The Heroes Round Table

Don't you need Heroes IV patched to version 3.0 in order to run Equilibris? My copy came patched to 2.2, and I have been unable to get the 3.0 patch to work, so I had assumed that I would not be able to use Equilibris.

I love the stern expression on the HII titan, although the others do have their charms.

The two Fallout games were wonderful. Even though the first one ended too quickly and there wasn't as much to do, I think I liked it a little better. Both were loads of fun to play.

Wasteland is still my favorite of the genre, though.

Ultima IV was simply amazing. I only ever played Ultima III and Ultima IV, so perhaps it is not fair of me to vote, but it was one of the best games I have ever played.

I'd say Master of Orion III except that I'm not even sure that I ever actually played the game. Sure, I bought it, installed it, ran it, made choices and hit "next turn" but what happened in the game seemed to have no bearing whatsoever to the choices I made, so perhaps it merely played it...

For me, this is a tie between two oustanding Infocom games: Spellbreaker and Zork III. Zork III was the most difficult game I have ever beaten without outside help. It took about six years, but when the game finally ended I felt a real sense of accomplishment. With Spellbreaker I tried my best to av...

I just don't know: I like the Dungeon creatures and a few of the heroes, but not the town. I love the Academy town but dislike the creatures and all heroes except Havez, who seems overpowered. Haven is boring, Inferno is . . . meh. I suppose that I'll play Sylvan when I'm feeling like a hippie and N...

It would be easier to just email Fabrice and ask him. Or wait for someone to buy the game and read the documentation.

I realize this, and am inclined to agree with you. They made all creatures cost the same amount either because they felt it was more balanced, or because it was easier to code.

If believabilty or immersion in the game is important to you, this has always been a problem with any HoMM maps that use random monsters. If I'm playing the benevolent ruler of the Preserve trying to save the world from evil necromancers, why on earth are these elves guarding their ore mine against ...

Agrael's campaign remined me of the first map in the Yog campaign, in SOD. The same general principles apply: only take what resources / artifacts you need and can get without losses; leaving the rest so as to slow down the pursuit. If you pick up the boots and choose Logistics as a skill, there doe...

Playing this map several times has made me respect the Knight's unique Counterstrike ability, which I did not think much of in the open beta. Usually, in the final battle the AI has had 500-700 conscripts and between 200-300 marksmen. But one time it had managed to train up all of its conscipts, so ...

Thanks, everyone. I now suspect that there is either a minimum Knowledge requirement of 4 or a minimum level requirement of 8-9 to learn the spell. It is surprising, for those of us accustomed to how spells were learned in prior HoMM games, but so long as it's not a bug I am not overly concerned. Ma...

Are there any requirements for learning Summon Creature other than Basic Summoning / Wisdom (other than actually having a Magic Guild with spells of the third circle, obviously)? I ask because of an odd thing that happened to me in the "Falcon's End" map. I had built my magic guild up to t...

Whatever kept making the game crash yesterday wasn't happening for me today. The only changes I made were turning the resolution down, texture quality down, and turning off anti-aliasing. The two campaign maps are a little on the short side but were fun, challenging, and showed off the game well. I ...

I was able to take the castle at the end of month 3 on normal difficulty after a tough fight, without hit-and-running. Gating in all troops tiers 1-6 kept me in the battle. At the end, I had about a dozen horned overseers (down from nearly three hundred) and a couple of upgraded succubi. A fun fight...

I voted "it could be better," but were it possible my vote would be for somewhere in between "it could be better" and "Clunky, clumsy, awkward & inefficient." My biggest problem is that the "hot spots" on all of the pointers are in the upper left corner. T...

-The date, day/week/year should be visible without holding your mouse over the exit town icon etc. The day of the week, at least, is always visible -- just look at the little bars surrounding the exit / next turn button. One bar for each day, so on day seven they're all lit. I thought this was both...

Ubisoft/Nival would have to be insane to not include an editor. Unless they want the game to fail, that is.

It might not include an editor on release day, though.

Familiars are now Inferno's non-upgraded level, er, tier one creature; when upgraded they are called imps. In Heroes III it was the other way around, but whatever. The tier one creature building in the Inferno, however is referred to as the Imp Crucible and it upgrades to the Familiar Crucible. A mi...