars or whatever. It's basically a might team though. I just got to goblinwatch and haven't played in 3-4 years so we'll see how it goes.

[Anonymous No.6370106]

>>6370004
Also new naga tank will have four boobs.

[Anonymous No.6370382]

Alright, got the Complete version of GOG, what else I need? Was thinking HD mod, anything else?

[Anonymous No.6370395]

>>6370382
We're talking HOMM III? Take a look at Horn of the Abyss mod/expansion. It's really good quality. Aside from that, you are good to go, you don't even need HD mod. I personally think it makes the screen too small, but I am weird. And if you wish for more HOMM III, check out Heroes Chronicles on GOG.

[Anonymous No.6370397]

>>6368013
>Only 6% Poles.
Yeah, bull.

[Anonymous No.6370403]

>>6370395
Yes. I'm a new player, is HOTA mandatory before I get ahold of original game?

[Anonymous No.6370408]

>>6370403
Not really. It's just an additional campain with some new shit in it if you wish for more. It's actually quite difficult, so I would suggest you give the base campaign a try first.
And have fun.

[Anonymous No.6370414]

>>6370397
That's the problem with polls, not everyone fills them

[Anonymous No.6370468]

>>6370395
>I personally think it makes the screen too small
You know you can configure render resolution and display resolution separately, right? Even if you play in the original 800x600 HD mod improves compatibility with modern systems so there's really no reason to avoid it.

[Anonymous No.6370473]

>>6370468
Yeah I know. It just looks off to me on 1920x1080 monitor. I guess I am accustomed to original look of the game. Again, I am weird.

[Anonymous No.6370521]

>>6370397
Why is that so hard for you to believe?

[Anonymous No.6370530]

>>6370521
DESPITE BEING 6% OF HOMM PLAYERS, POLES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 51% OF HOMM SHITPOSTING

[Anonymous No.6370723]

>>6370104
I appreciate your autism

[Anonymous No.6371352]

>>6370104
You can beat it with about anything, but you could really use healing. As with any comp, the hirelings can fix your weak points.

>>6370530
So basically Australians on any other board.

[Anonymous No.6371529]

>>6370530

[Anonymous No.6371575]

Hey guys, anyone have that picture of ainsley photoshoped as solmyr, casting lightning from his hands instead of holding that peper dispenser?

[Anonymous No.6371620]

>>6365356
>https://www.strawpoll.me/19858397

am I the only Ukrainian in this thread or what?

[Anonymous No.6371627]

Reminder that this is what peak AESTHETICS and peak SOUL looks like

[Anonymous No.6371702]

>>6371575

[Anonymous No.6371714]

>>6371702
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.6372208]

>>6371352
healing is going to come from a healing companion, potions, wands, scrolls, and resting.

Also does anyone have experience with greyface patch?

[Anonymous No.6372293]

Fuck. I got washed. Should I reload or play it where it lies?

[Anonymous No.6372642]

So I got through Goblinwatch. I decided on a few new "rules".
No reloading after death, so it's like more roguelike.
No save/loading when bad shit happens. I have to roll with it.
Wands and scrolls can be used by Donatello.
Spells can only be learned if I find the book through exploration.
Spell skills can only be trained if I have leftover points.

So far it's pretty fun. The bank is actually kind of important now since I got wiped and lost 2000g at the start of the game.
Oh and I have a healer (April O'Neal) and a weapons master (Casey Jones).

[Anonymous No.6372662]

>>6372642
>Murdering peasants

[Anonymous No.6372702]

>>6371620
>Implying there is such thing like Ukrainians
Kek

[Anonymous No.6372745]

>>6372702
>How can Ukrainians be real if Russians aren't real?

Go to bed, Jaden

[Anonymous No.6373947]

I'm the only Irish guy here though, right?
I've noticed some irish influence in the 3DO games, like in HoMM 3 there's a Castle town called Kildare which is a county that any Irish person would know so in HoMM 4 they switched it and gave Life a town called Kenmare which is a far more obscure village in County Kerry.

[Anonymous No.6373985]

>>6373947
>blocks your path

[Anonymous No.6374069]

I love how they put a picture of Mongolians to represent a Finnish bar

[Anonymous No.6374071]

>>6364515
>>6374069
in that i mean. got such a case of TORILLE that i forgot to >>

[Anonymous No.6374818]

>>6363184
Why is Inferno so bad?

[Anonymous No.6374878]

>>6373947
>>6373985
Don't bicker lads! Wanna join my army?

[Anonymous No.6374923]

>>6374818
because consorting with the devil is against the word of god anon

[Anonymous No.6375004]

>>6372662
Reputation don't mean shit homie. Drop a couple dollars in the offering plate at the temple and it's all good.

[Anonymous No.6375754]

Does reputation in MM6 increase only with completing quests? There seems to be a limit for rep you get for donating and not every quest gives it. Does it mean that you can miss a Light Magic Mastery if you spend too much time in resting or traveling around?

[Anonymous No.6375763]

>>6375754
Reputation only goes to Respectable through donating. Yes it's possible to never hit Saintly, but you have to mess up in multiple places. To get past Respectable you get small amounts for most quests, and a full category for council quests (except Loretta). The traitor quest gives 4-5 categories by itself though, so unless you fuck up there (mainly by doing the unlisted Baa quest inside which loses about 4 categories and not donating before turning the traitor quest in) you will end up with Saintly at that point.

[Anonymous No.6375773]

>>6375754
Bounty Hunts also give you additional Reputation.
But its very low compared to questing, and questing is finite.

[Anonymous No.6376336]

>>6375754
>going for L*fe magic
Lmao, bet you rolled more than one cleric too, baka desu.

[Anonymous No.6376854]

>>6364515
A little bit too rotund for a knight

[Anonymous No.6377993]

[Anonymous No.6378036]

>>6374818
Overall lineup is weak, and Pit Fiends are sorta bad when they are used to spawn a mediocre T4 unit via weird farming instead of having a real strength.
Necromancer lineup is also weak, but its strengths are far more straight forward, enabling far more abuse and strength.

[Anonymous No.6378050]

>>6378036
>That pic
One of the many things I like about HotA is that learning the skill from Witch Huts is completely optional.

[Anonymous No.6378075]

>>6378050
Purists won't even touch HotA with a 10 meters pole.

