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The city you do that just needs the necessary building(s) to buy the critters in the first place (so if you haven't built the griffin building, you can't buy any griffins, and if you only built the basic building, you can't buy advanced griffins there). That means if you have 3 cities, each producing, say, 10 archers per week, you can visit one of them and buy all 30 archers.

You can buy all available units from almost anywhere.

Only unique buildings (which each city has two slots for, and in each instant, you can choose between two different kinds of building) will be destroyed. Since most buildings in cities are more or less standardised now, the conversion will work well (the building for hiring the first Haven core unit will just turn into the building for hiring the first Necropolis core creature and so on). That means if you're playing Haven and conquer a Necropolis, you can turn it into a haven (it costs resources, depending on how far advanced the city is, but works instantly).

You can convert towns to your faction now.

For example, some abilities only work on core (with version 2 of the ability working on core and elite and version 3 on core, elite and champion) That's still 7 critters (as before in two version, normal and upgraded) per faction, but the differences between the 3 core critters (or 3 elite units) isn't that big - the different between the three categories is very notable, though.Ī lot of abilities are limited to the categories, when they might often have been limited to tiers instead in older games. The categories are core, elite and champion, with the first two having three critters per faction each, and a single champion creature per faction.

Units are divided into three categories rather than 7 tears.

Instead, you can act (by using an ability or just your heroic strike) just before one of your units. The heroes aren't part of the initiative. only half the speed, and if you attack or use abilities, they activate at only half strength) If you have good morale, you immediately get another "half-turn" (i.e. The initiative value still determines the order in which the critters get to go, and effects can still influence that. In extreme cases, some units could act 4 times before certain other units got to act even once). The system is now closer to what we know from Pathfinder or many other games: Each critter gets to act exactly once in a turn, and after that, the next turn starts (in H5, your initiative bonus determined how fast your turn would come again.

The more complex initiative system is gone.

You can see at a glance how advanced it is (at least in general terms, such as general "town level" and fortification level). The cities you see on the adventure map are now detailed now, though.

Sure, the full-screen "sight-seeing flights" through the town as you entered it was nice, but ultimately, it's just eye-candy, and later you just open a city menu, build, get units, and leave.

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The "Town Screen" as it was known in H5 is gone, and in its place is a town window (no full screen).

Some of the biggest changes from Heroes 5 (as I said, I don't know the older games, so I can't say which of these are brand new and which ones are just older stuff returning): There's also dynasty weapons that level with use (and gain extra abilities). One big difference from 5 (and I guess the older titles as well) is the dynasty aspect, since that applies to the player: In addition to play heroes that level, you level as a player, as your dynasty gains power (which translates to points you can spend on dynasty traits and other things). Unlike Heroes 5, you can play them in any order, they happen more or less at once, and have connections (from the beta, I know that one involves looking for and rescuing the main character for another). Beyond the 2-mission tutorial campaign/epilogue where you get to play Duke Slava, you have one campaign for each child (I guess with 5-6 missions each, though I don't know for sure, and the Beta only has two of these campaign missions in addition to the tutorial ones). The story involves a dynasty - 5 siblings, the children of Duke Slava, each aligned with a different faction.

It plays 400 years or so before 5, though, not after it (I guess they were not yet ready to ditch griffins -)) Heroes 6 plays in the same world as 5 (which is a different one from the earlier Heroes games and the RPGs, too, though Dark Messiah was a close tie-in to 5 in terms of story, and in Tribes of the East, you even had a Heroes version of the Dark Messiah Storyline.) I haven't played anything before 5, though I heard about how 4 was not very popular. 5 felt bland and cut-down and the flavour seemed like a cheap clone of Warhammer Fantasy. 4 was radically different and improved a lot of things but lost a lot of the charm somewhere along the line. Umbral Reaver wrote: I grew up with the Heroes series.