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What is the best class in might and magic III and why is it inferno
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What is the best class in might and magic III and why is it inferno
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>Inferno
>A class

>Necro not best at everything
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>>245826231
>class
>inferno
Also inferno is objectively the worst.
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>>245826231
The Knight
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Necropolis on huge maps.

Conflux on small maps.

For the rest: Castle.

The most fun city types are Fortress and Dungoen
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>xenos worshipping satanistic scum
Only Conflux and Fortress were worse than Inferno.
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HoMM 3 general?
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Fortress for life!
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How do you get mummies.
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why do magogs kill your own fucking troops? fire immunity might have made this town playable. i was so disappointed
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>>245827178
They're neutral, recruit them from pyramids.
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>>245827178
Visit their cursed tombs and bring snacks.
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>inferno
>class

Has there been any homm/clone where the edgey demons weren't shit?
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>>245827435
Because Inferno is shit. Liches are the superior AoE ranged.
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>>245827435

Lots of stuff about inferno was stupid.

>>245827584

HoMM 5. Inferno gets one of the best faction abilities and awesome units.
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Is this bait OP? Inferno? Fucking really? I can understand personal preference but they are nowhere near best.
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>>245827584
Etherlords, the edgy Giger-friendly bioteks were the best faction.
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>>245826231
fucking terrible level 1,2, 4 and 5 units and shit range make Inferno pretty much the worst faction aside from Fortress.

Now, Inferno in HoMM 5 is a whole different ball game and really fun as fuck to play.
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Play Necro

Build only skeletons and liches

DISREGARD EVERYTHING ELSE. THEY ARE FODDER FOR THE SKELETON TRANSFORMER

GLORY TO SKELETONS
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>>245827819
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How do I go about becoming the Skeleton King as Necropolis. At best I only ever find enough skeletons to become a Skeleton Duke or something.
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>>245827819
I love how this is actually viable.
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>>245827606
>level 5 unit is better than lvl 2 unit
how did they let this happen
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>>245826231
What might and magic is the best im interested in the series and dont feel like trying each one out
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>>245827814
>Pit lords
>Terrible
>Not one of the best units in game
Do you even demon farm?
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>>245828327

3 or 4

Both made tweaks that made 1 and 2 not such a pain in the ass to work with

And didn't have have their heads up their ass like the later games. Honestly you can spend forever playing custom scenarios. The game has quite a learning curve. If it wants to beat your ass, it will do so.
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>>245827819
I always turn zombies into skeletons because they are shit
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>>245827819
>DISREGARD EVERYTHING ELSE
>disregarding dread knights, one of the best units in the game
>disregarding ghost dragons in small stacks because despite the unit being shit, the on hit is mental good
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>>245828756
>disregarding motherfucking vampire lords
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>>245828756

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL GOD
GLORY TO THE CALCIUM THRONE
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>>245828498
Fucking zombies man. Slow as shit and you can have 2 thousand of them and they still do no damage
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>>245828981
So true
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>>245828981

Ghost Dragons and Zombies were shit. But at least zombies could be recycled.

That's better than inferno. That has like 5 shit units.
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>>245828327
3 is the best, but old an hugely unfair until you figure it out. 5 is a pretty good modern remake of 3 that's more balanced, but a little bit simpler. 1 and 2 are good but are just early stepping stones to 3, so ignore them. 4 is alright, but isn't very indicative of the rest of the series, so try it out once you've gotten a handle on 3/5. Ignore 6, it's terrible.
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>>245826864
>tfw defending a town as fortress
good luck bitches, all of my units are made of rocks. oh, you breached my wall? Here, have 60 mighty gorgons untouched by your girly arrow fire.
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>>245826871
>conflux
Do you not know what phoenixes are or something?
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>play necro
>immediately rush to get power liches
>steamroll everything early

