• Heroes Of Might And Magic 8 Release Date

Short News June 19'

by Pol

Creature Quest Game Quiz

First a little housekeeping, some time ago I announced at forums Creature Quest Quiz, which is for everyone to peek in but really, only players will be knowing. Although I must say, that this Mobile Collectible RPG is not having too strong RPG elements, there's some funny lore behind and game mechanic, on which was the quiz targeted.

Heroes of Might Magic 8 Release date: 2018-08-08 Content: 1.History 2.Heroes 8 3.Resources 4. Factions 5.Buildings 6.Heroes 7.Faction Alternatives-1.History Good and Bad.

And there are the officially announced answers.

Heroes Of Might And Magic 8 Release Date

If you are curious sort of a person, there's Creature Quest TAG link

And we have also our own Guild, which is still hungry for a new souls.

New Walkthrough for M&M Heroes VII. - 'Trial by Fire'

by maltz

After Kalah completed our walkthrougs for MM:H7, we were long in absence of covering the only Add-On, which Ubisoft relased and after which slowly stopped active support for the game, Trial by Fire.

And there step in maltz with his Heroes 7 Walkthrough and Strategy Guide. Don't miss it, if you still care about the game. This is a recommended reading, breeze and brillant. Thank you maltz!

I shall not forget cjlee's summary and walkthrough in the forum. All of these walkthroughs were added to our Walkthroughs page.

HC Tournament in HOMM4 2019

Heroes Community decided to declare their own annual Heroes IV. tournament. Now is time to enroll for participation.
We wish you happy playing!

~And thanks Galaad for the message ;)

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One in, One out

by Pol

It's with my great pleasure and delight to announce that HeroOfPunk is becoming Celestial Heavens Staff. You surely know him as author of Masters of Sighisoara epos, along with Yurian Stonebow. Three time hooray for Max!

This should also prevents appearance of any Punk Police squad in the future! :D

Marzhin (Julien Pirou), one of ours most prolific Heroes VI - VII creators, announced that he's leaving Ubisoft. After ten years, his heart is moving on a new route. It seems that year 2019 is challenging with changes and that's what's much needed.

Marzhin we wish you lots of luck, everywhere where you walk in. ;)

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E3 2019: Songs of Conquest

by Pol

We will remain here, for a bit longer now. If any of new announced games bear any resemblance to Heores of Might and Magic, it's Songs of Contest.

What is served on the plate?
It may looks like one of the oldies but it's not. The game is centered about day gameplay, bulding and fighting and all of that it's serving in nicely fitting 8bits coat.

Where superior graphic is going aside, strategy and stories have a waste space to spring on. As the game is currently in alpha testing stage, you can subscribe for news and possible testing at www.songsofconquest.com and verify yourself. Razer ornata chroma setup.

The known info so far:
On E3 2019 they released a game trailer, there's also available interview with game developer. They have also a nice note on the blog, presenting happy coop between them as dev and their publisher.

Level editor and soundtrack are planned to be part of the game. Public release date shall be in late 2020. The game is announced as a classic turn based adventure strategy. Starting with hotseat and later with full mp. Developer is a small Sweden studio Lavapotion, with industry veteran members, this will be their first title. ;)

The Essence with you!

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E3 2019, what Ubi?

by Pol

E3 2019 ongoing now, June 11–13, in Los Angeles Convention Center

Ubisoft already have its press conference and announced new subscription service Uplay Plus. This sounds interesting as currently they are offering free trial for first half month and then you can subscribe for $14.99.
Similar model to HB Go or Amazon Prime or Humble Bundle Monthly :)

“The service will launch on September 3, but players who sign up between now and August 15 will be able to get free access to Uplay Plus from September 3 through September 30,” Ubisoft says.

Additionally they have E3 sale, with 75% discounts, Might & Magic is in, though it looks that Heroes III Complete for PC/ RoE for Android are missing. You can check it here.

No, there wasn't any Might & Magic related announcement and they had already press conference today.

But at our forums, there's call for Fate of Heroes. For these who would like to influence Ubisoft, to continue with our franchise. Check and register within Discord, and ideally make your personal appearance at E3 and ask them!

