So, here's the deal: sometimes in online games (using Hamachi), some players can't select a faction or a hero (by default, it sets to Castle (Humans), and in the Hero field, it displays nothing). They can only choose a resource, gold, or an artifact. However, everything works fine for me, but some other players have this problem.
This has been reported before. Try, when everyone joins your game, to slowly click through the random map settings. Specifically, 8 7 6 5 4 3 2, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, and then set it to the number of players, for example, if there are three of you, set it to 3, if there are four, set it to 4.
Also, delete all maps from the Maps folder, leaving only one. This will help the settings transmit faster.
За то что нейтралы не бегают за единичкой, для меня это уже стоит того