Every time.
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>>245829337
I guess that's why they call it Fortress!
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>>245826871
>Conflux
Holy shit, are you an idiot? Conflux is broken good, the best in the game. There was a fucking soft-ban on them in multiplayer games, back when dinosaurs walked the earth
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>>245829435
Am I the only one who has fapped to these
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>>245828756
Ghost dragons suck bony dick, I always leave them in a town because they just get destroyed so easily. Dread knights and vampire lords are the fucking shit though, both incredibly powerful units with insanely good abilities stacked on top of that.
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>>245829550
No.

once you're in the mood it's hard to stop fapping
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>>245829685
>ageing removes half of the units in the stacks hitpoints
it's incredibly good.
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>>245829685
Ghost Dragons are probably my least favourite unit of that tier.
I mean, is there a worst unit? Hydra comes close but I dunno.
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>>245829798
If the enemy has one particularly strong stack, yes. Problem is making them survive long enough to inflict it when they're made from twigs held together with tape.
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>castle units have the same growth rate as everyone
>way stronger units
>b-b-but it costs 10% more gold

Only shit more broken than this is skeleton farming and conflux having 4 phoenixes.
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i tried to play heroes 4 with my friend but i just think its fucking ugly and i cant play it
map looks like a fucking theme park

am i the only one?
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>>245829926
The thing is, hydras can tank a lot of damage, and they are amazing at defending a siege, being able to take lots of damage from enemies while also dishing it out to larger numbers of enemy troops. They're a very effective unit, their only problem is speed.
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>Tfw you get over 250k skeletons and you move them and suddenly you have -176k skeletons.

7spooky
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>>245830016
Conflux Grail is pretty broken.
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>>245829960
small stacks, sacrifice em to do it, clean up crew with the real units.
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>itt: plebs thinking 3>4
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>>245830016
Not all units are that strong, monks die pretty fast and crusaders can hit hard but can't take shit in return without some significant spellcasting. One of their main weaknesses is that they need to come up with lots of gems to build their T7 without any kind of guaranteed gem source, so you can fuck them up by having trash heroes flag resources.
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>>245830046
>those hero portraits
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>>245830109
I rarely play fortress but teleport sounds like it'd work pretty well with hydras.
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>>245830046

No. The art style really took a dive. I still cry when I remember how the unicorns, behemoths and devils looked.
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>>245830320

It's a pretty common tactic, and yeah it works great.
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>>245830156
>pretty broken
>pretty
understatement.
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>>245828327
4+5, or 6-7.

because you said m&m, if you mean homm, it's 3 and then 2 in that order are best.
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So does anyone actually play Tower?
People talk shit about Inferno but Tower is trash too.
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>>245830642
I used to play tower all the time.
Master gremlins are baller, magi are baller, naga are arguably the best unit in the game in terms of cost, titans are great, genies are good.

Ain't nothing wrong with tower son
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>>245826231
Just started playing this.Any beginner help /v/?
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>>245830642

>Tower is trash

Only bad things about Tower is that most of their heroes suck and Titans cost a shit load to get.
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>>245830759
genies are shit
titans and nagas are very expensive and the dwellings are costly and have a really bad buildup
Your only hope is a rich resource map. Else its a pain in the ass to play.
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necro
this is a fact
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Fuck, why did the Homm had to die...
I love III, but I've played so much of it that I can't touch it anymore. Why must ubisoft be retarded and not just make a copy of III with new graphics instead of shitting out those abominations?
...I guess even then they would never capture the style and atmosphere reall HOMM had.
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>>245830831
Check out /vr/ theres some helpful posts there for sure.
Make sure to play the tutorial and just ride along. Its gonna suck for a while until you learn a lot.
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>>245830281
4 is the worst, aside from 6.

Shit race-mixing, extremely shitty artstyle, shit AI, only four tiers, no upgrades

Yes it does have a really good soundtrack.
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>>245830936

The real question is why can't someone mod 3's AI to be decent. 3 with good AI, HD mod and HotA would be pretty much perfect.
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>>245830891

Master Gremlin rushes were literally unbeatable until they nerfed them and all their buildings.

Spammable level 1 ranged attackers. Nothing could stand up to that when rushed.
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>>245830291

Monks, the weakest castle unit, is still one of the better t5s, average at worst.

