By the way, I was searching on English-language forums about editing the executable file. The author of NCF, Simoniak, was involved in this. He mentioned 3 years ago that he had managed to add IDs for new artifacts, castles, abilities, and also expose some parameters for modification, and that he was working on a large mod based on this, but since then there have been no mentions of this mod; most likely, he gave up doing this tedious work. Maybe someone knows his email address; you could write to him and ask for this executable file – perhaps he wouldn't mind sharing it.
You can also search on French-speaking websites (for example, here: HERE), as he is Canadian of French origin, so he visited/visits them more often! :smile09:
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By the way, since you are writing here about NCF and Simon, he is one of the co-authors of an international project (the background is here: HERE, HERE, and HERE) and his nickname is SimonaK (Simon Robidoux); according to my information, which has not been officially confirmed, he has recently started working at Ubisoft!

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NCF - мод, добавляющий дополнительных существ в HeroesV 3.1