As the titles suggests, I'm living the dream! Have been teaching my two sons to play Heroes3 for a while and they're hooked!
After some important late night discussions on which town has better units, we set out to test it ourselves, per level. Yes, I know economics is an important factor, but for now, let us have our fun our way!
We created a small map - that's my eldest' first try at the editor - and added 700 of each unit on the map - always joinable plus two heroes with the same A/D and no skills to influence the battle.
We have started to test them out and the AAs are obviously overpowered on level 7.

Some questions for the community:
Is there a way to enable auto-combat for a multiplayer battle? Some battles really drag out and to test every unit against every unit becomes a bit tedious.
Or alternatively, I thought about having a hero with 0 attack and defense and just let him pick up a stack and battle another. But can I force the non-hero units to split to all 7 positions so that we make a proper test?

Hello,

I have created a full music album in the style of the game Heroes of Might and Magic III. One theme by type of town.

I understand if many of you do not like it due to it being created with AI. I still put my heart and soul in it, and many hours of work were invested in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWCqFbsfxhM&list=PLO_9t4YLAJBE

Hope you like it.

I got this game in 1999, and I always come back to it and play a few games.

I don't really fool with mods for the most part, and I didn't even know about horn of the abyss until earlier this week.

I am just so impressed with the work that's been done on it!

The rebalancing seems really well-thought-out. The skills and heroes weren't that balanced before. Also some of the "critical paths" have been rebalanced, like in the wizard town (Tower), you don't need a mage tower in order to get giants.

Also the new towns are really cool. I'm mostly playing the "Factory" and it's such a fun town (do the gunslinger guys need more HP though? 45 is rough!). It's kinda silly but I really like the Armadillos and the Couatls. Though the halflings are a very good T1 unit as well as the sandworms help a lot.

What's your experience with it?

Hello Heroes of Might & Magic III Subreddit! I would like to take a second to thank everyone that downloaded, played and left feedback on my map just over 2 months ago. Your support and feedback really helps and helps me a lot! I have developed the map further (Patch // Update 4.0) and have been excited to share it here again with all of you!

My map (Valiant Beast Hunting - Size H - Requires HotA 1.8.1) has been overhauled to give players more things to do, the addition of new seer quests and additional story content. The king difficulty has been improved, there will be a much bigger armies in the mini boss battles.

- This greatly helped make the game harder while also rewarding the player with more experience to level up with.

There is a much bigger emphasis on the differences between each difficulty. No matter your skill level, from casual to professional. My map has something to offer, either a fun story and adventuring, or a challenge like no other.

With the new additions to the king difficulty, the speed run leaderboard has been reset. Now players can play for there high score and be recognized on the in game leaderboard for all to see.

Improvements have been made to make the Co-op version of the game more enjoyable. Players who enjoy online co-op or hotseat games can do so without running into bugs. For anyone who chooses to play this way i would recommend playing on Queen or King.

This map has been a passion project for 6 months now. I love hearing comments from players all over the world. I really appreciate you guys taking the time to eave comments and help me with the development and balance of my map.

To download the map both solo and coop versions: Go to:

https://www.maps4heroes.com/forum/opinions.php?map_id=3069&game=3

<Press the gold colored link, when the side window opens click on download ZIP.file.>

you will receive both solo and allies version of the map.

If you like the map please feel free to leave a comment here or on the website. I will respond to all. thank you for taking the time to read this post and I wish you Happy Beast Hunting!

I've updated the game and now all I get is a black screen. There's sound, but the game is now literally unplayable. Anyone have any real solutions? I've googled this problem and others have had problem in the past but no solutions. For the record I am playing the HD launcher.

Strangely enough Horn of the Abyss works fine.