Games PC HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC III User Manual

Player Manual

Section I

Table of Contents

Section I Introduction......................................................................................................................................................................3

Section II Interface Reference ..............................................................................................................................................7

Main Menu ................................................................................................................................................................................8

Adventure Map ....................................................................................................................................................................13

eroes and the

ero Screen ................................................................................................................................23

Skills ..................................................................................................................................................................................................33

Combat ............................................................................................................................................................................................40

Towns ...............................................................................................................................................................................................49

Magic System .........................................................................................................................................................................55

Kingdom Overview ................................................................................................................................................................57

Multiplayer .............................................................................................................................................................................59

Section III World Reference ............................................................................................................................................63

Spell Reference ....................................................................................................................................................................63

Town and Creature Reference

............................................................................................................................81

Individual

eroes ..............................................................................................................................................................118

Section IV Appendices ..........................................................................................................................................................134

Keyboard Shortcuts ......................................................................................................................................................134

Mplayer.com ........................................................................................................................................................................135

EAT ...........................................................................................................................................................................................137

Troubleshooting ..................................................................................................................................................................138

Customer Support ..........................................................................................................................................................141

Index ................................................................................................................................................................................................142

90-Day Limited Warranty ..................................................................................................................................144

Edwin E. Steussy, Publisher.

Tom Ono, Author. Amy Yancey, Coordinator.

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Introduction

Dear Heroes of Might and Magic®fans,

When I sat down to create King’s Bounty®, the precursor to Heroes of Might and Magic, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would grow into the phenomenon the series has become. I had just finished Might and Magic

II. At the time, King’s Bounty was state of the art: 16 colors and used up both sides of the floppy disk. I had one programmer and one artist to make my design real, and it took us about a year to finish.

Nine years later, the Heroes™ III game is state of the art. The Heroes III game has 65,000 colors and fills an entire CD. I had over 30 people work on the project: programmers, artists, voice actors, and level designers, and it took us about 18 months to finish.

King’s Bounty, although crude by today’s standards, was a lot of fun to play. Players recruited troops, maintained armies, and fought battles on tactical maps with a variety of fantastic monsters. The Heroes III game does the same, only the graphics are much fancier and the animations are far smoother. In addition, some fundamental game play changes have happened since then, giving the player options and tactics magnifying the scope of the game tremendously.

The leap from King’s Bounty to the Heroes I game was the single largest change, both in terms of technology and game play. I looked at what I thought had gone right with King’s Bounty, mixed in our fans’ wish lists and the capabilities of more modern computers, and got down to work. After a seemingly endless series of false starts, dead ends, and programming troubles, we shipped the game and held our breath.

The Heroes I game shipped quietly enough, but enthusiasm for the game was strong and grew stronger as time passed. It took us a while to realize we had a genuine hit on our hands, but when we did, we started work on the Heroes II game immediately. This time, we were armed with a ton of fan mail suggestions and an existing game that we could build from. Nevertheless, what seemed to be a simple improvement to a finished game was fraught with complications, and I agonized over design decisions and game balance considerations.

After a year’s worth of design wrangling, we got down to business and the Heroes II game shipped in time for Christmas. I noticed that everyone in the office was playing the game even people working on different projects - and knew from past experience what a good sign this was. The Heroes II game turned out to be one of our most popular games ever.

Now we’ve shipped the Heroes III game. We’ve had a lot of fun designing and making this game, and once again, everyone in the office is playing it. I’m confident the Heroes III game is going to be a smashing success! We hope you have as much fun playing it as we’ve had making it!

Sincerely,

Jon Van Caneghem

Creator and Designer

Heroes of Might and Magic I-III

Might and Magic I-VII

King’s Bounty

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Commander,

I hope this letter finds you well and has reached you before you

set sail with Queen Catherine to Erathia. I regret these trying times. The duties forced upon me have made it impossible for me to see you off in person.

First, let me congratulate you on your commission. I am glad — no, thankful — Catherine has someone of your character and abilities among her entourage. I do not hold such an

unqualified opinion of some who travel with you. I know you are more at home on the battlefield than in the company of the royal court, but let me remind you, the strategies and tactics

employed there are every bit as complex and potentially

deadly, as any found in military conflict. No, I don’t have any

real proof of any particular disloyalty or treachery — just

a feeling.

It is unfortunate your first visit to Erathia could not be made

in happier times — it is a land of beauty and stability. Or at

least it has been, under Nicolas Gryphonheart’s rule. He was a

great king and a dedicated ally. I will remember him best as a

man of strength and fairness, both qualities have bred

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true in our dear Catherine. You know she has not ruled out the

possibility foul play was involved in his death. Do not be too quick to dismiss her thoughts as those of a grieving daughter. True, she is saddened but has not lost hold of her wisdom.

Hah! Listen to me and my gloominess! Just watch your back as a favor to a friend made cynical and suspicious by age. I’m sure

I’m just seeing things in the worst possible light. A vocational habit. Perhaps I have been at this job too long.

Farewell, friend. I look forward to your return, to a good cup of tea by the fire, and to the recounting of your journey’s tale. May the seas be calm and the wind steady in your sails.

Best Regards, Wilbur Humphrey, Regent of Enroth

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How to Use this Manual

This manual is divided into three main sections. This section, the Introduction, contains the background story, features information, installation instructions, and “getting started” hints. The second section,

Interface Reference, details the workings of the game’s various interfaces. The third section, World Reference, is full of descriptive and statistical information about the locations, creatures, heroes, and

spells you will encounter as you play. The Appendices contain additional information about Internet gaming services, Troubleshooting, 3DO Customer Support, The 3DO Company 90-Day Warranty, and an extensive index.

If you are new to the world of Heroes of Might and Magic, fear not! The game is rich in detail, true, but it belongs to a series long applauded for ease of use. Furthermore, you can play the in-game tutorial specifically designed to introduce you to the basic concepts of the Heroes III game gameplay. Refer to the Interface Reference and World Reference for more detailed information as you play.

If you are familiar with the Heroes II game, you may feel comfortable diving right into the game. In the Interface Reference, discussion of each of the game’s major interfaces (for example, the Adventure Map) begins with an overview. Read each overview, then the following sections for a more detailed explanation about particular features. You will find the World Reference helpful as you encounter new spells, town features, and creatures.

Manual Conventions

This manual assumes you are using a standard keyboard and two-button mouse, and you are familiar with their use. It will also assume you have a minimal understanding of the Microsoft Windows

95/98 operating systems. If you don’t understand any of the following terms, you may want to take a few minutes and run through the tutorial materials that come with Windows 95/98:

mouse pointer left-click right-click double-click pull-down menu dialog box

The manual will use the term “click” to replace “left-click.”

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Interface Reference

File

Quit: Closes the program

Display

Full Screen (F4): Switches the display to full screen mode

Help

On Line Manual: Starts the help system

About: Displays copyright information about the game

Starting Play

Before you begin a Heroes III gaming session, you must choose what type of game you want to play. The New Game Menu allows you to choose between single, campaign, and multiplayer scenarios. You may also choose to resume a previously saved game or play the tutorial.

Launching Heroes of Might and Magic III

Once the program is installed you may start the game by inserting the Heroes III game CD into your CD-ROM drive and clicking the Play button on the following screen. When you do this, the company credit animations and introductory movie will play. You may bypass these by clicking the mouse button at any time. You may also start the game by choosing the Heroes III game shortcut created in your Start Menu.

Full Screen Vs. Windowed Display

During your gaming session, you may hit the F4 key to switch between full screen and windowed display modes. In full screen mode, the Heroes III game fills your entire video display at 800 x 600 pixel resolution. In this mode, you may press Alt-TAB to minimize the game screen and display the Windows Desktop. To return to the game from the Desktop, select it from your Taskbar.

In windowed display mode, the game appears in a standard Desktop window. Since the game displays at 800 x 600 resolution, it is recommended this mode only be used when running Windows at 1024 x 768 or higher resolution. In windowed display mode, you gain the following pull-down menu commands:

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Main Menu New Game Menu

The Main Menu displays after the introductory animations play. To choose an option from the menu, move the mouse cursor over a button and click.

New Game: Choose this to start a game from the

beginning. Clicking this button sends you to the New Game Menu, where you can select between single

player scenario, multiplayer, or campaign games.

Load Game: While you are playing the Heroes III

game, you can save games in progress. Choose this option to resume a previously saved game.

High Score: When you complete a single scenario or

campaign, you receive a score based on your performance. Click this button to display a list of the top scores.

Credits: Click this button to see the list of people

responsible for bringing you the Heroes III game.

Quit: Click this button to close the program and

return to Windows.

The New Game Menu appears when you click the New Game button on the Main Menu. From this menu you can start a single, multiplayer, or campaign scenario from the beginning.

Single Scenario: Click this button to start a single

scenario. Single scenarios are played on one map against the computer and are completed by meeting a set of mission conditions.

Multiplayer: You may play the Heroes III game against

other human players across the Internet, other network connections, or on a single computer. Press this button to display the Multiplayer Game Type Selector. For more information about multiplayer games, see Multiplayer (pg. 59).

Campaign: Choose this button to display the selection

of campaign games. Campaign games are linked scenarios marking climactic events in longer stories. They are played against the computer.

Tutorial: A special tutorial scenario has been created to

help you learn the game. To play it, click this button. You will need to consult the online tutorial guide as you play.

Back: Click this button to return to the Main Menu.

Interface Reference

Scenario Selector

Before you can start a single player or multiplayer game, you must choose which scenario you want to play. This is done using the Scenario Selector. Here you may also set the game difficulty and choose which forces you want to control in a single player game. In a multiplayer game, the host assigns players to their forces (see Multiplayer, pg. 59).

You may toggle the display of available scenarios by clicking the Show Available Scenarios button. You can move the list up and down using the scroll bar along the right side of the list. When you click on a scenario’s name, it becomes highlighted and its scenario description and win/loss conditions are displayed. The difficulty settings control the strength of the computer opponent’s starting resources and artificial intelligence.

To start the highlighted scenario, click the Begin button. Click the Back button to return to the Main Menu.

Size of Map

Maps may be small, medium, large, or extra large in size. Size refers to the tile dimension of the Adventure Map a scenario is played on. While many factors affect length of play, this can be used as a rough gauge of how long it will take to complete a scenario, with larger maps taking more time. The Map List Box’s display may be constrained to a list of maps of a certain size by using the Size Filter buttons located directly above it.

Size Filter Button Map Size Displayed Tile Dimension

S (small) 36 x 36

M (medium) 72 x 72

L (large) 108 x 108

XL (extra large) 144 x 144

All of the Above All of the Above

Map Size

Show Advanced Options

# of Total Players/ Human Players

Enemy/Ally Display

Victory Conditions

Size Filter Buttons

Difficulty Settings

Loss Conditions

Show Available Scenarios

Show/Hide Chat (Multiplayer Only)

Scenario Description

Show Available Scenarios

Current Map

Current Map Size

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Victory/Loss Conditions

Usually, you can win a scenario by taking all enemy castles and defeating all enemy heroes. Some scenarios have special victory conditions you can complete to win. You lose a scenario if you control no towns when your last hero is defeated. Some scenarios have additional loss conditions.

Special Victory Conditions

Special Loss Conditions

Acquire a Specific Artifact You must find a specific artifact. Win by placing the

artifact in one of your heroes’ backpacks. Accumulate Creatures Your kingdom must acquire X number of creatures. Accumulate Resources Your kingdom must acquire X amount of a specific resource. Upgrade a Specific Town The hall and castle of a given town must be upgraded to a

specified level. Build a Grail Building You must find the Grail and build a grail building in one of

your towns. Defeat a Specific Hero You must defeat a specified hero. Capture a Specific Town You must occupy a specified town. Defeat a Specific Creature You must defeat a specified wandering monster. Flag All Creature Generators You must control all the creature generators on the map. Flag All Mines You must control all the mines on the map. Transport a Specific Artifact You must acquire a specific artifact and transport it to a

specified town.

Lose a Specific Hero You lose if the specified hero is defeated. Lose a Specific Town You lose if the specified town is occupied by an enemy. Time Limit You lose if you have not won the scenario within the

specified number of days.

Interface Reference

Chatting

If you are participating in a multiplayer game, you can turn on and off the display of network chat by pressing the Show/Hide Chat button. When Chat is on, chat messages are shown in the Scenario Description box. You can send a chat message by typing it in the box directly below this button.

Advanced Options

To display the Advanced Options, click the Show Advanced Options button. This will display the available options for each opponent in the currently selected scenario. For each game, the scenario’s designer defines each opponent as playable by a human or the computer (CPU). Slots displaying “Human or CPU” may be played by either. Any available human slot has a Player Flag button adjacent to the associated slot, on the far left of the window. In a multiplayer game, the host assigns players to each available slot by repeatedly clicking the Player Flag button, cycling through the available players. At the start of the scenario, any player not assigned to a slot is dropped from the game. All unassigned slots will be played by the computer.

Often, you can choose an opponent’s starting town type, starting hero, and/or starting bonus. If you can, arrows appear on the sides of the town, hero, and starting bonus pictures. If you can set the starting town type, which town you choose will affect what heroes and starting bonuses are available. Click on the Handicap button to cycle through player handicap settings. Handicap will affect a player’s starting resources.

You may also set the Player Turn Duration limit by moving the slider at the bottom of the Advanced Options display. This controls how long human player turns can last (when not in combat).

Player Name

Starting Town

Starting Hero

Starting Bonus

Legal Player

Handicap

Player Flag Button

Player Turn Duration

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Campaign Games

Campaign games are scenarios linked together by a story line told from either a good, neutral, or evil perspective. To start a campaign, click the Campaign button on the Main Menu and then select from the available campaigns displayed on the following screen. When you complete all of the initially displayed campaigns, new campaign choices appear. After you choose a campaign, the Campaign Scenario Startup Screen displays.

Campaign Scenario Startup Screen

At various points in campaign story lines, you may choose which conflict you want to involve yourself in. If this is the case, more than one territory on the invasion map will be highlighted. Click on a highlighted area to choose a scenario. Information about the chosen scenario will be displayed in the Scenario Information box.

In most scenarios, you will be able to select starting bonus options. Once you are satisfied with your scenario and bonus selections, click the Begin button to start the campaign scenario. In order to advance the story of the campaign, you must win the scenario. If you lose, you can replay the scenario.

Invasion Map

Scenario Information

Starting Bonus Options

Legal Territory

Campaign Information

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Interface Reference

Adventure Map

Each Heroes III game scenario takes place in a part of Erathia. The relevant portion of the land is represented on the Adventure Map. At the beginning of each scenario, you can only see the areas of the land within view of your towns and heroes; the rest is shrouded from you. As you send your heroes exploring, the map is revealed along their path of travel. Subterranean gates act as passages to the subterranean level. This underground territory is displayed on its own map, which is also revealed as your heroes travel.

As you explore the map, you will discover treasures, wandering creatures, valuable resources, and a wide variety of permanent locations. While there are a multitude of different types of permanent locations, among those you encounter will be mines, which can provide you with steady streams of resources; abandoned ruins to explore; and creature dwellings where you may recruit troops for your heroes’ armies.

