The Heroes Round Table

Gunnar is stupidly good. Not much of a choice hero, eh?
Although like JJ, I'd pick someone else on impo unless the map is abundant with resources.

Jeddite for resurrection and great pic. Malekith is a strong catch-up, and the best hero for armageddon tactics in the game. Dungeon gives him armageddon and black dragons, and his specialty gives him POWER. Jeddite is more useful generally however, and if you're going for armageddon tactics with a ...

Neela for specialty.
Rissa is okay, but mercury is not among the most important resources for Tower. I think?

Like my countryman above, I too choose Theodorus. In my opinion, Tower is among the towns that need ballistics most because its flying creatures aren't very tough. Taking down those walls allows your shooters to reign free much better, although it's not helping the magi of course. However, Theodorus...

I like intelligence specialists, so Andra gets my vote. Furthermore, guaranteed dispel is a good thing. Nothing sucks more than losing a game because you're not having the spell. On the downside, it is of no use at the early expansion.

Gotta go with Tazar here. Pretty much the same reasoning as JJ's, including the face paint as a winning factor.

If only Clavius looked better, he might be my pick. But since this is the favorite contest, let's look at others. It's either Galthran, Isra or Tamika. Both Galthran and Isra have pretty clear advantages with skeletons and picking between them is a hard choice. I have little experience with neither ...

Thant. Getting guaranteed animate dead is very important in my opinion and starting with it is definitely great, allowing for slightly faster expansion. The choice would be even clearer if he didn't waste a skill slot on shitty mysticism. Of course Thant is shadowed by most other necros IF the mage ...

This is though indeed. However, I still proceed to make a pick. So let's see ... Ivor you'll only really pick for his elves. Sure, he has good skills but the specialty doesn't compete. Jenova is lovable but really only on impossible or as a a secondary hero. Starting with one skill on advanced is no...

Elleshar with his bucketload of spellpoints for me. Also, he looks best by far. I kinda like those spell points on maps with shortage of wells or others places of spell point renewal. In a series of long battles this man really shines.

Well, not that it's a big deal anyway. But he's cool. He wins.

Dessa. A boring, but good choice.

All these battle mages look kinda dull so looks don't really play any part. Saurug looks nicely insane as does Vey, but that's all I really have to say about this.

Crag Hack. He's the most typical barbarian - all about offensive power. I like that. Not much else to say here really.

To Yurian: I think the magog's fireball uses their attack and damage values just like the attack itself. Like liches. Might be wrong of course, but nevertheless I don't think Xarfax's specialty gives them anything. Ayden or Xarfax. What an interesting question. Xarfax looks cooler maybe but I still ...

Picked Nymus. They're all quite bad really, no one shines. Nymus has okay speciality and having offense helps in making the most of Inferno's fast attack troops. An improtant factor is seven free skill slots and finally looks, which is what won her the title over Marius and Octavia. Octavia claims s...

Picked Loynis, even with the stupid Learning. Adela is the better one, if diplomacy is not banned, but she's ugly. What? Of course this is a beauty contest! Adelaide looks good, although not very good gameplay-wise (well, she's got seven frees slots at least). Caitlin is worth a mention too, good sp...

I picked Orrin. Archery is cool, better than marksmen speciality if you get reinforcements from other towns, prolly better later game anyway with bonus to both marksmen and monks. But, in the long run, it must his mustache that wins this one! Just look at them, must be the best in the game! I challe...

Here we go again, bored at work etc. I used to think that level 4 is rather obvious victory for the Vamps (which it does seem like according to the poll results!) but other units do have their plusses. In this contest the participants seem to be: Arch Mage, Crusader, Greater Basilisk, Ogre Mage, Sil...

Might be interesting. I'm in, although I haven't played IV or V at all (yet).

Didn't see this mentioned, so... You can select undead as targets of berserk, just don't expect anything to happen. With all other spells the game says that there are no available targets, but berserk, it just lets you cast it on the undead and nothing happens. There's the casting animation for the ...

Work + bored = more posts. So let's dig again. This time it looks like a contest between Cerberi, Dragonflies, Grand Elves and Royal Griffins. It's a tough contest really, and much more interesting than level 2. The cerberi have problems with growth. Makes me wonder why they gave Inferno a structure...