This is exactly my point, this is fantasy, and in this case we are in Nival's setting, so why not give them the freedom they require to come up with something refreshing. We have heroes III anyway, don't need another one, do we?ThunderTitan wrote: And thirdly this isn't about a vamp being x times faster then a human, cause if we were to take the stuff from those books then vampires would prob slaughter any human army during the night, and zombies could only be killed by shooting them in the head. Oh, and a Meteor Shower would annihilate both armies and everyone in quite a large area around the BF.
@DL: Really? So you weren't saying those... Hmmm, there, my memory fails me again... I wonder who it was then, TT as he just confessed? Then please regard my post as having TT's name instead of yours.. But I must still disagree with you on couple points in your post, however something of much greater importance must be dealt with first: hunger!
Still, I'll only write that tier system shouldn't necessarily change, a fast creature with only 35 HP will still lose to a relatively slower creature with 190 HP. The only practically immobile units we have are zombies and golems, and to a degree (as they are very powerful) minos and hydras; the rest are shooters or creatures that have good speed. As golems are invaluable in my tactics and can be extremely effective, much more than they should, with March of the Golems; zombies remain the only fairly useless creature of the game, but even they are useful as undead hordes' other creatures are the ones you send into fray, not hold back to defend your skellies or liches... Considering that one of the three melee fighters of the undead is tier7 and flying, the other regenerating and practically unstoppable in large numbers, and the last one averaging about 50+ HP as a tier 3 creature with an extremely annoying ability; I would say that if zombies had +2 speed and initiative, necromancers would be too powerful..
P.S: If vamps are faster than humans but not faster than trained humans, then what would trained vampires such as we have in HoMM V would be? I can't remember (may be b/c of my memory though) any famous vampire-hunter that was actually faster than vampires themselves (not including the travesty named Buffy)...