You will also encounter heroes and towns belonging to opponents - either human or computer. More often than not, your scenario mission objectives will require you to make war with other heroes. Combat between your heroes and other heroes, wandering monsters, and town garrisons takes place on the Combat Screen (see Combat, pg. 40). When you conquer enemy towns, they become part of your territorial holdings, adding their many benefits to your cause (see Towns, pg. 49).

This section describes the Adventure Map screen interface for campaign and single-player games. For explanations of the particular interface differences encountered in multiplayer games see Multiplayer (pg. 59).

Game Play

On each Erathian day, players can move their forces and manage their territories in turns. This does not happen simultaneously—rather, each player, starting with you (the human player) takes a turn, and then passes on play to the next player. Once all players have had their turn, the current day ends and a new day begins.

At the beginning of each day, mines and cities you control add to your resources. Resources represent gold and raw materials you may spend to improve your towns, recruit troops, and perform other actions. Town buildings producing creatures do so on the first day of the week (see Towns, pg. 49). The current date appears at the lower right corner of the Adventure Map screen.

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Adventure Map View

Adventure Map

World Map

Hero Selector Buttons

Town Selector Buttons

Control Buttons

Date

Rollover Bar

Resource Bar

Status Window

To wn

Hero

Wandering Monsters

Ship

Subterranean Gate

Resource Mine

Treasure

Obelisk

Shroud

Loose Resource

The Adventure Map

You may scroll the Adventure Map in the direction you want by moving the cursor to the screen’s edges and corners (diagonal scrolling). The red box displayed in the World Map indicates what portion of the map is shown in the Adventure Map display. Clicking in the World Map centers this box at the cursor. You may also drag the box around the World Map.

Identifying text appears in the Rollover Bar as you move the cursor over map features. You may rightclick on anything appearing on the Adventure Map to display further information.

Heroes

You may have up to eight heroes on the Adventure Map at any given time; if you have more than eight heroes in the field, any extras must be commanding town garrisons (see Towns, pg. 49). Heroes on the Adventure Map carry their player’s flag color.

Heroes travel with their armies, made up of creatures arranged in groups called troops. Each troop can hold one or more creatures, but all the creatures in the troop must be of the same creature type. A hero’s army must have at least one troop and can include up to seven. In battle, a hero leads the battle by commanding their army rather than fighting directly.

Resource Bar

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Selecting a Hero

The Hero Selector buttons on the right side of the Adventure Screen are used to select your individual heroes. Clicking a hero’s button selects the hero and centers the Adventure Map display on that hero. If you have more than five heroes, you may need to click the scroll buttons to display a hero’s selector button. Double-clicking on a Hero Selector button brings up a hero’s Hero Screen (see Heroes and the Hero Screen, pg. 23).

On the left side of each Hero Selector button is a green bar which shrinks as the hero’s movement allowance is used up. The blue bar on the right side of each button measures what percentage of the hero’s spell points he or she has left. Spell points are spent when a hero casts spells. For more information, see Magic System (pg. 55).

Moving Your Hero

When you click on the Adventure Map at a location the currently selected hero can move to, a line of arrows, indicating the path the hero must follow, is drawn from the hero to that location now marked by an X. If the location is within the hero’s movement limit for the current day, then the arrows and X appear in green. If the hero cannot reach the location in one move, brown arrows indicate the length that must be traveled in the next or subsequent turns. You may change the destination by clicking a different spot on the map.

Click the X to move the currently selected hero along the path. You may also click on the Move Hero control button to move the currently selected hero down the path. If you want to halt a moving hero in mid-movement, click on the Adventure Map. The current path will remain, but the hero will stop moving. You may resume the hero’s movement or select a new destination.

Movement Allowance

How far a given hero can move is determined by the speed of the slowest creature in their army. Creature speed statistics are listed in the Town and Creature Reference (pg. 81). Distances on the Adventure Map are measured in tiles.

Movement Allowance Table

Slowest Creature Speed Movement Allowance

Super Slow - Extra Slow 15 tiles

Slow 16 tiles

Swift - Extra Swift 17 tiles

Very Swift 18 tiles

Ultra Swift - Super Swift 19 tiles

Quick - Super Fast 20 tiles

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Terrain and Roads

Some terrain is difficult to travel across and reduces the distance a hero can move. Roads increase this distance. A hero with the Pathfinding secondary skill (see Secondary Skills, pg. 35) is able to reduce the effects of difficult terrain. This chart explains the effects of terrain on movement:

Terrain Movement Costs

Larger numbers mean slower travel.

Terrain Type Normal Basic Pathfinding Advanced Pathfinding Expert Pathfinding

Dirt 100% 100% 100% 100% Grass 100% 100% 100% 100% Lava 100% 100% 100% 100% Subterranean 100% 100% 100% 100% Cobblestone Road 50% 50% 50% 50% Dirt Road 75% 75% 75% 75% Gravel Road 65% 65% 65% 65% Rough 125% 100% 100% 100% Sand 150% 125% 100% 100% Snow 150% 125% 100% 100% Swamp 175% 150% 125% 100%

Example: A hero with Pikemen (Extra Slow) would have a starting movement allowance of 15 tiles. However, over the difficult terrain of snow, this hero would only move 10 tiles. With Basic Pathfinding, the movement allowance of this hero would increase to 12 tiles over snow, and with Advanced Pathfinding, 15 tiles over snow.

Boats

Heroes need boats to move on water. Boats may be: built in Castle, Necropolis, and Fortress towns located on shores, with shipyards; summoned using the Summon Boat spell; built at Adventure Map shipyards; or found elsewhere on the Adventure Map—perhaps abandoned by another hero.

Boarding or disembarking from a boat takes the remainder of a hero’s movement allowance for the current day. To put a hero on a boat, click on an unoccupied boat. To disembark a hero, move the boat carrying that hero to a valid shore location, indicated by the anchor icon. Boat movement is made at a hero’s full movement allowance. A boat can only carry one hero and their army at a time.

The Subterranean Level

Some maps contain a subterranean level. Heroes may enter subterranean gates to pass between the surface and the underground. Pressing the Elevation Toggle control button switches the Adventure Map’s view between the two levels.

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Adventure Locations

Towns

Towns provide many benefits to the player in control of them. The town hall for each town you control adds a quantity of gold to your daily resource pool. At your towns, your heroes may recruit troops, replenish their spell points, and learn new spells. For more information, see Towns (pg. 49) and the Town and Creature Reference section (pg. 81).

Your Towns

You may select any of your towns by clicking its Town Selector button. When a town is selected, it is centered in the Adventure Map and its Town Selector button is highlighted. Clicking on a town or its highlighted Town Selector button a second time displays the town’s Town Screen (see Towns, pg. 49).

Your heroes may visit towns you control. To direct a hero to do this, move your hero to a town’s front gate and the cursor will change to a rearing horse. Click, and the hero will enter the town, and the town’s Town Screen will be displayed. If the town has a Mage Guild, the hero will learn any new spells available that he is able to learn, and his spell points will be replenished after staying for one day (see Magic System, pg. 55). Only one hero at a time may visit a given town.

Enemy and Neutral Towns

Towns controlled by other players appear on the Adventure Map with that player’s flag colors and are identified in the same color on the World Map. Neutral towns, those not controlled by any player, appear gray on the World Map. Right-clicking on these towns will display limited information on that town.

When you move the cursor over the front gates of enemy and neutral towns, the sword icon appears indicating they will be defended by any garrison forces present (see Towns, pg. 49). When you defeat a town’s defenses, the town flies your flag color and becomes part of your territory. You can immediately make use of the town and draw from its benefits. If no defenders are present, you may simply take the town by having a hero enter it.

Resource Mines and Loose Resources

When you build structures in your towns or recruit creatures, you use resources—gold, wood, ore, crystal, gems, mercury, and sulfur. Many other game situations also use them. While there are many ways to collect resources, the main means of acquiring them is to control resource mines and find loose resources. When a hero visits a mine, it becomes flagged with the hero’s color and begins producing resources for the hero’s player, adding to the player’s resource pool on a daily basis. Loose resources are “picked up” by the hero who visits them. They disappear from the map and are immediately added to the controlling player’s resource pool.

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Treasure Chests and Artifacts

Heroes may also pick up treasure chests and artifacts. Artifacts are items, usually magical, that provide their owner with special powers and abilities. When a hero visits an artifact, it disappears from the map and is added to their inventory (see Heroes, pg. 23). Treasure chests are surprise boxes containing gold, minor artifacts, or experience.

Other Structures

There are many different types of Adventure Map structures you will encounter. Some of these will convey special benefits to the heroes who visit them. Some will be places to explore, full of danger and/or hidden rewards. Others will provide resources, useful information, or artifacts. While you will need to discover the individual qualities of many of these buildings, some of the buildings you are most likely to encounter are listed here.

Border Guards and Gates: Border Guard Towers occasionally appear at borders. In order to pass by a Guard

Tower, you will need to visit a local Keymaster’s Tent of the same color.

Creature Dwellings: Some structures are the living places of creatures you may recruit to your cause. Their

dwellings may be found on the Adventure Map. Before the creatures serve your cause, you may need to prove your worthiness by facing them in combat. Once you succeed, the dwelling will fly your flag, associated towns may receive a creature bonus, and you can recruit troops there. The supply of available recruits will be replenished once a week.

Obelisks: On some maps, the Grail is hidden. Clues to its location can be found at obelisks. Wandering Creatures: You may find your hero’s way blocked by wandering creatures allied to no particular

player. In order to pass by them, you will need to deal with them. Usually, this means defeating them in combat. Sometimes the creatures will be favorable to your cause and will offer to join you, or they may do so because they are awed by your power. Others, realizing they have no chance of defeating you, may flee. Right-clicking on a wandering creature graphic will tell you the type of creatures camped at the spot and a rough estimate of their numbers.

Wandering monster troops are randomly assigned a hostility value from one to ten. Monsters with higher hostility values are more likely to attack. A wandering monster troop will be more likely to avoid combat with hero armies stronger than they or composed of the same creature types. Heroes with the Diplomacy secondary skill will be attacked less often.

Wandering Creature Population Labels

Label Population

Few 1-4

Several 5-9

Pack 10-19 Lots 20-49

Horde 50-99 Throng 100-249 Swarm 250-499 Zounds 500-999 Legion 1000+

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Interface Reference

The current hero can move to this spot in the number of turns indicated in the lower right. (If no number appears on a movement cursors, the hero can move to the target spot during the current turn.)

Appears when the cursor moves over an adventure location, like a building or mine, the current hero can visit.

If the current hero is on land, and this cursor appears over a boat, then the hero may enter the boat.

Appears over a water location a hero on a boat may visit.

Indicates a shore location where a hero may land a boat and disembark.

Indicates wandering monsters, enemy towns, enemy garrisons, and enemy heroes a hero may attack.

Appears over heroes the current hero may trade with. When the hero is reached, the Hero Trading screen is displayed (see Hero Trading, pg. 32)

Appears over the current hero or over any of your heroes when a town is selected. Clicking selects the current hero, or displays the Hero Screen if the hero is already selected.

Appears over your towns. Clicking selects the current town or, if the town is already selected, displays the Town Screen.

Adventure Map Cursors

Movement Cursors

Clicking on the map where these icons appear will draw a movement path from the current hero to the desired location.

Selection Cursors

These icons are used to select the current town or hero.

Appears when you cast the Dimension Door spell. To teleport the casting hero to the new location, click the destination in the Adventure Map Window.

Appears when you cast the Scuttle Boat spell. Click on the boat you wish to cast the spell on.

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Control Buttons

Kingdom Overview

Elevation Toggle

Move Hero

Cast Spell

Sleep/Wake Hero

Adventure Options

Next Hero

End Turn

Quest Log

System Options

Kingdom Overview: This button displays the Kingdom Overview (see Kingdom Overview, pg. 57). Elevation Toggle: This button toggles the Adventure Map display between the surface and subterranean

levels.

Quest Log: Click this button to display the Quest Log. Sleep/Wake Hero: This button puts the current hero in sleep mode. A sleeping hero is passed over

during the Next Hero selection. Wake heroes by selecting them (on the Adventure Map or with their

Hero Selector button) and clicking this button. Move Hero: If the current hero has a movement path laid, pressing this button will move them along

their path to the extent of their movement allowance. Cast Spell: If the current hero has a spell book, this button will display their spell book so they can cast

Adventure Spells (see Magic System, pg. 55). Adventure Options: Click this button to display the Adventure Options (pg. 21). You may click the

✔ button to close this display. System Options: Click this button to display the System Options menu. You can close the menu by

clicking the Return To Game button.

Next Hero: Clicking this button will select the next awake hero with any movement points down the list. End Turn: Click this button to end your turn and allow your opponents to take theirs.

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Adventure Options

View World: This button displays a large scale view of the map in the Adventure Map display. Click on the

Zoom buttons to change the view scale. Click the Puzzle Map button to switch to a view of the Puzzle Map, or ✔ to exit the display.

Puzzle Map: This button displays the Puzzle Map, which shows the location of the Grail. When your heroes

visit Obelisks, parts of the map are revealed. When the map is fully displayed, you will see an X marking the spot where the Grail is buried.

Dig: In order to recover the Grail, a hero must dig it out of the ground. Click this button to direct the

current hero to dig at their location. Digging takes a full day, so the hero must not yet have moved during the current turn.

Scenario Information: Click this button to display information about the current scenario. Replay Opponent Turn: If you press this button, you can see a replay of your opponents’ last turns.

System Options

Hero Speed: Select one of these buttons to set the movement animation speed of your heroes.

Enemy Speed: These buttons control the movement animation speed of your enemies. You may also choose to hide your enemies’ movements from you.

Map Scroll Speed: These buttons control how fast the map view scrolls.

Video Quality: Selects high or low quality video playback. Show Move Path: Toggles display of hero movement paths.

If you turn the paths off, your heroes will move immediately

towards any destination you click on. Move Hero Reminder: This toggles on and off the Move Hero Reminder which normally displays at the

end of a turn, if you have any sleeping heroes or heroes with movement points left. Quick Combat: When this option is on, the game resolves combat for you without displaying the

Combat Screen.

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Video Subtitles: Toggles subtitles for videos on and off. Town Building Outlines: When the cursor moves over buildings in the Town Screen, buildings you

can click on may be outlined. These buttons turn on and off the outline display. Spellbook Animation: Turns on and off the page turn animations in the spell book display.

Disk Options

Load Game: This button displays the Load Game menu. Loading a new game will end the current game. Save Game: This button displays the Save Game menu to save your current game. Restart Scenario: Click this button to start the current scenario from the beginning. Main Menu: Click this button to return to the Main Menu. This will end the current game. Quit to Desktop: Click this button to close Heroes III and return to Windows. Return to Game: Click this button to close the System Options menu and return to play.

Sound Options

Music Volume: This control sets the game’s music playback volume. Clicking the volume controls to the left reduces the volume, clicking to the right increases it.