[Anonymous No.6378159]

>>6364515
>Paul Romero
Here in Moscow we have almost yearly symphonic concerts in Moscow International House of Music with him conducting and HoMM3 soundtrack (he is touring in Russia too), Tickets start with 40$, and in that hall, they usually start at $3.

[Anonymous No.6378168]

>>6378075
Do they still exist?

[Anonymous No.6378306]

>>6378159
There was a concert in Poland too, a couple of years ago, but he wasn't conducting for it. I still get chills on my back when i remember it - unfortunately there are 0 recordings of it, and the Heroes Orchestra doesn't reach it's level of quality, so it only lives in my memory now.

[Anonymous No.6378494]

Is this series a good introduction to first-person, turn-based dungeon crawlers?

[Anonymous No.6378573]

>>6378494
Yes, World of Xeen is a good entry point if you are new to this type of game. If you have played any others turn based dungeon crawler, then start you can probably start at 3.

6-8 are 3d and have a function to toggle between turn based and live. The pastebin has a quick rundown of the generations of MM games.

[Anonymous No.6378575]

>>6378494
Yes, World of Xeen is a good entry point if you are new to this type of game. If you have played any other turn-based dungeon crawler, then you can probably start at 3.

6-8 are 3d and have a function to toggle between turn based and live. The pastebin has a quick rundown of the generations of MM games.

[Anonymous No.6378713]

>>6378168
Yes and they rise in numbers

[Anonymous No.6378748]

>>6378575
Awesome. Got it set up in DOSBox. Now to read the manual so I know the controls (strongly prefer keyboard controls when available) and play game.

[Anonymous No.6378772]

>>6378494
probably the best introduction imo. heavy on exploration and looting, light on autism

[Anonymous No.6378896]

>>6378575
Don't forget the Swords of Xeen.
My recommendation:
MM3
MM4&5 (WoX)
MM SoX
MM6
MM7
MM8

[Anonymous No.6378929]

Alright, starting my first ever MM game. Say hello to Chucky, Rhonda, Arrows Bob, QuaranTina, Holy Dave, and SorceRick.

[Anonymous No.6380472]

>>6376336
Having a second Cleric in 6 is fine because it's all Shrapmetal spam anyway. Without instagib protection having a secondary healer is useful at times. You have to get someone up in the miscellaneous skills anyway.

[Anonymous No.6380490]

>>6378929
What are their classes?

[Anonymous No.6380834]

tried mm6, default party.
can't move my party at all.
what's wrong?
i tried pressing switch turn based, still can't move party.
what's wrong?
got mm6 from pastebin.

[Anonymous No.6380856]

>>6380834
restarting pc fixed the problem.
saw someone had the same problem in a forum.

[Anonymous No.6380890]

>>6365571
Works fine with vanilla.

If you want to play any of the mods using it:
1) Go to HoMM3 directory
2) Change filename of Heroes3.exe to anything, say, Heroes3backup
3) Change filename of exe of your mod (I assume WoG, since HotA has own lobby) from, say, h3wog.exe to Heroes3.exe
4) Run GameRanger
Doing so will make GameRanger run the modded game instead of the vanilla one. As long as all people in the game use the same mods, things will work perfectly fine.

[Anonymous No.6380893]

>>6378050
You can set it up in WoG, too. Along with UNlearning skills via the Hut, as long as she's teaching the skill you want to already have. Suddenly Tower heroes stop sucking dick with their shitty starting skills.

>>6378713
More like HotA fags are failing in numbers. You were never the majority.

[Anonymous No.6380894]

>>6380893
*you want to forget and already have

[Anonymous No.6380992]

>>6380856
damn, it seems mm6 won't allow you to walk in turn based mode

[Anonymous No.6381273]

What's the single best bit of VO in mm6 - mm8 and why is it
The unimpressed Minotaur saying "Hardly a match" after smashing his foes

[Anonymous No.6381297]

>>6380992
Right, it was added in 7. Even that though is basically in between combat turns. Generally though you have the choice of running through zones or enemies in live or going into turn based for combat.

[Anonymous No.6381316]

>>6381273
The stupid elf in 7 grows on you after a while, talk to the hand. The best voice is the necromancer in 8.

[Anonymous No.6381823]

>>6364515
>Russians leaving school for military because of HoMM3

Is this true?

[Anonymous No.6381835]

>>6381273
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS

[Anonymous No.6381849]

>>6370004
>>6370106
If only

[Anonymous No.6381853]

>>6370004
Factory is Forge with a cowboy hat on

[Anonymous No.6382010]

So yesterday I looked through list of "PC games with force feedback" on wikipedia, and for some reason SoD was listed there. Is that some mistake or joke, or Homm 3 actually had this feature?
Link, in case someone thinks I'm bullshitting them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PC_games_with_force_feedback_support

[Anonymous No.6382039]

>>6382010
http://www.heroesofmightandmagic.com/heroes3sod/heroesofmightandmagic3iiisod.shtml
>Support for Logitech’s Wingman Force Feedback Mouse
Yes anon, with lost rad tech that never caught on.
I.e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2QUK-lX2w

[Anonymous No.6382084]

>>6382039
Wow. That sounds pretty cool. Thanks for the info!
Although I kinda had idea there was some way to play Homm with gamepad (outside of using it to emulate mouse).

[Anonymous No.6382096]

>>6378929
just seeing this screen i want to restart xeen....

[Anonymous No.6382128]

>>6382084
>>6382010
Anon, there is no gamepad.
Only Logitech having a failed product launch.

[Anonymous No.6382147]

>>6382128
No-no, "gamepad" bit was about me - when I saw SoD in list I thought that I could play it with it.

[Anonymous No.6382365]

fuck purists!

