- by Pol
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Combat is what Heroes do the best
Now let's look at what knights or barbarians (wizards too!) like the most - combat! In Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Board Game, it is played on a special 5-row combat board. Each player, at any time during their turn may deploy their army within the two back rows. After the battle begins, the Hero can no longer rearrange their formation (unless they have a Tactic card).
Rush, rush, rush to build a capitol! ;-)
However, this reduction does not in any way detract from their value. Without skillful resource management, it is impossible to succeed in "Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Board Game."
It is impractical to expand towns without resources - otherwise you wouldn’t be able to build these structures:
- City Hall (do check if "rushing" a City Hall in the board game is more profitable than "rushing" a Capitol in the computer game), Citadel (without it, you cannot increase your army),
- Mage Guild (mandatory for wizards),
- Creature dwellings (a starting army is not enough),
- Unique building for each faction (check them out).
The wealth of the original
The cult-classic Heroes of Might and Magic III is a computer game full of diverse factions. Do you prefer the strength and solidity of the Castle or the wizarding tricks of the Dungeon? Or maybe you like the approach of Sandro and his Necropolis the most - Where others see peasants, I see an opportunity?
The factions, however, are only the beginning; after deciding on one of them, the player has to choose a hero. Here is another pleasant dilemma - to play the hero of Might or the hero of Magic? Which specialization should you choose? There are many other elements during the course of the game - leveling the hero, speccing your ability tree, choosing artifacts and obtaining the desired spells, and of course, maintaining high morale in the army…
- by Pol
The Dragoness: Command of the Flame is the new homm like game, with rogue twist, which is scheduled for 1st September. Created by polish developer Crazy Goat Games. The game already passed all testing phases and it's fully ready. Check the "dev blog" at Steam News page.
Interesting interview with Producer Maciej Struzyna and Designer Janina Wojciechowska is available at ScreenRant.com. It's also worthy to check the other one at rpggamer.com, which brings in some additional sparks of info.
The game should be about:
- Heroes and Tolkien inspirations
- Myriad of Monsters
- Perfection - like shield mechanism, to prevent unnecessary losses in the battle
- Chess like battlefields
- RPG driven story
- Quick save and leave "aka father's mod"
- Cute pangolin guide
- "We had time to polish it, and this is the baby we wanted to make."
(I never heard that from Ubisoft.. )
Give it a try and let us know!
You would like to win it? You can, if you visit heroes3wog.net, which run 10th Years Anniversary Contest with many prices, and this game, among them. Certainly recommended! 
Create 3 miniatures in Hero's Forge Editor, submit them and do that till 15th Sept. The contest is only valid if 10 or more Heroes 3 miniatures are created.
Fingers crossed Liso1, this the huge amount of work and time invested into the site. CH is joining the congratulation, lets do some party, gremlins rushed to your palace! 
The editor is relatively clumsy, when there was M&M Showndown, the drawing part was in some aspects more creative. What requires praise, even if I cannot add more hands, is grimace editor - that's funny enough. Eyes are somewhat unfinished or you need subscription to Pro. This is kickstarter project and indeed not bad.
Yes, this is Winged Naga. And it does feature a very small tail and some defensive thorns on the back, which are not visible from this angle.
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- by Pol
Dear supporters and fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 2!
Today we are excited to announce a new release of fheroes2 - 0.9.18! This release is a bit unusual in terms of visual representation but it contains a lot of important changes.
The first thing which the team was fixing is audio. As you remember we made significant changes in the code to push audio on the next level. In this release we polished things to make it even better. Windows OS players were facing a lot of issues related to MIDI music: fading sounds, inability to restart songs where they being stopped, or even crashes on Windows 8. We added new sound font package to fix all these issues so you can enjoy music in full power. This applies only for SDL 2 build.
The second thing which closed over 40 bugs is a new rendering system for Adventure Map. Old rendering system was full of issues such as heroes being visible through mountains, boats being rendered over other objects, monsters being seen over fog. Now most of these issues are gone.