This may suprise them enough, to trigger a mental note about Might & Magic Baby!*

* Marzhin's ™

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Right Ads - SpaceWars

by Pol

Dear Readers,
as you probably noticed, we had got a new advert to support running our site. Though sci-fi there still remain a little ties to our favourite games. Which is why we decide to give it a go.

SpaceWars is a new turn-based strategy game developed by Vesuvius — Who ran the Heroes Tournament of Honor for Homm2 through Homm6 — and is in beta on Steam. He was inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic as well as the Kingdoms MMO and Homeworld TBS, to create his own hex-based tactical game but in a science fiction universe. It has recently opened up for early access beta, and he wanted to have the Homm community experience it.

Celestial Heavens community members who join up can get $10 in credits for in-game purchases, though the game is free to play, and one can achieve top level without paying.

Come try it out, the game has no publisher yet, so it is only known through word of mouth.

You are all welcome!

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Map Making Competition with Heroes3WoG.net

by Pol

This is a great news for all map makers. At heroes3wog.net they are making map competition. This time it's 'easier' you shall create just a map fragment, size is determind by 1280×768 to 1920×1080, aka one HD mod screen size.

And an obligatory choice of map version is HoTA.

As in any right contest, there are prices, delivered from GoG.

Contest is running till May 31st 2019 at 12:00 PM

Happy Map Making!

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Short News - 19' March2April

by Pol

MMH 5.5

They released a new version, with fixes, new SkillWheel and and possibility to replace new Treeant with the ToTE one. You can grab it here.

Might & Magic: Heroes 5.5 (RC11) - Fixes rare gamebreaking issue of cursor flickering/flashing and game not possible to continue. Released Mar 23rd, 2019.

MMH 5.5. Skillwheel
Most notable changes:
+ spell pane - Spells that can be Empowered now include empowered damage and mana stats.
+ spell pane - The 8th spell slot now presents magic guild summoning and formulas for each creature.
+ spell pane - Adventure pane now includes 'Town Management' skill variations.
+ town pane - Bloodrage skill description.
+ town pane - Magic guild creature summoning and dragon blood description.
changed - town pane - highlights are rearranged into more meaningful manner.
+ hero pane - Betrand moved from Knights to Renegade class.
+ hero pane - Betrand does not have Curse spell.
+ hero pane - Iron Lord/Maiden spec description.
+ hero pane - teleport assault description.
+ hero pane - Barbrian classes 'Khan' and 'Veteran' buttons hover now has subtext referring to having access to 13 skills.
+ global - Fonts issues for english and russian.
+ artifact pane - axe of mountain lords description.
+ artifact pane - mini artifacts values now present the current game values.

And file to get back ToTE Treeants, in case that you don't like vanilla ones - which were removed for license reasons.

HoTA Factory Town Teaser

HoTA team released new factory teaser, which you can watch here. So what is in? (Aaargh, these terrain colors. Looks like you will have them burned into your retina forever after hours of playing..) New Factory town will be probably made ready around New Year's Eve - the date is flexible and nothing is yet to be set in the stone.

Factory is supposed to be neutral faction, with new heroe classes Bounty Hunter and Gunslinger. That terrain is not only vaguely similar to H2 wasteland.

At 28. April they also held demo presentation in Moscow, at Streamfest 2019. (The video link above is from here.) An interview is also available from Docent Picolan albeit just in russian, look here.

sources: HC, Discord, heroes3wog.net Additonal thanks goes to Avonu

Heroes Orchestra concert to celebrate Heroes III 20th year anniversary

To celebrate Heroes III. 20th year anniversary, there was arranged concert by Heores Orchestra in Poland. There are two videos from them on YT, check them out from their channel. I heard, that one tune from HoTA squeezed in too.

People's Creation

Cosplayer Vera (alias Oichi) set out cool pictures of H5 Shaman, mmm, there! With more images available from heroes3wog.net even some comparision. The pictures are not HoTA but certainly they are hot.

And if you cannot have enough of H3 maps, you can even get a T-shirt with them. Pretending that you are a Dungeon Overlord. Yees, these still rule!
Would you wear them?

