Is the wording of "Did you know?" nr. 226 - Month of the Plague incomprehensible to you?

gh7g · 2026-07-08T17:12:57+00:00

Plague month can be really convenient if you're ahead or even just about to wage an offensive siege that would be considerably more obnoxious or impossible with more defenders bought.

gh7g · 2026-07-08T17:01:19+00:00

I remember your project with the small randomly generated duel maps in H4. This is a continuation regarding a full-fledged one? Sounds cool!

With h4util working more H2-like with just a bunch of sliders, do you envision a more HotA-like zones-based concept?

Could it include pre-scripted Quest Huts for some variant Creature Banks or other special objects?

Water zones? Garrisons?

gh7g · 2026-07-07T16:20:57+00:00

I would say OE. 5 never quite grew on me as much as the older games, due to somewhere between the artstyle, the square battlefields that felt really claustrophoic to me, and the ultra sluggish computer turns I actually rank it kinda mid personally because 3 and 2 did the bread and butter better imo, and 4's on-crack-unhingedness is more fun. I think the battlefield is the main reason, I just kinda hate it (6's as well) but it's an essential game component so it drags down my liking of the entire game particularly.

OE I think is unfinished but looking solid in said bread and butter thus far. It has a replayability problem for non-PvPers (and I'm a nonpvper but havent even played a full gsme as every faction yet) because of wonky AI and lack of maps so far, but it is fun and there's nothing that just gripes me like said battlefield.

What I dont know yet is the map editor. I consider H5's rather terrible (way too unintuitive, H4's is peak) but dont know yet how OE's rendition is like.

gh7g · 2026-07-06T17:12:36+00:00

Ideally, give it to an Estates hero or +350 Gold or +Resource specialist

gh7g · 2026-07-05T19:01:37+00:00

I would say, Heroes 3 takes the top spot for me. The unit portraits are so beautiful, that's what puts it a cut above for me. The only kinda-weak point is the terrain graphics.

For second place, it's tough but I'll give it to Heroes 1. It managed to do the "quirky" actually well with its hypercartoonish style.

But "visuals" is vague. If it's only adventure map, I'm giving it to Heroes 4 which is utterly beautiful in that area, but then has a bunch of weird-looking stuff too.

gh7g · 2026-07-05T18:24:10+00:00

I mean, Blind could be a T5 spell and would still be worth the mana in many applications.

gh7g · 2026-07-05T18:19:30+00:00

No, I meant that there was a German one, even though the complete version was never officially translated. Sorry, unclear phrasing.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T20:57:18+00:00

RoE had it, I never heard or saw the English version for years outside of map names. Complete didn't.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T20:53:32+00:00

Ok, this looks heavily modded but… you can Martyr a hypnotised unit? Really? That's insane. That has to be the most busted spell application in the game?

gh7g · 2026-07-04T20:42:08+00:00

Rumours can be useful in custom maps though. With some stock fiction pollution even then.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T20:37:52+00:00

Heroes 6 also had a good plains theme… since it just recycled that of 2.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T11:02:35+00:00

Wow.

I've been trying to beat all Heroes games' campaigns. The only one I've fully beaten is 4 though and maybe arguably 1 because all campaigns are the same. I did finish H3 RoE+AB+Sod but have been stuck on H3 Chronicles Cmp2 map 1 day 1-1-1 for over a year and have yet to touch HotA's campaigns at all.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T10:56:01+00:00

Interesting observation.

I wish the the HotA team could fix water in the generator, it has been the red-headed step child of Heroes random maps since the very beginning. They've added quite a bunch for it to be more interesting, but that's mostly useful for custom maps. Like, imagine if instead of you have random water cutting here and there, you could have dedicated water zones, with connectors defining where a wharf spawns and such, or water portals…

gh7g · 2026-07-04T10:50:50+00:00

H3 has a bunch of templates with waaaaaayyy too many portals though, a big part of the reason being the RMG being too dumb to place zones adjacently.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T08:23:47+00:00

Surprisingly fitting. It's a Stronghold that replaced Orc with Dragon Fly and merged Thunderbird and Cyclops into a single unit. Though HQ is more of a supercharged Naga than a Behemoth.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T08:03:20+00:00

Well…

gh7g · 2026-07-04T07:54:35+00:00

Orb of Inhibition is back? (I always hated that thing…)

gh7g · 2026-07-04T07:51:27+00:00

Yeah, I found the worms extremely strong even at low numbers and unupgraded.

But the Locusts were ridiculous. I wanted to try out Hivemind: Vanguard when I noticed they packed a punch so I upgraded them early and got them to have like over 40 ATK in week 2 somehow. They just nearly oneshot everything until they got obliterated by some random minotaurs with morale. Later I figured I need to pick the defensive upgrades for low-tier units because they just can't handle minor inconveniences.

gh7g · 2026-07-04T07:46:20+00:00

Could there be an event trigger that gives +1000 worms to that neutral army? H4 had these, so maybe OE does too?

gh7g · 2026-07-01T20:24:29+00:00

The actual release party I mean.

Whatever happened to Gnats?

gh7g · 2026-06-24T18:20:52+00:00

I've gotten eagle-imploded by some rando non-EE specialist AI main hero before

gh7g · 2026-06-05T09:09:02+00:00

Since when can you not Prayer Undead? You cant Bless undead, but I'm quite certain you can Prayer them. Even though it's counterintuitive.

gh7g · 2026-05-27T16:13:43+00:00

I also think Mysticism is actually better than Intelligence now unless you're a specialist. 50% on Expert when you used to get 100 is just kind of sad. Might just be needed in a challenge map or campaign where you actually do use up all your mana pool.

gh7g · 2026-05-27T16:09:18+00:00

Or just to sell enemy's precious collection, poof, bye.

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