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New Year's Re-release

On the eve of the New Year, "Buka" will re-release a collector's collection, including 9 games from the Heroes of Might and Magic series (from Heroes I to Heroes IV, including all expansions). This edition is expected to appear in stores on December 13th. The print run is limited.

From today, all fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 1 can download from the HeroesWorld server or view the online version of the "guide to Heroes of Might and Magic 1" created by VDV_Forever.

Today's news will please fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 1, as they will find the result of the joint effort of fans of this game in writing a VDV_forever "Guide to Heroes of Might and Magic 1".

To facilitate access to this valuable information, a special section dedicated to this guide has been created on HeroesWorld, and the address of this section is as follows - HandBookHMM1.HeroesWorld.ru. There you can find both the online version of the guide and the prepared CHM version for download and offline viewing.

Good day, dear fans of Heroes 1!

We present to your attention a completely new version of the website - a handbook (HandBookHMM1_v2.0)!

The new version of the handbook not only includes new sections, such as:

16. Mapmaking;
17. Maps (descriptions, walkthroughs, saves);
18. Programs;
19. Rules for offline tournaments + FAQ,

but also the old sections have been revised and improved, and the website engine has been completely rewritten. Now the website www.handbookhmm1.narod.ru has a more refined design.

Scripts were written and used for its new form.
You can find more details in the news:
http://www.handbookhmm1.narod.ru, the news tab

A FORUM has also been added to the website:

http://narod.yandex.ru/userforum/?owner=handbookhmm1,

where you can always ask your question, get an answer, share valuable information that can be included in the handbook, express your opinion, and also leave wishes and suggestions for the further development of the project!

P.S. To display the website correctly, you need to download all the images.

P.S.S. The website functions normally if you use the following browsers:
Internet Explorer version 4.0 and higher, Opera. The screen resolution should be at least 1024x768.

Sincerely, VDV_forever

Greetings, Dear fans of Heroes 1!

November 30, 2008

Until December 30, the site will operate in test mode. After that, all wishes, comments, and additions will be taken into account, and the site will start operating in normal mode, + an offline version of the site will be released as a single compiled file in chm format.

Please express all your comments, wishes, and suggestions in the guestbook, on the HW forum in the handbook discussion thread, via
feedback (email), Private Message on HW, or using ICQ (395653263).

So, what is new in the third version of the site - the handbook for Heroes of Might and Magic I www.handbookhmm1.narod.ru :

• The site design has changed;
• The site construction concept has changed; new CSS technology has replaced the old frames;
• Instead of the inconvenient forum, a Guestbook was created (restored an old version that lasted 1 week in its time);
• Table forms and color schemes have been changed; all of them are brought to a single template;
• Minor flaws and typos have been eliminated;
• The site displays correctly in IE, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox.

Changes affecting the content of the site:

• The Main Page has been completely rewritten;
  
• In Section 1. Primary characteristics, troops, and hero classes, 2 images with armies and Artifacts, 4 general hero images, and 16 images of coats of arms have been added. The Maximum starting army for the Barbarian has been corrected;
  
• In Section 4. Monsters, their features, and some aspects of combat involving them, detailed descriptions for each monster were added;
  
• In Section 6. Cities\Castles and their buildings, 12 images with cities\castles (+ fully built castles) have been introduced for each hero race.
  3 images of the Mage Guild levels 1, 2, 3 + descriptions for them have been added;
  
• In Section 12. Diplomacy and features of its application, images were added to the monster table showing strength as parameter X. The section was also supplemented with Calculation Example №2, specifically intended for offline tournaments;
  
• In Section 13. Features of map movement, in subsection 2) Influence of terrain (landscape), all landscapes and their descriptions have been introduced;
  
• In Section 14. Bugs and forbidden techniques in the game, in subsection 7. Bug with the English version of the game, a note on the save has been added;
  
• To Section 15. Tactics and strategies used in the game, a mini-task from Fireball was added;
  
• Section 16. Mapmaking has been supplemented with new clarifying information, and several useful tips have been added;
  
• To Section 17. Maps, more than 150 maps have been added, with tournament Walkthrough descriptions and saves for them;
  
• In Section 18. Programs, the hero-//copier version (1.3.1.1) was replaced; a new universal program LMOracle was added, intended for:
  
  - Predicting morale and luck that occurs during battle;
  
  - Accurate determination of damage dealt in battle for any attacked squad under player control;
  
  - Determining MP (moves) of all heroes present on the map.
  