Effects Volume: This control allows you to set the game’s sound effect playback volume.

Informational Displays

The Resource Bar

The Resource Bar shows how much of each of the game’s resources you currently have.

Rollover Bar

A Rollover Bar is at the bottom of most game menus and interface displays. As you move the cursor over the screen, displayed text identifies what the cursor is currently over.

Right-Click Information

You may right-click on most game or interface items to display further information about the item. These displays remain in view as long as you hold down the right mouse button.

Status Window Information

Information about the currently selected hero, town, or resource, as well as number of towns and allies, appears in the box at the lower right corner. You may click on this box to toggle between the various displays available.

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Heroes and the

Hero Screen

Actions in the Heroes III game are performed by heroes. Heroes explore the land, sea, and underground. They gather treasures, resources, and other artifacts. They secure towns and Adventure Map structures, adding them to your territory. Heroes travel with troops recruited at towns and other locations. With these armies they can engage in battles against your enemies or lead the defense of your towns. As heroes explore and battle, they gain experience points. When they have enough experience points, they go up a level. At each level, heroes gain new skills and increase their abilities at skills they already possess.

In most scenarios, you start with at least one hero under your command. You can gather more heroes to your cause by recruiting them in your town taverns. Heroes may be stationed in your town garrisons or may roam the lands of Erathia. Garrisoned heroes lead troops stationed in a town’s garrison if the town is attacked by an enemy hero. You can have one garrisoned hero per town and up to eight roaming heroes at any one time.

Hero Types

There are sixteen different types of heroes—two for each of the eight town types. One type specializes in the use of magic, the other is more battle-oriented. Heroes of all types may be recruited in any town.

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Castle Heroes

Knight: Knights are brave and noble warriors dedicated to good and righteousness. While they can learn magic skills, they are by far more dedicated to the pursuit of martial knowledge.

Cleric: Clerics are members of the fighting forces of their holy orders. They pursue a range of knowledge, both martial and mystical.

Dungeon Heroes

Overlord: Overlords build dungeon lairs to protect their gains acquired through conquest. Ruling through intimidation, they tend to be warriors who know the value of magic. They often wear armor designed to enhance the ferocity of their appearance.

Warlock: Warlocks learn magic for the power it gives them to achieve dark and selfish goals. More than any other hero, they focus on the pursuit of magical knowledge over other values. Warlocks often flaunt their power, using magic to alter their features.

Fortress Heroes

Beastmaster: Through physical force and intimidation, Beastmasters build their realms by subjugating those dwelling nearby,. As a consequence, they are little interested in the pursuit of mystical knowledge. Beastmasters often costume themselves in the likeness of vicious swamp creatures.

Witch: Witches are adept at the use of magic powered by rare ingredients gathered from swamplands. Learning this knowledge takes a focus that allows for little advancement of military knowledge.

Inferno Heroes

Demoniac: Demoniacs are people (often ex-Heretics) who have been completely possessed by one or more demons. Though they have a natural predisposition to gaining magical power, Demoniacs also acquire balancing military skills as well.

Heretic: Heretics aim to harness demonic forces to their bidding. While they tend to train themselves with warrior skills, they must also know enough magic to control their infernal allies. Heretics can often be recognized by the number of protective wards and markings they wear to ward off demonic attacks.

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Necropolis Heroes

Death Knight: Death Knights are knights resurrected as liches. While they maintain their former martial learnings, their new forms open them more freely to the learning of magic.

Necromancer: Necromancers are magic users seduced by the easy power of death magic. The price of their art is its practice slowly drains life from its wielders—eventually transforming them into liches.

Rampart Heroes

Ranger: Rangers are warriors born of the woods, skilled at hunting and tracking. Their dedication to the protection of the wilderness leads them to pursue a wide range of knowledge, concentrating on martial and outdoor skills.

Druid: Druids are mystics who draw their power from a harmonic relationship with the land. While they pursue their mystical knowledge, their outdoor living causes them to acquire a balance of physical skills.

Stronghold Heroes

Barbarian: Barbarians are little concerned with anything outside the pursuit of military might. Consequently, they advance most quickly in attack based skills and slowly in all others. Barbarians wield massive weapons and wear little armor.

Battle Mage: Battle Mages are Barbarians with limited spellcasting abilities. While they advance their ability at magic, they also study the arts of war. Battle Mages often wear trophies, gathered from slain foes, from which they derive additional power.

Tower Heroes

Alchemist: Alchemists are skilled in physical and chemical magic, particularly so in the building and animation of golems. Working their craft builds muscular strength, which makes Alchemists ready learners of military skills as well. Their armor is composed of rare metal alloys created through their skill in alchemy.

Wizard: Wizards are dedicated pursuers of mystical and magical knowledge. While they may lend little to the direct military aspect of a battle, they are likely to turn the tide in their favor with use of mighty arcane forces. Wizards seldom wear any armor, relying on their control of magic to protect them.

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The Hero Screen

Spell Points

Primary Skills

Secondary Skills

Hero Name, Level, Class

Hero Portrait

Army Formation Selector

Split Army

Dismiss Hero

Hero’s Army

Hero Selector

View Spell Book

Paper Doll

Backpack

Exit

Experience

Specialty

Luck

Morale

View Quest Log

Information about each hero you control can be viewed on their individual Hero Screen. The Hero Screen can be displayed from the Adventure Map screen by double-clicking on a hero’s Hero Selector button or by double-clicking on the hero directly on the map. The Hero Screen is also used to organize the hero’s items and armies.

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Morale

This icon represents the basic morale rating of the hero’s army. In combat, low morale can cause creatures to freeze. High morale can allow them extra attacks (see Combat, pg 40). Click on the icon to display a list of morale-affecting factors.

Luck

This icon represents the current basic luck rating of the hero’s army. Good luck increases a creature’s chance to do maximum damage (see Combat, pg. 40). Click on the icon to display a list of factors modifying the army’s luck.

Specialty

Each hero has a special ability. Click on this icon to display information about it.

Experience

Displays the hero’s current experience points. Click the icon to display the hero’s current level and the experience points needed to reach the next level (see Skills, pg. 33).

Spell Points

This displays the hero’s current and maximum spell points. (For example, “15/20” means that the hero currently has 15 spell points out of a maximum of 20). Click the icon for a more verbose display (see Magic System, pg. 55).

Primary Skills

These icons display your hero’s four primary skills—Attack, Defense, Power, and Knowledge (see Skills pg. 33).

Secondary Skills

Each hero can have up to eight different secondary skills. Icons representing these skills are displayed in these slots. Each skill can be performed at a basic, advanced, or expert level (see Skills, pg. 33). Click on each icon to display information about the skill.

High Morale

Normal Morale

Low Morale

Excellent Luck

Good Luck

Positive Luck

Neutral Luck

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Hero’s Army

These seven slots display the troop stacks in the hero’s army. Each troop stack portrait has a number indicating how many creatures are in each slot. The slot a troop stack occupies affects where the troop appears on the battlefield (see Combat, pg. 40). There are several things you can do with this display to manage your hero’s army.

Displaying Creature Information

Clicking on a highlighted troop stack displays its creature information as follows. Portrait: This is a picture of the creature as it will appear on the battlefield. The number in the

lower right corner is the number of creatures in the troop. Above the portrait is the creature’s name. Attack: This is the creature’s attack rating. The number in parenthesis represents the rating as affected

by the hero’s Attack skill and other factors.

Defense: This is the creature’s defense rating. In parenthesis is its rating as affected by modifying factors. Shots: Creatures with ranged attacks have a limited number of shots. This displays how many are left.

If there is no number here, then the creature has no ranged attack.

Damage: This shows the range of damage the creature does when it attacks. Health: This shows the creature’s maximum health points. Health Left: This shows how many health points the top creature in the troop has left. Speed: This is the creature’s speed rating. Morale: This shows the creature’s current, individual morale rating. Luck: This is the creature’s current, individual luck rating. Affecting Spells: Spells currently cast on the creature are shown here.

Portrait

Number of Creatures

Name

Morale

Luck

Affecting Spells

Dismiss Army

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Dismissing a Troop

If you wish to remove a troop from the hero’s army, display the troop’s Creature Information window and then click the Dismiss Troop button. All heroes in the field must have at least one troop, so you cannot dismiss a hero’s last troop.

Upgrading a Troop

Each creature is available in a basic and upgraded version. If a hero visits a town capable of generating a creature’s upgraded version, you may upgrade any basic level creatures by pressing the Upgrade Troop button.

Combining Two Troops of Like Creatures

If you have two troops containing identical creatures, you can combine them into one troop. Do this by highlighting one troop, then clicking on the second one. The creatures in the first troop will be absorbed into the second.

Splitting Troops

You can take a troop with two or more creatures in it, and split it into two troops. To do this, highlight the troop, click the Split Troop button, and then click on an empty troop slot or troop of like creatures. The Split Troop control will appear.

To split the current troop, move the slider control to the right. As you do so, creatures will be transferred from the originating troop. Click

✔

when you are satisfied, or click the Cancel button to cancel the

operation.

Originating Troop

New Troop

Slider

Split

Cancel

Move a Troop to an Empty Troop Slot

To move a troop from its current troop slot to an empty one, click on the troop to highlight it, and then click on the slot you want to move it to.

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Switch the Positions of Two Troops

To have two different troops trade their troop slot positions, click on one of the troops to highlight it, and then click on the second troop.

Army Formation Selector

You may choose how a hero’s troops are arrayed on the battlefield using the Army Formation Selection buttons. Choosing Loose Formation will cause the troops to be arrayed in a loose line, while choosing

Tight Formation will array them in a tight line. If a hero has the Tactics secondary skill, the Tactics Formation button turns on and off the Tactics formation option. When Tactics formation is on, the

hero’s armies can be moved about the battlefield prior to the beginning of a battle (see Combat, pg. 40).

Dismiss Hero

Click this button if you wish to dismiss the displayed hero. If you do this, the hero will leave your service. He or she may later appear for hire in one of your town taverns, or may end up in the service of one of your enemies.

View Quest Log

Click on this icon to display the Quest Log. The text displayed lists quests your heroes have accepted. The quest log scrolls up/down using a scroll bar.

Loose Formation Tight Formation Tactics Formation

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View Spell Book

Click on this icon to display the spell book (see Magic System, pg. 55).

Hero Inventory

As heroes collect artifact items and war machines, they appear in their inventory. To display information about an inventory item, right-click on its icon.

In order to gain the benefits of these items, the hero must equip them. Many items must be worn or held by the hero. In order to equip a worn item, drag its icon from the hero’s backpack to the appropriate slot on the hero’s body diagram. Note this means a hero can only wear one helmet, one set of boots, etc. at a time. Some items are not worn but must still be equipped. Up to four of these may be equipped at one time by placing them in the miscellaneous equipment slots. Sixty-four non-equipped items may be carried by a hero in their backpack. Click the scroll arrows to scroll the backpack contents display.

There are four equipment slots reserved for any war machines the hero may be carrying. Only the Catapult, Ballista, Ammo Cart, and First Aid tent may be placed in these slots. A hero may only carry one of each war machine type at any one time.

Necklace

Helmet

Cape

Right Hand (Offensive)

Right Hand Ring

Left Hand (Defensive)

Left Hand Ring

Torso

Feet

Miscellaneous

Catapult

Ballista

Ammo Cart

First Aid Tent

Backpack

Spell Book

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Hero Trading

When two, allied heroes meet on the Adventure Map, they may trade inventory items and troops. To initiate a trading session between two of your heroes, make one of them the current hero and then click on the second hero to move them together. When you do this, the Hero Trade Screen appears.

The Hero Trade Screen displays each hero’s basic statistics, their troop slots, and their inventories. You may perform the following actions on the Hero Screen:

Hero One Hero TwoPrimary Skills

Secondary Skills

Hero One’s Army

Hero Two’s Army

Hero One’s Inventory

Hero Two’s Inventory

Quest Log

Split Stack

Exit

Spell Book

Adjust Inventory Items and Trade Them Between the Heroes

You can adjust the placement of inventory items for allied heroes, or trade items between them. To move an item, drag it to an empty backpack or hero equipment slot. Inventory items may only be placed in hero backpacks or in their appropriate equipment slots as described in Hero Inventory, above.

Adjust Troops and Trade Them Between the Heroes

You may move, split, combine, swap, and dismiss troops as described in Hero Army, above. These actions may also be performed between the two heroes’ troop slots. Since each hero must always have at least one troop, you will not be allowed to trade away or dismiss a hero’s last troop.

Note: Trades between different players with allied heroes is “one-way.” You may give, but not take.

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Display Information about a Hero

You may click on the icons representing the heroes’ skills, experience and specialty to display information about them. Click on a hero’s portrait to display the hero’s Hero Screen. To display a hero’s Quest Log, click on their View Quest Log button.

Level Advancement

When a hero wins a battle, he or she gains experience points. Experience points may also be gained at various Adventure Map locations or by picking up treasure chests. When treasure chests contain gold, you are offered the choice of keeping the gold or giving it to the local peasants. If you give up the gold, the hero gains experience points.

Once a hero gains a certain amount of experience points, he or she goes up a level. At each level, the hero advances one primary skill and one secondary skill.

Skill Advancement

Each time a hero reaches a new level, one of their primary skills is advanced by one point. Each hero may also gain expertise in up to eight secondary skills. When a hero gains a level, the Skill Advancement Screen appears. You will be offered two secondary skill advancements to choose from. Making the choice will either advance the hero’s expertise in a secondary skill he or she already knows, or give the hero an entirely new skill at a basic level of expertise. Right-click on a skill icon to display information about the skill. Click on an icon to choose the skill advancement for your hero.

Skills

Primary Skills

All heroes attain ability in the four primary skills—Attack, Defense, Power, and Knowledge. Martially oriented heroes, like Knights and Rangers, will have their Attack and Defense skills advance more rapidly. Heroes studying magic, like Wizards and Necromancers, will more often gain Power and Knowledge. The Primary Skill Advancement by Class table displays the chance a particular primary skill will advance when a hero reaches a new level. After a hero reaches level 9, their advancement generally becomes more balanced.

Attack A hero’s Attack skill number is added to each of their creature’s attack rating,

increasing the amount of damage they do in combat.

Defense A hero’s Defense skill is added to each of their army creature’s defense rating, which

decreases the amount of damage they take from enemy attacks.

Power When a hero casts a spell, their Power skill number determines how powerfully a spell

is cast. While this effect will vary from spell to spell, the Power skill number most often determines how long a spell’s effect lasts or how much damage it does.

Knowledge Each point of Knowledge a hero possesses adds ten points to their maximum spell

point total. Spell points are spent when spells are cast (see Magic System, pg. 55).