This new rendering system allows us to progress towards new map format, in-built map editor and also to easily add new objects on Adventure Map.
We also fixed multiple issues with amount of monsters in objects, their distribution during battle, Diplomacy rules and other small but important logical situations. The team updated Polish, Bulgarian, Russian and Hungarian translations.
We hope that you enjoy this more polished release which is very close to 1.0 release.
You could also support the project development on Patreon.
You can discuss fheroes2 here, as well as to check previous releases.
- by MadMax
It sure took some time, but we can finally present you with our interview with the one and only David Mullich, director of Heroes of Might and Magic III.
The interview actually turned out nicely in the end, even though we had to overcome some audio syncing issues as well as straight out audio cuts (thank you Discord).
Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did having the chance to interview Sir Mullich!
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- by Pol
Hello Folks!
CelestialHeavens.com is migrating to a new hoster.
IF you see this you landed on the new site.
New site is currenly locked, once new NS spread, it will be opened. With old site locked instead and updating about new content - posts, articles
Migration is completed, forums unlocked and re-indexing should be finished soon. Enjoy!
New site IP: 78.128.43.103
Old site IP: 67.222.10.191
Thanks for understanding,
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- by Pol
There's new roadmap, check it, it's in pic format only but "sounds" very confidently daring.
Oh, and there's 25% discount going as well. :D
Unveil the full news here.
- by Kalah
From June 23 to July 7 Steam have a big summer sale in their shop, of both old classics and newly released games, giving gamers the opportunity to find gems to play at lowered prices.
Among the deals available are:
- God of War at -20%
- Red Dead Redemption 2 at -50%
- The Elder Scrolls Online at -70%
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim at -67%
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at -80%
- Horizon Zero Dawn at -50%
- Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order at -75%
- Half-Life: Alyx at -50%
- Two Point Hospital at -75%
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI at -85%
- Unpacking at -20%
- Command & Conquer Remastered at -65%
Happy browsing and shopping!
- by Pol
Dev-vlog #45 - Sim turns, game balancing and much more!
This is one of hell important updates.
Also I cannot resist idea, that we are looking at Heroes III future alternative. The map scenery is really well done. We will see if there will come anything like ERM, to script the impossible. :D
- by Pol
Good Old Games, as practicaly anyone else at these times, is having summer grand sale action. Which won't bring you happines for free but some game may be close. :D
Watch our thread or gog pages for free giweavays
Heroes III on sale! Back to our evergreen, there's nice image on twitter, what do you think about it?
Still the same game? I dare say no. Firstly my parents, duh, were not playing it, as the game wasn't even existing in that times. And when I started, we have been playing RoE for years, after that Armageddon - for which everyone sought because of improved Dragon Flies (with Dispel!) and now, you have so many choices, like HD Mod, HotA or ERA(3) or even Sucession Mod. Check our tags, to see the links.
So it's the same game?
No! Because of modding, it grows with us!
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- by Pol
Read the full blog by Jakub Olekszyk here.
- Every new tile is shrouded in a Fog of War. This means that you have no idea what's waiting for you until you decide to explore it. Once you travel from your current tile to an undiscovered one, you draw a tile from a stack. It might come with new mines to flag, outposts to control, or secret locations to explore. Whatever it is, get there as soon as possible, as your opponent is not sitting and waiting.
- Whenever you discover a new tile, you decide how it's going to be placed. The map is built of tiles that can be rotated, and you choose how they will fit to already revealed terrain. You can turn a tile to ensure that the most valuable locations are closest to you. Flagging an important mine or acquiring an artifact sooner than later can have dire consequences later in the game!
- But tiles are not only a Gift Festival. They can be used as a weapon as well! The majority of tiles come with mountains and other regions that cannot be traveled through. If you are into master strategy, you might build a "Great Wall" with sneaky tile play.
- But as I said before – be faster than your opponents, as only the explorer gets the right to adjust a tile. Once the tile is placed, you cannot modify it.
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