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The Heroes series is within the genre of turn-based strategy. The titular heroes are player characters who can recruit armies, move around the map, capture resources, and engage in combat. The heroes also incorporate some role-playing game elements; they possess a set of statistics that confer bonuses to an army, artifacts that enhance their powers, and knowledge of magical spells that can be used to attack enemies or produce strategic benefits. Also, heroes gain experience levels from battle, such that veteran heroes are significantly more powerful than inexperienced ones. Experienced heroes may persist through a campaign, but generally do not carry over between scenarios.

On a typical map, players begin a game with one town of a chosen alignment. The number of different alignments varies throughout the series, with the lowest count of four appearing initially in Heroes I and peaking at nine in the Heroes III expansion packs Armageddon's Blade. Each town alignment hosts a unique selection of creatures from which the player can build an army. Town alignment also determines other unique traits such as native hero classes, special bonuses or abilities, and leanings toward certain skills or kinds of magic.

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Towns play a central role in the games since they are the primary source of income and new recruits. A typical objective in each game is to capture all enemy towns. Maps may also start with neutral towns, which do not send out heroes but may still be captured by any player. It is therefore possible, and common, to have more towns than players on a map. When captured, a town retains its alignment type, allowing the new owner to create a mixed army, although Heroes VI introduces the ability to change a town's alignment to the capturing player's. A player or team is eliminated when no towns or heroes are left under their control, or they do not control a town for seven consecutive days. Barring any special conditions, the last player or team remaining is the victor.

A side objective commonly appearing in the series is the acquisition of a powerful object called the "ultimate artifact" (Heroes I and II), grail (III and IV), or Tear of Asha (V, VI, and VII), buried somewhere on the map. In all games except Heroes VI, heroes visit special locations (called obelisks, or oracles in Heroes IV) to gradually reveal a map of the location of the artifact; in Heroes VI, a hero must instead collect four Fragments of the Moon Disc, which then causes the Tear of Asha to appear somewhere on the map. The ultimate artifact provides immense bonuses to the hero that carries it; the grail or Tear of Asha allows the hero to construct a special building in one of their towns that confers immense bonuses to the player.

Each turn (consisting of all players' moves) is represented as a single day, and days are organized into cycles of weeks and months (measured as four weeks). The primary resource is gold, which is generated by towns on a daily basis. Gold alone is sufficient for obtaining basic buildings and most creatures. As construction progresses, increasing amounts of secondary resources such as wood, ore, gems, crystals, sulfur, and mercury are required. These resources, as well as gold, are produced at mines and other secondary structures, which are located on the map and require heroes to capture them. As with towns, mines can also be captured by enemy heroes, presenting an additional avenue for conflict.

Creatures in an army are represented by unit stacks, each of which consists of a single type of creature, in any quantity. A limited number of stacks are available to each army, varying by game. Players generally maneuver their stacks attempting to achieve the most favorable rate of attrition for themselves. The games also have an automatic combat option that allows the computer to make tactical choices for a player. Heroes participate in battle as well: passively by granting bonuses to their army, and actively by engaging in combat and casting spells. In most of the games, heroes do not act as units, and cannot be harmed. However, in Heroes IV they do act as regular units and can be "killed"; these dead heroes are transferred to the nearest town's dungeon where they can be freed if their team captures the town.

Heroes II introduced secondary skills. Heroes can learn a limited variety of secondary skills with several levels of proficiency. Secondary skills give specific, miscellaneous bonuses to heroes and their armies. For example, skill in logistics increases the distance a hero's army can travel, while skill in leadership gives their army a morale bonus.

The storylines of Heroes III and the Heroes Chronicles shift focus to the Gryphonheart dynasty on the southern continent of Antagarich, and introduces the Kreegan as playable characters and enemies. In Heroes III, Queen Catherine Gryphonheart, King Roland Ironfist's wife, is called home to attend her father's funeral, to discover Antagarich being torn apart by various factions. Heroes III's expansions packs build on the setting with more prominent character development, featuring new and old heroes from the series in differing roles.

Take control of 6 unique factions, each with their own iconic creatures, charismatic heroes, and colorful environments.

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I'm wanting to make a video series on YouTube of me reviewing every single heroes game from 1-7, but I want to know what the general consensus is on each one for a little, what do the fans think section.

Heroes of Might and Magic III is a turn based strategy game developed by New World Computing. Released in 1999, few games have set a bar so high that fans continue to buy sequels and spinoffs in the hopes of capturing the magic that is the HoMM3 experience.

Gameplay is comprised of 3 major parts. Exploration which involves moving around the world map collecting resources, treasure and activating various shrines that may grant experience points, resources, buffs and more. Kingdom management where we can use resources to purchase new buildings for the various towns we've conquered or hire generals and troops for our armies. And lastly combat which takes place on a hexagon (the bestagon) grid where we can use magic and send our stacks of troops into battle.

This is going to be a cop out but the worst thing about HoMM3 is it's so good there's never going to be a successor. HoMM4 gets an honorable mention for having significant mechanical differences that some people prefer (things like fog of war, being able to move troops without needing a general, ranged units can retaliate). It's undeniable how much more popular HoMM3 is though. Even if you gave the game a complete graphical facelift you might, at best, break even on whether or not it is worth it.

The Inferno heroes (with armies of various rosters and strenght) will keep spawning mostly in the south, with your only town as their highest priority (only one demon lord strayed from his path in order to wander in the east). Demon lords usually arrive through two one-way portals (one in the south, the other in the east).

Defeat the creatures in front of the obelisk in the woods in the middle of the map, though. You will have to find Grail (Tear of Asha) in order to win the scenario. Meanwhile, send out Godric with a small army to find the other two obelisks and reveal the puzzle map. One obelisk is in the upper right corner, the other in the lower left corner of the map. I understand the ultimate artifact is placed randomly each time, though. In my case it was located south of the observatory in the central area (next to the road, one square south of the bush). Take the Tear of Asha to the town and build the structure. The heroes will gain a level each, too.

The text message says you should send Godric to meet King Nicolai alone (while Isabel would keep defending the town), but that might be a mistake. In my game a week of the Devil occured and a stack of two Devils blocked the path in the southern mountains. Luckily, I had sent Isabel to clear the road.

Let me say that this is pretty much a hell of a game: first of all, it IS windowed, so apart from the satisfaction to have properly managed it, there might be little point in windowizing it with DxWnd: every result you can possibly get is far less performant than a native and straight window handling made by the game itself! But at least you can run it on 32BPP desktop in AERO compatibility mode, so maybe this is worth some CPU power...

As to the "but the game already has windowed..." I guess you're right and it's seeming at this point i should just set my desktop to 16BPP so i can play it as such, however i've heard this rather special (read: horrible coding) practices persist across all of 3DO's games to some extent or another. So there might be some worth in working on things. It's up to you of course.

Sadly still black screen... log attached. I ran it both with and without the GDI calls, just to see if that might be it. Let me know if there's any log settings you want me to turn on. This has me curious at this point... i mean i knew 3DO games were coded "interestingly" but i didn't think it was this bad!

Agreed about the inconsistent odd effects : I've even gotten it to play windowed on 32BPP one time without running dxwnd, after trying to run it with it, but the performance was abysmal. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to assist. Normally i might look over the code by my expertise isn't exactly in graphics-side coding -.-

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is a unique mix of puzzle, strategy and RPG: Plan your every move and combine your attacks to defeat your enemies in matching puzzle inspired battle scenarios, upgrade your heroes and creatures to unleash increasingly devastating attacks onto your opponents, and let the strategic thinker in you lead your troops to victory. e24fc04721