[Anonymous No.6382376]

>>6365356
Croatslav here

[Anonymous No.6382382]

>>6382365
based

[Anonymous No.6382387]

>>6382365
>t. IQ 90

[Anonymous No.6382697]

>>6381316
Which one the ridiculously OP British one or Devlin arcanus? They're both great desu. fuck I love might and magic

[Anonymous No.6382701]

>>6381853
The theme seems way more cowboy focussed than forge focussed to me

[Anonymous No.6382705]

>>6382365
Fuck necro nerfs

[Anonymous No.6383450]

>start a map
>expand fast
>run into first AI
>take out its heroes with low losses
>find its town, already taken by 2nd AI
>take the nearly unguarded town with low losses
>more 2nd AI's heroes show up
>take them all out with low losses
>find 2nd AI's town
>take it with low losses
>3rd AI who hasn't fought anyone the whole game shows up with a large army
>bring main to town and upgrade to castle
>3rd AI invades
>win because the AI can't siege, but with massive losses
>second hero from the 3rd AI shows up with an even larger army than the first one

I guess there's just no way to win all games. All that happened in 3 weeks, didn't have time to build up a large enough army to blow through everything and what I had got chipped down.

[Anonymous No.6383454]

>>6381316

I'm going with Gravel Goblin Lady from 7. When she mixes potions and says "Ahhh, what a perfect blend! Let's make another..." I wanna wife her. I like when shopkeepers mock you for being rich and she says "*snort* Peasant!" Best voice.

>>6378929

I'm waiting for someone to give you shit for making a HOrc Sorc - don't listen. HOrc Sorcs are the best - you don't need that much SP since resting isn't a big deal, but the extra HP is great for not getting your caster one-shot against end game enemies.

Keep us posted!

[Anonymous No.6383503]

>>6382705
I wonder who is behind this post.

[Anonymous No.6383505]

>>6383503
Sandro.

[Anonymous No.6383545]

>>6381823
Either you didn't watch it or you don't understand what they are saying.
The implication is that people fail at school or drop out and in Russia, unless you are an university student, disabled or from a small handful of religious denominations, conscription applies. So you end up in the army (and we are talking about Russian conscription here, so terrible conditions combined with dedovshchina and all that jazz), because you've spend all your teen years addicted to HoMM3

[Anonymous No.6383552]

>>6382365
>Here, let me show you all why HotA is given shit by people outside of its fandom
You are not helping your cause, you know.
Also, WoG > HotA, simply because you can turn off all the shit you don't like with ease, rather than being forced to terribly unbalanced new faction (and awaiting another, even more broken one), along with "balance" imposed by HotA on pre-existing game (read: favouring a specific type of meta-gameplay and nerfing to the ground everything else). In the end, the utility gain from using HotA is buried by all the stuff I don't need, don't like and I'm opposed to - usually all three at once.

[Anonymous No.6383651]

>>6382701
That and it's "whatever the other factions do, we're better at it despite spending the last 30 years hiding from Kreegan/the Bracada Anti-LGBT Crusade"
>better Wizards than Tower/Conflux
>better at gunpowder than Cove
>better at wasteland dwelling than Stronghold
>better creature handlers than Rampart/Fortess
>unrelated but the HotA Resistance change is for Jebus Cross babies

That being said how do I even install HotA now because it sperged out a ton and now I've finally got HotA and the latest HoMM3 update downloaded, I'm still getting a ton of YOU CAN'T INSTALL THAT THERE and gave up

[Anonymous No.6383683]

Am I the only one who dislikes cobblestone roads? I just think they make movement too fast.

[Anonymous No.6383730]

>>6383545
>small handful of religious denominations
Explain please.

[Anonymous No.6383969]

>>6383651
> better Wizards than Tower/Conflux
ugh. how so? Is Rampart better than wizards since it has 5 lvl guild too?
> better at gunpowder than Cove
Engineers with steam powered robot handle powder better than pirates. What a surprise.
> better at wasteland dwelling than Stronghold
Who is better in grassland dwelling: Castle, rampart or conflux? How they are better if Wasteland have same speed as rough terrain. Also wasteland isn't native for them.
>better creature handlers than Rampart/Fortess
So they have 2 or 3 creatures... How it is better than fortress? Besides, you would be the first one to poke Factory if it only had 1 animal or all units were humans.
>I'm still getting a ton of YOU CAN'T INSTALL THAT THERE and gave up
You should install it on already installed gog version, unless your installation file is ~400 mb, then it's a standalone hota.

Also, they've revealed heroes and classes

[Anonymous No.6384067]

>>6383969

[Anonymous No.6384097]

>>6384067
Nevermind I got it to work

[Anonymous No.6384180]

>>6384067
Why would you install programs to a folder where you need some form of elevated access to execute and install them?

[Anonymous No.6384380]

>>6382365
Why HotA-fags are so fucking retarded?

[Anonymous No.6384438]

>>6384380
Yeah, cause people who keep shitting on HotA are geniuses. Like this Anon >>6384067 who couldn't even install it and then took a picture of his screen.

[Anonymous No.6384508]

>>6383969
>hero sprites
Mercenary looks and sounds surprisingly ordinary. I expected something extravagant like Cowboy or Scoundrel with the sprite wearing a sherrif duster or whatever. Artificier is rad though.

Does anyone remember the Will Smith movie Wild Wild West? That's what Factory reminds me of. Victorian steampunk cowboys

[Anonymous No.6384516]

>>6384508
>Does anyone remember the Will Smith movie Wild Wild West?
I really wanna watch that again sometime, too lazy to go out of my way for it though.

[Anonymous No.6384623]

>>6383969
>Also, they've revealed heroes and classes
Heroes or just classes? I'm curious if we'll see familiar faces in the line-up besides Kastore.

[Anonymous No.6384824]

>>6383730
Think in terms similar to "Quakers doing replacement service as forest rangers" and you should get the right picture.

[Anonymous No.6384832]

>>6384824
I still have no idea what it is.

[Anonymous No.6384894]

How is Cove OP? Too many specials? Oceanids the new sprites?

[Anonymous No.6385265]

>>6384832
>He doesn't know how conscription works
>He never heard about replacement service
>He never heard about quakers
I mean next thing you gonna act surprised there is prison time for dodging draft.

[Anonymous No.6386134]

>>6384894
It's not. It's one of the weaker towns in online play, oceanids aren't new sprites at all because no "no relation".