Crusaders are bulky for t4 units and they hit retardedly hard.
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>>245830891
I didn't say they weren't expensive, the units aren't any less good because of price.

Naga queens and dread knights are literally the best 2 units in the game from what I recall cost wise for the stats you get.

Besides maybe archangels, because archangels have always been broken as shit statwise.
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>>245831096

That fucking soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDXNSWJLuo

On par if not better than 3.
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>>245827584
>King's Bounty: Armored Princess

Wait, what? What the fuck is that doing on the list? I thought that game was bad. Plus it's weird you don't even get to use the main character in actual combat, though I guess the previous game was like that too?
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necropolis? necropolis
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>>245827584
>Armored Princess

Fuck I'm still mad about losing my save on that game. Fuck starting over though.
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>>245829337
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>>245831241

One of the better soundtrack's I've heard.
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>>245830295
u spooked m8?
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whats the best HoMM to play if youve never played any.
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>>245826231

It's true in the card game aswell
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>>245831515

HoMM 3.
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>>245831515

3.
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>all these casuals saying inferno isnt good

Every faction is extremely viable and can be utilized well if you know how.

>tfw friend calls fortress shit
>mfw i anally devastate his precious castle
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>>245831515
3 is the best but you won't want to play ANY of the others. And this on top of the game itself being imbalanced as fuck, but you only realize that after playing a long time.

Start with 2. Then go to either 3 or 5 and then the other.
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>>245831096
>implying
Best balanced HoMaM game ever
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>>245830046
I wish they'd just keep the overworld tile-based like in the original three games. It makes things a lot easier to see and you can strategize easier by counting out tiles.
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>>245831515
4, then 3.
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>>245831241

I think you can put 4's music files into 3. That might be cool.
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>>245829442
That image never fails to bring a smile to my face
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>>245831653
>summoning
>balanced
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>>245827992
Get diplomacy, invade towns. Recruit troops for the altar. You do not become Lord Skellington, for he is already inside you
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>>245831515
this guy has it right >>245829181
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>>245831820
nobody said it's perfectly balanced, but it's least broken
>Lich in 3
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Anybody ever played these?

These were my introduction to HoMM as a kid.
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Xthly reminder, if you want an SRPG in the vein of the HoMM games, you should give the new King's Bounty games a try. You only control a single hero but you're given quests and a storyline to follow.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6121/

King's Bounty The Legend is the one I enjoyed the most. The later games are more balanced, but I feel the game suffers because of it.
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>>245829442
>5500 Power Liches
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>>245830971
>its gonna suck
No its not, it's aged wonderfully and is fun straight out of the box unlike so many other games from that time.
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>tfw
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>>245832072
He means in terms of difficulty and not knowing what anything is/does
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What is the best class in might and magic III and why is it cove
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>>245832019

Agreed. You can also play the original Kings Bounty (AKA Heroes 0) if you are feeling retro.
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>>245829181
well, seeing how i have a short attention span and never played any HoMM before, 5 seems like the best to start at.
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>>245831998

Yup, got a 3 pack with Wastelands, Elements and Underworld when I was a kid. Only finished Elements though. Got the whole lot when it released on gog though but haven't played them yet.
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>>245832118

>Implying that it wouldn't take all day to load your 5500 liches and 20k skellingtons onto a boat
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>>245830838
Neela son, Neela.
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>>245830046
Fuck, I can only find this in polish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcTjoY16Fy4
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>>245832118
this is the worst feeling
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>>245830046
No one ever denies the artocity that is HoMM IV art design. That doesn't make the game bad though. not gonna lie, i prefer 5 over 4 over 3, sue me. In my opinion, the more in depth hero building strategy is well worth the hilarious design choices.
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>>245831341
Scrub magic spammer detected.
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>>245832242
>He doesn't have Admiral's Hat
>laughing liches.jpg
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>>245832332

