Comments - SmokeWawelski

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The mod's gameplay is terrible. Some unit stats are taken straight out from h2 i believe which is a really bad choice because they are simply too low. There's no point in building higher level creatures. Not sure if you are familiar with damage counting in h2 and h3. In h2 attack of attacker and defence of defender difference was usually lower so each point gave way more. In h3 the same units just deal laughable amounts of damage. For example take liches. They are 6 lvl units now so they should be as strong as cyclops, right? Nope, they are not even as strong as liches from the base game (and they were 5 lvl!). Seriously, just look at stats. The stat difference make them so useless that there's just no point in buying them. I want also to admit that they are fewer of them because they are 6 lvl now which is the second reason of higher lvl creatures being so useless. In h2 you can increase amount of troops by 2 flat. All troops. This obviously is in favor of high lvl creatures bcs you get 2 more centaurs for example as same as dragons. In h3 you get % increase. With castle you get 100% more troops. So you can get up to 4 liches each week. And they are like just 3 times better maybe than 2 lvl archers. And you get so few of them. Not worth the effort. Another issue I have with the mod is that everything is so slow. Every hero, every troop. Even dragons can get up to 12 speed i believe which is laughable taking faster h3 base units into consideration. Yes, this also means there are no fast lower tier units. Maybe gnomes are exception, but seriously, every unit is made slowest possible. Do you remember dragon flies, wolf raiders, griffins, cerbers or any fast lower tier units? forget it. Heroes are also terribly slow. To do anything in decent speed you have to rotate your army between many heroes which makes you unable to succesfully main one hero which provides lack of satisfaction. I played the same map on h3sw and h3hota, viking we shall go. In hota i did in two weeks that i couldnt do in a month of succesion wars. The last issue i realised is lack of "crazy" strats on certain factions. Do you remember behemoth rush? or wyverns on 1st day? Forget it. Here you have to build up your city so much to get any higher tier unit that it's just not worth the effort, as i said previously. Higher level creatures are made useless due to low stats and high building requirements. It makes the mod barely playable for me. It doesn't bring me any joy to play this. I tried. Maybe i will give it another try when they fix these issues. For now better try base heroes 2, its way better, i guarantee.