The city is pretty powerful in a long singleplayer games against AI due to various reasons (you have time and resources to get strong upgrades, there's Lina with 1350 gold per day for maximum difficulty etc). That's why some people call it OP. But is it really if it's goon only against dumb AI? I mean, player will win with any faction really

[Anonymous No.6386358]

>>6386134
Leena

[Anonymous No.6386424]

>>6384894
Cannon is insanely good for killing stacks in the first days

[Anonymous No.6386541]

>>6384894
Early game is OP as fuck thanks to cannon (imagine ballista that's good and useful, while also being able to attack fortifications) and relatively good units that are also very cheap. Native terrain is swamp, so go fucking figure what it means for mobility and defense. Some of the heroes are blatantly OP. Tier 2 and 4 grows like crazy, since they have their own horde building and in case of tier 4, it's a decent flying unit. And unlike any of the original factions, it has no obvious weaknesses. Officially it's weak because it's "slow" (top speed is "only" 12, even if not a single unit has speed below 6) and it "only" has lvl 4 mage's guild (so you are missing that single lvl 5 spell, the horror!), but in reality, it has no weakness whatsoever. All in all, it's a faction that's "balanced" only in HotA dev team's claims. Cove is the reason why I ultimately dropped that mod, because it's just ridiculously unbalanced, while pushed hard as "balancing the game". It is not.

[Anonymous No.6386543]

>>6386541
Oh, and speaking of cannon, there is a hero that specialises with it, making it just fuckking ridiculous, as it deals obscene amount of damage.
Also, the hero classes, Captain and Navigator, are some of the best skill chances and stat growth in the game, with only downside being that you obviously have a high chance for Navigation. But how can you complain, when you also have high chance of Tactics, Offense and Diplomacy, along with (Might) Captains having better chances at various types of magic than dedicated Magic hero classes from other factions?
Balanced as hell

[Anonymous No.6386546]

>>6386541
HotA dev team is pirate fanboy.

[Anonymous No.6386547]

>>6386543
And Logistics, too. Captains take the good qualities of Rangers and Battle Mages and merge them into single class. That without talking their specialities and the fact almost all start with Offense.

[Anonymous No.6386549]

>>6386546
>HotA dev team is retarded
ftfy
They've lost their marbles the moment they've stopped fixing bugs and rebalancing obviously broken shit and started to add their own stuff.

[Anonymous No.6386623]

>>6386549
Honestly there should either be two versions of hota, ona with new stuff and one with just balance changes, or you should be able to disable some things like in wog.

[Anonymous No.6386730]

>>6386623
WoG is your friend, then. The mod as a whole is a steaming pile of burning dog-shit... but it's adjustable. You can turn off literally everything but that one option you want/need to have in your game and thus enjoying the good parts of it, without even knowing how bad the bad ones are. So you can have things like on-map dwellings stacking units (and defenders) or witch asking you if you want to learn the skill she teaches, without having to bother with tier 8 units or broken new skills.
HotA meanwhile has a hard-on for "our mod is perfect and perfectly balanced", so you either suck it all up, or have to ditch the whole thing.
Don't get me wrong, when comparing the whole package of both mods, HotA is light-years ahead of WoG, both in design and balance. But it's not customisable, where WoG shines with ability to offer you all the utility without shitting up your game, while HotA simply doesn't have such feature.

[Anonymous No.6386793]

>>6386730
So in conclusion WoG and HotA are both shit. Good to know.

[Anonymous No.6386801]

>>6386541
>it has no obvious weaknesses
Early- and mid-game they falter easily against shooters. They entire strategy depends on your melee units advancing towards their shooters, once they lose that advantage they're gone.

[Anonymous No.6386832]

>>6386793
Yes.
And depending on how you measure their shitness, they end up at opposing ends of the scale. Are you measuring the whole package? Then WoG is far, far worse. Are you measuring utility? Then HotA is far, far worse. In general, WoG is slightly less shit, since it allows you to disable stuff you don't want, but installation process and stability alone are retarded.

[Anonymous No.6386860]

>>6386793
Ignore the anon with a hate boner on hota and read some better opinions. >>6386134 It has some changes geared towards pvp but they don't really matter for single player either way

[Anonymous No.6386864]

>>6386860
>arguments and facts
>"hate boner"
>>6384380

[Anonymous No.6386872]

>>6386860
Report HotA fags.
Hide HotA fags.
Ignore HotA fags.

[Anonymous No.6386880]

>>6386793
As a whole? Yes.
As segments of it (which HotA doesn't have)? WoG is perfectly fine.
Let me put it this way: I only play it for changes in Witch Hut (so she asks) and to have growth of creatures in dwelling. Everything else can go fuck itself. My friend always insist on building two things per day, but that only works out if we are playing on XL with underground, otherwise the pace is a bit too high.

[Anonymous No.6386906]

>>6386801
>Tier 1 teleporter
>Tier 3 shooter
>Tier 4 flier
>Tier 5 shooter/caster
>Tier 6 ignores 30/60% of attack rating
>Somehow facing shooters makes you falter
I mean if you auto-resolve and the units have artificially dumped value (so are weaker than they really are during auto-resolve), then sure. Especially considering tier 3 is really tier 4 and has special ability for bonus ranged damage, while also having no penalties in melee.
So unless you define "early game" as first week of it, you are simply lying.

[Anonymous No.6386936]

I think I have fallen in love at first sight with a HoMM2 map.

Plains of Aekon XL map, 6 factions

Red Necromancer, a few dozen extra stacks of peasants/goblins/rogues nearby
Green Sorceress, starts with a scroll of Resurrect True
Orange Knight, 5 Crusaders in the starting town, 3 archer dwellings, forge, stable nearby
Yellow Barbarian, Spike Shield artifact (+2 to ATT/DEF) and Badge of Courage Game of Thrones themed, your heroes are Drogo and Danny
Purple Warlock, Teleport Scroll (supposedly useful with your Hydra stack)
Blue Wizard, three mystical gardens by the starting town
>(to claim your starting bonus you might have to take a few steps out of your town)

>Everyone has an additional single hero (level three) in the middle area with small stacks of T5 (five-ish) and T4 troops (ten-ish) as well as a minor artifact (usually gives +2 to something). >There is a teleporter nearby that leads both to your own zone as well as your story-opponents' (Knight vs. Barb; Sorc vs. Necro; Wiz vs. Lock)
>Everyone's starting town is a village (that can be made into a castle), but has the first three dwellings built and upgraded and comes with all the special buildings (save the market place) already built.
>Your starting hero there has the exact same troop line-up as your mid-hero.
>Your starting zone is either entirely difficult terrain or the core is your home terrain with the rest being difficult, no roads in either case.