Everytime I watch that, I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
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Rampart was best. Infinite money.
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>>245832118
>ftfy
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>>245832140
That's probably right for you, then. Beware the atrocious story, voice acting and first couple of levels. In fact, if you're really brave, it's best to start off with a skirmish and get in at the deep end
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>>245832140
AI turns in 5 can take forever regardless of how powerful your CPU is.
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>>245831747
I need more info on this, STAT.
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>>245832723
There is a patch that fixes alot of the AI issues
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>>245832501
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>>245832787
>The archangels do 1 damage

How?
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inferno is my favorite. deal with it
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>>245832787
>The Archangels do 1 damage.
wat
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>>245832501
needs one more day between first picture and the army getting on the boat
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>>245832879
Because best Fortress hero thats why
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>>245832879
>>245832927
>who is tazar
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>>245827584

>supcom's shitty sequel

>not the original

Showed your bias right there.
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yfw this is what top players can have by the end of 2nd week
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>tfw
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>>245826231
>guaranteedreplies.jpg
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>>245832736

I don't have HoMM3 installed to check, but there should be a folder called Music or something in it. If you replace the mp3's in it with tracks that have the same name, the game should use them.
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>>245830046
>tfw hommIV actually had really good town design(plenty of variety), hero design(good variety, good system of skills) and good stories
>tfw that fucking art direction ruined it all
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>>245832951
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>>245831341
>tier 1 in slot 1, tier 2 in slot 2, etc.
>maining Sandro
>using the Orbs that only work on damage spells
>having all war machines
>not making it your personal quest to find the Amulet of the Undertaker
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>>245832879
>>245832927
>tazar level 114
Tazar gets a 5% bonus to his armorer skill per level
>expert armorer, damage inflicted on troops reduced by 15%

So yeah, i don't think 3DO ever thought of instituting a hard cap for that shit. Not that it can realistically happen in a random game.
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>>245833128
Overlords... had a hard life
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>you will never hotseat a game like HoMM3 with your friends while you stack the teams against you & your friends vs all the ai
>we'll never have a HoMM as comfy as HoMM3
>we'll never have a game with actual fucking necromancers again

All those hotseats will be lost in time, like tears in the skeleton transformer.
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>this hasn't been posted yet
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>>245833305
Had cloak of the undead king, loadout just for show
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>>245833362
see
>>245829442
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There will never be an improved homm with

>leadership caps depending on hero's faction, hero type, stats, skills, equipment.
>a separate initiative(turn order) and speed(tiles per turn) stat for units
>debuffs can no longer be mass casted
>all units have more unique traits and on-use abilities
>melee units now attack each other simultaneously(agressor has +3-15 attack depending on tier) assuming a counter attack is valid
>magic damage scales much higher, hero level increases damage significantly
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Back the fuck off you sandro loving nerds, best dude coming in right now
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>>245831998
yeh, i never played the middle one though. what was that like?
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>>245833442
>no filename
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>>245833476
VCMI
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>>245833491
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>>245833476
Sooo? 4+5?
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>>245833671

>leadership caps
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>>245833491
This image would be funnier without all the obnoxious 'HEY, LOOK, THIS IS THE JOKE. DO YOU GET IT YET? SHOULD I SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU?'
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>>245833763
Butthurt skeleton lover detected
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>>245833491
Nigga don't you talk smack about my husbando Sandro.

He gives me a boner.
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>>245833947
Worth the XP
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I thought 6 was alright and worth playing, but its not as good as the other games
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>>245833258
They would lose one more day by boarding the ship.
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>>245833491
Motherfucker don't you dare talk shit about Skellington McBones
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>>245830046
looks no worse than passing from the beautiful hand drawn graphics to Homm3 3DMAX sprites
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>tfw you hotseated together with your 5 friends
>tfw it was a small map
>tfw what a mess it was
good times good times
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>>245834428
That's what the first image is. They move a tiny amount then have to kill the rest of the day in the ship
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>>245834913
>how_to_break_up_friendships.txt
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>>245834975
But they would rest after moving the two paces into the ship, then after spending all their movement on sea, and once more after leaving the ship.
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>play Age of Wonders 3
>no hobbits, no lizardmen (draconians don't count; they aren't the same), no undead, no tigermen

back to HoMM3.
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>>245834861
HoMM 3 is the better game, but the artstyle and music in 2 is vastly superior.
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>>245827584
No AoW, stay pleb.
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>choosing Roland over Archibald
ishyghdt
Has Roland ever done anything good in the M&M lore ?
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>>245835176
There isn't a third "the next day" because we aren't seeing that day. It cuts after they decide to rest
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>>245835534
Oh shit, I didn't even think of that.

