Posts from Heroes 5.5 WarGame Edition - Tactical Edition.

Why not? They fit the Barbarians much better than the Dungeon. In the Dungeon, they are completely useless. The Barbarians' strength lies in their meat rush, building up rage, and then applying pressure.

What prevents simply swapping the textures without changing the abilities? In my opinion, Death with a scythe is worthy of level 7. And put the Knights in their place – their models already exist, all three of them. You could even barely change the abilities and stats – just swap the textures. Visually, it would look more complete. They are all the same size. Except for the flying dragons, but you could give the Messengers a slight speed boost, and that would balance it out.

But no one liked dragons even before. It's unlikely anyone will mourn them. And there are already too many dragons – almost every other faction has them.

Rakshasas are not in the same category. They have no connection to the Heroes game universes at all. It's like adding Baba Yaga or a Leshy.

They are well-drawn, in my opinion. And the Phoenix is quite pleasant. Regarding the lack of originality, it's debatable. You are creating your own balance – you can give them their own exclusive features. Summoning elementals as reinforcements, preventing the enemy from summoning elementals, resistance to elemental magic, the absence of light and dark magic – there are many things you can come up with. If balanced correctly, it will be a very unique Castle. Someone even found a Heaven-like Castle with a free ID.

No, there won't be those perks. Blood Wrath is already a very powerful skill in the original game, and in WGE, it will likely need to be limited (weakened).

I'm talking more about the appearance than about the specific abilities and roles in combat. Variety increases interest—it's much more enjoyable to play with completely different units than with the same ones, just with different colors.

I meant not the total number, but the number of skills a hero has learned at the start. Maybe I misunderstood what was written in the concept. I was talking about the "if you don't want it, don't take it" approach. It's quite annoying sometimes that the hero you need initially has skills that are not useful for your tactics, but there is not enough space for what is very desirable.

That's exactly what I mean about the variety. Cyclops really remind me of monsters.

And if you don't like one hero, you can buy another with a different starting build and a different tactic. This approach provides more variety than the "create your hero from scratch" method, as it forces the player to adapt to the available heroes, rather than spamming the same builds from game to game.

Well, if I'm building my tactics around a specific unit type, I need a hero with bonuses for that unit. And if that hero already has a skill that might be completely useless to me, then I'm also losing a valuable slot for something useful. After all, there are only three branches. Warrior, Mage, and Scout – the first two are combat-oriented, and the third is for logistics and scouting. If I decide to devise some super-original tactic focusing on a specific unit and one of the two combat paths, then the lack of a slot can be very annoying.

Heralds in Warlords of the Ancient Races (WOTAR) and even in the base game are already top-tier units for the Undead, on par with Necrodrakes. As for "changing the textures" – these abilities don't suit another visual style. Dragon perks (flight, incorporeality, protection from arrows, etc.) were specifically designed for dragons.
Maybe in the original game. But in WOTAR, these are completely different dragons. They've become a well-defined, unique, and unpleasant unit for the enemy, with very distinctive abilities for the Undead. I can't imagine anything else in their place.

All 3 hero classes are purely combat-oriented.
If you're building a strategy around a specific unit, a specialist for that unit isn't necessary, and against a smart opponent, it's even undesirable, due to its predictability.

As for useless perks, that's subjective. There won't be objectively useless perks. Let's say you don't like Intelligence, but you need a specialist – what's so bad about that? The benefit is balanced by the cost (these subjectively unnecessary perks), which is what makes it more interesting than a hero who is unambiguously good with no possible alternatives. Plus, it's harder to force yourself to use unwanted perks than wanted ones – and that's a tactical advantage.

Furthermore, many specializations in Might and Magic V are unbalanced, and that's why heroes will be balanced by different skill builds and stronger or weaker perks.

The fact is that I have all the original perks, just like the heroes themselves. It would be great to see a list of proposed changes with detailed descriptions of everything.

Maybe it's not finished yet, but with what I have, the Harbingers are on the sixth level. Death Knights, in my opinion, would fit there better.

You change the perks as you see fit, even if they don't fit. While playing, I've seen many abilities taken from completely unclear units – like the "Fire Trap" ability on Zombies. Isn't it too difficult to just swap the textures? It's not even necessary to make the Harbingers flying – just add a cage or two to their movement, for example.

And dragons are dragons everywhere. They've become tiresome after so much time in gaming – they're shoved into every game possible. In general, the most logical thing is to move them all to the neutrals and significantly strengthen them. So that they cause terror in single numbers, like the Azure Dragons in Might and Magic III, and not die with half a hit and fly in flocks of 20-100.

That is, I can consider suggestions to change the abilities of certain units or even make simple visual changes, such as recoloring, adding special effects, or changing weapons. But suggesting to completely remove certain units and replace them with others is too much, it's too late for such radical suggestions.

Messengers (damage dealers) and dragons (debuffers-tanks) already work well as a "team"; knights can conceptually only replace messengers (I don't see them in the role of debuffers-tanks, as that contradicts their essence). But Death with a scythe looks no less impressive (it's a matter of taste) and is more original than a dead copy of a human knight. Their problem in Heroes 5 was weak perks and tactical insignificance compared to death knights, which was fixed.

Try playing a few games as undead in Heroes of Might and Magic duels and get the hang of it – then these questions will disappear, and my objections will become clear.

Well, essentially, I'm suggesting a recoloring and a swap. Keep all abilities and stats the same, but replace Dragons with Messengers, and Messengers with Knights. There's no need to even repaint anything – just swap them. If Zombies are getting abilities from other units, what's the problem with giving Messengers the abilities of Dragons, and Knights the abilities of Messengers? Although, there's already a mod for Knights – just include it and update the stats. And Dragons can guard various crypts and dungeons – that's where they belong.

In my opinion, it feels unnatural to transform such powerful units with impressive abilities into debuffers with very low damage. And to force-fit incorporeality (one of their main features)? Plus, the Knights simply don't have a separate animation for activated abilities, like the Herald branch, since the entire Herald branch consists of activators. Therefore, such a rearrangement leads to a reduction in animation variety.

I understand. But it's still a shame. I would have preferred anything over removing the Knights, even if it meant sacrificing balance. Even replacing them with Liches would have been better. The Necropolis faction really needs Knights; they are sorely lacking.

You're judging from the perspective of Heroes 5, not Heroes 5: Armageddon's Blade. And in the original game, yes, at level 6, the Necropolis has decorative units with no significant abilities or distinctive features, and at level 7, it's just laughable for the huge cost. That's why my attitude towards both of these units was also negative, and I also complained about why the developers removed the Knights.

You should have more people here.

It's unclear how a living creature can resurrect by eating someone. Also, it seems that the poisonous wyvern is somewhat weaker than the other two in terms of abilities.

Also, it seems that the poisonous wyvern is somewhat weaker than the other two in terms of abilities.