The cold week-end was a good opportunity for me to finish the Hammers of Fate expansion and, since the next patch is still not ready, resume my Heroes standard campaigns -- yes, I'm playing them out of sequence, but as a Dark Messiah player I'm used to time travel. The only problem was that, like several other players, I'm suffering from the Gating/Phantom Forces bug which crashes the game to the desktop whenever a cloned creature dies. And that can be a problem in the final battle of The Conquest, for instance. If you have the same problem, know that you can easily downgrade to version 1.3. Reinstall the game, download all three 50 MB patches (make sure you select the correct version, and consider putting them on a CD just in case) and apply them in order. The auto-update, which will bring you back to 1.4, and applying 1.3 over 1.4 won't work. You will need to restart your current scenario, but otherwise your campaign progress will not be lost. I can't remember having to do such a thing with another computer game, but as long as I can keep playing I don't mind too much. But I must say that I miss the hero doll, and seeing the infamous typo again is enought to bring to tears. I wish for a mod that will remove that useless message completely.