"Heroes 3" and "Heroes 6" are very different games! Personally, after reading reviews about the 6th installment, I didn't want to spend money on a new video card and extra memory to play this "masterpiece": in my opinion, only the horns and hooves of a strategy remained. :( Well, this was already discussed in detail before the release of "Heroes 6".
Perhaps I expressed myself too harshly, but believe me: it's worth learning to play "Heroes 3" well - and you won't want to play other versions anymore! I, for example, rarely want to play other games. :)
By the way, did you know that in the single-player game in "Heroes 3," the timer is not used by default, and the player's turn time is not limited!
Yes, and I also wanted to note one feature of the auto-battle (I read about this somewhere a long time ago): most often, its results are better than in a "manual" battle for a human player. Moreover: they wrote that it is not possible to achieve such results even for the strongest players; usually, the losses are noticeably greater. The conclusion was that the calculation algorithm in the auto-battle is imperfect and does not take into account all the nuances - hence the difference. Therefore, the auto-battle (if we don't count "clearing" small neutrals to save time) can, in a sense, be almost equated to cheating. But I think that with experience, you will always prefer to fight enemies yourself. And win! Good luck to you on the battlefields!
(Василь Симоненко. Люди – прекрасні)