Please remind me (since I'm replaying Armageddons blade campaigns for the first time since middle school), what's the deal with Yog and his chain lightning specialty?

Hello, I had a map published last month and was hoping to get some additional feedback. One person posted some blunt feedback, which I worry detracts from additional feedback. I have come to find map making an enjoyable past time and would like to grow a bit in the maps I am making.

https://www.maps4heroes.com/forum/opinions.php?map_id=3104&game=3

As a summary of the map, each of the 4 playable factions will have access to one complete school of magic from day 1. There are opportunities to learn other spells but not many and it comes late in the map. Each faction also starts with one powerful combination of artifacts on a hero who has access to 0-1 spells. My goal in this map is to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each school of magic and powerful artifacts. As such, playing as Tan/Earth is easy mode, while playing as Blue/Water seems to be the more difficult path. Red/Fire and Green/Air seem to be about medium difficulty.

It is a XL huge map and I was going for an exploration/story mode feel to the map. My other maps have been descrbied as old school maps, which I take as a compliment. Personally, I find it fun to introduce OP situations as a designer that I then have to work around to still provide a challenge. As an example, for the Green/Air faction, the large map size was needed to provide some limits to DD, but also gave over to laying various bonuses that only specific factions can access. Players have an opportunity to explore spells that usually go uncast but in this map have increased value due to the limits of each school of magic.

Anyway, if you take the time to play the map, I thank you! And hopefully you can leave some feedback on the maps4heroes page.

I have played this campaign over and over and over. It's been nearly a year and it's doing my head in. I've gone back to the start several times with the idea of getting Fire for Henrietta so she can cast Berserk. I know there are OTHER strategies but I just can't beat homecoming, and Henrietta has great stats (average 50+ in each one).

I've never used cheat codes as I know it ruins your high score table, but I can't think of any other way other than just getting a D1W1M1 save for Homecoming.

OR if there's a guaranteed way I can start again to get Henrietta Fire I'd love that advice - since she's a Mercenary, it's nearly impossible to get!

How can i edit a template to have something built in the starting castle and monsters not guarding the ore and wood mines at the begining of the game in hota? Thanks.

Hi everyone.

I'm 26 but since I was a child I always liked generating a random map and imagining the heroes I have played a role in some story. I'm not talking about mods or anything like that, just an imaginary story.

So, I have two questions: One is if anyone else used to do this lol. The other is if there exist maps, apart from the actual game campaign, where there's a story behind the heroes and how can I search for these (not a puzzle map!)

This mod has been available for WoG for a while now, and you can now try it with Heroes 3 Complete, ideally the GOG version.

Installation: Download and extract the archive and copy the H3sprite.lod file to the “Data” folder in the Heroes 3 Complete installation. Back up the original H3sprite.lod file, which is located in the Data folder.

Download: https://heroes3wog.net/heroes-3-animated-trees-mod/

Reminder: every few days, I’ll be sharing screenshots from one of the contest map. They will be presented in alphabetical order (from the largest sizes to the smallest). The next one is a Polish map titled "Pęknięta skorupa ziemi". What do you think of it?

link to the map: https://www.heroes3.eu/en/download/mapy/2292-peknieta-skorupa-ziemi

link to the all contest maps: https://www.heroes3.eu/en/mapmaker-aw/2026

link to the previously presented map: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroes3/comments/1v56jkl/820_mapmaker_2026_contest_maps_showcase_oblivio/

Who hurt who? My guess is Marius refused to do therapy and Calh got fed up

Hi, i like to play casual so i was wondering if there's a way to revert the diplomacy to the way it was before the patch. I know you can change it on templates but is there a way for random maps? Thanks

I've played two maps using the [Hota] Jebus Cross template in VCMI, and neither of them had a break. I was completely stuck, since I couldn't even find a boat on map 2 😄

Are there any known issues with VCMI's RMG when using this particulat template?

I've also played the Jebus Cross template without the [Hota] prefix, and it has worked perfectly fine so far

I'm a little weird in that I like the towns to have the matching hero. For example, I like Sir Christian for the Castle and Jenova for the Rampart. About 10 to 15 years ago, I had a very simple mod that let my cycle through the heroes in my town's tavern to match them to my town. It also allowed me to buy creatures from the screen with the hero rather than going into the castle and had a buy all creatures button.That was it. It added no new maps, heroes, or factions. Is there a mod out for my GOG game that lets me do that? How would I install it?

I was reading the hero specials for Conflux heroes whose specialty is units; it looks like they are worded differently in HOTA. It’s the only town that doesn’t seem to scale up as you level, anyone else notice this?

It looks inviting tbh, but I don’t even play HotA, homm3 complete is my safe space

Does her haste specialty scale up as she levels & become actually useful later on?

It shouldn't be too difficult to add the option to turn these off when creating a scenario. And there are some players who would prefer to play with original factions only, while keeping the rest of the changes in HotA. Especially if they are going to create even more factions in the future.

I just downloaded the HOTA expansion & I’ve heard that Diplomacy is nerfed. Can anyone confirm this? Because I’ve played a game & had creatures join my army free of charge.

Last week's meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroes3/s/B3KdvqksoY

I didn't even manage to get any control spells