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That has to be Heroes 3.

For one reason: Survival time.

No other game I have ever - EVER - played has been able to stay alive than Heroes 3. My dad played Heroes 3 since a year after it came out, and he still plays it. And I can play it with him, and enjoy it tremendously. Of course, I now go for Heroes 5 because of the new graphics and stuff, but Heroes 3 is clearly the better game.

Heroes 2 was great, but when Heroes 3 came out, I never - never - opened Heroes 2 again. Heroes 3 was better than Heroes 2 in every single aspect. I know that people rave about the atmosphere of Heroes 2, and yes, personally I loved the Sorceress town, but Heroes 3 is better in terms of towns, units, skills and gameplay.

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...i played homm3 for 3 weeks!that's all and i think i'm not the only one

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I think you aren't, Alc!
And you are wrong, Angel!

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I agree, your hero was only limited to a certain number of artifacts, which was very poor because if you got the fizbin of misfortune for example, then you were stuck with it, you could trade it to another hero that you own but then that hero would be stuck with the artifact.
I also agree that the Knight and Barbarian towns were the worst, but I do like the Cyclops, one of my fav units in Heroes 2, but there were no flying units and They have weak units.
The weakest is the Peasent which you could hire from the Knight town and I never bought them, they were a big waste of gold, they had very, very little movement and they had a very weak attack skill and defense skill, they were useless.
The Paladin and the Cyclops were probably the weakest level 6 units in the game, but they were i think the cheapest.
The best towns were probably the Wizard and the Warlock as they had the Titan (wizard) and the Black Dragon (warlock) and they were the most powerful units in the game, but they were pretty expensive aswell.

I really like both the games as Heroes 2 had a good story, and good replayability and it was the game that started it all for me. And I like Heroes 3 because it has better graphics, massive replayability, good story, good units, improved artifact load, improved spell casting system and more towns and creatures to buy.

Heroes 3 has added alot of new heroes to hire/buy with each one having their unique skill for example:
Orrin having a 5% increase with the Archery secondary skill.
Those little things are what make the game more exciting and add more depth to it.
It has also intruduced the Ballista and the Tent which can be very usefull in Battles.
There are more spells, more creature with each one having a skill like thing eg:
Medusas have stone gaze, Harpies have Strike and Return.
Just those little things are what make Heroes 3 exciting and enjoyable to pley, and it also adds more depth towards the game.
Also the AI has gotten considerably harder than Heroes 2 and it makes more tactical decisions in Battle by casting spells efficiently and casting high level spells wheras in Heroes 2 it usually casted spells like magic arrow, and usually it casted spells like Armaggedon killing his army rather killing mine. But now it casts Lightning, Chain Lightning, Armaggedon not killing his army, more like killing more of my army.
It also makes good moves, defends it's castle well and other things that I don't need to mention.
Another thing is the transition from 2D to 3D. This dramatically changes the game. In my opinion changes it to the better, because I love looking at the visuals, the different battle landscapes, the creatures everthing.

Also the new town types include:

The Conflux (only in Expansion packs)-
This is a good town type with elementals and the Phoenix which is quite powerful.
This town is not really weak but it is quite strong if you gather your forces and you think carefully about the decisions you make.
Overall a pretty powerful town.

The Inferno-
This is quite a good town type, one of my favs mainly because of the wicked untis the Devils/Arch Devils.
This is an alright strengh army but can be really weak when you start off.
If you gather your resources, and build the required buildings, then this town type can be extremely tough to beat.
The Devils/Archdevils hate the Angels, so the attack will be greater and that can be really useful when in battle against angels.

The Rampart-
A pretty strong town type, mainly because of the Gold Dragons but nothing really special.
One of the special buildings is the Fountain (cant think of name) which increase a random number of resources each week.
Pretty weak to start off with but when you get the Gold dragons then you will become really powerful and hard to beat.

The Tower-
My fav town type, probably because of the Titans.
This is a powerful town and can be really tough to beat, even in the early stages of the game.
The Gremlins are a good unit when used with really high numbers, and the Titans are very strong and tough.
This Town Type has 3 ranged units which is really good, because that buys you some time because the enemy has to move to you, rather than you moving towards it, and if you have the Hero Orrin than you will be incredibly hard to beat.
Really good town type to conquer your enemies with.

Necropolis-
Typically the same as Heroes 2 but with some added creatures and buidlings.
No new units except Dread, death knights, Wights/Wraiths.
I don't really like this town type mainly because it has some weak creatures.
But it can be really tough in the later stages of the game, but by then it could already be to late.

The Castle-
Basically the same as Heroes 2 but with some added creatures and buildings.
One of the hardest towns to beat mainly because of the Angles and their strenght and skills such as: Ressurect dead allies and +1 to morale.
The angels also hate Devils/Arch Devils and their attack increases when battling them.
Good town type, in early and late stages of the game.

The Dungeon-
I don't like this town.
Only good thing in it is the Black Dragons which are immune to all spells and they are really powerful.
I don't really like this town and don't really know much about it typically because I don't really play with them.

Well i think that pretty much sums it up.
So personally I like both of them heaps.

Thanks.

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