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I want to play the "Tribes of the East" campaign in Heroes of Might and Magic V, but with regular heroes instead of the "Hammers of Fate" heroes. Is there a way to do this, perhaps by copying some files?

Google a mod that unlocks the original campaigns and adds the Lords of the North to the Tribes of the East.

Google a mod that unlocks the original campaigns and the Lords of the Stronghold in Tribes of the East.

Great, and thank you very much for telling me to Google it!!!
I'm waiting for a proper answer, because I've already Googled it, but it didn't give me any results; I tried different search terms.
If anyone knows how to do this, please write.

https://disk.yandex.ru/d/1JRV4blS7hXAxw
Here is the link (which I found in 30 seconds using Google). And you should learn how to formulate search queries correctly in the Google search engine.

I'm not sending you to Google because I don't know the answer myself, but because I know for sure that this information can be found on the internet.

Excellent!))) Although I found the link myself, I had some problems with the installation. I want to note that if people are asking about it on the forum, it means they really don't know how to install mods. It took me a while to figure out that you need to create a folder called **UserMods** in the game folder; what is obvious to some is news to others. I installed the mod and was able to play it, but now there's another problem: if I go into the Modifications menu in the game and load a campaign there, the list of campaigns in the modification menu shifts down, but without the mod, everything is fine in the original game. It seems like two mods are conflicting; is there a way to fix this?

Probably, yes, but you need to check the mod files.

Also, while playing Heroes again, I started noticing a peculiarity with the starting skills of the main heroes.

Godric - has Leadership and Diplomacy, which means Empathy is blocked, which is a quite useful skill for a Knight for whom morale is a significant parameter.
Markel - Leadership and Diplomacy; this is a total fail—why do zombies need morale when it's always zero for them?
Raigal - Defense and Fortitude; also a joke, considering dark elves deal insane damage using magic or their own units, especially Furies.
Faidaen - Tactics; I would have taken Battle Fury, Retribution, and Archery instead.

The normal heroes are Agrail and Zehyr.

In short, the authors, to put it mildly, started the development of the heroes clumsily. And now the question is: how do you change their starting bonuses? I am using the mod from your link, and also I don't have a map editor; in the version I downloaded, it's not in the bin folder. I searched for and tried several map editors, but all were unsuccessful.

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In short, I figured it out. The description is here

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Though what's written there needs to be edited slightly; for example, it mentions Hammers of Fate, but this technique also works for Tribes of the East. I picked the perk names purely experimentally—in some cases you need to add the word SKILL at the beginning of the perk, in others HERO. For instance, the Defense skill is not SKILL_DEFENCE, but HERO_SKILL_DEFFENCE, and PERK_ARCANE_TRAINING doesn't work; instead, I wrote HERO_SKILL_ARCANE_TRAINING and it worked. Probably the names of perks and skills are different in Heroes 5 and Tribes of the East.

In short, the developers initially started developing the game in a rather clumsy way. And now the question is, how to change their initial bonuses? I'm using the mod from your link, and I also don't have a map editor; in the version I downloaded, it's not in the bin folder. I searched for and tried several map editors, but none of them worked.

For the Tribes of the East, it could have been made simpler without having to delve into the game files. There's a cheat code to reset skills and abilities.

For the Tribes of the East, it could have been made simpler without having to delve into the game files. There's a cheat code to reset skills and abilities.

I don't really want to use cheats...
Although what I'm doing could also be considered cheating...

I don't know what the cheat is for resetting. Does resetting everything mean the hero will have absolutely nothing? The method I used doesn't seem to work for Godric; the map seems to change something for him. And Godric is the most used hero in missions; he's in the first campaign, with Markal, and with Zephyr. I've played through all of this before, but now I want to replay it, go through a new leveling process. Is there a way to "fix" Godric, to remove his diplomacy? By the way, it's strange that he has two skills in the leadership branch, but the leadership school itself is only a basic skill; you can't level it up in the game like that. Leadership should be fully developed.

One skill/ability is forgotten, and a random new one is immediately granted; repeat until all unnecessary skills/abilities are removed: https://youtu.be/Jj-vwzZrd_4?t=66

You forget one skill/ability at a time, and immediately receive a random new one. Repeat until you have removed all the unnecessary ones: https://youtu.be/Jj-vwzZrd_4?t=66

Thank you very much.
By the way, this works without enabling cheats, and it also costs money, something like a mentor. So, whether to consider it a cheat or not is debatable.