Is Necropolis OP?

Yes

Town theme
#1 Necropolis
#2 Tower
#3 Rampart
#4 Stronghold
#5 Fortress
#6 Inferno
#7 Dungeon
#8 Castle
#9 Conflux
#7

Yeah no.

In vanilla, normal play they're fucking bonkers once you know the basics.
In vanilla, high level play they're either outclassed but above average or remain fucking bonkers depending on your luck.
In modded play their more casual-breaking and cheesy combos and strats are reigned in.

Nod really because they capped the amount of creatures you can resurrect per week. If they're OP it's because undead creatures are immune to berserk, blind and puppet master.

I listened to all of them again and I'd swap Inferno to #8, Castle to #7, Fortress to #6, and Dungeon to #5.
Except for the top 3 it's a really close choice.
Only conflux is a significantly worse than the rest.

Sure it is, bud.

Skeletons suck individually, but you get over 9000 of them so you've got strength in numbers. Zombies are pure trash, but once you've got nothing else to spend money on, that's what the skeleton converter is for. Wights are pretty good early-game for the regen. Later on, they aren't very good, but the mana drain is something atleast. Ghost dragons are rather poor, but if you get the 20% aging proc at the right time, you can destroy whatever it hits.

Vampires are all but immortal if you get the stack large enough and aren't stupid with them. Liches have that godly AoE that unlike magogs doesn't hit your own units, and Black Knights are hands down the best lvl 6 unit in the game.

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Yes, that's why house rules exist.

That's nothing compared to what happens when you have lvl 20+ armorer specialists. Tazaar vs neutrals is just stupid. Tazaar with Recanter's Cloak or Orb of Inhibition is even worse.

is there a way to get wog working with that HD mod?

Thread got deleted huh?

I deleted it

It's just a louncher.

HD remake got the expansions yet?

Why would you think that

The source got lost, it'll never get them
Why would you care though? The Russian made HD mod is both free and superior.

video games are free
In which way?

Which mods?

In 3 necromancers are not OP.
In 2 it's a different story.

THE HD mod.
It's called like that because there's only one. Hence the "the". Here's a link.
sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/
It has the expansions and mod support. If you're interested in multiplayer this version acutally has /A/ playerbase. Not to mention it actually looks better imo.

yeah, but the "HD+" button is grayed out for wog's exe. normal heroes works fine

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Why can they never keep up with the original artstyle? It's like the cinematic overhaul for half life 2.

sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/eng/description/tweaks

and you still get the revamped models or wat

The "play it at 800x600 or see a blur of fucking pixels" thing is my main issue with the game right now

Not the fact that it's a shitty re-release?

it don't work

It zooms the game out so the sprites look smaller. It's actually useful on the map, since you can see more of it at once.

It allows you to switch to modern resolutions and aspect ratios, so it solves that problem
By the way, the new sprites look like shit.

Ubi$hit "revamped" models looks worse then original.

I played the original game in a motherfuckingucking pentium 2 when I was 17 years younger than now, how fuck am I supposed to remember

Works on my machine :-)
But seriously, are you using an antivirus or something? Even though google hosts it, it /is/ a Russian website.

On large maps yeah.

By the way this is a shit ubi tactic, the old sprites don't look nearly as pixelated.

Get out.

no, I mean the tweaks don't work. I can see the site just fine

The old sprites don't look like this, they look better in game. Look up some footage faggot.
I'm starting to believe in the ubishills now.

Reinstall everything and try again, idk.

If you can't make your new game look good make old games look shittier
jew/10

models is shorter than sprites and I'm masturbating, fuck off

To what?

What?

to this

I genuinely thought it was JJBA Part 1

Wait, it is not JJBA part 1?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Necropolis is average.

It's one letter you twat.

I'm new.
How does one get anything other than skeletons from necromancy?

Anyways HoMM is shit and KB/eador are the proper games

I finished the masturbation

How are you so constantly wrong.

He is Paul Krugman.

it's from the campaign, sandro gets an item that makes his necromancy fucking invincible

Just say the name of the doujin you literal wanker.

Crossworlds and eador genesis are way better than any heroes at everything, all the fun/autism and 0 the burden/shitty waiting for everything

Turn based world moving is cancer

Technically you can get the combo artefact on almost any map.

Stardust crusaders, or something like that according to filename

What combo? Is it all of the necromancy items?

I could swear it's Jojo related.

jojo invented the 2D so everything is related to it

heroesofmightandmagic.com/heroes3sod/combinationartifacts.shtml

i mean the 2D in the japanese 2D stuff, like manga and doujins and japanese dicks

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Re-re-r-re-re-rerere-re-reeeeeeee-release.

