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Nasos
On this map, by the way, I found another proof of how cheating mods like HD and others are.

The thing is, the chosen starting scenario implied getting 1000 gold and a hero with a ballista (Gurnisson or Gervulf) at the start. It turned out that this is a very rare combination, and I spent about 8 hours generating this save. While I was at it, I started listing all the starting heroes in a table, and it turned out that some of the allowed heroes simply don't appear. They are definitely allowed, and they are not on the map, either with the AI or in prisons. They do appear in the tavern, but never together with 1000 gold; thousands of restarts confirm this. Meanwhile, as we understand, they can be easily bought using HD. On this map, it's not critical, but in theory, you could create a map where the inability to recruit a certain hero at the start is one of the conditions for a normal game. And HD will unfairly break the author's idea.
I played a lot of Tournaments even before the HD mod, and I never had any problems finding the right hero manually. I remember my feelings at the time. To complete a map that I could easily complete in a day, I am now forced to spend a week digging... Well, that's ridiculous! But who would be interested in this process? :confused: It was because of things like this that Tournaments died out!

As for some starting saves, I spent weeks generating the desired setup, like a specific artifact in a tomb and Necromancy in a mage. Compared to that, an artillery hero and 1000 coins look like an innocent amusement.
Nasos
where the inability to recruit a certain hero at the start is one of the conditions for a normal game. And HD will unfairly break the author's idea.
If the map author doesn't want a certain hero to appear, let him forbid it in the editor; there are no problems. If the mod allowed you to buy a hero who is forbidden to be hired, then there would be no questions – that would be cheating. But if he is allowed to be hired, then he must, and moreover, he is obliged to appear on demand. Regardless of any other situations.