Favourite heroes from HoMM3

[Aemar]

Castle: Loynis (Prayer). Sir Mullich is overpowered (+2 speed), if not the strongest hero.
Necropolis: Isra (Necromancy). Having thousands of skeletons in the army sounds like a good plan. Galthran (Skeletons).
Dungeon: Gunnar (Logistics), also starts out with Tactics. Alamar (Resurrection).
Tower: Neela (Armorer), Solmyr (Chain Lightning), great choice for early game.
Fortress: Tazar (Armorer).
Stronghold: Crag Hack (Offense).
Inferno: Ayden (Intelligence). Marius (Demons).
Rampart: Kyrre (Logistics), also starts out with Archery. Elleshar (Intelligence).
Conflux: probably Monere (Psychic Elementals), also starts out with Offense and Logistics.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The best heroes are those with the COOLEST PORTRAITS. Honestly if you don't pick your hero by the coolness of his portrait, you are a big dummy.

Notable examples:

Castle: Christian

and Adelaide

Negropolis: Sandro

and Galthran

(at least you got this one right)
Dungeon: Darkstorn

(the king of Heroes 3)
Tower: Astral

Fortress: Korbac

the lizardman CHAD
Stronghold: Shiva

and Crag Hack

(I mean who doesn't like Crag Hack)
Inferno: Axsis

Rampart: Elleshar

(another one you got right, amazingly)
Conflux: They are all kind of shit but Pasis

and Monere

are reasonably pimping.

 

[octavius]

I always start with a random hero or the hero chosen by the map-maker.
Using Tazar every time you play Fortress must get boring.

For secondaries, I like heroes with skills like Logistics, Scouting, Navigation and those that increase gold and resources.

 

[oldbonebrown]

The best heroes are those with the COOLEST PORTRAITS. Honestly if you don't pick your hero by the coolness of his portrait, you are a big dummy.

Notable examples:

Castle: Christian

and Adelaide

Negropolis: Sandro

and Galthran

(at least you got this one right)
Dungeon: Darkstorn

(the king of Heroes 3)
Tower: Astral

Fortress: Korbac

the lizardman CHAD
Stronghold: Shiva

and Crag Hack

(I mean who doesn't like Crag Hack)
Inferno: Axsis

Rampart: Elleshar

(another one you got right, amazingly)
Conflux: They are all kind of shit but Pasis

and Monere

are reasonably pimping.

The correct sentiment but the wrong picks

Castle:

Sylvia with her eyes full of scorn and disdain
Necropolis:

Isra with her eyes full of... nothing, you can almost hear the wind blowing through her empty head, like a moan. Almost all of the Necropolis heroes look great, I really like Xsi but when the picture gets too big you notice her strange jaw

Shoutout to this guy from HotA that I hadn't seen before, I really like his predatory vibe

Dungeon: It is easy to want to play any of the horned fellas but I prefer the slimy bois

and Jeddite

looking dangerous and powerful
Tower: A lot of really good ones, but no one that stand out as one that I want to play, and I do not play Tower a whole lot so it's not important. The four genie ladies are all classy, and I can see Astral as one of their better ones too, but I think I like Theodorus the best

Fortress: Korbac might look cooler on his own, but you can't beat the pair of Wystand & Broghild

these are my current all around favourites, I feel rowdy galloping around with these two. Mirlanda

is irresistible to me as a backup, it feels very right to ride around the marshes with her, she very much looks the type that would eat a child. I haven't played much with him but Tazar looks very fierce

Rampart: Elleshar might be right, I like how Gem stands out a bit though

Inferno has a lot of good ones, which is sad because I don't like their creatures: Zydar (satanic rage)

Xarax (eastern cruelty)

Octavia

Xyron

Stronghold: I somewhat like all of them, it is easy to get what all the screaming green guys are about, but I don't play fortress and don't care to pick a favourite
Conflux: the psychic elementals, yes

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What an awfully messy looking post

 

[NJClaw]

You guys are dumb-dumbs. The best heroes are:

If you play anything else, you are an enemy and deserve to be smited and eradicated.

