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Neltharion
Tavern Dweller
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posted March 24, 2016 10:37 PM |
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Limit the amount of CPU heroes
Hello, can you guys tell me if there's any way to limit how many heroes the CPU recruits? I am using H3 Complete with HotA and HD+. Is there some plugin or mod, or other way to do that?
Or if there isn't, can you give me some tips how to play with many heroes. Believe it or not - I am playing HOMM 3 since it was released, through all its expansions and I ALWAYS used just 1 hero. 80% of the time I am playing in coop with friends and they also use one single hero. But I think after all these years its time to move on and try more than 1 hero. I am trying to play with more but they are too weak and die easily which makes me think I just wasted 2.5k. I can't keep up with making strong army for each one. Currently I have a game where I captured 4 towns (Cove (my first town), Inferno, Castle and Rampart) and I am struggling with just 2 heroes, even if I get 10k gold per day. Let alone if I try more than 2. I have most towns in the game and the 3 CPU enemies have just 1 or 2 towns (judging by the Cove "spy" building) but in the same time they are going with 5-6 heroes all of them with great armies. One of them had 4 bone dragons and 2 black dragons. I managed to kill this guy rather easy but 1 day later another hero from the same color approaches with similar strong army... So I am open to any advises! Thanks!
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Maurice
Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
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posted March 24, 2016 11:33 PM |
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Usually secondary Heroes are used to ferry armies across to your frontline Hero(es). Also, pick off treasure and resource guards and then move on with your main Hero; get secondary Heroes to actually collect the stuff. Only pick up Artifacts and Treasure Chests for experience with your main Hero if you have to. Keep in mind that you can also pick up Artifacts with secondary Heroes and then transfer them to your main Hero, so those don't waste movement points collecting them.
Last but not least, a number of Heroes have a resource boost. There are a number who either start with Estates (and just a level up or two can quickly boost them to Expert Estates, good for 500 Gold per day each), or boost rare Resources (Calid for +1 Sulfur, Sephinroth for +1 Crystal, Saurug for +1 Gems and Rissa for +1 Mercury - and Cove also has a Hero that generates +1 Crystal, but I don't know his name off the top of my head). It may not seem like much, but in the long run it's a huge amount of extra resources you gain and you don't have to do anything with them.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted March 24, 2016 11:45 PM |
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Well, you can limit CPU heroes, but you have to edit the map, then uncheck all heroes availability to all colors, except yours, then let a fixed number available for AI. Requires a tedious manual editing in SoD/Hota, a 1 line script in Era/wog.
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Neltharion
Tavern Dweller
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posted March 25, 2016 07:30 AM |
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THanks for the heads up guys!
I know about how easy its to limit the CPU heroes in ERA, I wish it was compatible with HotA. But I love Cove too much to switch back to WoG/ERA lol
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Galaad
Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
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posted March 25, 2016 06:43 PM |
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Neltharion said: But I love Cove too much to switch back to WoG/ERA lol
I really find it completely different experience (even if both part of the HOMM-III experience). I always find myself switching between both.
Probably someone who really wants it could mod in Cove into ERA replacing an existing town. Hota is much more than one town anyway.
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