Can't wait to start playing it in earnest. The question is which faction should I pick? Impossible difficulty if that matters.

[Anonymous No.6386949]

>>6384894
>Cannon, a ballista/catapult combo with good damage
>Hero classes are insanely powerful
>Hero skills and specialities synergise
>Specialities are often broken for what they do
>Almost entirely avoids drawing useless skills for heroes
>Cheap, yet very strong units
>Easy unlock of high tier units
>Very cheap construction of basic buildings, upgrades barely need any resources other than wood and ore
The only downside is Magic hereos are almost guaranteed to end up with Intelligence (highest chance of skills) and both classes have very high chance to get Navigation. But that's about it. You can unlock tier 5 superb shooter/debuffer on day 2. Or pick any of the broken specialists as your starter and just laugh.

[Anonymous No.6386970]

it's actually sad to see that modding community of one of my favourite games is so weak and shitty and consist of retarded slavs. But perhaps it's because HoMM3 already is full of quality content and don't need any mods.

[Anonymous No.6386972]

>>6386970
>But perhaps it's because HoMM3 already is full of quality content and don't need any mods.
This. Fuck janky wannabe devs.

[Anonymous No.6386993]

>>6386906
>Tier 1 strong attack, weak defense / shit against shooters
>Tier 2 sturdy but slow as sin / shit against shooters
>Tier 3+5 shooters themselves
You either have to hope to make a fortune and go straight to Nix very quick, or put your chips on Ayssids to carry the offense. Which by the way can't be done with auto combat because for some reason Ayssids always die like flies there. Probably because the AI sends them into the front lines all by themselves and has them get gangraped. So yes Cove is easy to take out in month 1.
>but after month 1!
Only plebs play maps larger than L.

[Anonymous No.6386994]

>>6386970
Mods can't really do much to the base game.
Mostly just more of the same, a new faction is cool, but it doesn't really change all that much.
It's not like rts games where the genres change with each mod(map).

[Anonymous No.6387001]

>>6386970
>weak and shitty
>developed massive compatibility adjustments and a functional online lobby on top of adding new high quality features, tons of content virtually indistinguishable from the original
>weak and shitty
You can hate HotA all you want for their creative choices but you have to be a total dick sucking turbofaggot to seriously believe that what they did is in any way, shape or form "weak" (especially considering official IP holder STILL can't ship a game that just works or add modern capabilities such as multiplayer to old games). Take your fucking meds.

[Anonymous No.6387006]

>>6386970
I can't think of another strategy game where the modding community built two new factions by themselves

[Anonymous No.6387008]

>>6386970
>weak and shitty
here is your >you

[Anonymous No.6387069]

>>6387001
>HotA
>high quality features
Pick one

[Anonymous No.6387072]

>>6387001
Also, riddle me this:
Why use HotA's Jewish lobby, if GameRanger allows to play HoMM3 online since day one?

[Anonymous No.6387091]

>>6386993
>If you aren't rusher, you are playing the game wrong
>And if I ignore reality and set my highly specific parameters, everything is fine and balanced
Are you by chance part of the dev team? Or just sucking their dicks?
But to keep insulting your retarded ass on-topic: if you rush Cove, you have 2nd strongest town by day 8, so your point being... what, exactly?

[Anonymous No.6387129]

>>6386730
I want to give hota a go but I really don't care for necro nerfs. They're OP, so what, it's fun. Nerf them in ranked MP I don't give a fuck but it should be based of a switch. Galthran Chads rise up

[Anonymous No.6387152]

>>6387069
>>6387072
>>6387091
samefag

[Anonymous No.6387153]

>>6387072
>using free ingame lobby instead of a janky 3rd party program

hmm

[Anonymous No.6387167]

Would be nice if everyone just played the game and enjoyed themselves instead of trying to be a superiority faggot. Every fucking thread is the same tiring shit. I almost agree with that anon that MM should be a separate thread from HoMM because its the only part of this thread that isnt absolutely dreadful to see.

[Anonymous No.6387215]

Ubisoft just put you in charge of the new HOMM game. How do you go about it?

>keep the ability to move army without a hero from 4, but don't allow multiple heroes per army like it did
>Make the adventure map a calculatable grid again
>make the combat fast again
>Make the skill tree not a rng bullshit, kinda like 6 did

[Anonymous No.6387227]

>>6387167
The balance discussions are fine, but this has gotten derailed due to people taking obvious bait, so let's move on.

What do we need to do to fix druids in MM6 and MM7? They do great early or outside in MM6 but fall off completely by the time you get to mid-late game, which thinking about it is the exact same problem they have in MM7. They look good on paper, but they don't have the powerful start of a melee class or the scaling of the other casters or MM7 monks. Just giving them light/dark probably just makes them OP, but nothing else really fixes their late game issues.

[Anonymous No.6387243]

>>6387091
>Cove
>2nd strongest town by day 8

[Anonymous No.6387250]

Oh look, it's another "muh mod is superior to your mod" bullshit...

[Anonymous No.6387254]

>>6387243
Doctor Pavel I'm VARN

[Anonymous No.6387257]

>>6387153
>No argument whatsoever
>Start to invent shit in turn
Every.
Single.
Time.

But sure, auto-detecting, auto-running GameRanger is "janky", because it's not part of superior "HotA experience", where everything is part of the "big, well-balanced family".
Suck a cock. I mean you are doing it already anyway, but I guess one is no longer satisfying for your mouth.

>>6387152
>Continue my previous post
>S-samefag
No fucking shit! And yet the third post isn't mine, so dunno, join the other anon in cock-sucking marathon?

[Anonymous No.6387269]

>>6387215
I intentionally make the game as inflammatory to ISIS as possible so that they have no choice but to storm Ubisofts offices in France and kill everyone, freeing might and magic from ubisofts banal tyranny and freeing the world from their god awful AAA trash.

Also I bring back Enroth. Fuck Ubisoft and fuck gay dragons.

[Anonymous No.6387271]

>>6387215
Sprites insteads of models. Changing combat and hero speed when using models makes everything just look ridiculous, and using the default speed is too fucking slow.

Army can move without heroes only if they are within 2000 movement of an owned town. Think of it as they still fall under your dominion, but when theyre further away they resort to being neutral with no ruler. ofc this means a calculatable grid is back.