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just piss off dumbfuck

retarts not allowed

H3 only

Best one by far on large maps, 2nd best in all others.
Aislinn has meteor shower, Isra has necromancy, Septienna has death ripple with scholar.
You can get 1000 skeletons by month 2 and then another 1000 per month if you play it right.

Not only that but

lol noobs

#1 conflux
#2 necro*
#3 castle
#4 stronghold
#5 dungeon
#6 rampart
#7 fortress
#8 inferno
#9 tower

*#1 if XL map with lots of neutrals

Why? Simple. Conflux has best heroes + best levels 2 3 4 creatures + no retaliation on sprites + 4 phoenixes per week.
Stronghold is dirt cheap and has crag hack and dessa. Rampart has grand elves and some very good heroes.
Castle is balanced with lots of viability.
Dungeon is good.
Fortress has shit creatures that rely on luck but you get Tazar.
Tower is prohibitively expensive. Good luck with 2 titans against 12 phoenixes!
Inferno can demon farm, otherwise: most expensive with lowest hitpoints and some uber-shit creatures (except for efreets).

sage for doublepost but watch this vid
youtube.com/watch?v=s5hEh-MnIQ8

I only rated the music.

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Spells? They're shit.

As autistic as it sounds these generic looking fucking HD remasters are what made me drop this game so readily.

Having taste isn't autistic, user

Rampart > Dungeon for sure unless you're playing a money map with a million resources, in which case Tower >>> Inferno as well.

Stick to originals. Forget rereleaase. It is shit just like all other reboots, soft reboots, rereleased, HD editions, etc. You should know better than that.

If the difficulty is 120% or less and diplomacy is allowed then yes, you can hoard 2000+ skeletons in first month.
No diplomacy or 200% difficulty/strong monsters aaaaand its not so great anymore.

Git gud scrub, might hero + expert air + haste + expert tactics and you are dead in combats first turn.

Yes but it depends what WoG version you've got
HD+ features are not supported, standard HD non plus ARE supported.
sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/
Also lurk here
heroescommunity.com/forumdisplay.php3?FID=12
celestialheavens.com/forum/4

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that music is pretty OP but so are all the other towns

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stronghold has the best music, I still hum it randomly from time to time.

Smalltime

The redraws are just different frames from the original sprites.

Their idle animations have them at those angles.
These redraws are insanely good when you compare them to Ubisofts shitty attempt at H3.

Do you have the HoMM2 town themes too?
They're the best in the whole series, in my opinion.

Once you get the improved necromancer artifacts and master the skill and pick someone who is improved vampire or something like that, your basically going to walk the map without needing a resupply.

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I just come here to check these sic trips.

(checked)
Impressive. But check mine!

Have more?

How unfortunate.

Random maps have hundreds of level 1 monsters spread around for you to farm skeletons on, that's why it seems overpowered. But on any in-game map, Necro is terrible. Its only strength is nullified and you have trouble even beating neutrals, since the first three levels of units suck. Regular vampires are not that good either, and the upgraded ones are expensive (ten crystals and gems?!). But I guess it doesn't matter if you're not playing on impossible.

For anyone who believes necro is OP, that's what I suggest. Play on impossible on any map provided with the game, and you will realize it is in fact one of the worst towns, possibly the worst.

9/10 about as accurate as you can get when trying to rate skills for all maps at once, aside from some personal disagreements

Would an armourer specialist make the skill more worthwhile?

It's a very worthwhile skill in the first place. Not as useful if you rely on ranged army or overpower neutrals fast & I wouldn't take it over Offense, but always good to have especially in close battles. Armorer specialist just pushes it to extreme levels.

Ah. Also, why are siege and balista in the same tier?

this chart is quite relative, but fire magic? can suck a dick, worst magic tactics? give me like 1 point of that
wisdom is tier2? is that the wisdom icon? you can't be that stupid right? no level 2+ spells, all magics fucking suck. is that diplomacy on tier2? suck a dick. go to t5 where you belong. sorcery on tier4? you never played "chain lightning wins the game" i guess. regen mana skill can be bumped up too, and "teach spells" 1 is godlike important to a caster hero group.

Question: Could HoMM 1/2/3 be turned into a board game?

If so, how?

Yes but you'd obviously need to dumb down the game a lot to the point where you just wish you were playing the PC game instead.

HoMM3 pretty much already is a board game.
The only thing that you'd have to figure out is how to make damage rolls since the numbers for some higher tier creatures go over 100.
That, and you would need a calculator on you at all times.