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Primary Skill Advancement by Class

Hero Class and Level Attack Defense Power Knowledge

Alchemist 2-9 30% 30% 20% 20% Alchemist 10+ 30% 30% 20% 20% Barbarian 2-9 55% 35% 5% 5% Barbarian 10+ 30% 30% 20% 20% Battle Mage 2-9 30% 20% 25% 25% Battle Mage 10+ 25% 25% 25% 25% Beastmaster 2-9 30% 50% 10% 10% Beastmaster 10+ 30% 30% 20% 20% Cleric 2-9 20% 15% 30% 35% Cleric 10+ 20% 20% 30% 30% Death Knight 2-9 30% 25% 20% 25% Death Knight 10+ 25% 25% 25% 25% Demoniac 2-9 35% 35% 15% 15% Demoniac 10+ 30% 30% 20% 20% Druid 2-9 10% 20% 35% 35% Druid 10+ 20% 20% 30% 30% Heretic 2-9 15% 15% 35% 35% Heretic 10+ 20% 20% 30% 30% Knight 2-9 35% 45% 10% 10% Knight 10+ 30% 30% 20% 20% Necromancer 2-9 15% 15% 35% 35% Necromancer 10+ 25% 25% 25% 25% Overlord 2-9 35% 35% 15% 15% Overlord 10+ 30% 30% 20% 20% Ranger 2-9 35% 45% 10% 10% Ranger 10+ 30% 30% 20% 20% Warlock 2-9 10% 10% 50% 30% Warlock 10+ 20% 20% 30% 30% Witch 2-9 5% 15% 40% 40% Witch 10+ 20% 20% 30% 30% Wizard 2-9 10% 10% 40% 40% Wizard 10+ 30% 20% 20% 30%

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Secondary Skills

There are twenty-eight different secondary skills in the game. Each may by held at a basic, advanced, or expert level of ability. Each hero can learn up to eight different secondary skills.

Secondary Skill Descriptions

Description Increases the effectiveness of Air Magic spells cast by the hero. Basic Air Magic spells are cast at the basic level (see Spell Reference, pg. 64). Advanced Air Magic spells are cast at the advanced level. Expert Air Magic spells are cast at the expert level.

Air Magic

Description Gives the hero manual control over the Catapult and increases its number of

shots, accuracy, and damage.

Basic A Catapult lobs one shot with a 60% chance to hit the intended target wall.

Chances to inflict maximum damage are 50%. Until all siege walls are destroyed, chances to hit arrow towers or the drawbridge is less than 60%.

Advanced Same as basic, except the Catapult can lob two shots. Expert A Catapult can lob two shots for maximum damage, each with a 75% chance to

hit the intended target wall. Until all siege walls are destroyed, chances to hit arrow towers or the drawbridge is less than 75%.

Ballistics

Description Increases the damage done by ranged attackers in the hero’s army. Basic Ranged attack damage is increased by 10%. Advanced Ranged attack damage is increased by 25%. Expert Ranged attack damage is increased by 50%.

Archery

Description Gives the hero manual control over their ballista, increases its number of

shots per round to two, and increases the ballista’s chance for dealing double damage.

Basic Ballista shots have a 50% chance of dealing double damage. Advanced Ballista shots have a 75% chance of dealing double damage. Expert Ballista shots deal double damage.

Artillery

Description Reduces the amount of damage received by the hero’s troops in combat. Basic Damage inflicted on troops is reduced by 5%. Advanced Damage inflicted on troops is reduced by 10%. Expert Damage inflicted on troops is reduced by 15%.

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Description Increases the chance wandering creatures will offer to join the hero’s

army and lowers the cost of surrendering to another hero.

Basic 25% of creatures normally fleeing from your army offer to join. Cost of surrender-

ing is reduced by 20%.

Advanced 50% of creatures normally fleeing from your army offer to join. Cost of surrender-

ing is reduced by 40%.

Expert All creatures normally fleeing from your army offer to join. Cost of

surrendering is reduced by 60%.

Diplomacy

Description Gives the hero a chance to learn spells cast by enemy spellcasters in battles. Basic The hero has a 40% chance to learn spells of second level or below. Advanced The hero has a 50% chance to learn spells of third level or below. Expert The hero has a 60% chance to learn spells of fourth level or below.

Eagle Eye

Description Increases the effectiveness of Earth Magic spells cast by the hero. Basic Earth Magic spells are cast at the basic level (see Spell Reference, pg. 68). Advanced Earth Magic spells are cast at the advanced level. Expert Earth Magic spells are cast at the expert level.

Earth Magic

Description The hero produces gold for their player’s resource pool. Basic 125 gold per day is generated. Advanced 250 gold per day is generated. Expert 500 gold per day is generated.

Estates

Description Increases the effectiveness of Fire Magic spells cast by the hero. Basic Fire Magic spells are cast at the basic level (see Spell Reference, pg. 72). Advanced Fire Magic spells are cast at the advanced level. Expert Fire Magic spells are cast at the expert level.

Fire Magic

Description Increases the effectiveness of the First Aid Tent war machine and gives the

player manual control over what troop the First Aid Tent targets. The First Aid Tent regenerates damage done to the first creature in a target troop.

Basic Regenerates up to 50 health points of the top creature in a troop. Advanced Regenerates up to 75 health points of the top creature in a troop. Expert Regenerates up to 100 health points of the top creature in a troop.

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Description Adds a bonus to the hero’s maximum spell points. Basic Maximum spell points is increased by 25%. Advanced Maximum spell points is increased by 50%. Expert Maximum spell points is doubled.

Intelligence

Description The hero’s troops gain a morale rating bonus. Necromancers and

Death Knights cannot learn this skill.

Basic Morale is increased by one. Advanced Morale is increased by two. Expert Morale is increased by three.

Leadership

Description Increases the amount of experience the hero gains from combat. Basic Earned experience is increased by 5%. Advanced Earned experience is increased by 10%. Expert Earned experience is increased by 15%.

Learning

Description Hero’s land movement range is increased. Basic Range is increased by 10%. Advanced Range is increased by 20%. Expert Range is increased by 30%.

Logistics

Description The hero’s troops gain a bonus to their luck rating. Basic Luck is increased by one. Advanced Luck is increased by two. Expert Luck is increased by three.

Luck

Description Increases the number of spell points the hero regenerates each day. Basic Spell point regeneration is increased to two points per day. Advanced Spell point regeneration is increased to three points per day. Expert Spell point regeneration is increased to four points per day.

Mysticism

Description Increases the hero’s movement range over water in boats. Basic Water range is increased by 50%. Advanced Water range is increased by 100%. Expert Water range is increased by 150%.

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Description When the hero wins in battle, a portion of the opposition killed is resurrected

as skeletons and added to the hero’s army.

Basic 10% of enemy creatures killed are resurrected. Advanced 20% of enemy creatures killed are resurrected. Expert 30% of enemy creatures killed are resurrected.

Necromancy

Description Increases the amount of hand-to-hand damage the hero’s troops inflict in

combat.

Basic Inflicted damage is increased by 10%. Advanced Inflicted damage is increased by 20%. Expert Inflicted damage is increased by 30%.

Offense

Description Reduces the movement penalty suffered by the hero when moving over

rough terrain.

Basic Advanced See Terrain Movement Costs, pg. 16. Expert

Pathfinding

Description Creates a chance enemy spells cast on the hero’s troops will fail and have

no effect.

Basic 5% chance of spell failure. Advanced 10% chance of spell failure. Expert 20% chance of spell failure.

Resistance

Description Allows the hero to exchange spells with other heroes during trading sessions. Spell

exchange occurs automatically when the Hero Trade Screen appears. The hero learns spells he or she doesn’t know and teaches spells unknown to the hero traded with.

Basic Teach and learn spells second level and below. Advanced Teach and learn spells of third level and below. Expert Teach and learn spells of fourth level and below.

Scholar

Description Increases the hero’s view radius, which expands the area of the Adventure

Map revealed as the hero travels into unknown territory.

Basic Hero’s view radius is increased by one square. Advanced Hero’s view radius is increased by two squares. Expert Hero’s view radius is increased by three squares.

Scouting

Description Increases the damaging effect of spells cast by the hero. Effect varies

depending on the spell cast.

Basic Effectiveness of cast spells is increased by 5%. Advanced Effectiveness of cast spells is increased by 10%. Expert Effectiveness of cast spells is increased by 15%.

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Description Increases the effectiveness of Water Magic spells cast by the hero. Basic Water Magic spells are cast at the basic level (see Spell Reference, pg. 76). Advanced Water Magic spells are cast at the advanced level. Expert Water Magic spells are cast at the expert level.

Water Magic

Description Allows the hero to learn spells beyond the second level. Basic The hero can learn third level spells and below. Advanced The hero can learn fourth level spells and below. Expert The hero can learn all spells.

Wisdom

Description Enables you to arrange the hero’s troops on the battlefield prior to the

start of combat.

Basic See Combat (pg. 42). Advanced See Combat (pg. 42). Expert See Combat (pg. 42).

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Combat

Whenever you come into direct conflict with an enemy hero, wandering creature, enemy town, or creatures guarding a structure on the Adventure Map, the ensuing battle is resolved on the Combat Screen. The Combat Screen displays a detailed map of the battlefield.

The terrain you fight on depends on where the conflict takes place on the Adventure Map. If you fight the enemy at a fortified town, you fight in siege combat. Ship-to-ship combat occurs when one boat attacks another. If a battle takes place on open terrain or at an unfortified town, it is fought in field combat. In field combat, the attacking forces are arrayed on the left side of the screen, while the defenders appear on the right side. In siege combat, the attackers are on the left, while the defenders are arrayed on the right, behind protective walls. In the case of ship-to-ship combat, both sides are protected by their ship’s gunwales.

Combat takes place between creatures. If a hero is present on either side, he or she does not directly engage in attack or defense. Heroes lead the battle and may cast combat spells (see Magic System, pg. 55) if they are able. Individual creatures are part of troops which may contain more than one member, but are represented on the battlefield as a single unit. Each side may have as many as seven troops. Each troop can only contain creatures of the same type. If a hero is equipped with war machines, these appear on their side of the battlefield.

Combat sequence is broken into rounds. Each troop or war machine can perform one action per round. All combat units take turns completing their actions. Which unit goes first is determined by the unit’s speed rating, with faster units going before slower ones. If there are two creatures of equal speed, the attacker will go first. Actions can consist of moving, engaging in hand-to-hand or ranged attacks, casting spells, using special abilities, waiting or defending.

Combat ends when one side retreats, surrenders, or is completely eliminated. Heroes who win the battle receive experience points, and collect the artifacts of defeated enemy heroes. If a player’s hero defeats the forces guarding a town, the town becomes part of that player’s territory.

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Combat Screen

Defensive Side

Combat Options

Obstacle

Auto Combat Message Window

Hero

Message Scroll Arrows

Troop Stack

Cast Spell

Ammo

Cart

Defend

Surrender

Wa i t

Retreat

Offensive Side

Conducting Combat

Arraying Your Forces

On each hero’s Hero Screen are Formation buttons used to set the manner in which their forces are initially placed on the battlefield (see Hero Screen, pg. 23). The formation options available are loose and tight.

Distances on the battlefield are measured in hexes. The easiest way to understand this is to turn on the grid overlay. To do this, click on the Combat Options button to display the Combat Options Menu, then click the View Hex Grid button. Close the menu by clicking the Return to Game button. Now the battlefield should be overlaid with a pattern of hexagons.

In loose and tight formations, a given hero’s forces will appear on his battlefield side’s back hex row. Where a given troop will appear depends on which Troop Slot they occupy on the hero’s Hero Screen.

First Aid

Tent

Ballista

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Tactics Formation

If you have heroes with the Tactics secondary skill, you can click the Tactics Formation button on their Hero Screen. Then, if they do battle with forces lead by a Hero with no Tactics skill, or have the skill at a lesser level, or if they meet a force not lead by a hero, you have the opportunity to arrange your hero’s forces on the battlefield prior to the beginning of combat. During this special tactics phase, you may move the highlighted troop where you please, according to the following table. Click the Next Creature button to highlight a different creature. Click the Start Combat button to start the battle when you are done.

Tactics Formation Table

Troop Actions

Once combat begins, each troop can perform one action per combat round. Each troop takes its turn according to its speed rating. When a troop’s turn arrives, it becomes highlighted. Troops can perform the following actions:

Moving

The highlighted troop can move to a new hex. How far the troop can travel depends on its speed rating. Flying creatures move in a straight line to their destination and can surmount obstacles, including walls. Ground walking creatures must move around objects they encounter. To move a troop, click on a battlefield location within its movement range.

Make a Hand-to-Hand Attack

All creatures can approach enemy troops and attack them to inflict damage. Damage reduces creature health points, killing them if their health points are reduced to zero. To perform a hand-to-hand attack, click on the enemy troop within the highlighted creature’s movement range. Your creature will approach the enemy and strike it. Creatures possessing ranged attack capabilities will only perform hand-to-hand attacks on adjacent enemies.

Perform a Ranged Attack

Many creatures can perform ranged attacks by firing a projectile at an enemy target. To do this, click on the enemy you wish to shoot. Creatures with ranged attacks have a limited number of shots and can fire only when there are no adjacent enemies.

Tactics Advantage Placement Allowed

Three degrees higher Within the first seven hex columns Two degrees higher than enemy Within the first five hex columns One degree higher than enemy Within the first three hex columns Equal or lesser skill level Troops are placed according to selected loose or tight formation

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Casting a Spell

Some creatures can cast spells on friendly units (see Magic System, pg. 55). To cast a spell, click on the appropriate target troop.

Wait

If you want a troop to delay its action, click the Wait button. Play will pass on to the next creature and return to the waiting creature at the end of the first phase, after all other creatures have had a chance to move.

Defend

If you want to skip a creature’s action phase entirely, click the Defend button. The creature will be in defense mode for the remainder of the round and will gain a bonus of 20% to their defense rating.

Make a Special Attack

Many creatures have special attacks. Usually these take place when the creature makes a particular attack, either hand-to-hand or ranged. Depending on the circumstances, the player may or may not have control over special attacks. For specifics, consult your creatures’ information in Town and Creature Reference (pg. 81).

Counterattacks

When one troop strikes another in a hand-to-hand attack, the defending troop can deliver a counterattack. Counterattacks are made automatically against the first troop attacking a troop in a given round. While some creatures have special abilities allowing them to make multiple counterattacks, most creatures can make only one counterattack per round. The defending troop must survive the attack to deliver a counterattack.

Damage Calculation

When one troop strikes another, the damage inflicted is determined by this formula:

1. Each creature has a damage range. A random number is chosen within this range for the attacking creature type.

2. This number is multiplied by the number of creatures in the attacking troop.

3. A damage bonus is added/subtracted depending on the difference between the attacker’s Attack skill and the defender’s Defense skill. If the attacker’s Attack skill is higher, then damage is increased by 5% per point of difference (up to a maximum of 400%). If the Attack skill is lower, then damage is reduced by 2% per point of difference (to a minimum of 30%). The resulting number is the amount of inflicted damage.

4. Inflicted damage is subtracted from the health points of the creatures in the defending troop, one at a time. If a creature’s health points are reduced to zero, the creature dies. Damage is carried over round-to-round in combat, and healed completely at the end of combat.

