Peasant Evolution

The old Heroes games developed by New World Computing. Please specify which game you are referring to in your post.

Which peasant do you find the best one?

Heroes I
26
20%
Heroes II
31
24%
Heroes III
21
16%
Heroes IV
22
17%
Heroes V
29
22%
 
Total votes: 129

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Unread postby CaesarXXIV » 09 May 2008, 05:46

H2. First, you gotta give points for that lovely Swiss Alps background. Also, it's the only one with a sickle!

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Unread postby Bimbasto » 09 May 2008, 20:13

H1, 2,3 are "peasants" in my opinion. Voted for H2, most realistic I think.

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Unread postby Yurian Stonebow » 23 May 2008, 15:25

Most of my experience of peasants comes from Heroes III so I voted them. They are neutrals, not associated with any town which is an advantage of a sort. (assuming there are peasant dwellings on the adventure map) you can freely use them to serve whatever purpose you could imagine: act as easily replaceble cannon fodder, to supply your Necropolis with skeletons...

In other Heroes games say, in Heroes II, for example, the peasant is associated with a faction, knight's cannon fodder unit and a headache when playing that town type. Now, one can only sigh with relief that UndeadHalfOrc's H2 patch is around. Before that the peasants of H2 were, in my humble opinion, easily the worst level one troop of the entire game. Slow, lacking growth and health being the main complaints.

Somehow, I found the later variants of peasants to be artistically quite disappointing and blunt. And yes, I confess I don't much care about 3D.



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Unread postby Muszka » 25 May 2008, 22:30

Is there such a thing like "peasant evolution"? :rolleyes:
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Unread postby Shyranis » 06 Aug 2009, 17:19

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The Heroes 1 paesant looks funny... anyway here's a better picture.

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Unread postby khanbg » 13 Aug 2009, 12:04

I chose H5 peasant because the Taxpayer skill suit them so well. ;)

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Unread postby GreatEmerald » 13 Aug 2009, 13:11

They are taxpayers in HoMM3 and 4 as well, not sure about earlier titles. And that's the only reason to have them in your garrison, unless you're a Necromancer.

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Unread postby solitaire345 » 13 Aug 2009, 19:55

they aren't taxpayers in H3. Only necromancer's company on the way to nearest necropolis

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Unread postby GreatEmerald » 13 Aug 2009, 21:20

Oh, right... Thinking about that, Necropolises should get a lot of free skeletons, as they don't need any peasants to grow food for them, as they don't eat. And since peasants take the majority of a population, well, you get a lot of skeletons that way! :D

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Unread postby Shyranis » 13 Aug 2009, 22:25

Actually, now that I mention it the Heroes 1 Paesant is a lot more in style with Might and Magic 3-5. He looks like someone would from Terra or Xeen.

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Unread postby Fewtger » 14 Aug 2009, 09:02

GreatEmerald wrote:Oh, right... Thinking about that, Necropolises should get a lot of free skeletons, as they don't need any peasants to grow food for them, as they don't eat. And since peasants take the majority of a population, well, you get a lot of skeletons that way! :D
You would run out of peasants fast

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Unread postby GreatEmerald » 14 Aug 2009, 11:13

Yeap, that's why you try to animate your enemy's peasants and warriors by attacking them.

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Unread postby Suleman » 15 Aug 2009, 16:19

I gotta go with Heroes V, though the Heroes 2 version is a close second.
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Unread postby Secret_Holder » 16 Aug 2009, 17:57

Voted H2 peasant. The sickle is the first-choice tool of medieval farmers, when they needed to harvest. :creative:

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Unread postby Kalah » 16 Aug 2009, 18:53

Vote H5. The peasant is actually one of the few units I feel has gotten consistently better from start to finish. I think perhaps it is because the unit is so simplistic that a mere upgrade in graphics and finish is enough to boost the look.
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 17 Aug 2009, 07:02

Yeah, because Fatty McBeergut looks so great... :disagree:
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Unread postby EvilNed » 17 Aug 2009, 07:37

I'm gonna cast another vote for Heroes 5, followed by Heroes 2. Why Heroes 5? Because designing a peasant is a very, very boring thing to do, and first in Heroes 5 did they try to have some fun with it. The Heroes 5 peasant has more "personality", if you will, than any of the others.

I mean, geez. Just look at that Heroes 3 peasant. Whoever did that guy should be shot... Or at least fired.

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Unread postby TheUndeadKing » 17 Aug 2009, 19:30

EvilNed wrote:Why Heroes 5? Because designing a peasant is a very, very boring thing to do, and first in Heroes 5 did they try to have some fun with it. The Heroes 5 peasant has more "personality", if you will, than any of the others.
Nah, they just couldn't find a decent Peasant design to rip off (from Warhammer or LOTR), so they decided to use their own imagination. Ironically enough, it does show more personality, more so than most of the other H5 creatures, but that doesn't necessarily make it a good design by any means.
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Unread postby EvilNed » 18 Aug 2009, 12:37

TheUndeadKing wrote:
EvilNed wrote:Why Heroes 5? Because designing a peasant is a very, very boring thing to do, and first in Heroes 5 did they try to have some fun with it. The Heroes 5 peasant has more "personality", if you will, than any of the others.
Nah, they just couldn't find a decent Peasant design to rip off (from Warhammer or LOTR), so they decided to use their own imagination. Ironically enough, it does show more personality, more so than most of the other H5 creatures, but that doesn't necessarily make it a good design by any means.
I like it, so it's definetly not a bad design either. Infact, it's simply a design. Good or bad? That's for nobody to decide. I say it be good, and if you say it be bad, then I can live with that. :)

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Unread postby TheUndeadKing » 18 Aug 2009, 14:44

Sure, whatever. It's just that I can't accept certain things the way they are. I wish Jon Van Caneghem and his team never left HoMM. :(
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