Round table

Here's what I wanted to ask: Does anyone happen to know if there have been any attempts to train AI to play Heroes 3 at a level that would provide decent competition for a human player? After all, they've managed to teach it to play chess...

It's a perennial question: why is the computer so good at chess that it can beat any human? The answer is very simple. In chess, the number of possible moves is finite, even if it's a large number, but it's a specific number, and it's not that difficult for a computer to calculate. In Heroes, it's much more complicated. There are an infinite number of possibilities, and they cannot be calculated, so you can force the computer to take the right skills, the right heroes, build the right buildings, but it won't have the intelligence to build chains, defend the necessary resources with traps, etc. In theory, you could train the computer to play battles well by creating a new engine, like a chess engine, so that it can calculate everything... but who needs it?