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Heroes III. - 20 Years Anniversary

by Pol

It's here. Heroes III. of Might and Magic were first released on February 28, 1999. Feeling nostalgic, so much time passed, so much Windows OS too, and the game is still alive.

It's not the same game, need to say. The first released part was Restoration of Erathia, which is the only, where source codes remained to these times, to be later remasterd by Ubisoft and released like Homm3 HD. To both, good and bad. The good part of Ubisoft version is having better graphic and comes with mobile version. The bad is no propagation now, apart for discounts and not a new fuel in sight. They say, that it's too costy.

RoE originally comes with more innovative ideas, which were later cut out for balance purposes. The last remnants were removed with the first patches. Being 'Unluck' could halve your damage, imagine what Arch Devils could do with it. And having Eagle Eye allowed you to learn and cast spells at higher difficulty. So you could 'Blind' more units at once, nifty!

'But to see its occurence, you needed to play the game for months.'

And without doubt it comes with one of the best intro video in the industry. It simply catch your heart, to help Queen Catherine Ironfist to led her forces against scheming Dungeon Overlords. Old world of legends defiled alive before your eyes.

Later the game was accompanied with Armageddon Blade and Shadow of Death. Featuring first assembled artifact Armageddon Blade and balanced Fortress and later everlasting hero Sandro, and his way to power and ..over.

That lore and mechanic just defined the heroes genre. Spurred talks and been an incentive for thousands of map makers. The possibility to make your own stories was so refreshing, that the game live to these days. Of course, it wouldn't be entirely possible without its predecessors.

How to celebratie it today? By playing it!

You can play it on mobile phone, either like Heroes 3 HD or H3C with VCMI. You can go 'wog' with ERA2 or 'mp' with Horn of the Abyss. And you can also try to play Heroes 2 in rather Heores 3 world in the Succession Wars. Or moving aside with VCMI. In most cases, with use of HDmod by baratorch.

No mod would be good by itself without maps, try Masters of Sighisoara or check our map archives, for much more maps in the world check our links section.

Long Live the Queen!

Mods:
ERA2 - is a successor of WoG, having many scripts which you can enable or disable to make you happy and experiment
VCMI - is another engine not a mod, still not final but very stable.
Horn of the Abyss - is spinning all about the base game and multiplayer. Definitively not any scripts to play with.
Succesion Wars mod - brings Heroes II. mood in Heroes 3 coat
HDmod - allows you too play the game on current monitors, without resolution and color depths requirements
And HDmod can be accompanied with SP Plugin - if you prefere to play single player only. HDmod is compatible with pure Heroes 3 Complete or with Horn of the Abyss or with ERA2

Maps:
New CH Maps
Thunder Maps
H3MapArchives - Part 1 + 2 + WoG

Post Scriptum: If you would like to ponder over some questions, there's a list of related interviews from 2018:

Interview with NWC: Greg Fulton about Angels, Gelu and Heavenly Forge
Interview with Marzhin (in russian only) - Part 1, Part 2
Q&A with Erwan Le Breton on AcidCave.net
Videointerviews with Tim Lang by Super Goober

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Legends of Ancients - Book III. available for Download

by Pol

After years of waiting there's finaly available Book III. This is because LotA team revived in previous year and got aboard new member - mctronic. Congrats!

And if you would be interested, contact them. They are still looking for a new volunteers, to create and test maps. Book IV is ahead!

Dear CH Community,
The Legend of the Ancients (LotA) team is proud to present Book 3 of HOMM5: LotA.

Book 3 is the work of dedicated HOMM fans that started around 2008-2009.

Book 3 features innovative ideas not seen in the previous books of LotA and in all HOMM5 Campaigns (to the best of our knowledge), and also features themes from previous games in the M&M Universe.

We are hopeful that you will enjoy playing the campaign as much as it was for the LotA team to implement it.

Please note the following for Book 3 of HOMM5: LotA:

1) It is only compatible with version 3.1;
2) Make sure that the option 'No EyeCandies' is left unchecked; and
3) The game has been tested on Hard difficulty (for full AI).

Bugs, comments and suggestions may be reported on this thread.

Regards,
The LotA Team

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