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19 years ago
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Humans (although I didn't play as them much, because for a long time I had the Armageddon's Blade disk, and the game would crash when you played as humans or built cavalry)... =, Elves, mages, barbarians... maybe Dungeon... =)
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19 years ago
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Mages
Necromancers
Inferno
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19 years ago
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I enjoy playing as Dungeon – two strong archers with good stats, minotaurs with consistently high morale, and Black Dragons with magic resistance are the strongest units. Mana Vortex and Summoning Portal are also great.
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19 years ago
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I like playing as the Swamp faction because of the Dragonflies – they are useful creatures! With their weakening bite... And Hydras are also good, along with the poisonous Wyverns.
19 years ago
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I enjoy playing with all the factions. Each faction has its own strengths and weaknesses, and I can't even pick out the strongest or the weakest.
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19 years ago
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I enjoy playing as Inferno and Necropolis. They have strong, resilient units, good and useful magic, and beautiful visuals, especially in Inferno when you build the Grail (God of Fire). The music is also great.
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19 years ago
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I enjoy playing as Necropolis the most (probably because of the skeletons and the "trio" – vampires, liches, and knights of fear), but I also play as other factions...
although not as often.
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19 years ago
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Nah, playing with just one faction is boring...
You should play as all of them! I don't give priority to any one in particular... there are some I like less, but overall, they're all cool and unique...
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19 years ago
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Nah, playing with just one faction is boring...
You should play as all of them! I don't give priority to any one in particular... there are some I like less, but overall they're all cool and unique...
Yeah +1 :) :) :)
19 years ago
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I always enjoy playing as the "bad guys" >:)). In Heroes of Might and Magic III, I mostly play as Dungeon and Necropolis, and less often as Inferno. Among the "good" factions, I can only tolerate Fortress... :) My least favorite faction in Heroes of Might and Magic III is, for some reason, Barbarian...
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19 years ago
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I like playing as the Barbarians, with the Tower and Rampart as my main structures, but I don't really like the other castles!
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19 years ago
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Heroes 3 is unique because it's interesting to play as each faction; each has its own tactics and quirks.
I agree with this; every faction is good. I've played each faction thousands of times, and none of them are terrible.
19 years ago
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I don't know how to play as Elves. I really don't. All the factions are good. Necropolis is the strongest. Tower, Dungeon, and Conflux are only slightly weaker.
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19 years ago
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Conflux is cool and powerful... Elves are cool too...
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19 years ago
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I definitely prefer Castle.
And what about the Necropolis? Its 7th-level unit is weak and doesn't compare to Archangels, which can resurrect and fly very quickly (I think they're the fastest). Plus, Griffin Conservatories are scattered across the maps. Dragons may sometimes age units, but they only affect very weak units, so their aging effect isn't very useful.
Living cavalry is almost as good as undead cavalry, and it can be upgraded for free in a stable on the map, and its ranged damage is increased.
Monks are just as strong as liches; liches may attack with an area-of-effect spell, but what's the point? I never position my units close to each other. And monks also have no food penalty.
Vampires are a formidable weapon against humans, but they are quickly eliminated or neutralized. At the same time, Crusaders attack twice and are very strong.
Zombies and ghosts are weak (the latter may drain magic, but in very small amounts), while humans have extra archers and flying griffins to fill that role and deal with everything.
The only thing humans can't definitively counter is skeletons. But you need to know how to gather them, and skeletons are very slow, so you can slow them down until a better opportunity arises.
And also, Castle has the hero Adel, who has innate diplomacy.

In the confrontation between the factions of Life and Death, in my opinion, there is a balance.

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