NHF – new heroes for Heroes V 3.1.

Great mod! Or at least the idea is great... Some of the heroes in the pictures turned out to be even scarier and uglier than the standard ones, but that's a minor issue – this old, wonderful game is desperately lacking new heroes, so any will do, and even the ugly ones will find a use.

Now, about the main thing – the mod is excellent, but it's only half of what's needed to inject new life into the game. I've already found the other half... and now it turns out that either the mod with new heroes is still a bit rough, or these two halves really hate each other. In general, I downloaded the second mod from some shady website, and it (as expected) is dedicated to artificial intelligence – the standard AI can hardly be called intelligent. It runs as a separate executable and uses a module called H5_AIProcess_31j.exe... well, just another executable. If these mods could work together, so that you could play with smart AI and new heroes at the same time, that would be ideal. At the moment, the maximum I've managed to achieve is playing with both mods simultaneously, but the specializations added by the mod and not present in the original game don't work fully, i.e., most of the new heroes are just walking faces that level up and carry an army with them, but they have no specialization – they are like hardcore heroes who only have abilities and skills, but no specializations. At the same time (which is more important to me than the functionality of new specializations), there is a constant threat of crashes and/or corrupted saves that will be impossible to load or fix: once, I used the Astrologer's Tower to change the week, and it turned out that all saves made after interacting with the tower could not be loaded, but those made before that could; there was also a case when, for reasons that were not fully clarified, attempting to open a hero's spellbook guaranteed a crash to the desktop – either the picked-up Ring of Exile "helped," or the computer players simply made their moves and messed something up.

And finally, briefly about that mod (I don't know the author of the mod, I can send it by email – take a look at what kind of beast it is): that mod adds a number of options when creating a game, but the most important ones are 3 – firstly, it allows you to make the AI defensive (in addition to, of course, aggressive), and then they gather an army and wait for you in the fortress – as a result, an epic battle and a pile of corpses under the walls occur; secondly, the AI takes its own creatures into the army (and not a bunch of elementals, as they like to do in the standard game), and does not divide its army into a bunch of heroes so that they go one by one and get wiped out by our terminator who has grabbed all of its creatures at once (they use secondary heroes, but their armies are minimal, and that's where all sorts of nonsense like elementals end up); and thirdly, you can choose the "equal resources" starting bonus – in case you don't want to start with 10,000 gold when the AI has 30,000 (the AI will also have 10,000 and the same resources as the player). Agree, without such a mod, playing against the AI is not interesting. Oh! I almost forgot – it's also important that you can prevent the AI from building two buildings in a city in one turn – because there's no need to cheat, even if you're an AI, you need to know honor.

P.S.: oh yeah, I'm a mega writer – I wrote so many letters, it's impossible to read them all.