The Heroes Round Table

I have to apologize: it simply took nearly 20 minutes for the setup to start, for some reason. Please, lock this.

Hi all, wondering if anyone has experienced this problem. I took H3 off my comp a couple months ago for space purposes, and now I can't get it back on. The setup wizard goes, reaches 100%, sits for a second, then disappears. Then, nothing. :( Suggestions? This is on XP, btw. Oh, and to be more speci...

H2 Genie for me. And for the record, "Djinn" aren't necessarily always genies; they are a type of demon, but they are bound to the whole "wishes" thing. I don't consider them full-fledged genies, though.

It generally depends on the race I'm playing. Specific ones come up for specific reasons. Logistics tends to rule supreme, as DL said, and leadership tends to come only if I already have luck and don't want anything else. Don't get me wrong, morale is great, but the secondary skills for the set tend...

Don't suppose you could translate that error message, eh?

Kalah wrote:And if you have to choose? Read it: ONE thing.

If I had to pick one of them, then I guess infinitely larger maps.

INFINITELY larger maps, and a larger battlefield (allowing increases to the tier 7's speed, letting them move farther than their tier 3 counterparts).

H4 actually told a story using the spell in addition to its affects.

"...and on the seventh day, God said "LET THERE BE CHAIN LIGHTNING". And it was good."

Or something.

I agree that what Heroes 5 needs now is time. It has a crapload of potential, but very little outside of the basics right now. I guess it just sucks that they deemed this worthy of going gold.

I've always bought all my HOMM games. First time I don't have enough for my money. Stunned that anyone would say that actually. That's how I felt with HIV but certainly not now. Preordered mine and got it day of release. Have been waiting many many years for a decent Heroes game (besided WOG). I'd ...

In my opinion, a cheating AI is only necessary on the hardest of difficulties, forcing the player to surpass what is conventional, forcing them to churn out the absolute best tactics to overcome guaranteed-to-be odds that aren't in your favor. In H5, they did it backwards. The AI cheats on all diffi...

My cousin bought it for me as a graduation present. It was a fitting gift from him, too, since he and his brothers were the ones that introduced me to the heroes series when Heroes 2 had just come out, and I was but a wee lad.

You know what the real reason is that Heroes 5 is getting any real love from its players at all? Time. The franchise was going to go under until the project for H5 was underway. So no matter what the game, we'd love it to some extent. But they're pushing us on that, to be sure. The way I see it, Her...

I know for absolute fact that it doubled your damage in H2, since a luck shot always gave the message that the creature does double damage. I always assumed the same was true for H3.

Interesting that they know to employ such tactics, yet can't figure out how to pick up resources or build past the second tier of troops.

Indeed. It's not even too difficult to get 600 before you can afford dragons, much less their upgraded form.

They get the advantage of their units not sucking. For the OP, basically, when a unit attacks, attack and defense are taken into consideration as a modifier for the base damage of the attacking creature. The gap between the attack and defense of the respectively attacking and defending creatures wil...

Necro's strengths rely in their numbers and their undead properties. Their units can afford to be somewhat weak on an individual level for this reason.

Calling them weak, however, just means that you've not seen them properly used.

Night_Heaven, just because you managed to beat a big Necro group doesn't mean they're the worst of the lot, or even close. Just that simple.

Permanent stat upgrade markers have lasted throughout campaign missions for the primary hero for every incarnation of Heroes in the past. I can only assume that the same is true for this one.