Spells are rng *but* you can spend double resources when upgrading the guild to pick which spells you want that tier.

Had a thought, what if your standing army had a daily or weekly upkeep cost? The bigger the army, the more you have to keep paying. Feel it would help balance larger maps later in the game. It'd wouldnt be a ridiculous amount.

Lets see if we can merge the wonders of 4's heroes. We'll use the hero mechanics of 5, but when your army is wiped out, your hero is placed on the battlefield like in 4. If you dont retreat or surrender, then they have to fight to their dying breath. Even if you end up winning, your hero is still sent back to the tavern because they lost their army.

[Anonymous No.6387274]

>>6387215
Heroes 3 but with Heroes 2 graphics

[Anonymous No.6387295]

You're at the club and this guy slaps your main hero's ass, what do you do?

[Anonymous No.6387315]

>>6387215
>make the combat fast again
Its not that hard to make it faster than 3. There has been decades of computer advancements since then.
You just need to make sure the grid system you pick works, and maybe remove camera stuff for everything that isn't crits/luck/morale/takedowns.
The bigger problem is that 5-7 is a fucking slow due the way the overworld is a slog. I can't image playing it without a scout hero just to pick shit up, because otherwise it turns badly into a paste of sludge.

[Anonymous No.6387323]

Is there a way to un-nerf logistics in HotA, either in general or for a given map? Some SoD scenarios can't be completed because they've got tight timing or have chase sequences that rely on the old 30% bonus.

[Anonymous No.6387334]

>>6387315
Another problem that makes combat so slow is that there's a pause between each animation. Turn, pause, move, pause, attack, pause, counterattack, pause. It needs to work in one fluid motion. But yeah, the overworld is the biggest offender. It's way to close and claustrophobic.

[Anonymous No.6387341]

>>6386949
Intelligence is a good skill.

[Anonymous No.6387345]

>>6387295
I know there's one thing that no one ITT is shit enough to do and that's loading an autosave, right guys?

[Anonymous No.6387350]

>>6387167
>>6387227
I wish they just could accept the possibility that different people like different things, instead of sperging out the very moment someone mentions anything else then their favorite game.

[Anonymous No.6387369]

>>6387271
Had a thought, what if your standing army had a daily or weekly upkeep cost? The bigger the army, the more you have to keep paying. Feel it would help balance larger maps later in the game. It'd wouldnt be a ridiculous amount.
this would require rebalancing the whole economy, i always felt like the recruit fee is supposed to be the price of maintaining the army rather than just paying for mercenaries.
>>6387274
What would be the point?

[Anonymous No.6387392]

>>6386949
Intelligence is very good.

[Anonymous No.6387402]

>>6387345
>Why yes I disable autosave and autocombat

[Anonymous No.6387406]

>>6387345
>I know there's one thing that no one ITT is shit enough to do and that's loading an autosave, right guys?

[Anonymous No.6387418]

>>6387334
>Another problem that makes combat so slow is that there's a pause between each animation.
Yeah that too. Even worse when you realize LERP has been a thing since 1996.
There is also a shitload of waiting for camera.

[Anonymous No.6387424]

>>6387269
>I intentionally make the game as inflammatory to ISIS as possible so that they have no choice but to storm Ubisofts offices in France and kill everyone
Lmfao thanks for brightening my Ramadan

[Anonymous No.6387435]

>>6387406
I've never played any other way.

[Anonymous No.6387440]

Hota added the best girl, so it's fine in my book.

[Anonymous No.6387478]

>>6387215
>Ubisoft just put you in charge of the new HOMM game. How do you go about it?
I make it mobile gacha and sell it to Chinese. Sephinroth and Ciele will have huge tits.

That's if I wanted to make money.

[Anonymous No.6387504]

>>6387478
Would probably still have more soul than new ubi game desu

[Anonymous No.6387538]

>>6387478
would unironicaly play this

[Anonymous No.6387658]

>>6387129
Galthran is replaced with a new hero in HotA.
Some other heroes are also (potentially) replaced with new heroes.
Example:
Sir Mullich replaced by Lord Haart (Knight RoE version).
Heroes with Navigation specialty (example Sylvia Knight) are replaced by new heroes if the map doesn't contain water.

[Anonymous No.6387673]

>>6387274
That's the SUCK WARS v13 meme mod.

[Anonymous No.6387678]

>>6387269
Muh dragon gods

[Anonymous No.6387695]

>>6387440

[Anonymous No.6387725]

>>6387658
But I've seen Galthran in hota tourney streams.

[Anonymous No.6387732]

>>6387725
It's enabled in Jebus

[Anonymous No.6387740]

>>6387725
https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Galthran
I read you can enable him if you edit the map template, but doing so might get you banned in tournament.

[Anonymous No.6387745]

>>6387732
Never play JC and I don''t have HoMM3 installed, so I can't confirm it.

[Anonymous No.6387795]

[Anonymous No.6387803]

>>6387795
What is this, just a mockup?

[Anonymous No.6387808]

>>6387803
fanart

[Anonymous No.6387816]

Here's your resp, bro.

[Anonymous No.6387840]

I know this is semi-offtopic, but can you guys recommend some good fantasy TBS games that arent HoMM, Age of Wonders, Warlords or Disciples? I love all of these games but after playing them for almost 2 decades I am very hungry for something similar but the genre has been really barren for a long time. I am okay with any production values (AA or indieshit) and any deviations from the templates set by series mentioned above
I would prefer something really similar to Disciples 2 though

[Anonymous No.6387849]

>>6387840
Kings bounty perhaps?

[Anonymous No.6387870]

>>6387849
I forgot about that, I've beaten the 2008 one
While scouring steam for potential candidates I saw that there is a sequel coming up, but it looked really soulless

[Anonymous No.6387887]

>>6387840
Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.6387894]

>>6387840
Master of Magic

[Anonymous No.6387896]

>>6387870
King's bounty Crossworlds is regarded as the best in the series, so if you liked "The legend" you might try that. The ones that came after are only for diehard fans imo.

[Anonymous No.6387904]

>>6387840
Lords of Magic

[Anonymous No.6387928]

Here's another example of irish villages being used as homm town names.
Ardmore is a seaside village located in my county and whether by accident or design it's cool as fuck to see it being represented in this mod.
Also I have to give it up to the mod team for making this beautiful town theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skzrwPeK_R4&t=14s

[Anonymous No.6387960]

>>6387341
>>6387392
Daily reminder HotA nerfed it.