Sorry, I feel a bit stupid now.
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>>245835253

Played Age of Wonders 1?
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>>245835453
There isn't even MoM or MoO, and it's littered with casual games like HoMM and King's Bounty they're still good games though. Fucking HoMM babbies.
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>>245834376
Who is that guy again? One of the devs right?
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>>245835253
>no undead
This kills it.
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>>245835964
Sonic the hedgehogs skinsona.
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>>245835852
Yes. That's why I'm lamenting all the missing features and factions. I just want a modern game that's as content rich as Master of Magic but with better balance and better AI.
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>>245835253
I heard about no hobbits; lizardmen have been absent since AoW2; and tigers are shit anyway. But no undead? U fukken wot m8
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I remember playing HOMM2 Demo as a kid, I never had any complete games until the Gaming magazines I bought started giving them with the whole thing.

I loved the Genie in the Demo level I always used to rush to the island where I could find him.

I used the dragon cheat to make things easier, I didn't give a fuck. 999 Black Dragons fuckeverythingmode.

I have yet to play HOMM3 but I don't have much time so I'm trying to install it on my Tablet.
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>>245826864
>Necropolis on huge maps.

Necropolis is actually strongest mid game and has fairly weak endgame power

Dungeon and Tower have way better endgame sass
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>>245836373

Have you tried pirating it?

>overworld
>we want the shitvilization 5 audience
>so we casualized it even more
>battle
>we want the rome : total war 1 audience
>so we made the combat unbearably shit and it takes 5 minutes for a full army to kill 2 bears due to travel time
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I've never played 6. What's so terrible about it besides only one special resource?

>mfw i saw that they're selling the fucking dungeon faction as DLC
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>>245826231
why does this game and HoMM4 always kick my ass?
I get along fine for the first hour or 2 but the AI then comes along with 20 archangels AND dragons and rapes me.

do you have to have money making towns and army making towns separate like total war or something?
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>>245836571
Yeah I'm incredibly rustled about the overworld with the token Civ5 hexagon look. It's so fucking tiresome that nearly every single turn based strategy game out there looks exactly like Civ5. Most of them play like it too, but at least AoW3 has somewhat better combat. I just looked that a new sci-fi TBS game called Pandora was released on Steam and even that too looks like fucking Civ5. I just want to pull out my hair. How can devs be this fucking lazy and retarded?
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>>245835253
There is hope, anon.

Undead cryps exist as an independant settlement you can conquer.
They create skellington titans, which are fuckhuge mountains of health and armor that shit on everything in melee range.
They all have projectile resistance because skeletons, and they can make spooky ghosts which have 60% physical damage reduction.
Not to mention if anything dies in their territory it rises back as a skellington, and all non undead in it are cursed.

With that said, it's still not as good as undead being a race.But the devs said they'd eventually release all races.I hope they do, because Warlock is meh, and HOMM 6 is absolute shit
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>>245836590
I think it's an ok game but it crashes so much that I can't really play it. The only thing that was really horrible about it imo was the incredibly dull and generic comic book fantasy art style. Some factions looked ok like the guys based on Japanese myth, but others like Undead looked incredibly shit (everything is black with a stupid neon green glow).