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Morale

Each army has a morale rating which acts as a bonus to the individual morale of its troops. Troops in an army with positive morale have a chance for a second action during their action phase. Troops with negative morale have a chance of freezing each round. The morale rating for an army is normally zero but is affected thusly:

-1 if undead creatures are mixed with living creatures +1 if all creatures are of the same town type (except Necropolis)

-1 for each town type mixed beyond two town types

Undead creatures and elementals have a morale of zero, independent of their army’s morale rating. Various creatures, spells, hero skills, town buildings, adventure sites, and artifacts can permanently, or temporarily affect morale.

Morale Effects

Troop Morale Effect on Troop

3 12.5% chance of acting again 2 8.3% chance of acting again 1 4.2% chance of acting again 0 Nothing

-1 4.2% chance of freezing

-2 8.3% chance of freezing

-3 12.5% chance of freezing

Luck

Each army has a luck rating. Troops in armies with good luck (a positive luck rating) have a chance to inflict double damage when they strike. Various spells, hero skills, town buildings, adventure sites, and artifacts can permanently or temporarily affect the luck of armies or individual creatures.

Luck Effects

Troop Luck Chance for Double Damage

3 12.5%

28.3%

14.2%

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Effects of Native Terrain

Any army composed entirely of creatures native to the same terrain suffers NO movement penalty when traversing its native terrain (example – a Wizard leading all Tower troops has no movement penalty on Snow). The army would spend movement points as though it was traveling on open grass terrain.

Town Native Terrain

Town Type Native Terrain

Castle Grass Rampart Grass Tower Snow Inferno Lava Necropolis Dirt Dungeon Subterranean Stronghold Rough Fortress Swamp

Heroes in Combat

Heroes do not engage directly in fighting. However, sides led by a hero can enjoy many benefits. A hero’s Attack and Defense skills are applied as bonuses to their troops’ attack and defense ratings. Other skills possessed by heroes, such as the Archery and Leadership secondary skills, can add further benefits. They can also be equipped with war machines and artifacts to aid their army’s strength.

Heroes meeting the proper requirements (see Magic System, pg. 55) can cast combat spells once per round. To have your hero cast a spell, click the Cast Spell button. This will display your hero’s spell book with only combat spells displayed. To cast a spell, choose it from the book and then select a target, if appropriate.

Ending Combat

Combat continues—round after round—until one or both sides lose all of their troops, one side retreats, or one side surrenders.

Loss of Troops

If a side has troops remaining after all opponent troops are lost, then that side wins. If a hero leads the winning side, then the hero gains additional experience points. More experience points are gained for defeating tougher opponents. The winning hero also gains any artifacts carried by the opponent hero. Losing heroes don’t die, but they do disappear from the Adventure Map. Later, they may be available for recruitment in taverns (see Towns, pg. 49).

Surrender

If both sides are lead by heroes, one hero may surrender to the other. The surrendering hero must pay a fee to the other hero in exchange for safe passage. To surrender, click the Surrender button. You will be offered surrender terms, which you may either accept or decline. If you decline the terms, combat continues. If you accept, your hero gets to keep their artifacts and troops but disappears from the Adventure Map. Immediately after, the hero reappears in one of your town taverns for possible re-enlistment.

Retreat

A side lead by a hero may choose to retreat. The retreating hero loses all troops but keeps all carried artifacts. To retreat, click the Retreat button. Your hero will disappear from the Adventure Map, and reappears in your town taverns.

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Siege Combat

When a hero attacks a fortified town, siege combat ensues. The attacking forces are placed outside the town walls, and the defending forces stationed in the town’s garrison (see Towns, pg. 49) are placed within. Town walls block the movement of ground walking creatures and hamper the attacks of ranged attackers. Ground walkers can pass through breaches in the walls caused by Catapult damage or the drawbridge—which can be opened by the town defenders. The drawbridge cannot be opened by attackers; however, a Catapult can knock it down.

Town walls are created when a fort is built in a town. A moat and an arrow tower appear when a fort is upgraded to a citadel. When the citadel is upgraded to a castle, two more arrow towers are added and the town walls are fortified. Arrow towers fire once a turn, targeting an attacking troop. The rear arrow tower fires with twice the strength of the forward two arrow towers.

Drawbridge

Arrow Towers

Walls

Attacking Hero

Catapult

Each town type has a unique moat. Each are described in the Town and Creature Reference section (pg. 81). When a unit enters a moat, its movement ends for that round, though it will be able to move out of the moat on its next move. As long as a unit remains in the moat, its defense is reduced.

Each hero is equipped with a Catapult, which is a war machine used only during siege combat. A Catapult can only target walls and arrow towers. If the attacking hero has the Ballistics secondary skill, he or she can manually target Catapult shots, otherwise the Catapult operates automatically, firing on a random target, once per turn.

If the attacking hero wins the battle—in addition to all other victory benefits—the town becomes part of the controlling player’s territory.

Moat

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Ship-to-Ship Combat

Ship-to-ship combat occurs when one ship attacks another at sea. The battlefield represents the two ships, side-by-side. Gangplanks cross the gap between them and can be used by troops to cross to the opposing ship. The ship gunwales block the movement of ground walking troops.

Click to move the highlighted walking troop to this location.

Click to move the highlighted flying troop to this location.

Click on this enemy troop to have the highlighted troop perform a hand-to-hand attack. Note: as you move the cursor around the enemy, the sword points towards the enemy. The sword’s pommel sits in the hex where the attacker will stand as it attacks.

Click on this enemy troop to have the highlighted troop perform a ranged attack.

Click on this enemy troop to have the highlighted troop perform a hampered ranged attack. Attacks are hampered by intervening walls and do half damage.

Click to cast a selected spell at this target.

Indicates an invalid target for a spell, or the highlighted creature cannot move to the desired location.

Gunwale

Gangplank

Gap

Combat Screen Cursors

If you have control of the Catapult during siege combat, this cursor appears over valid Catapult targets.

If you have control of the First Aid Tent, choose its target with this icon.

Appears when the cursor passes over a hero.

Appears over a creature troop to get more information about the troop.

When you cast the Sacrifice spell, this cursor appears over a valid target troop.

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Combat Options

Click the Combat Options button to display the Combat Options menu. Here you can change sound and combat

options. The sound options are the same as those described in the Adventure Map Interface section. Combat options are detailed below. To close the menu, click the Return to Game button.

Auto Combat Options

The Auto Combat button appears on the Combat Screen. Pressing it turns auto combat on and off. What exactly happens when you do this depends on your Auto Combat Options setting. Checkmark the options to turn them on.

Creatures: The computer makes decisions for your creature troops. Spells: The computer automatically casts spells for your heroes. Catapult: The computer operates your Catapult during siege combat. Ballista: The computer operates your Ballista. First Aid Tent: The computer operates your First Aid Tent.

Animation Speed

These buttons control how fast the combat animations play.

Creature Info Radio Buttons

All Statistics: When you roll the cursor over creatures, all information about them is displayed. Spells Only: When the cursor is rolled over creatures, only spells affecting them are displayed.

View Hex Grid

Distance on the Combat Screen is measured in hexes. This checkbox turns on and off the display of the hexagon grid overlay.

Movement Shadow

This checkbox turns on and off the show movement range option. The place where the highlighted creature can move is outlined when this option is on.

Cursor Shadow

This checkbox turns the mouse cursor shadow on and off. When the option is on, it highlights the hex the mouse is currently in.

Spell Book Animation

Turns the spell book page turning animation on or off.

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Towns

Hall

Tavern

Castle

Marketplace

Creature Dwelling

Garrison Hero

Town Garrison Troop Slots

Visiting Hero Portrait

Split Troop

Town Selector

Hall Level

Castle Level

Town Portrait

Town Name

Income

Creature Generation

Exit Town

Visiting Hero’s Army

The Town Screen is displayed when one of your heroes enters one of your towns. You may also doubleclick on a town’s Town Selector button on the Adventure Map to display its Town Screen. Towns serve your cause in several ways. Towns act as recruitment centers for heroes and the troops making up your heroes’ armies. After one day, your heroes replenish their spell points and learn new spells from towns with mage guilds. At towns with marketplaces, you can trade surplus resources for resources in short supply. Town halls provide you with daily gold income. Buildings unique to each of the Heroes III game’s eight town types can provide your forces with additional strengths and abilities. Over time, you may spend resources to build new structures in your towns and upgrade existing ones to increase the benefits the towns provide you.

Because they are so useful to players, the conquest and defense of towns plays a major role in any successful game strategy. Towns can be defended through the building of fortifications—walls, arrow towers, and a moat—and by filling their garrisons with defending troops, which may be lead by garrison stationed heroes. Additionally, a hero visiting a town will lend their army to the town’s defense, forcing an attacker to fight the visiting hero’s army before facing the town’s garrison forces.

Information about the Town Screen, and descriptions of the interface components associated with buildings common to all towns, are in this section. For details about buildings specific to each town type, see Town and Creature Reference (page 81).

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Town View

All of the buildings currently built in a town are displayed in the Town View. As you move the cursor around the Town View, individual buildings are highlighted (if Town Building Outlines is turned on in the Adventure Map System Options). Buildings are identified by text appearing in the Rollover Bar. Right-clicking on a highlighted building displays text describing the building’s benefits. Clicking on a highlighted building displays a menu appropriate to each building as described below. You may switch the view to a different town by clicking on the town’s portrait in the Town Selector.

Hall

Building description

Resource Cost

Pay Cost

Exit

Each town has a hall. Starting with a village hall, you may upgrade this building to a town hall, then a city hall, then finally, a capitol. Each version provides you with a daily gold income and the ability to order the construction of other town buildings. When you click on a hall, the Hall Screen appears. On it you can order the construction of new town structures or upgrade existing structures.

If you can build or upgrade a given structure, its name appears in a green box. If the structure is not yet built, and you are unable to construct it for some reason, then a red X appears in the lower right corner of its picture, and its name box is red. Structures you have already built, and cannot be upgraded further, have a gold

✔

in their pictures and a gold name box.

You may right-click a building’s picture to display the information found in that structure’s Build Confirmation Window. Text describes what benefits your town gains when the structure is built, along with a list of structures you must build in the town before you will be allowed to construct it. The resource cost of the structure is displayed below this text.

To construct a building, click on its picture. Its Build Confirmation Window will be displayed. You may click the Don’t Build button to cancel, or the Build button to order the building’s construction. When you build a structure, the Hall Screen closes and you are returned to the Town Screen, where you see your new structure being built. Your town immediately benefits from it. Only one structure per day may be built in each of your towns.

Cancel

Building Portrait

Required Structures

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Tavern

Rumor

Heroes for Hire

Hero Info

Hero Hiring Price

Hire Hero

Thieves’ Guild

Exit Tavern

Click on a town’s tavern to display the Tavern Window. In the tavern you can hear rumors, recruit heroes, and view intelligence on your enemies gathered by your Thieves’ Guild. Close the Tavern Window by clicking the Exit Tavern button.

Hear Rumors: A new rumor is displayed in your taverns once per week. This rumor is identical in all of your town taverns.

Hiring Heroes: Two heroes can be found in each tavern, ready for you to hire. The heroes found in a given tavern change each week. To view either of the hero’s Hero Screens, right-click on their portrait. When you click on a hero’s portrait, it becomes highlighted. To hire the highlighted hero, click on the

Hire Hero button. You cannot hire a hero if you currently have another hero visiting the town. View Intelligence: Click on the Thieves’ Guild button to display a report which compares your

performance against those of your opponents.

Creature Dwelling

Creature Portrait

Creature Name

Cost per Troop

Available Troops

Number of Recruits

Total Cost

Slider

Recruit Max Pay Cost Exit

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Creatures who live in towns live in creature dwellings. Each week, the population of these dwellings grows, increasing the number of creatures available at the dwelling which you may recruit into the town’s garrison. Click on a creature dwelling to display the dwelling’s Creature Recruitment Box. The name of the dwelling’s creatures, a portrait of the troop type available, and the number of troops available are shown. As you move the slider to the right, the number of recruits increases, and the cost to recruit them is tallied. You may click the Maximum button to recruit all of the available troops or the maximum number of troops you can currently afford. Click the Recruit button to add the recruits to your town garrison.

Fort

A fort may be built in a town, which adds to the town’s siege defenses. The fort may be upgraded to a citadel, and then to a castle. Click on this structure to display a summary of the town’s troop recruitment availability for all creatures.

Mage Guild

Heroes learn new spells from towns with mage guilds. You may build a first level mage guild in each of your towns. Mage guilds may be upgraded, level-by-level, up to fifth level in some towns. As you build each level, a random selection of spells becomes available at the guild. Clicking on a mage guild displays the spells available. If the visiting hero doesn’t own a spell book, you may purchase one for him or her by clicking on the mage guild. For more information, see Magic System (pg. 55).

First Level Spells

Second Level Spells

Fourth Level Spells

Third Level Spells

Fifth Level Spells

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Marketplace

You can trade surplus resources for needed ones at marketplaces. Clicking on a town’s marketplace brings up the Marketplace Window. One side displays your kingdom’s resources. On the other side, are the resources available at the market. Highlight the resource you want to trade, and the resource you want to trade for. When two resources are highlighted, you may move the slider to the right to increase the quantity of the resource to be traded. You may trade the maximum amount of your selected resource by clicking the Maximum button. To complete the transaction, click the Trade button. Each marketplace you control reduces the costs of trading.

Kingdom Resources

Market Resources

Slider

Tr ad e

Trade With Player

Exit

Amount to Give

Amount to Receive

Maximum

When a scenario map is created, the map maker can create alliances between players. Using the Marketplace, you can give resources to your enemies or allies. To do this, click on the Trade With Player button. When you do this, a display of colored flags replaces the Market Resources portion of the Marketplace Trade Window. Choose which resource you want to give, and set the amount using the slider. Click the flag of the player you want to give the resources to, and then click the Trade button to confirm the gift.

In Tower and Dungeon town types, the marketplace can be upgraded by building an artifact merchant. When you build this upgrade, you can trade artifacts for resources, and resources for artifacts. To do this, click the Trade Artifacts button. A selection of artifacts will be displayed—this selection will be the same for all of your artifact merchants. Click the artifact you want to purchase. The cost for the artifact will appear under all of the Kingdom Resources icons. Choose which resource you wish to trade, and then click the Trade button to complete the purchase. Click the Sell Artifact button to sell artifacts carried by the visiting hero. The hero’s inventory will appear. Click the artifact you want to trade, select the resource you want to trade for, and then click the Trade button.

In Stronghold towns, you can build a Freelancer’s Guild as a marketplace upgrade. When it is built, you can trade the visiting hero’s armies for resources. To do so, click the Sell Creature button. The Kingdom Resources icons will be replaced by a display of the visiting hero’s troops. Click the troop containing creatures you want to sell, then click the resource you want to trade for. Set the number of creatures you want to sell using the slider, and then click the Trade button to make the sale.

Buy Artifacts

Sell Creatures

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Town Garrison

Each town can have an army stationed in its town garrison. This army can be composed of up to seven troops, which may be moved, split, combined, or dismissed. When you recruit troops from a creature dwelling, they appear as a troop in an empty garrison troop slot.

