Fulgore
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Well- I don't know!
I agree, in the third one there was a certain element of luck related to spells ETC... but that was simultaneously exciting. And the races themselves, as it seems to me, were excellently balanced, and all the pros of each equally covered all the cons... but in the 5th, with its variations, like Training, Avengers, artifact creation, - they went too far!!!
Interesting, beautiful, clever - BUT THEY WENT TOO FAR!!!
I know very many people who had just started playing Heroes 5 and were intimidated by all the possible variations; I also didn't understand at first if it was good or bad, you just need to play more and then you'll realize that all of this is good: "Interesting, beautiful, clever" - and not even a single thing too many! :)