  In Section 21. Rating table of the best Internet players of Heroes 1, full information on the Player Rating for 2007 from 3 game
  Internet resources where offline tournaments for Heroes of Might and Magic I are held:
  www.heroesworld.ru, www.hommportal.ru,
  www.heroesportal.net.

Sincerely, VDV_forever

Starting today, the Heroes 1 section in the HW library has been updated!
Now, any user who is a fan of Heroes 1 can download the offline version of the latest reference guide from HW!

Heroes 1 Library

Explore the fascinating world of Heroes 1!:smile13:

Sincerely, VDV_forever

Good day, dear Heroes 1 fans!

On August 21, 2009, the offline reference guide was updated to version 3.2.

The new offline version of the reference guide includes all the changes made since the release of offline version 3.1 up to the present day.



I would like to thank all the users who actively helped to fill and correct the reference guide, and especially: AlexSPl, Alex_R, DeadLord, Istimon, Phoenixhmm, Sculptor, Sub-Zero. I hope for further cooperation with you.

You can download the new offline version of the website-reference guide as always at www.handbookhmm1.narod.ru absolutely free! Enjoy browsing.;)

Note - Compared to the online version, the offline version of the reference guide does not contain banners, file downloads, a forum, or a guestbook.

P.S. I hope that the reference guide will also be updated in the HW library.

Sincerely, VDV_forever

Great. I'm glad that the old, good strategy game hasn't been forgotten. The guide is really excellent. Thank you very much to the author.

Good day, dear fans of Heroes 1! On November 28, 2009, the Heroes 1 Mastery School has opened! We invite everyone who is interested! We will be glad to see you in our institution! You can apply for membership here. Sincerely, VDV_forever

November 23, 2010 Heroes Online - It's Real!



I'm rushing to share world-changing news! Today, for the first time, we managed to launch Heroes 1 over the Internet!:smile13: Not on a local network, but specifically over the Internet!:smile20:

And that means, friends, that in the near future, we will all have the opportunity to play our favorite game in online mode and compete with each other, just like in the games of our older counterparts!:smile03:

The first attempts were not very successful, but as they say, the first pancake is always a flop... but now a solution has been found – and Heroes 1 in the DOS version is being tested in a new way...

... The feeling is indescribable; you have to experience it yourself! It's really cool!:smile20: :smile13:

All this is thanks to the wonderful people Miner and AlexSPL, who have done a lot for the development of this game and continue to work actively in various areas.

But the priority remains online play.

Work on the Win version is led by AlexSPL, and on the Dos version by Miner.

More details will be written later in the form of a report: “how it all happened.” Stay tuned for news!;)

Testing of the Dos version is currently ongoing!;)

All information will be posted on the handbook forum here. The game in online mode will also be discussed there!

We will be glad to have all interested players!:smile13:

Sincerely, VDV_forever

Online is great! :) I have a request for the developers of the online version of the game. Please make it so that programs that allow for scouting, such as Oracle, do not work in the online version of the game. :)

This is truly great news for fans of the Heroes series! Playing the first installment online is awesome!

Online is awesome! :)

I have a request for the developers of the online version of the game.
Please make it so that programs that allow for scouting, such as Oracle, do not work in the online version of the game. :)

This is truly great news for fans of the Heroes series!
Playing the first part online is awesome!!

The Handbookhmm1 project invites everyone who wants to join a group of enthusiasts exploring the online game of the first Heroes. We will be glad to have everyone! :smile01:

Online in the first game is really cool!

No need for extra words....http://handbookhmm1.narod.ru/news.html
:smile20: :smile12: :smile03: :smile14: :smile49: :smile13:

It is now possible to play online.

On the forum of the Heroes of Might and Magic 1 guide website, Miner published guides on how to launch the game over the internet for the DOS and Windows versions of Heroes 1. The links to the guides are located below:

Guide on launching the online game in the DOS version
Guide on launching the online game in the Windows version
The online game is played on version Heroes 1 TE 1.04.