The Heroes Round Table

Peter Falk - aka. Lieutenant Columbo - died at the age of 83. I never really considered myself a fan of that detective show, but somehow I always found myself watching it whenever it came on the telly ... If you've never seen it, try watching "The In-Laws" (the original one, not the recen...

UndeadHalfOrc wrote:Meh. The H3C campaigns can be downloaded for free from a chinese website anyway.

Congratulations, you've discovered that pirating software is cheaper than paying for it!
It's also illegal.

Neidhaart wrote:Some beta stuff posted on official site: Klick me!

Stupid preorder deal... =P

You just should have gotten into the closed beta...

GreatEmerald wrote:It's exactly the same as in HoMM3...

In HoMM3, you couldn't see the hero stats, only the army composition.

I actually like the blue phoenix. It's different and familiar at the same time.

Wait, M&M "mouse pointers" as a prize? Doesn't sound too generous, Ubi. I guess the only step down from there is offering M&M pixels. I already got one of those-. see? It's hard to tell, but that is not a period, it's actually an official M&M black pixel, as seen in outlines t...

The most important thing for you is to have a balance of character abilities. You want at least one fighter, and one character who can use either type of magic (I forget what they are called in MM3, but there are 2 main types- one with more healing spells and one with more offensive) IIRC, you can h...

The interesting thing is in their description, an earth elemental takes attributes from the rock it is formed from. I wonder if the stats of an E.elemental will vary based on the terrain you fight them on? (e.g. in grassland, they are more mud/dirt, meaning less sturdy, but can take a lot of physica...

Nothing beats the fireball spell from the board game Dungeon Lords.
To quote the card text:
"Fireball
This popular spell actually has no effect at all. To keep it from losing popularity, monsters should be instructed to shriek and writhe as though in agony."

I've been playing MM3-5 and Swords for years now, but I'm finally getting an itch to explore some other games, particularly from the same time period. I'm looking at some of the New World Computing releases and Heroes 1 and 2 are obvious choices, but Anvil of Dawn and Hammer of the Gods also look p...

According to the mouseover text on their facebook wall post, the hand is Fire Shield. A rank 1 ability which increases magic defense by 4, and inflicts 1 point of damage per creature in the protected stack to anyone attacking it.

IIRC the M&M spell "sunray" (light magic, master level) damaged everything, but did extra damage to undead

In Heroes 2 you can get -2 luck if you visit a Pyramid that's already been cleaned out. Bad Luck manifests itself as a rain cloud (as opposed to a rainbow) and causes the affected stack to do 1/2 damage. Since it's pretty easy to get some level of Good Luck in H2, it's actually kinda hard to make b...

Next two spells: View mines and Visions

OK. the earliest reference to a dragon turtle I could locate goes to the ancient Chinese animal spirit (one of four, along with a blue dragon, red bird, and white tiger) Once I read that, I recalled several uses of these four creatures in numerous anime titles (with the turtle being Genbu; the other...

agni77 wrote:catapult's really nice... half dragon half turtle...

Aren't dragon turtles from Avatar (the airbending one)?

Arzang wrote: What's up with "Sveltana" as a name? Svetlana is a real name, why just juxtapose two consonants?

You'd have to ask Raelag about anagramming names.

H3, being the awesomeness it was, has/had a myriad of gameplay problems that seem to be addressed in H6. The resource system was bad. Playing a bit of Devil's advocate here: How was it bad? you may not like it, but that doesn't make it bad. The skill system was bland and random. The game was basica...

Question: do the warlock dragons have 2 upgrades? WoG-wise, a triple upgrade can be done, but I am curious how this project does it. If WOG can support 3 golem upgrades, then it certainly can support two dragon upgrades. It says that this is "compatible with WOG" not that it is a WoG mod....