When a hero visits a town, their troops may be traded with those found in the town’s garrison. You can make the visiting hero the leader of a town’s garrison by moving the hero into the garrison. To do this, click on the hero’s portrait to highlight it, and then click on the banner to the left of the first garrison troop slot. The hero’s army will be combined with the garrison army, and the hero will now lead the army in defense of the city. You may swap the visiting and garrisoned heroes, and their armies, by highlighting either hero and clicking the other.

Garrison troops and troops belonging to a visiting hero can be upgraded. If a town contains an upgraded creature dwelling, the lesser creature troop of the same creature type provided by the dwelling, may be upgraded for a price. To do this, double-click on the troop you wish to upgrade. This will bring up that creature's information display. Click on the Upgrade button to show the upgrade cost for the troop. This cost will equal the difference between the recruitment costs of the lesser and higher creatures, multiplied by the number of creatures in the troop. Click ✔ to pay the cost, or the Cancel but- ton to cancel.

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Magic System

Spell Icon

Spell Cost

Air Spells

Earth Spells

Fire Spells

Water Spells

Combat Spells

Adventure Spells

Spell Points

Heroes are able to use the forces of magic in the form of spells. Heroes can use spells to aid their travels, reveal hidden knowledge about their surroundings, and in combat, help their troops or bring harm to their adversaries. When all other things are equal, magic can provide the necessary edge to assure victory in a campaign.

Before they can cast spells, heroes must possess a spell book. The spell book is where a hero records the spells he or she has learned. Some heroes will already have a spell book when they are recruited. Others may purchase theirs from the mage guilds located in towns. A hero’s spell book is kept in their item inventory but may not be traded like other items.

Each spell has a level which represents how difficult it is to cast. Higher level spells are only obtainable by heroes with higher Wisdom skill ratings (see Secondary Skills, pg. 35). When heroes visit a town with a mage guild, they automatically learn any new spells the guild has to offer and their Wisdom rating allows them to cast. Heroes may also learn spells as they explore map locations.

Each spell belongs to one of the four schools of magic—air, earth, fire, or water. Heroes may learn the Air Magic, Earth Magic, Fire Magic, and Water Magic secondary skills to increase the strength at which they cast the spells of each school.

Spells cost spell points to cast. A hero’s maximum spell points is equal to 10x their Knowledge skill. As a hero casts spells, their spell points are diminished. A hero cannot cast a spell costing more spell points than he or she has available. Each hero regains one spell point per day, or can be completely replenished when he or she starts a new day in a town with a mage guild. Heroes with the Mysticism skill regain spell points more rapidly (see Secondary Skills, pg. 35).

Close Book

All Spells

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Spell Book

A hero’s spell book may be viewed by clicking on the spell book’s icon in the inventory portion of their Hero Screen. In a hero’s spell book, spells known to the hero are listed by school and divided into combat spells and adventure spells. Adventure spells may be cast while a hero is travelling around the Adventure Map. Combat spells may be cast when a hero is in combat. To display adventure and combat spells, click the combat spell and adventure spell bookmarks sticking out of the bottom of the book. To display spells of a particular school, click the school’s bookmark on the right side of the book. If the hero knows more spells in a given category than can be displayed on one page, pages may be turned by clicking on the page curls.

Next to each spell’s name is a number representing the number of spell points it costs to cast the spell. You may view information about a spell by right-clicking on its icon.

Casting Spells

To cast an adventure spell, click the Cast Spell button found in the control buttons on the right side of the Adventure Map display. The current hero’s spell book will be displayed as described above, but the combat spells bookmark will be deactivated. To cast a spell, find it, then click on the spell’s icon.

You may have your hero cast a combat spell by clicking the Cast Spell button located at the lower right corner of the Combat Screen. The hero’s spell book appears. During combat, only combat spells are displayed. Find the spell you want to cast, then click on its icon. When you do so, the spell book will vanish, returning you to the Combat Screen. If the spell needs a target, you choose the target by clicking on it.

You may cancel the casting of combat and adventure spells by closing the spell book without selecting a spell icon. If a spell is already selected, right-click to avoid casting the spell.

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Kingdom Overview

When you click on the Kingdom Overview button found on the right side of the Adventure Map display, the Kingdom Overview screen appears. On it you can see information about all your towns, heroes, resources, and controlled locations. While resource and controlled location information is always shown, you press the Hero Information and Town Information buttons located at the bottom right corner of the screen to toggle between hero and town information displays.

Hero Information

Crystal Caverns

Gem Ponds

Gold Mines

Alchemist’s Lab

Ore Pits

Sulfur Dunes

Sawmills

Scroll Bar

Controlled Adventure

Locations

Scroll Down

Scroll to Bottom

Scroll to Top

Scroll Up

Town Information

Resource Information

The Resource Bar located at the bottom of the screen shows you how much gold, wood, mercury, ore, sulfur, crystal, and gem units you currently have along with the current date. This is the same display appearing at the bottom of the Town Screen and Adventure Map displays.

Above the Resource Bar is a row showing how many of each mine type you currently have under territorial control.

Controlled Locations

As your heroes visit locations on the map, many of those locations become part of your territory and fly your flag color. Icons representing these locations appear along the right side of the Kingdom Overview. You may use the scroll arrows to cycle through the controlled location icons.

Daily Income

Resource Bar

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Individual Hero Information: When you click the Hero Information button, the main part of the display

shows information about each of your heroes.

Portrait

Attack Defense Power Knowledge

Luck

Troop Slots

Specialty

Experience

Spell Points

Secondary Skills

Hero Items

In Backpack

Morale

Hero/Stats: This portion of the Hero Information section displays the hero’s name, portrait, morale, luck,

troop slots, and primary skills. You can click on the hero’s portrait to bring up that hero’s full Hero Screen.

Hero Skills: This section displays the hero’s secondary skills, experience points, spell points and other information. Hero Artifacts: This section displays the hero’s inventory. Clicking the Equipped, Miscellaneous, or In

Backpack buttons will allow you to view the items the hero is currently using or carrying.

Individual Town Information: Click the Town Information button to display information about each of

your towns in the main section of the screen. If you have more than four towns, you may use the scroll bar on the left side of the screen to bring your other towns into view.

Town: This section displays the town’s name, portrait, village hall level, castle level, and daily gold income.

Click on the town portrait to display that town’s Town Screen. The Creature Generation section displays any creature population you are receiving from Adventure Map creature dwellings under your territorial control.

Garrison Hero: This section shows information about the town’s garrison forces. If a garrison hero leads those

forces, their name and portrait appear. Click on the hero’s portrait to switch to the hero’s Hero Screen.

Visiting Hero Section: If a hero is visiting the town, then their portrait, name, and army are shown here.

You can click on the hero’s portrait to bring up the hero’s Hero Screen.

Scroll Inventory

Town Portrait

Town Name

Hall Level

Town Castle

Hero Portraits

Garrison Army

Visiting Army

Available Creatures

Income

Creature Generation

Equipped

Miscellaneous

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Multiplayer

In many of the scenarios supplied with Heroes of Might and Magic III, between two and eight of the opposing forces may be played by a human players. These scenarios may be played as multiplayer games, either on a single computer (a hotseat game), with each player taking turns at the computer’s controls, or as a network game, with each player sitting at a separate computer connected via network, Internet, modem, or serial cable. This section describes how these games are started and played.

Multiplayer Game Type Selector

Hotseat IPX

TCP/IP

Modem

Direct Connection

Cancel

Player Name Field

Starting a Multiplayer Game

From the Main Menu, click the New Game button to bring up the New Game Menu. There, click the Multiplayer button to display the Multiplayer Game Type Selector pictured above. From there you may

choose the type of multiplayer game you want to begin—Hotseat, IPX, TCP/IP, Modem, or Direct Connection. Click on the Online Services button to connect to available Internet opponent matching services. You can click in the player name field to activate its text cursor and type in your name. This will be the name other players see you as. Click the Cancel button to return to the Main Menu.

Online Services

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Hotseat Games

Starting a Hotseat Game

Hotseat Opponent Setup Menu

Start a hotseat game by clicking the Hotseat button on the Multiplayer Game Type Selector. The Hotseat Multiplayer Opponent Setup menu appears. To add a player to the game, type a player’s name into one of the eight Name Boxes. Erasing a name from a box will remove a player. Once you have entered a name for all the players who are going to participate in the hotseat game, you can click the ✔ button to go to the Scenario Selector (see Scenario Selector, pg. 9).

Playing a Hotseat Game

Hotseat games proceed like single player games except as each player’s turn comes up, he or she takes over control of the computer—sitting in the “hotseat,” so to speak. Players can normally see opponent movements in areas of the Adventure Map they have uncovered, however this is not possible in a hotseat game. To see such opponent movements you may press the Replay Opponents’ Turns button on the Adventure Options menu.

Okay

Cancel

Player Name Box

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Network, Modem, and Direct Connection Games

Starting an IPX or TCP/IP Network Game

Host

Cancel

Network Game Setup

Network games may be played between computers communicating over a Local Area Network (LAN) or over the Internet. LAN connected computers must be able to use the IPX or TCP/IP protocols, while Internet connected computers must communicate via TCP/IP. Before you can play a network game, the appropriate protocol must be properly configured in your Windows Network Control Panel. Additionally, all involved computers must have a copy of the Heroes III games installed. To begin setting up a game, click on the IPX or TCP/IP button to display the Network Game Setup Menu.

Hosting a Game

Each multiplayer game requires a host computer. The hosting player controls scenario selection and chooses which forces each player will lead. To host a game, press the Host button in the Network Game Setup Menu. A box will appear which will allow you to name the network game and choose a password for the game. If you choose a password, only players that know it will be able to join your game. If you leave the password field empty, anyone can join. Click the ✔ button to accept your settings. Your game will appear on the Game Lists of other players. Password protected games appear with a lock icon. Unprotected games appear with an open door icon. Games in progress appear with a closed door icon.

Your screen will advance to the Scenario Selector (see Scenario Selector, pg. 9). There you must choose a scenario and assign players to their forces. All players not assigned to a force are dropped from the game when you start.

Joining a Game

To join a game hosted by another player, fill your name in the Name Box, and then click on a name in the Game List and press the Join button. If the game is password protected, a box will appear asking you for the password. When you join a game, your display will switch to the Scenario Selector. You will not be able to select scenarios or make player assignments. Rather, you will see these actions as performed by the game’s host. Pressing the Cancel button will drop you from the game and return you to the Main Menu.

# of Players

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Session Owner

Session Name

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Finding a TCP/IP Host

To connect to a game over the Internet, you must know the IP address of the computer hosting the game. To search for that computer, press the Search button. A box will appear where you may enter the computer’s eleven number TCP/IP address (example 123.21.123.123). The host player will need to supply this address.

Starting a Modem Game

Modem games are played between two players sitting at computers communicating via modems with one computer acting as the host. To start a modem game, click the Modem button on the Multiplayer Game Type Selector. If you are going to host the game, click on the Host button. Choose which modem you want to use (if you have more than one installed), then click the Answer button. Your computer will now wait for a call from the other computer.

To join a game, press the Join button. After the host computer is setup and ready to answer, enter the host computer’s phone number in the indicated box, then press the Connect button. After the two computers negotiate the connection, the host player can assign players in the Scenario Selector.

Starting a Direct Connection Game

Two players may play a game between computers connected via a null-modem cable run between serial ports on each computer. To start such a game, one of the computers must be set up as the host. To do this, click on the Direct Connection button on the Multiplayer Game Type Selector. A box will appear with a place to type in your game name, and buttons marked Host and Join. Fill in your player name and click the Host button. The other player should click Direct Connection, and then the Join button.

Playing a Network, Modem, or Direct Connection Game

Each player, computer or human, gets one turn per Erathian day. As in a single player game, only one player directs their forces at a time. While waiting for your turn, you may explore the Adventure Map and view any informational display available during your turn. You may not move heroes, build towns, adjust heroes’ inventories, or make any other changes to the game environment. It is your turn when the screen border turns to your kingdom’s flag color. You are also prompted with a window and a sound.

Chatting

During multiplayer games, you may send text messages to the other players. To do this, press the Ta b key when any screen containing a Rollover Bar is displayed. A text cursor will appear in the Rollover Bar, type your message, then press the Return key to send the message. Your message, with your name attached to it, will be displayed to all other players. If you want to send a secret message to a specific player, press an F1-F8 key instead of the Return key. F1-F8 represents players 1-8.

In the course of playing a multiplayer game, you may check to see if another player is still connected by typing the chat message “ping” and pressing the Return key. This command will tell you who is still connected to the game and at what speed. In place of the Return key, you may press the F1-F8 keys to ping a specific player. Every ten minutes, the game automatically pings all existing players.

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Spell Listing Legend

Name What the spell is called. Type Indicates whether the spell may be cast in combat or on the Adventure Map. Cost How many spell points a hero must have to cast the spell. Duration How long the spell lasts. Basic Effect Effect of the spell cast at Normal or Basic Expertise. Advanced Effect Effect of the spell cast at Advanced Expertise. Expert Effect Effect of the spell cast at Expert Expertise.

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World Reference

Spell Reference

Here you will find descriptive listings for all spells in the Heroes III game. Each spell is from one of four schools of magic—Air, Earth, Fire, or Water. Your heroes’ expertise in a spell increases as he gains the secondary skill for the appropriate school of magic (see Secondary Skills, pg. 45). Heroes without such expertise may cast a school’s spells at Normal level (resulting in the same effect as the Basic level spell). Increased expertise allows for spells to be cast at the Basic, Advanced and Expert Levels.

Heroes holding expertise in a school’s secondary skill cast spells from a school at a reduced cost. This cost reduction is the same regardless of whether a hero holds the skill at basic, advanced, or expert level.

Effects of School Expertise on Casting Cost

Spell Level I Spell Level II Spell Level III Spell Level IV Spell Level V

-1 -2 -3 -4 -5

Some spells are more difficult to cast than others. A spell’s difficulty is reflected by its level. All heroes are capable of learning and casting first and second level spells. Heroes with the secondary skill Wisdom can cast higher level spells. A hero with Basic Wisdom can cast third level spells, one with Advanced Wisdom can cast fourth level spells, and one with Expert Wisdom can cast fifth level spells—the highest level spells in the game.

Spells are listed here by school and level.

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Haste

Magic Arrow

View Air

School of Air Magic

Type Combat Cost 6 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop’s speed is increased by three hexes/turn. Advanced Effect Target, allied troop’s speed is increased by five hexes/turn. Expert Effect All allied troops’ speed is increased by five hexes/turn.

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration Instant Basic Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 10) + 10) damage. Advanced Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 10) + 20) damage. Expert Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 10) + 30) damage.

Type Adventure Cost 2 Duration Instant Basic Effect Displays the location of all artifacts on the View World Screen. Advanced Effect Displays the location of all artifacts and heroes on the View World Screen. Expert Effect Displays the location of all artifacts, heroes and towns.

Disguise

Type Adventure Cost 4 Duration 1 Day Basic Effect When the casting hero is right-clicked by opponents, all of the hero’s creature

troops are displayed as if they were composed of the most powerful creatures in the hero’s army. Troop population numbers are represented normally.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect except troop population quantities are represented as

“0.”