[Anonymous No.6387963]

>>6387840
Master of Magic is the best TBS game imo, a 4x fantasy game.
You settle cities like in civ, and there's a tactical combat screen like in age of wonders.
Age of Wonders series is often called a spiritual successor to Master of Magic. I played Age of Wonders first and figured MoM would just be outdated, but when I played it several years ago it ended up being one of my favourite games.
AoW1-3 are worth trying out if you've only played one of them.
Which Warlords have you played? 4 sucks. 3 is the best. 2 is good in its own way and 1 is servicable, but mostly interesting if you have people to play with.

Warlords 2 Deluxe is the w2 version you want to play.

[Anonymous No.6387996]

>>6387960
It's very hard to balance might heroes and magic heroes in III because there's just no real kits to balance against each other, they're not really competing mechanics. In SoD, artifacts that block enemy spells such as Recanter's Cloak were basically game-breaking since with spells reliably taken out of the equation might was just better, but if you remove spell blocking then mages with their insane MP pools would creep much more efficiently and still have MP for real combat, so they had to nerf Intelligence too. You can't just look at one aspect of the game and go "Hmm they changed this, what the fuck" because of how even small changes affect various aspects of the game.

[Anonymous No.6388339]

Heroes 2 doesnt run on Windows 10

I installed DOSBOX to run the game but I get the NO CD message and blocked out of single player.

What do I need to do?

[Anonymous No.6388340]

>>6388339
Mount the cd in DOSBOX, or just grab the download from the OP pastebin.

[Anonymous No.6388562]

>>6387904
I like Lords of Magic, but I'm not sure if it's even a good game given how janky everything feels. I mostly just play it to get sucked into the weird atmosphere it has.

[Anonymous No.6388571]

>>6387840
Dominions or Conquest of Elysium?

Dominions is a game that has loads of races, loads of spells, loads of units and loads of mechanics, but I've never really been able to enjoy it as much as other people do. Conquest of Elysium is like a scaled down and more focussed Dominions, and I prefer it as a general experience, but it sometimes feels like it's just lacking a little complexity.

[Anonymous No.6388915]

>>6387840
>>6387904

Yeah, Lords of Magic is a pretty great TBS. I would definitely recommend it to anyone that likes HoMM.

[Anonymous No.6388926]

>>6386541
worth noting is that Cove mostly starts with bonus gold in mp, with add to their OPness

[Anonymous No.6388978]

>>6388571
Dominions is quite shitty in single player, most fun you get in it is to predict your opponents turns and countering them

[Anonymous No.6389091]

How do I get good at 3?

[Anonymous No.6389098]

>>6389091
just keep playing

[Anonymous No.6389107]

>>6389091
Hire as many heroes as you can for extra armies/scouts
Stack split
learn which units you need per town, don't buy/upgrade things you don't need to
Play on Impossible, always take bonus gold
Necromancer is pretty good in non-HotA to learn the basics
For creature bank fights, your 4th troop slot is center

[Anonymous No.6389150]

>>6387963
damn that looks interesting.

[Anonymous No.6389174]

>>6387167
As much as I would like this, I also know for sure that MM threads would go the way of RCT/TT general - not enough traffic to stick to the catalog

[Anonymous No.6389186]

>>6389091
Google "Tribute to Strategists", it's a manual for intermediate and advanced strategies, explaining all the mechanics of the game in the process. Reading it is pretty much pre-requested to git gud, because figuring some of those things on your own might be tricky, to say the least.
On the practical side of things, just play campaigns. Once you finish most of them (especially all of SoD), you should be ready skill-wise to manage the game.

>>6389107
>Play on Impossible
No real point. AI isn't getting better after after Hard (the rook icon) and all Impossible really does is stripping you off from starting resources. Which teaches you nothing, really.

[Anonymous No.6389207]

>>6389186
The sweet spot of AI behaviour is somewhere between Hard and Expert: Expert is good at managing troops and building shit with decent amount of heroes, but is overly cautious, which significantly slows it down. Hard is great at exploration and somewhat "ballsy" (attack targets that aren't sure win), which adds to its mobility, as it doesn't pussy out from fighting mid-tier stacks blocking its path, BUT it only hires 3 heroes and builds every other day.
Combine good capacities of both of those difficulties and it's perfect. Meanwhile, Impossible is a meme difficulty for owners of 2-inch penis (erect) that need to compensate, while gameplay wise all it does is removing your starting resources and giving AI bonus ones... even if AI doesn't need resources to build, just cash.

[Anonymous No.6389465]

>>6388926
You bargain at the start of the match, if your town is op you start with a gold penalty.

[Anonymous No.6389668]

>>6389207
he can't win impossible

[Anonymous No.6389695]

>>6389107
I will add these protips:

Build creature dwellings first then Capitol
Try to conquer all the nearest mines at the first day if it's possible
Always pick up gold from chest, the only exception if you are 1st level and there's an 1000 or 1500 exp option because that's an instant lvl up
Supply chains, send all scouting heroes to visit all possible windmills per week

[Anonymous No.6389703]

>>6387928
>Ruins Town
Is it compatible with other mods?

[Anonymous No.6389709]

>>6389091
Have heroes move in pairs of 2.
One, the main hero, has the army and fights against monsters.
The other picks up resources, flags mines etc. Think of him as a helper.

This way you save up on movement points of your main hero. It sounds like a small change but can make a big difference.

[Anonymous No.6389751]

>>6389091
ALWAYS REMEMBER TO MOVE VERTICALLY/HORIZONTALLY BECAUSE DIAGONALLY TAKES MORE MOVE POINTS

[Anonymous No.6389837]

>>6389751
Not always, sometimes it's better to pick diagonally if you have to move in opposite direction afterwards.

[Anonymous No.6389839]

>>6389709
Also you can give all slow units to second hero and at the start of the next turn main hero will have more move points. Works with castle garrison as well.

