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1.4.7. Buy back fallen heroes in battle (not to be confused with heroes who fled; you can "dig up" enemy heroes).
(The last two points are explained as follows:
1. It is forbidden to hire a dismissed hero on the day of dismissal. On any other day, it is possible.
2. It is possible to hire a hero who fled (or bought his way out) on the same day.
3. It is forbidden to re-hire your own fallen hero.
4. You can hire a fallen enemy hero at any time.)

I agree with points 1-3, but I disagree with point 4.
I don't know about official tournaments, but in online tournaments, this creates a huge imbalance in the game.
Let me give you an example from my own experience. :)
Once, my friend and I were playing, and there was a moment when his main hero died, and when I went to the tavern and saw his hero... my friend said that this was a bug (hiring a killed hero, regardless of who he belonged to) and that it shouldn't be used. And I agreed with him, and we made it a rule not to hire killed heroes, or any already leveled-up heroes (hero level greater than 1), with one exception: if it was your hero and you escaped/bribed with him.

P.S. I just had a thought that this bug can also be used in offline mode... for example, by killing a computer hero, you can then dig him up with a hero-digger. :) This will give you an advantage, and it won't matter that the hero, for example, is not leveled up the way you wanted, but nevertheless, it is so.

What makes you think this is a bug? :) The Computer has the right to kill any player's hero. In a battle, it can suffer significant losses. Artifacts and a killed hero are its fair reward; maybe it was specifically hunting for that hero. What's the bug? Especially if it also used shackles. You've already been asked here - why have shackles of war then? :) I agree with all the points now regarding the ransom for escaped, bought-out, and deceased heroes.

The bug is that in Heroes 3, you can re-buy KILLED heroes, specifically KILLED ones. And I believe that it doesn't matter whose hero it was: YOURS, THE OPPONENT'S, THE OPPONENT'S AI, THE ALLY'S AI, they still cannot be bought back from the tavern, and the criterion by which you can find this out is: The hero in the tavern will no longer be level 1.
I gave an example because I thought it would be clearer, but it turned out that it wasn't.

Yes, in any version of Heroes, you can buy back defeated heroes, and this isn't considered a bug, at least because if the developers thought it was a bug, they would have fixed it long ago. I can also agree that it should be prohibited in online play because one player might be ahead of another and might have better luck with buying back heroes than the other, but in offline mode, EVERYONE is in the same conditions; everyone has a shovel – dig up heroes. Can't dig them up? Then there aren't any; hunt them, kill them, and dig them up afterward. Or you can ignore them and just pass through quickly. I think that prohibiting buying back defeated heroes in offline mode would be unnecessary.

However, when creating tournaments, rules are also established. And I believe that defeated (killed) heroes should not be used again!!!

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You must completely destroy an upgraded unit during its very first attack if you want to weaken these monsters in subsequent attacks.

The presence of scaled neutral creatures is determined by the coordinates of the unit.

You're so funny... :)

And are you aware, esteemed sir, that after destroying an upgraded stack and subsequently retreating, the problem is not solved because the next attack on this army of neutrals will again include an upgraded stack? And so on, ad infinitum. The presence of upgraded neutrals is determined by the coordinates of the unit. Iron, don't mislead people with the words "if you wish to weaken these monsters in subsequent attacks"... It is impossible to weaken neutrals in this way in any subsequent attacks. This is the essence of the bug - a unit of neutrals can be completely destroyed (!) by attacking it and retreating. Because the upgraded stack will always be there, and the number will decrease by at least 1/7 of the unit after each attack.

Otherwise, some smart guy will destroy the upgraded stack, retreat, and then, with a clear conscience, will use this bug-trick to make his life easier - because they said to destroy it only in the first attack... And then? :)

Here we are talking about you weakening the troops in the conservatory in TWO attempts. There are also neutrals sitting there, and one slot is upgraded.

And you want to say that it will disappear if you attack the conservatory and retreat? No, it won't disappear. We are talking exclusively about neutral armies that stand on the map and guard artifacts, objects, passages between obstacles... Or simply stand... This has absolutely nothing to do with guarding various buildings (conservatories, dwarf cottages, etc.) in principle. So everything is fine. If you don't have the time and desire to figure it out yourself - don't project that onto others.