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect except all troops are represented as if populated

by the most powerful creature in hero’s longest owned town.

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Level I

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Disrupting Ray

Type Combat Cost 10 Duration Current Battle Basic Effect Reduces target, enemy troop’s defense rating by three. Spell may be cast on

same troop repeatedly.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect except defense rating is reduced by four. Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect except defense rating is reduced by five.

Fortune

Type Combat Cost 7 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Increases Luck of target, allied troop by one. Advanced Effect Increases Luck of target, allied troop by two. Expert Effect Increases Luck of all allied troops by two.

Lightning Bolt

Type Combat Cost 10 Duration Instant Basic Effect Target, enemy creature receives ((Power x 25) + 10) damage. Advanced Effect Target, enemy creature receives ((Power x 25) + 20) damage. Expert Effect Target, enemy creature receives ((Power x 25) + 50) damage.

Precision

Type Combat Cost 8 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop with ranged attack has its attack rating increased by

three when making ranged attacks.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except attack rating is increased by six. Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except all allied troops with ranged attacks are

affected.

Protection from Air

Type Combat Cost 7 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Damage from Air Magic spells is reduced by 30% for target, allied troop. Advanced Effect Damage from Air Magic spells is reduced by 50% for target, allied troop. Expert Effect Damage from Air Magic spells is reduced by 50% for all allied troops.

Air Shield

Type Combat Cost 12 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop takes 25% less damage from ranged attacks. Advanced Effect Target, allied troop takes 50% less damage from ranged attacks. Expert Effect All allied troops take 50% less damage from ranged attacks.

Destroy Undead

Type Combat Cost 15 Duration Instant Basic Effect All undead creature troops receive ((Power x 10) +10) damage. Advanced Effect All undead creature troops receive ((Power x 10) +20) damage. Expert Effect All undead creature troops receive ((Power x 10) + 50) damage.

Level III

Hypnotize

Type Combat Cost 18 Duration Special Basic Effect Target, enemy troop of less than ((Power x 25) + 10) Health is put under

your control. Allied troops may attack hypnotized troop without fear of retaliation.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that Health of target must be less than

((Power x 25) + 20).

Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that Health of target must be less than

((Power x 25) + 50).

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Visions

Type Adventure Cost 4 Duration 1 Day Basic Effect Displays number of monsters in a wandering monster troop and whether or

not the troop will offer to join the casting hero’s army. Range is equal to Power or three, whichever is greater.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except an enemy hero’s primary skill stats, and the

composition and quantity of the hero’s army can be viewed. Range is (Power x 2) or three, whichever is greater.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except an enemy town’s statistics and

garrison composition and quantity may be viewed. Range is (Power x 3) or three, whichever is greater.

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Counterstrike

Type Combat Cost 24 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop can retaliate against one additional attack per round. Advanced Effect Target, allied troop can retaliate against two additional attacks per round. Expert Effect All allied troops can retaliate against two additional attacks per round.

Dimension Door

Type Adventure Cost 25 Duration Instant Basic Effect Teleports hero to target, unoccupied, visible location on the Adventure Map.

Spell may be cast twice per day and reduces the hero’s movement by three tiles for each casting. If movement is reduced to zero, the spell may not be cast.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except the spell may be cast three times in a day. Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except the spell may be cast four times in

a day, and movement allowance is reduced by two tiles.

Level V

Type Adventure Cost 20 Duration 1 Day Basic Effect Casting hero can fly over terrain obstacles to an unoccupied map location.

Distance traveled may be up to 60% of normal movement.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except the hero may fly up to 80% of normal

movement.

Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except the hero may fly up to 100% of normal

movement.

Magic Mirror

Type Combat Cost 25 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Enemy spells cast on targeted, allied troop has a 20% chance of being

redirected to a random enemy troop.

Advanced Effect Enemy spells cast on targeted, allied troop has a 30% chance of being

redirected to a random enemy troop.

Expert Effect Enemy spells cast on targeted, allied troop has a 40% chance of being

redirected to a random enemy troop.

Fly

Level IV

Chain Lightning

Type Combat Cost 24 Duration Instant Basic Effect

Lightning bolt strikes target troop for ((Power x 40) + 25) damage. Bolt then strikes closest troop for half the damage. Effect continues until 4 troops are hit.

Advanced Effect Like Basic Effect except that initial strike does ((Power x 40) + 50)

damage, and bolt strikes five troops.

Expert Effect

Like Advanced Effect except that initial strike does ((Power x 40) +100) damage.

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Magic Arrow

School of Earth Magic

Level I

Shield

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Hand-to-hand damage delivered to target, allied troop is reduced by 15%. Advanced Effect Hand-to-hand damage delivered to target, allied troop is reduced by 30%. Expert Effect Hand-to-hand damage delivered to all allied troops is reduced by 30%.

Slow

Type Combat Cost 6 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, enemy troop’s speed is reduced to 25% of normal. Advanced Effect Target, enemy troop’s speed is reduced to 50% of normal. Expert Effect All enemy troops’ speed ratings are reduced to 50% of normal.

Stone Skin

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop’s defense rating is increased by three. Advanced Effect Target, allied troop’s defense rating is increased by six. Expert Effect All allied troops’ defense ratings are increased by six.

Summon Air Elemental

Type Combat Cost 25 Duration Combat Basic Effect A troop containing (Power x 2) air elementals appears on the side of the casting

player. Only one type of elemental can be summoned.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 3) air elementals are summoned. Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 4) air elementals are summoned.

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Level II

Death Ripple

Type Combat Cost 10 Duration Instant Basic Effect All creatures (except undead) troops take ((Power x 5) + 10) damage. Advanced Effect All creatures (except undead) troops take ((Power x 5) + 20) damage. Expert Effect All creatures (except undead) troops take ((Power x 5) + 30) damage.

Quicksand

Type Combat Cost 8 Duration Until Touched Basic Effect Quicksand pits are placed in four random hexes. They are invisible to

creatures unless they are on native terrain (see Combat, pg. 47). Troops stepping on pit hexes have their movement halted for the current round. Once a pit is stepped on, it is revealed to all.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that six pits are placed. Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that eight pits are placed.

Visions

Type Adventure Cost 4 Duration 1 Day Basic Effect Displays number of monsters in a wandering monster troop and whether or

not the troop will offer to join the casting hero’s army. Range is equal to Power or three, whichever is greater.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except an enemy hero’s primary skill stats, and the

composition and quantity of that hero’s army can be viewed. Range is (Power x 2) or three, whichever is greater.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except an enemy town’s statistics and

garrison composition and quantity may be viewed. Range is (Power x 3) or three, whichever is greater.

View Earth

Type Adventure Cost 2 Duration Instant Basic Effect Displays the location of all loose resources on the View World Screen. Advanced Effect

Displays the location of all mines and loose resources on the View World Screen.

Expert Effect Displays the entire terrain, all mines and loose resources on the View

World Screen.

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Level III

Anti-Magic

Type Combat Cost 15 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop can only be affected by level 4 or 5 spells. Advanced Effect Target, allied troop can only be affected by level 5 spells. Expert Effect Target, allied troop is immune to spell effects.

Earthquake

Type Combat (Siege) Cost 20 Duration Instant Basic Effect Does one point of damage to two, random castle walls during siege combat. Advanced Effect Does one point of damage to three, random castle walls during siege combat. Expert Effect

Does one point of damage to four, random castle walls during siege combat.

Force Field

Type Combat Cost 12 Duration 2 Rounds Basic Effect A two hex-wide force wall is created at target hex. Movement through these

hexes is blocked.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except the force wall is three hexes wide. Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect.

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Protection from Earth

Type Combat Cost 12 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Damage from Earth Magic spells is reduced by 30% for target, allied troop. Advanced Effect Damage from Earth Magic spells is reduced by 50% for target, allied troop. Expert Effect Damage from Earth Magic spells is reduced by 50% for all allied troops.

Animate Dead

Type Combat Cost 15 Duration Permanent Basic Effect Reanimates ((Power x 50) + 30) health points worth of killed undead

creatures in target, allied troop.

Advanced Effect Reanimates ((Power x 50) + 60) health points worth of killed undead

creatures in target, allied troop.

Expert Effect Reanimates ((Power x 50) + 160) health points worth of killed undead

creatures in target, allied troop.

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Resurrection

Type Combat Cost 20 Duration Combat/Permanent Basic Effect Target, allied troop with dead creatures has ((Power x 50) + 40) health

worth of creatures restored to life for the duration of the current battle.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that ((Power x 50) +80) health worth of

creatures are restored permanently.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except that ((Power x 50 + 160) health worth

of creatures are restored.

Sorrow

Type Combat Cost 16 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, enemy troop’s morale rating is reduced by one. Advanced Effect Target, enemy troop’s morale rating is reduced by two. Expert Effect All enemy troop’s morale ratings are reduced by two.

Level V

Implosion

Type Combat Cost 30 Duration Instant Basic Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 75) + 100) damage. Advanced Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 75) + 200) damage. Expert Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 75) + 300) damage.

Town Portal

Type Adventure Cost 16 Duration Instant Basic Effect Casting hero is teleported to the nearest allied town. 300 movement points

are expended when the spell is cast.

Advanced Effect Casting hero may teleport to any allied town with no visiting hero. 300

movement points are expended when the spell is cast.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except that movement point cost is 200.

Level IV

Meteor Shower

Type Combat Cost 16 Duration Instant Basic Effect Troops in target hex and adjacent hexes take ((Power x 25) + 25) damage. Advanced Effect Troops in target hex and adjacent hexes take ((Power x 25) + 50) damage. Expert Effect

Troops in target hex and adjacent hexes take ((Power x 25) + 100) damage.

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Level I

Bloodlust

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect

Target, allied troop receives a +3 attack rating bonus for hand-to-hand attacks.

Advanced Effect

Target, allied troop receives a +6 attack

rating

bonus for hand-to-hand attacks.

Expert Effect

All allied troops receive a +6 attack rating bonus for hand-to-hand attacks.

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School of Fire Magic

Curse

Type Combat Cost 6 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect

Enemy, target troop creatures deliver minimum damage when attacking.

Advanced Effect Enemy, target troop creatures delivers ((80% of their minimum damage)

– 1) when they attack.

Expert Effect All enemy creatures deliver ((80% of their minimum damage) – 1) when

they attack.

Protection from Fire

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Damage from Fire Magic spells is reduced by 30% for target, allied troop. Advanced Effect Damage from Fire Magic spells is reduced by 50% for target, allied troop. Expert Effect Damage from Fire Magic spells is reduced by 50% for all allied troops.

Summon Earth Elemental

Type Combat Cost 25 Duration Combat Basic Effect A troop containing (Power x 2) Earth Elementals appears on the side of the

casting player. Only one type of elemental can be summoned.

Advanced Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 3) earth elementals are summoned.

Expert Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 4) earth elementals are summoned.

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Fire Wall

Type Combat Cost 8 Duration 2 Rounds Basic Effect A two hex-wide wall of fire is produced at target hex. A troop passing

through these hexes takes ((Power x 10) + 10) damage.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that wall of fire is three hexes wide and

damage is ((Power x 10) +20).

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except that damage is ((Power x 10) + 50).

Visions

Type Adventure Cost 4 Duration 1 Day Basic Effect Displays number of monsters in a wandering monster troop and whether or

not the troop will offer to join the casting hero’s army. Range is equal to Power or three, whichever is greater.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except an enemy hero’s primary skill stats, and the

composition and quantity of that hero’s army can be viewed. Range is (Power x 2) or three, whichever is greater.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except an enemy town’s statistics and

garrison composition and quantity may be viewed. Range is (Power x 3) or three, whichever is greater.

Fireball

Type Combat Cost 15 Duration Instant Basic Effect Troops in target hex and its surrounding hexes take ((Power x 10) + 15)

damage.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that damage is ((Power x 10) + 30). Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that damage is ((Power x 10) + 60).

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Level II

Blind

Type Combat Cost 10 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, enemy troop is frozen until attacked, dispelled or effect wears off.

Deactivating attack is retaliated at 50% of base attack rating.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that deactivating attack is retaliated at 25%

of base attack rating.

Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that deactivating attack is not retaliated.

Armageddon

Type Combat Cost 24 Duration Instant Basic Effect All troops take ((Power x 50) + 30) points of damage. Advanced Effect All troops take ((Power x 50) + 60) points of damage. Expert Effect All troops take ((Power x 50) + 120) points of damage.

Level IV

Berserk

Type Combat Cost 20 Duration 1 Attack Basic Effect

Target attacks nearest troop. All creatures in a 1 hex radius affected.

Advanced Effect

Target attacks nearest troop. All creatures in a 7 hex radius affected.

Expert Effect

Target attacks nearest troop. All creatures in a 19 hex radius affected.

Fire Shield

Type Combat Cost 16 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect 20% of hand-to-hand damage inflicted on target, allied troop is

counter-inflicted on attackers of the troop.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect except that 25% of damage is counter-inflicted. Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that 30% of damage is counter-inflicted.

Misfortune

Type Combat Cost 12 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Luck of target, enemy troop is reduced by one. Advanced Effect Luck of target, enemy troop is reduced by two. Expert Effect Luck of all enemy troops is reduced by two.

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Land Mine

Type Combat Cost 18 Duration Until Touched Basic Effect Landmines are placed in four random hexes on the battlefield. A troop

stepping on a mine takes ((Power x 10) + 25) damage. Enemy creatures battling on their native terrain (see Combat, pg. 47) can see the mines and can cross them safely. To all others they are invisible.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that six mines are placed, and damage is

((Power x 10) + 50).

Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that eight mines are placed, and damage is

((Power x 10) + 100).

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Level V

Sacrifice

Type Combat Cost 25 Duration Permanent Basic Effect Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target

dead troop has ((Power + Destroyed Troop’s Creature Base Health + 3) x # of Creatures Sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that health total of creatures resurrected is

((Power + Destroyed Troop’s Creature Base Health + 6) x # of Creatures Sacrificed).

Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that health total of creatures resurrected is

((Power + Destroyed Troop’s Creature Base Health + 10) x # of Creatures Sacrificed).

Slayer

Type Combat Cost 16 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop’s attack rating is increased by eight against behemoths,

dragons, and hydras.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that attack bonus also affects devils and angels. Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except attack bonus also affects titans.

Inferno

Type Combat Cost 16 Duration Instant Basic Effect

Strikes target hex, and all hexes within two hexes for ((Power x 10) + 20) damage.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that damage is ((Power x 10) + 40). Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that damage is ((Power x10) + 80).

Frenzy

Type Combat Cost 16 Duration Until target troop’s next action Basic Effect Target troop’s attack rating is increased by 100% of the troop’s defense

rating, and its defense rating is reduced to zero.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except attack rating is increased to 150% of the

troop’s defense rating.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except attack rating is increased to 200%

of the troop’s defense rating.

School of Water Magic

Bless

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect

Creatures in target, allied troop inflict maximum damage when they attack.

