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I've been playing Heroes since '96, but I've never been into obsessively completing XL-sized maps on the highest difficulty level. I don't even acknowledge difficulties higher than Hard. Beyond that, the computer starts cheating, and you end up playing just to prove to yourself how awesome you are as a gamer.
When playing Campaigns, I always use cheats :D Except for Restoration of Erathia, which I somehow managed to complete without cheats. And Chronicles of Heroes – there you can choose the difficulty level. I just don't have the nerves to replay an L-sized map ten times, especially one with a dozen enemy cities :mad: When the computer gets a luck and morale bonus every turn, while yours somehow stays hidden. When it gets Chain Lightning, and you get Water Walking on a map without a single body of water. I play to relax, not to go gray prematurely :o
That's when cheats or cracks come into play.
I think I started playing around '98 (with the second part of Heroes), and I never used codes, even when playing random maps where 7 out of the opponents are computers, and 2 of them are from the Rampart faction, all against you. I played as Rampart (there's a fun hero there, specializing in defense), on Expert difficulty. The main thing is to develop quickly, find artifacts, and build an army – and everything is fine without codes