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8. I initially wanted to give it a 9, but... I hesitated. I remembered how much I liked the alternate maps, and I was tempted to give it a 9. But I couldn't. The game still lacks something. And that is a decent single-player mode. No matter how you look at it, I haven't completed any of the campaigns. At most, I reached the 3rd mission of the dungeon in the original game.
And the non-campaign mode becomes quite boring rather quickly, and I agree with that. The fifth installment is good, no doubt, but... something is missing compared to the third game. It seems like they got rid of the simplistic maps, like in the original + Lords of the Realm, and they started drawing them in a more or less decent way, instead of simply dividing them by the number of players and placing the same terrain in each area, but... still. In the third game, the gameplay itself was somehow... more diverse, or something. It's all about the maps. The editor there didn't follow any templates... and the game itself felt... hmm... easier. I don't know why. Maybe more art, more terrain, various random factors. I can't explain it. In short, an eight.

still, the game is missing something. and that something is a proper single-player. no matter how you look at it, I haven't finished a single campaign. at most, I got to the 3rd mission of the dungeon in the original.

still, the gameplay in the third was somehow... more diverse, you know? the thing is the maps. the editor there certainly didn't work on templates...

and the game itself felt... mmm... easier. I don't know why. maybe more artifacts, terrain, various random factors.

That's the thing; in the "third" game there are a lot of random factors, but here everything follows a set path. If you deviate a bit from the course, you fall behind and your chances of a favorable outcome become very slim. In the "third" game, there were always chances: you suddenly assemble a great "set" and you're on top. Here, there are no such "sets" that can significantly influence the course of the game (I can't say anything about the "dragon set" — I never managed to collect it).

As for comparing the WoG version with the "third" game, it's not even worth talking about — it's night and day. I still remember a lot of interesting games in the "third" (even though some of them took place five to seven years ago), but I haven't had any such memorable games in the "fifth" (and probably never will).

There are now quite a few more options for gameplay and development in the fifth installment.

Well, I don't know, what's the point of playing if you can find out everything about the enemy for free? It's not interesting...

As for undermining the economy, it's just capturing enemy mines or ambushing a city when there is no army there.

:) In my opinion, it's more interesting to play when you and your opponent know a lot about each other, and there is some way to still influence the outcome, rather than just hoping that the opponent chose Chaos and is building up resistances and immunities, but it turns out they are supporting themselves with Light.

Can you tell me what? The second campaign has no plot at all, and everything gradually transitions into the third. As for the third: how to kill Biara, the "Hammers of Fate" had more interesting campaigns..., but here... and the ending didn't please me either; they could have told us more, at least about Arantir, who mysteriously disappeared after the first campaign, or about Railag....

by the way, the ghost mode is a very interesting idea in this regard

I read that you can take control of neutral creatures in battle with it :)

that's when the enemy hero is really in plain sight.

it's strange that people don't play with it.

it really forces the enemy to move quickly because they can do a lot of nasty things.

People don't just try to avoid playing against him; they avoid him like the plague because he's so poorly implemented that it's ridiculous...
I agree about the thieves...It would have been better to add such a category. I like the thieves in Disciples...They have much better logistics than the main faction and the ability to steal artifacts from another hero or in a store. How would it look if there was a possibility to steal one random artifact, for example, in Utopia Dragons? I think it would be great.