A guide to Heroes of Might and Magic I!

Greetings, Dear fans of Heroes 1!

November 30, 2008

Until December 30, the site will operate in test mode. After that, all wishes, comments, and additions will be taken into account, and the site will start operating in normal mode, + an offline version of the site will be released as a single compiled file in chm format.

Please express all your comments, wishes, and suggestions in the guestbook, on the HW forum in the handbook discussion thread, via
feedback (email), Private Message on HW, or using ICQ (395653263).

So, what is new in the third version of the site - the handbook for Heroes of Might and Magic I www.handbookhmm1.narod.ru :

• The site design has changed;
• The site construction concept has changed; new CSS technology has replaced the old frames;
• Instead of the inconvenient forum, a Guestbook was created (restored an old version that lasted 1 week in its time);
• Table forms and color schemes have been changed; all of them are brought to a single template;
• Minor flaws and typos have been eliminated;
• The site displays correctly in IE, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox.

Changes affecting the content of the site:

• The Main Page has been completely rewritten;
  
• In Section 1. Primary characteristics, troops, and hero classes, 2 images with armies and Artifacts, 4 general hero images, and 16 images of coats of arms have been added. The Maximum starting army for the Barbarian has been corrected;
  
• In Section 4. Monsters, their features, and some aspects of combat involving them, detailed descriptions for each monster were added;
  
• In Section 6. Cities\Castles and their buildings, 12 images with cities\castles (+ fully built castles) have been introduced for each hero race.
  3 images of the Mage Guild levels 1, 2, 3 + descriptions for them have been added;
  
• In Section 12. Diplomacy and features of its application, images were added to the monster table showing strength as parameter X. The section was also supplemented with Calculation Example №2, specifically intended for offline tournaments;
  
• In Section 13. Features of map movement, in subsection 2) Influence of terrain (landscape), all landscapes and their descriptions have been introduced;
  
• In Section 14. Bugs and forbidden techniques in the game, in subsection 7. Bug with the English version of the game, a note on the save has been added;
  
• To Section 15. Tactics and strategies used in the game, a mini-task from Fireball was added;
  
• Section 16. Mapmaking has been supplemented with new clarifying information, and several useful tips have been added;
  
• To Section 17. Maps, more than 150 maps have been added, with tournament Walkthrough descriptions and saves for them;
  
• In Section 18. Programs, the hero-//copier version (1.3.1.1) was replaced; a new universal program LMOracle was added, intended for:
  
  - Predicting morale and luck that occurs during battle;
  
  - Accurate determination of damage dealt in battle for any attacked squad under player control;
  
  - Determining MP (moves) of all heroes present on the map.
  

  In Section 21. Rating table of the best Internet players of Heroes 1, full information on the Player Rating for 2007 from 3 game
  Internet resources where offline tournaments for Heroes of Might and Magic I are held:
  www.heroesworld.ru, www.hommportal.ru,
  www.heroesportal.net.

Sincerely, VDV_forever