Also 3D combat always ends up being a slog and is much slower than necessary. 2D sprites will always be superior for a TB game.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcprUCjwDc

2's soundtrack was godtier.
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>>245836849
It sold about 6 million units, sole reason why everyone is copypasting it
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>>245837225
Best music of the whole series.
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>>245837225
I prefer 3's but every HoMM had godtier OST
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>>245836590
>That cool western D&D fantasy feel completely gone
>Look at these silly oversized swords xD
>Hey look we also added nippon faction
>Uaaaaa~ konichuwa kawaii sugoi ne?
>Want some evil necromancers?
>TOO BAD THEY"RE GOOD.
>THEY MIGHT BE GENOCIDAL AND INSANE BUT THEY'RE GOOD BECAUSE WE SAID SO!
>Skeleton lich? Yeah no - have this old person with a skin condition instead.
> Want a threatening super beast your undead legions can march with?Too bad have these spider tits instead.
>Big bad looks like something that came out of someone's naruto fanfiction
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>>245837225
1 had some really good music too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrlN5MMZxCM&list=PLD29AE4AF44D9B18C
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>>245833491
I don't get it

is the joke that the guy negates all his luck and morale? because if it is, well, meh.
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>>245838017
i dont get it eaither because the retard put text windows over the others so you cant even read half of it
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>>245836621
>do you have to have money making towns and army making towns separate like total war or something?
Kind of. You have to get used to the idea that you will never have enough resources to hire every creature your towns can produce. Prioritizing where your money goes is the #1 skill in the game
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>>245837685
>western D&D fantasy feel
>muh space ships
>demons are aliens from a different planet
>spacemen in fishbowl space suits shooting orcs and elves with the zappy laser guns

Granted HoMM was spared from all of this but once you see it it cannot be unseen.
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>>245837685
You know you can say what you want but New World Computing did perfect job with creatures' designs.
You could look at pretty much every unit and say "Yup, that's how it's supposed to look like"
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does anyone know how to get that arcomage game from might and magic 8 to run on a modern computer?

>>245832019
so the games are actually good? I heard the new might and magic game was shit, and disciples 3 was mega shit.
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>>245838186
Still, that's cheesy western space opera stuff.

It's not that I have something against JPRPG's but I dont get why an established western universe has to go full weaboo all of a sudden.
It doesn't even look good. They could have easily added some nippon faction without fucking everything else up
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>>245838017
>>245838097
It's made to be the worst hero possible. The luck/morale thing is part of it, but look at her skills. Expert eagle eye, expert medic without a first aid tent etc.
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>>245831341
Sandro and his skeleton crew ride HARD, son.
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>>245836849
Endless Legend is hex-based and feels like Civ5, but I feel like that was the best choice for that game.
Funny thing is, there's an RTS coming out that is going to be hex-based too.
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>>245838186
You know high-level D&D is the same shit
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>>245827584
You got the titles wrong, it should be:

>Left
>Games from the golden years of strategy gaming

>right
>Pleb tier games from the last few years

That has nothing to do with TBS/RTS, the rts games from the same timeperiod as the left games were just as awesome.

Also starcraft 2 and AOE III didn't have lasting appeal but their campaigns were fun
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>>245838450
>worst hero skills ever
do you even specialize in mysticism?
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>>245838529
That's why sane people avoid D&D campaigns that extend past level 10.
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fucking spiders
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>>245836849
Hexes are the best way to tile a turn-based game, that's why it's so used.
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>>245838487
Yes but Endless Legend does some things differently so it's kinda cool. Establishing a town claims a whole region and that's a nice new thing. I also like the factions and how they feel and play differently. The map doesn't look like dog shit either. There's actual interesting detail there and it has ELEVATION HOLY SHIT. And they make use of that elevation in combat.
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Original the character, do not steal
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>>245839023
Also combat is at least one step better than Civ5 so that's an improvement.
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Sandro got his own campain in magic VI. thinking of buying it.
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>>245838729
There is no skill worse than eagle eye, fite me
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>>245839078
New HOMM has so much angst and edge even their orcs have a dark and troubled past.
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>>245839263

Navigation on waterless map.

