The most anticipated race.

Definitely BARBARIANS!!!...
Then the Swamp faction!!...
And then we'll see...

I'm completely on board! Let me explain my position. Guys, what kind of fantasy world is it without orcs, trolls, and ogres? I was extremely surprised by their absence in the fifth installment. The atmosphere of the Heroes series is disappearing. The Swamp faction is much more original than the Barbarians for Heroes and for fantasy in general. And they should also be included, but after the Barbarians (and it would be even better to include both in the new expansion pack, if they have the strength, although... no, they won't manage, they'll mess it up and there will be an imbalance, it's better to focus on one Castle). By the way, wyverns, medusas, and gorgons can be temporarily added to the neutral creatures.
But with the Dwarves, I think Nival messed up. Did they even ask the players what they wanted:smile32:? First, the Castle looks somehow pathetic (a pit with lava, how beautiful:( ), and the camera is very inconvenient. Second, almost all the units in this Castle are of the same race - Dwarven (of course, a separate thank you to them for the lava dragon, I approve, it's original): simple warriors, spear throwers, bone crushers, riders on bears, mages - and even they are dwarves. It's not very heroic:smile29:. Only Haven is allowed to do this, and even there, there are more non-human creatures (angels and griffins). Instead of the pit with lava, they should have made some kind of northern Castle in the form of a huge, beautiful, snow-covered mountain with different extensions and, most importantly, with various inhabitants of the north and northern mythology (from dwarves to ice dragons and, including... attention!... YETI (snow monster, brown fur before upgrade, and white fur after - how does that sound? It's not hard to come up with abilities). Heroes have always stood out, and pleased, and attracted, because our armies had a variety of diverse mythological creatures! Now, in the Elven faction, the Castle is almost entirely filled with elves: warriors, archers, and mages. Where are the pegasi? At least they didn't forget about unicorns. The same goes for the underground inhabitants (all dark elves, here you could add medusas, or some giant spiders at worst). It just doesn't work:(! Thank goodness they didn't forget about ghosts and spirits in the Necropolis, otherwise, only skeletons of different kinds would be running around (maybe they could add mummies here:smile38:). And let them only try to add more than one (maximum two) orcish units to the Barbarian Castle, because there are plenty of candidates here: ogres, trolls, centaurs are a must, harpies are possible, cyclops are definitely for the barbarians, birds can be replaced with something else for originality, and beasts can be left as they are. Or, God forbid, if they give more than one lizard to the Swamp faction, then I definitely won't buy the expansion! After all, the third Heroes game is still the ideal in terms of racial diversity. If they are going to make a remake, then they need to improve the game: diversify the units. In general, I am disappointed with the fifth Heroes game in terms of Castles and races. Everything else is fine, the new features are good, but the Castles and races are lacking. And what happened to that company 3DO, which made the third game:smile32:? How did they manage to get to the point where such a delicious piece of the pie ended up in the hands of Ubisoft? This is probably how the French negatively influenced Nival:smile22:! Yes, exactly, Nival wouldn't have treated an expansion so tasteless, if you look at their original and stylish Demigods, although the expansion there was also not perfect, but it was still much better than this mess!