While I’ll always prefer the third, it’s great to see a series change up their formula especially when they’re successful already. Though the styles are different, HoMM III and V are both enjoyable and challenging games. HoMM III is about exploration and exploitation of the world where HoMM V is about character building. There’s more artifacts and spells in III, but more hero customization in V. There was a clear shift in focus when you compare both games more creatures in III, but more skills in V. When all is said and done, HoMM III definitely feels a lot more ponderous that HoMM V, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Your hero is now a much more integral part of your army and in many cases, your most valuable asset.
Haven heroes can use “Counterstrike” which allows them to retaliate against any attack on a preferred unit and Sylvan heroes can create a “favorite enemy” list which allows them to do more damage to those enemies. Heroes now have unique skills that change how you think about combat as well. In the original HoMM V, you needed to master skills from five different disciplines to get the Ultimate Skill, making it almost impossible unless you were playing a campaign, but the HoMM V expansions lowered the requirements to three disciplines per hero. Each faction has an ultimate skill that you can only get by combining the right amount of smaller skills. Heroes now have their own turn in battle where they can attack or cast spells, as opposed to casting spells on their creatures’ turns in HoMM III. Some creatures also have certain abilities connected to their faction, like Inferno creatures ability to gate, or create temporary one-hit copies of themselves on the map.īy far the largest change in HoMM V is the new way that Heroes function. A variety of them have the ability to cast spells as well as attack, which opens up all sorts of new tactical options (should I just attack my Archmages, or make use of their weaker fireball spell to hit a larger area?).
Your units are now more powerful on their own, due to some big changes.
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