Both aren't good usually but have really niche windows of usefulness. Ballista is useful in small armies/at the start of the game (and iirc you also get to control towers when defending a castle), Catapult is useful if you have lots of walkers and some castles to siege.

This is your brain on magicfaggotry. Diplomacy is broken on maps where you can get joins, LV1/LV2 spells are wisdom free and constitute like 80% of the good spells in this game, Sorcery is a waste of skillpoints since the damage added is pitiful and Mysticism is a joke.

Wanted to play this again, so got the GOG version and the HD launcher. Yet when I start the game (using the launcher) I get an error telling me files are missing. Anyone know what's up with that?

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enjoy your level 1 moral killers (diplomacy)
enjoy walking everywhere (no teleports)
ballista is shit and dies first everytime.

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You wouldn't need to dumb it down at all. You've obviously never seen Warhammer, Chainmail, the Lord of the Rings board game, Warcraft board game, etc. They're just as fleshed out as any computer roleplaying game is. If there's a level of complexity that you think is too much, then you're going to be surprised when you find out someone used that level of complexity for a board game.

There's even board games with rules so arbitrary and odd that you wonder if anyone else even plays with those rules, the fun of it is that you can take or leave rules like that at the whim of everyone present. Wizards of the Coast published the D&D minis tabletop game, which is basically Dungeons & Dragons without fully fleshed out characters. The only limitation in games like that is the point total of your standing army and the point maximum set by your group of players.

Point total can be as high as you want, or as low as you want. Standard point total is 100 in most tabletop games, and most non-hero groups cost between 5 and 15 points, and a group can be comprised of anywhere from 1 to 5 characters. So if you really wanted to, you could zerg your opponent with an army composed of rats. 100 rats in all on a 100 point budget. And every rat has 2 hp, so if your opponent has any kind of area of effect, your rats will drop fast.

Anyway, point is, you wouldn't need to dumb down a Heroes of Might and Magic game for a board game.

If you have to take out calculator mid-game you have failed designing a board game. I have played Warhammer 40K and while the rules aren't exactly simple at no point do you have to calculate anything. The damage formula in Might and Magic games is pretty simple but it's still too complex to add up in your head quickly, slowing the game down immensely.

DDoor, Fly and Town Portal are the #1 reason to get Wisdom tbh, but if you don't get those the skill is slightly wasted.

Posting YT converted video. I'm sorry for the quality in advance.

Quality>Resolution when re-encoding

Have you installed it?

Yeah.
The only way it works is when I run the HD Update, and when it finishes installing use the window that pops up after to start the game. Still getting the error with the launcher.

You have the DLC right?

nm I got it working. apparently the HD stuff gets fuked if I enable the system cursor.

It doesn't have to be fucking 1 for 1 with the same formulae in the computer game, you nut. The only reason that HoMM uses the damage formulae that it does is because computer game. If you scale it down for dice, you scale down hp values, dice values, etc.

200-500 hp fire breath can turn into a 4-32 damage fire breath just by number crushing. Think of it the same way that WoW crushed the numbers for characters every expansion, characters went from 20k hp at the end of vanilla to 5k hp at the beginning of The Burning Crusade, because they severely reduced the stats to accomodate more stat growth so that the next logical stat cap wasn't at 100k. Eventually you can't number crush any further so eventually characters did reach 500k and 1 million hp, but that's the perils of a power curve.

*accommodate

(impressive, very nice)
I dont like how story mixed ayylmao demons and undeads but demons always be a worst race/town in HoMM3

Dude, spoilers.

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I hope he has the digital deluxe edition.

But this is explained in first mission.

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I hope he has HoMM 3 season pass.

In HoMM 4 Sandro run in to Death God dimension to reclaim new world and become a Death God adviser

no you can get 1000 skeletons per month on 200% with no diplomacy. you need isra/vidomina, get expert necromancy at level 3 or 4, clear the map with upgraded vampires, get/buy amulet of the undertaker

here are screenshots: impossible difficulty, XL 12 player map, map generator for 3 of them, the aislinn one is a smaller map

You a big guy.

What's the best HoMM?

Mass haste and slow are level 1 though.

what level is town portal. that's right - 4

3 you dumbass.

Everyone here will tell you that it's 3.
While I agree, I also think that anyone looking to play the series should look into 5 as well.

no nightlife

Lore in 5 is fucked and lacking. Writhing are ultimate shit and maps are small.

HoMM3 > HoMM 2 >HoMM 4 >HoMM 5 > Ubi$hit HoMM cumstain