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Max, you should learn how to play a bit more before making categorical judgments about the strength of Castles and other things. It's kind of funny to read how someone who doesn't understand the turn order in battle tries to evaluate balance, opposing Stinger, for example. Specifically, if you played SoD with more skill, you would realize that necromancy in its current form brings far more downsides and impoverishes the game.

2Kobra: no one is arguing with the obvious; it's just that Vic sometimes likes to present his own beliefs as generally accepted ones.

Here is something else that came to mind. Heroes 3 SoD is a social game, whereas "grindy" games like StarCraft, WarCraft, or Counter-Strike are antisocial. Specifically, you can be a good player in Heroes and still have a successful job, a personal life, and sometimes even a family). Meanwhile, top-level WarCrafters and StarCrafters who memorize build orders for 8 hours a day will likely be deprived of these things. Is it worth making it your goal to get into the VCG and strive toward the format of VCG games? Or perhaps you should seek your own path of development instead?