>my face when witch hut gives it
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>>245839078
>urthas
Now I'm imagining all of Arthas' line delivered like that

"What are you doing, my son?"
"SURKSEEDUN YEW, FURDER!"
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>>245838729
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were Gem with your SUPER FIRST AID TENT AND YOUR OWN CAMPAIGN IN SOD
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>>245827584
King's Bounty games are so fucking comfyu
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>>245839537
Someone call Duke
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>>245838186
get this hothead out of here
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>>245839537
>THURHH MURHS UHRHWAYS BU A LUHHRGH KUNGH

>A-Arthas!
>JUHNA!

>MUHRRWYN, FUHRRWYN BHRUNGH THURR CORPSUS TEW MUH CHUMBUR WHEN YOU HURR RUDDY
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>>245839928
amazing
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>>245838186
Fun fact: all elder god tier rpg series had that sort of setting. Ultimas, Wizardries, MnMs. You just might be casual for disliking it.
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>>245838316
not on PC but if you have Android phone this is preaty much exact port:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.freecode.lite
it has all the original cards and then some new ones
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>>245840049

Of course Sandro doesn't care about there being no women, he doesn't even have a dick.
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Trigger warning
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>>245839928
Thurs kungdom shull fawl, und frum thuh ushes shull uhrise uh noo awduh thut wull shoike thuh vurry fundayshuns uf da WURHLD!
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>>245840246

>enemy has Twilight

GG
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>>245840246
Jesus wept.
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>>245840246
>the horror the horror
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>>245837186
AoW3 has more diverse locations in the world, but I'm somehow not having as much fun as with SM
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>>245840049
>Ultima
>elder god of anything but shit

Only if you are a larpfag. Are you? Wiz and MM are good but not for the horribly clashing settings.
>b-but casul
If you name drop enough old games maybe you'll sound credible to someone ignorant.
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>>245832132
Love cove, been playing the cove campaign at work a lot, slightly stuck in the mission where you have to defend your lone base in the midde against stronghold, necro and fortress. They always sneak in when im trying to capture their towns.
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>>245840246
First Fallout 2 and now HOMAM3. Fuck them, why can't they mod some modern crap.
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>>245842185
>>elder god of anything but shit
Oh my, we have a plebeian.
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>>245840548
My problem with AoW3 is that once you've played a faction once you've pretty much seen everything it has to offer. New players might be tricked at first into thinking that there's a lot of diversity that you can try out with the different magical masteries and different factions, but this is false choice. They will give you a little bit of a different early game flavor, but mid to end game plays out the exact same always. This is disregarding the fact that the elemental masteries are absolute dog shit and useless for classes like the Sorcerer who only need destruction for the +20% more spell damage. For a 4X game it is quite lacking in depth. Even HoMM3 which is not a 4X and is considered a relatively simple game has more actual depth.
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>>245842315
>>245840546
>>245840458
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACC3BuB7nNc
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>>245843138
So you're one of those people who got into old school RPGs recently and now like to pretend like you have taste and know what you are talking about? C'mon, Grognard. Step it up. Ultima, Wiz and MM are incredibly entry level stuff.
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>>245843214
It's kinda funny to know that neckbeard pony autist have better taste in vidya than most of /v/.
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>>245843415
>better taste in vidya than most of /v/.
Whoa, don't set the bar too high.
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>>245831341
>no eagle eye
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>sandro will never turn you into a skeleton
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>>245843779
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>>245843835
HoMM V killed off Sandro. Off screen at that. By some bitchass mage.
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>>245844073
HoMMV Sandro is not the same as HoMM2, 3 and 4 Sandro. It's a completely different canon.
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>>245844262
You're not Sandro.
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>>245844334
Of course he isn't, skeletons don't post on /v/.
Right?
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>>245844386
>You are now aware that there's a skeleton inside all of us
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>>245840205
>Implying he doesn't bone all the chicks
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>>245831341
Losing a Vamp Lord ever.

Even once.

quit and restart battle if all Lords don't res
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>>245831720
fuck, yhis
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>>245833305
>>using the Orbs that only work on damage spells
>specialty: sorcery
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>>245827819
>Not wanting hundreds of these in your army
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>>245845249
Forgot pic
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I know HoMM 6 is bad, but is it enjoyable enough to play?
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