The Heroes Round Table

As I almost exclusively play solo in what passes in this game for the non-campagin "sandbox mode", I frankly am finding HOMMV a little tedious to play against the AI. Ubi should give up making maps and spend more time making the engine accessible by the homebrew community. Anyway, most of ...

Look what I have brought you oh wretched peasants of the HOMMiverse! Good tidings from <a href="http://www.freeverse.com">Freeverse</a>, our noble lord of the OSX port! Rejoice and be humble! From on high Vice President Colin Smith has spoken, and he's given we mortals much to ponder. Of g...

Now, if they had waited to polish the thing up for another two months, they might have actually expanded the franchise instead of just selling to the established fanbase. As far as I can tell from most internet discussion groups, the game isn't attracting many new players. You can expect that HOMMV ...

I think it shows the marvels of what a good game can do for the lifespan of a game.

This is the first decent review of HOMMV that I have read in the mainstream game media. It's only fault is that it isn't longer!

thanks a lot for this info! its fun to pay HOMM in "sandbox" mode where you can explore all facets of the game quickly and easily. its usually more fun to mess around with the software than most games themselves.

Instead of weeks,random events would be way better.Every day,there could be a chance(lets say 10%)for a random event.Something like lossing half the gold to thiefs,riot in a certain town preventing building for that day,better training gives more recruits,etc. i disagree. the fun thing about "...

Instead of weeks,random events would be way better.Every day,there could be a chance(lets say 10%)for a random event.Something like lossing half the gold to thiefs,riot in a certain town preventing building for that day,better training gives more recruits,etc. i disagree. the fun thing about "...

As HOMMV stuffs the greedy, hungry maws of PC gamers everywhere, Mac users are still out in the rain with their noses pressed up against the glass begging for scraps. But since the PC code has gone gold, <a href="http://www.freeverse.com">Freeverse Software</a> has made some progress on th...

frankly i dont mind if the AI gets resource bonuses so long as they present a steady challenge, with a relatively fair degree of balance, and are obligated to achieve the same objectives as the human player and in the same way (for example, taking time to check resources, explore the map, collecting...

Great point Malicen. What I was wondering is how Steve Jobs would look with long blonde hair?! OMG HAWT.

Hail and well met! Hambone here reporting from the trenches -- or should I say BootCamp? I'll be providing the readers of CelestialHeavens.com with a twice-monthly digest on the HOMM franchise from the frontlines of the new reality in Apple computing: the ability to run both OSX and WinXP on the sam...

it is important to differentiate "luck" (which is purely random) from "probability". the ironic thing about your concern is that the combat events you mention are based on probabilities rather than pure chance. and so as probabilties, you should be taking them into account in you...

perhaps the hero should only be able to charge a piece of wall until it collapses, and then have the chance to charge into the castle itself. this would still offer charging heros a castle combat benefit, and maintain some semblance of logic.

hmmm... this bodes well for my new purchase... MacBook Pro 1.85GHz dual-core with 1GB RAM and the ATi 128MB x1600 with WinXP / OSX dual-boot...



you can't know how incredible it feels as a Mac gamer to walk into any games shop and just buy as many games as you want right off the shelf.

sort of hard to say who is getting screwed really. the "hardcore" love the choice to boot into windows of course, and to be totally honest, paying an extra $100 for an OEM copy of Windows is a fairly low entry price to play a whole new world of games (compared to what other people spend to...

Of course, there is no question that Mac gamers would prefer an OSX port, but there is also no question that the HOMMV Mac port will lose sales to the XP version. This is exasperated by the fact that the PC version will come out months before the Mac version, the fact that "Deluxe" and &qu...

To respond to Corribus: Mac users don't want to turn their Macs into PCs, we just want to play games! Unfortunately, most of those games are only produced for PC because of economies of scale. There is a big difference between choosing to "transform your Mac into a PC" and having to. To re...

great piece -- i really enjoyed reading it.

HOMM•V for OSX (http://hommv.utopos.net) is proud to present the first interview with Bruce Morrison and Colin Smith of Freeverse since they announced the Mac port. Bruce and Colin discuss how the port deal came about, who takes out the trash at Freeverse HQ, and reveal a love of all things HOMM str...