What is your opinion about Heroes IV?

Are those all the downsides?
1. Play with a human.
2. Play on small maps.
3. Play on maps that have gold mines.

I've made a game for you with no downsides! Hooray!

but it's limited ;) :D

I read the list of bugs in Heroes 5 and got disappointed in the game.
The most important thing is, why can't they fix them quickly?!

and in this case, I would add:

4. Play Equilibris.

and regarding Heroes 3 and 4:

some people like checkers, some like chess.

by changing the combat system in Heroes 4, the developers lost some of their old fans, but also gained new ones.
and the fact that there are good ideas in Heroes 4
is evident because they were properly implemented in Heroes 5.
I've already written somewhere that a significant part of Heroes 5 comes from Heroes 4.

The only thing missing is daily growth (it greatly weakens the problem of attacking on the first day of the week with red units).