Fuck it, I'm reinstalling HoMM3 right now. TIME TO CRUSH SOME SKELETONS.

 

[Shadenuat]

the correct pics would be from HoMM II, because HoMM 3 is some smudged meh and grafix made through pre rendered low pol stuff.

 

[Humanophage]

the correct pics would be from HoMM II, because HoMM 3 is some smudged meh and grafix made through pre rendered low pol stuff.

HoMM2 portraits are okay, but too cartoonish. Unaltered HoMM3 portraits are a great and faithful representation of 90s fantasy art that we lost thanks to the trashy D&D3E and Warcraft 3 style. They are also not smudged, only NJClaw posted the correct size with no filters.

It precisely corresponds to this style, whilst HoMM2 simplifies it.

(This unfortunately does not pertain to the 3D renderings, which were a bad decision.)

 

[Aemar]

TIME TO CRUSH SOME SKELETONS.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Mai waifu Vidomina:

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Your waifu:

Spoiler

 

[bloodlover]

These days I just pick random (and remake the map like a little bitch bcz if Inferno drops I still can't enjoy playing it) or Kyrre/Tazar.

When I first started playing though, I played Solmyr 24/7. All of my friends wanted to play him too when we ran hotseat sessions so you can imagine the arguing that was going around. The faction had very cool units and tons of spells so yeah... Why would you play anything else?

edit: I remember that nobody wanted to play Fortress because "only one shooter".

 

[ciox]

Yeah, only the remastered version smudged the game's graphics like that.

On heroes, mostly agree with the aesthetics posts above, for fun in singleplayer skirmish games, I usually gravitate to these
Tower: Solmyr
Dungeon: Malekith
Rampart: Ivor
Necropolis: Sandro
Stronghold: Jabarkas
Inferno: Xyron
Fortress: Wystan

 

[Citizen]

Your waifu:

Huh? Octavia is my erathian waifu

 

[Aemar]

Waifus of Might and Magic.

 

[Shadenuat]

HoMM2 portraits are okay, but too cartoonish. Unaltered HoMM3 portraits are a great and faithful representation of 90s fantasy art

the personalities are ok, but portraits are inconsistent, humans often look like traced photos or something, with special effects slapped on; but it doesn't work for beast races for example which in comparison lack in definition. the conflux is just some early grafix editor horror show, and then there's 3d.
in comparison, homm 2 is crispy clean and consistent everywhere.

Mai waifu Vidomina:

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now that's good shit, author knows what they're doing.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

My personal fav is Thant. Starting with raise dead is low-key amazing and on impossible lets you do things that you otherwise wouldn't be able to do early on. Having mysticism as a starting skill is fucked up, but at least it synergizes a little bit with being able to cast as many raises on your skellingtons as possible. He also has a cool nosferatu portrait.

Other than that I'm usually just a cheapskate picking someone with armorer or logistics as special. Necromancy as a special is a bit too cheesy even for me.

 

[Morblot]

Jeddite

looking dangerous and powerful

^ my favorite as well (and I mean of all the heroes)

 

[Watser]

Sandro is a trashtier hero, only worthwhile thing he brings to the table is slow.
Galthan and Vidomina is where it's at.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Sandro is not trash tier at all, on big maps heroes focused on direct spell damage can become huge raeptrains.

 

[Shadenuat]

I thought people just ban Necros completely in multi, together with Diplomacy skill.

 

[smaug]

Sandro's portrait in 2 was better than 3's, wish it stayed the same style.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

I don't play multi since forever, but usually necro wasn't banned per se, just with extensive house rules.

 

[Black]

Sandro is a trashtier hero, only worthwhile thing he brings to the table is slow.
Galthan and Vidomina is where it's at.

Bitch

 

[tindrli]

Spoiler

Waifus of Might and Magic.

You are missing Isra bro

 

[Aemar]

She looks a bit unhealthy, probably that's why she was left out.

 

[Lagole Gon]

I thought people just ban Necros completely in multi, together with Diplomacy skill.

Everyone plays HotA now. Necromancy got nerfed into space. Diplomacy got nerfed into alien DMT dimension. Mysticism is decent now. Eagle Eye was left unchanged for the memes.