Discussions, post-mortems, analysis, inflated egos, and all that jazz.

A question for all players: Why don't hardcore SOD players play HotA at all, while hardcore HotA players (or whatever you call yourselves) play SOD? Answers similar to this post are not interesting.

I need an answer to the point, there's no need to use authority like Kostya (Lizard) always does.

Because, despite all the advantages of HotA, there are still interesting things in SOD that didn't make it into HotA.
The only thing I really dislike about SOD is the blocking.
And now, a little something to stir things up!
I was ultimately convinced to stop playing SOD not by the ubiquitous blocking, but by the HW rules.
Sir Davos portrays himself as a "defender of true heroes," but he himself is not much less of a heretic than the "crowds of angry fans" he imagines (in the form of Lizard, perhaps :smile52:). So, hardcore SOD players also don't play Heroes 3, but SOD + HW rules 1.38/1.40. And it is all these bans on redraws, restrictions on the Grail, bans on upgrades, bans on bypassing guards, visiting objects without breaking through + all the weird situations that result from this... it just aesthetically bothers me a lot. I tried to get used to it for a long time, but I couldn't.
But otherwise, I enjoy playing both HotA and Anarchy in SOD :)