Discussion about Heroes 4.

I like the caravan system and consider it one of the best innovations in the fourth installment. Monsters can move around the map on their own, but they can't recruit themselves! What's the point of running around and collecting troops every turn like in the third game? And then the hero has nothing else to do. And don't tell me to hire a second, third... tenth hero. That's also nonsense, using the hero only as a caravan.

In the third game, using heroes as a caravan makes sense because the units have unlimited movement. Therefore, by arranging the right chain of heroes (a caravan), you can quickly move troops over long distances, limited only by the number of heroes in the chain. In the fourth game, however, both units and heroes have a limited number of movement points, so such tricks are not possible. However, as others have rightly pointed out, having caravans can free heroes from the tedious task of collecting troops from various locations. Caravans are not as mobile as they were in the third game. Here, the time it takes for a caravan to travel depends specifically on the distance. There is one trick with caravans, but it can rarely be used effectively in a real tournament. For example, we have three fortresses: 1, 2, and 3 (all of which have caravans). A hero is located with an army in fortress 1. From 1 to 2, it takes one day to travel. From 2 to 3, it takes one day to travel. From 1 to 3, it takes two days to travel. How can the hero with the army reach fortress 3 in one day? If we send a caravan from 1 to 3, it will arrive in two days. Therefore, the hero needs to travel on foot to fortress 2. The hero's movement points are exhausted. And now we send a caravan from 2 to 3 and achieve the desired result. We reach fortress 3 in ONE turn. Maybe someone considers this a bug, like the caravan doesn't check the remaining movement points of those being sent in the caravan. But I think it's a feature that can be used, albeit in rare cases, very effectively, especially if you need to quickly move troops and not heroes. A hero can also use it to escape from some monsters.

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Who can tell me how Lysander turned out to be a descendant of Gryphonheart? and so on... :(

:) And what difference does it make who is related to whom? This is not a fantasy book series, but a game. And in a game, playability comes first, and the plot comes second, in my opinion.