[Anonymous No.6389854]

>>6389839
leave scouters without units at all

[Anonymous No.6389861]

>>6389854

[Anonymous No.6389983]

>psst, psst
>what are you thinking
>aaah, aha

[Anonymous No.6390004]

>>6389668
There is nothing challenging about Impossible. The difficulty stops scaling at Expert and Expert isn't the best performance of AI either, as it's chickening out, to own detriment.

[Anonymous No.6390008]

>>6389695
>Always pick up gold from chest, the only exception if you are 1st level and there's an 1000 or 1500 exp option because that's an instant lvl up
Even then it's pointless anyway, because you need money early on even more than down the line.

[Anonymous No.6390014]

>>6387840
Eador: Genesis

[Anonymous No.6390292]

>>6380490
Barbarian, Paladin, Archer, Robber, Cleric, and Sorcerer respectively. I borrowed the party list from the sticky for my first play-through.
>>6382096
Why not?
>>6383454
No worries, I don't take (almost) anything said on this site very seriously.

Getting back to playing today.

[Anonymous No.6390813]

>>6389703
I guess so but I actually kinda don't know what I'm doing, I'm running these on VCMI which is still pretty much unplayable, AI doesn't buy creatures half the time but I absolutely love some of these towns, cool lineups and some of this theme music is outstanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXk4uDWml4I
so I keep trying to get a decent game but does anyone know if it's possible to play these towns on WoG vs. functional AI?

[Anonymous No.6392314]

>>6363184
As a new player, is it better to start at custom scenarios or campaign?

[Anonymous No.6392339]

>>6392314
depends
do you want free experimental learning? or a more structured introduction?

[Anonymous No.6392587]

>>6392314
small maps are the best to start

[Anonymous No.6392690]

>>6392314
If you want to learn your ropes, play just about any of the campaigns. They always cover all the basics nicely and the maps are mid-sized, which is good for learning stuff.
After that, you are unfortunately thrown into random maps, the bigger the better, to have massive, spiralling place to move around and learn by experience. Small maps only work for basic shit.

Also, important stuff
>Familiarise yourself with units and their tiers
You don't need to remember their stats, specials or things like that, but you absolutely must know two things about them: what tier they are and if they are a shooter. This saves you from the "joy" of going against enemy that you have no hopes of winning againts
>Have more heroes
Always, no matter what, have at the very least three heroes: your "main" and two scouts. Have the scouts with minimal army consisting of the fastest unit you can provide them, as this affects their movement points. Look out for heroes with specials that grant you money and/or resources, those are well worth to have and the money ones pay pack within a week, being pure profit after that
>Skim through Tribute to Strategists - HoMM3 specific
You don't have to read it fully (200 pages of strategies and game mechanics is a bit too much), but knowing the basics from it is always helpful, regardless if you are just starting out or playing HoMM3 for more than 20 years.

[Anonymous No.6392694]

>>6392314
Heroes chronicles have pretty easy campaigns for every faction.

[Anonymous No.6392767]

>>6387840
Conquered Kingdoms
Graphic looks sucks but it's a great game with strong AI.

[Anonymous No.6392771]

>>6387840
Conquered Kingdoms
Graphic looks sucks but it's a great game with strong AI.

[Anonymous No.6393810]

>>6392314
If you do the campaigns, start with Restoration of Erathia. The release order is RoE->AB->SoD even though the menu puts SoD at the top.

[Anonymous No.6393829]

>>6389186

TIL Tribute to Strategists exists. Thanks Anon.

I think I have a high IQ but HoMM3 hands me a retard reality check every time I've tried to play it.

[Anonymous No.6393846]

>>6382096

Dwarf Mine is such a speed bump in that game in terms of pacing. It's definitely worth but it's HUGE and semi-complicated, especially for the "first" dungeon.

This kills my replay desire sometimes. Could skip it and/or go to Darkside first but then I'm overlevelled on Clouds.

[Anonymous No.6393910]

>>6393829
HoMM3 isn't particularly hard or demanding. However, there is a skill plateau on which everyone can get within playing 10-12 matches on random map... and never advance any further, because the more "complex" game mechanics are so obtuse and under-the-hood that you will never figure them out on your own. For example, most people openly ignore various elements that contribute to movement points calculation and/or undervalue Logistics as a skill and it's still an achievement if they just ignore them - usually they don't even know how this shit works, despite playing for decades.
On the flip-side, to have fun when playing hot seat with my old buddies I need to get hammered, or I automatically start to meta-plan and gain unhealthy edge over them by third month, so they are no different to handle than late-game AI. And I'm not even some kind of pro, I'm the perfect middle ground of long time, but also continous player.

[Anonymous No.6394353]

Have anyone played PoL? Is it hard to do in 300 days? I spent a lot of time on the second map.

[Anonymous No.6394424]

>>6394353
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.6394586]

Can the GoG version of 3 run on a MacBook? I'm doing a nightshift at work tomorrow, and the only laptop I have access to is my gf's old Mac.

[Anonymous No.6394620]

>>6394353
It isn't a fast campaign, especially the last map where all the stacks are so big. Then again all of the expansion campaigns are big, even the one with 3 scenerios. It puts each of the 4 of them on the same leaderboard as Roland/Archibald campaigns so the expectation is you end up spending about the same amount of time on each of them, although with Navigation you can speed up water levels.

So basically no, but if you aren't careful you can end up taking 500.

[Anonymous No.6396227]

>>6394620
Maybe it's better to use the shorter way? Or bonus will be just as helpful as dwarfs for Roland?
I'm trying to be fast, but in second scenario you're too outnumbered and warlock amassed a lot of hydras by the time I could reach him, finished it only in 44 days.

[Anonymous No.6396631]

>start a game where I want to make a druid theme and make a big tree
>immediately find leaf+wood wand

[Anonymous No.6396795]

>>6396227
I don't remember the bonus, but yes generally do the optional scenarios. Is that the one with Elven Alliance? If yes then you will be getting tons of elves the rest of the campaign to supplement everything.

[Anonymous No.6396808]

>>6396795
Yeah I spoiled a bit and you can get elves, also in optional mission before the final one you can get the third artifact and assemble all 3 of them into one.

[Anonymous No.6396838]

>>6396808
They tell you the combination artifact is worth getting in the cutscene before the last scenario. I took all the optional scenarios and was at 238, but it's been years so I don't remember everything.

[Anonymous No.6396939]

>>6396838
Okay, thanks.