2Dirty Player, AmberSoler:
Regarding the animation...
Perhaps we misunderstood each other. "Thundercloud and lightning" is the animation for failure in the second Heroes game, but in the third, there is simply no procedure that implements failure. The image would probably be exactly the same as the one for the corresponding castle.
And thank you very much for the information about the database! Although we figured out a lot of this logically, including the formula, which was predictable! Now I am much more certain about many things!!! And let some others feel the moral sting :D