Advanced Effect

Creatures in target, allied troop inflict maximum damage + 1 when they attack.

Expert Effect All allied creatures inflict maximum damage + 1 when they attack.

Level I

Cure

Type Combat Cost 6 Duration Instant Basic Effect Removes all negative spell effects from target, allied troop and heals it for

((Power x 5) + 10) health points.

Advanced Effect Removes all negative spell effects from target, allied troop and heals it for

((Power x 5) +20) health points.

Expert Effect Removes all negative spell effects from all allied troops and heals each for

((Power x 5) + 30) health points.

Dispel

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration Instant Basic Effect Removes all spell effects from target, allied creature troop. Advanced Effect Removes all spell effects from target allied or enemy creature troop. Expert Effect Removes all spell effects from all creatures and the battlefield.

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Summon Fire Elemental

Type Combat Cost 25 Duration Combat Basic Effect A troop containing (Power x 2) fire elementals appears on the side of the

casting player. Only one type of elemental can be summoned.

Advanced Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 3) fire elementals are summoned.

Expert Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 4) fire elementals are summoned.

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Summon Boat

Type Adventure Cost 8 Duration Instant Basic Effect

Summons one of your hero’s boats to their current location. If none of those boats are available, then one of your other heroes’ boats is summoned. Spell has a 50% chance of working. The spell fails if there are no unoccupied boats available.

Advanced Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except that if no boats are available, a new one is created. The spell has a 75% chance of working. There are a maximum of sixty-four boats allowed on the Adventure Map at one time. The spell fails if all are occupied.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except that the spell has a 100% chance of

working (unless all sixty-four boats are occupied).

Level II

Ice Bolt

Type Combat Cost 8 Duration Instant Basic Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 20) + 10) damage. Advanced Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 20) + 20) damage. Expert Effect Target, enemy troop receives ((Power x 20) + 50) damage.

Remove Obstacle

Type Combat Cost 7 Duration Instant Basic Effect Removes one, non-magic obstacle from the battlefield. Integrated obstacles,

such as cliffs are not affected.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except Fire Walls may also be removed. Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except all, non-integrated obstacles can

be removed.

Scuttle Boat

Type Adventure Cost 8 Duration Instant Basic Effect Spell has 50% chance of destroying a boat, unless occupied. Advanced Effect Spell has a 75% chance of destroying a boat, unless occupied. Expert Effect Spell destroys a boat, unless occupied.

Protection from Water

Type Combat Cost 5 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Damage from Water Magic spells is reduced by 30% for target, allied troop. Advanced Effect Damage from Water Magic spells is reduced by 50% for target, allied troop. Expert Effect Damage from Water Magic spells is reduced by 50% for all allied troops.

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Visions

Type Adventure Cost 4 Duration 1 Day Basic Effect Displays number of monsters in a wandering monster troop and whether or

not the troop will offer to join the casting hero’s army. Range is equal to Power or three, whichever is greater.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except an enemy hero’s primary skill stats, and the

composition and quantity of that hero’s army can be viewed. Range is (Power x 2) or three, whichever is greater.

Expert Effect Same as Advanced Effect, except an enemy town’s statistics and

garrison composition and quantity may be viewed. Range is (Power x 3) or three, whichever is greater.

Weakness

Type Combat Cost 8 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, enemy troop’s attack rating is reduced by three. Advanced Effect Target, enemy troop’s attack rating is reduced by six. Expert Effect All enemy troops’ attack ratings are reduced by six.

Level III

Forgetfulness

Type Combat Cost 12 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Half of the creatures in target, enemy troop, with ranged attack forget to

shoot.

Advanced Effect Target, enemy troop with ranged attack cannot use its ranged attack. Expert Effect All enemy troops with ranged attacks cannot use their ranged attacks.

Frost Ring

Type Combat Cost 12 Duration Instant Basic Effect Troops in hexes surrounding target hex receive ((Power x 10) + 15) in

damage. Target hex is unaffected.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except damage is ((Power x 10) + 30). Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except damage is ((Power x 10) + 60).

Mirth

Type Combat Cost 12 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Morale of target, allied troop is increased by one. Advanced Effect Morale of target, allied troop is increased by two. Expert Effect Morale of all allied troops is increased by two.

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Teleport

Type Combat Cost 15 Duration Instant Basic Effect Target, allied troop instantly moves to an unoccupied target hex. Troop

cannot teleport over walls or moats.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except troop cannot teleport over walls. Expert Effect

Troop can move to any unoccupied hex.

Level IV

Clone

Type Combat Cost 24 Duration Current Battle Basic Effect Creates a duplicate of target, allied troop level 1-5. The duplicate can

attack but is dispelled if it receives any damage. Creatures from a given town are rated 1 - 7 based on their relative combat effectiveness. Thus, for the Castle town, pikemen and halberdiers are level 1 creatures, while angels and archangels are level 7.

Advanced Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except the duplicate may be of a level 1-6 troop.

Expert Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except the duplicate may be of a level 1-7 troop.

Prayer

Type Combat Cost 16 Duration 1 Round/Power Basic Effect Target, allied troop’s attack, defense, and speed (hexes per turn) ratings are

increased by two.

Advanced Effect

Target, allied troop’s attack, defense, and speed ratings are increased by four.

Expert Effect All allied troop’s attack, defense, and speed ratings are increased by four.

Water Walk

Type Adventure Cost 12 Duration 1 Day Basic Effect The casting hero may follow a movement path across water, provided the

end destination is an unoccupied location on land. Water movement may be up to 60% of the hero’s normal movement.

Advanced Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that water movement may be up to 80% of

the hero’s normal movement.

Expert Effect Same as Basic Effect, except that water movement may be made at the

hero’s full, normal movement.

Level V

Summon Water Elemental

Type Combat Cost 25 Duration Combat Basic Effect A troop containing (Power x 2) water elementals appears on the side of the

casting player. Only one type of elemental can be summoned.

Advanced Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 3) water elementals are summoned.

Expert Effect

Same as Basic Effect, except that (Power x 4) water elementals are summoned.

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World Reference

Town and Creature

Reference

Here you will find descriptions for all of the buildings found in the Heroes III game’s eight town types. The first section deals with buildings common to all town types. This is followed by individual sections to cover buildings unique to each town. Creature statistics are listed with statistics for the buildings producing them. The individual town sections are followed by information about creatures not associated with any particular town type and then stats for war machines and siege battlefield features.

Creature Table Field Legend

Name Creature’s name. Cost How much it costs to recruit one creature of this type. Building The type of building the creature may be recruited at. Attack Creature’s attack strength. Defense Creature’s defensive ability. Health How many points of damage the creature can take before dying. Damage How much damage the creature’s attack does. Shots How many ranged shots the creature can perform in one battle.

“None” indicates the creature has no ranged attack.

Movement How the creature moves. Speed How fast the creature moves.

Building Statistics Legend

Structure Name of Building type. Cost What it costs to build the structure. Requirements Building(s) that must be built before this one. Creatures/Week

Type and number of creatures produced by this building per week.

Resources

Wood Mercury Ore Sulfur Crystals Gems Gold

Buildings Common to All Towns

Halls

A town’s hall is its center of leadership. Your halls provide you with income in the form of gold. You may order the construction of new structures and structure upgrades at the hall. For more information on constructing other buildings, see Towns (pg. 49).

Castles

A castle provides a town with increased security. Because castles add walls and other defensive features to the town, enemy forces must lay siege to the town when they attack it (see Combat, pg. 40). Presence of a castle also increases town creature production. Clicking on a castle will provide information about the towns current population.

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Village Hall N/A N/A

Town Hall 2500 Gold Village Hall, Tavern

City Hall 5000 Gold Town Hall, Blacksmith, Mage Guild

Level I, Marketplace

Capitol 10,000 Gold City Hall, Castle

The village hall, being the minimum defining building of a town, is automatically a part of all towns. It provides an income of 500 Gold per day.

This upgrade to the village hall provides 1000 Gold per day.

This upgrade to the town hall provides 2000 Gold per day.

This upgrade to the city hall provides 4000 Gold per day. You may only build a capitol if you don’t already have one.

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Fort 5000 Gold Village Hall

+ 20 Wood + 20 Ore

Citadel 2500 Gold Fort

+ 5 Ore

Castle 5000 Gold Citadel

+ 10 Wood + 10 Ore

Building a fort adds walls to a town.

This upgrade to the fort adds a moat and the primary arrow tower to a town. Presence of a citadel increases the production of creature dwellings by 50%.

When a castle is built, it adds two arrow towers at half strength of the primary tower, and the standard walls are strengthened to fortified walls. Further, production of creature dwellings is increased by 100%.

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Mage Guilds

Mage guilds are centers for spell research and provide spells for heroes to learn. Heroes possessing spell books—which are available for purchase at mage guilds—automatically learn all spells known to mage guilds of allied towns they visit, as long as they have the appropriate level of Wisdom (see Secondary Skills, pg. 35). Each upgrade of a town’s mage guild increases the number of spells available. Additionally, heroes who spend one day in a town with a mage guild have their spell points replenished.

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Mage Guild 2000 Gold Village Hall Level I + 5 Wood + 5 Ore

Mage Guild 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Mage Guild Level I Level II + 5 Ore + 4 Crystal

+ 4 Gem + 4 Mercury + 4 Sulfur

Mage Guild 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Mage Guild Level II Level III + 5 Ore + 6 Crystal

+ 6 Gem + 6 Mercury + 6 Sulfur

Mage Guild 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Mage Guild Level III Level IV + 5 Ore + 8 Crystal

+ 8 Gem + 8 Mercury + 8 Sulfur

Mage Guild 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Mage Guild Level IV Level V + 5 Ore + 10 Crystal

+ 10 Gem + 10 Mercury + 10 Sulfur

When the level I mage guild is built, five level I spells become available for heroes to learn. Heroes are able to purchase a spell book from the guild for 500 Gold.

When the level II mage build is built, an additional four level II spells become available for heroes to learn.

When the level III mage guild is built, an additional three level III spells become available for heroes to learn. This is the highest level mage guild you can construct in Stronghold and Fortress towns.

When the level IV mage guild is built, an additional two level IV spells become available for heroes to learn. This is the highest level of the mage guild you can construct in Castle towns.

When the level V mage guild is built, one level V spell becomes available for heroes to learn.

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Marketplace 500 Gold Village Hall Allows resources to be traded.

+ 5 Wood

Tavern

At the town tavern you may hear rumors, check how you are doing compared to your opponents, and hire new heroes for field or garrison duty. For more information, see Towns (pg. 49).

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Tavern 500 Gold Village Hall Provides the ability to recruit heroes,

+ 5 Wood hear rumors, and visit the Thieves’ Guild.

Marketplace

Resources may be traded for other resources at town marketplaces. While the marketplace traders will always seek to make a profit, the more marketplaces you have under your control, the better the exchange rate. In multiplayer games, the marketplace allows you to trade resources with other players. For more information, see Towns (pg. 49).

Castle Towns

Castles are home to the Cleric and Knight hero classes. Castle armies are primarily composed of human men-at-arms, though these towns have also formed an alliance with the griffins and are under the protection of angels. With two types of ranged attack units and two flying unit types available, Castle-based armies are well equipped to quickly engage and defeat their enemies.

Castle Specific Buildings

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Blacksmith 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Village Hall

Brotherhood of the Sword 500 Gold + 5 Wood Tavern

Resource Silo 5000 Gold + 5 Ore Marketplace

Shipyard 2000 Gold + 20 Wood Village Hall

Lighthouse 2000 Gold + 10 Ore Shipyard

Stables 2000 Gold + 10 Wood Barracks

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Griffin Tower

Hall

Tavern/Brotherhood of the Sword

Barracks Guardhouse Archers’ Tower Portal of Glory Shipyard/Lighthouse

Castle

Mage Guild

MarketplaceStablesBlacksmithTraining Grounds

Monastery

Produces the Ballista war machine (see Wa r Machines, pg. 117).

This Tavern upgrade gives a +2 morale bonus to all garrisoned creatures during a siege.

This upgrade to the marketplace provides 1 Wood and 1 Ore per day.

Allows ships to be built. Ships cost 1000 Gold + 10 Wood.

Each lighthouse you build will increase the movement allowance of your ships.

Visiting heroes departing from Castle towns with stables have their movement allowance increased.

Note: Information on creature dwellings unique to each town type can be found in their corresponding sections, within the creature tables

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World Reference

Structure Requirements

Pikemen & Halberdiers

Pikemen and halberdiers are among the strongest basic foot soldiers available to any army. While somewhat slow, they have respectable combat ratings.

Structure Requirements

Archers & Marksmen

Archers and marksmen are lightly armored troops armed with crossbows for ranged attacks and daggers for light hand-to-hand fighting. Marksmen can get off two shots in each ranged attack.

Castle Creature Dwellings and Hordes

Structure Requirements

Griffins & Royal Griffins

Griffins roost in special towers built for them on the Castle grounds. Standard griffins are able to counterstrike against two attackers per turn. Royal griffins can counterstrike an unlimited number of attackers.

Structure Griffin Tower Upgraded Griffin Tower Griffin Bastion Cost 1000 Gold + 5 Ore 1000 Gold + 5 Ore 1000 Gold Requirements Barracks Griffin Tower Griffin Tower Creatures/Week

7 Griffins 7 Royal Griffins

+3 Griffin Tower Production

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Name Pikeman Halberdier Cost 60 Gold 75 Gold Damage 1-3 2-3 Shots None None Attack 46 Defense 55 Health 10 10 Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Slow (4 hexes/turn) Slow (5 hexes/turn)

Structure Guardhouse Upgraded Guardhouse Cost 500 Gold + 10 Ore 1000 Gold + 5 Ore Requirements Fort Guardhouse Creatures/Week

14 Pikemen 14 Halberdiers

Name Archer Marksman Cost 100 Gold 150 Gold Attack 66 Defense 33 Health 10 10 Damage 2-3 2-3 Shots 12 24 Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Slow (4 hexes/turn) Swift (6 hexes/turn)

Structure Archers’ Tower Upgraded Archers’ Tower Cost 1000 Gold + 5 Wood + 5 Ore

1000 Gold+5 Wood +5 Ore

Requirements Guardhouse Archers’ Tower Creatures/Week

9 Archers 9 Marksmen

Name Griffin Royal Griffin Cost 200 Gold 240 Gold Attack 89 Defense 89 Health 25 25 Damage 3-6 3-6 Shots None None Movement Flying Flying Speed Very Swift (6 hexes/turn) Ultra Swift (9 hexes/turn)

Structure Requirements

Swordsmen & Crusaders

Well armed and armored, swordsmen and crusaders are better all-around foot soldiers than their pikemen companions. Crusaders deliver two blows per attack.

Structure Requirements

Monks & Zealots

Monks and zealots train themselves to control and project their personal energistic forces, which they deliver as ranged blasts. While monks suffer the normal penalty for ranged unit handto-hand attack damage (50%), the better trained zealots do not.

Structure Requirements

Cavaliers & Champions

The horse-mounted cavalier and champion deal extra impact damage (+5% per hex traveled to creature attacked) when charging into battle.

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Name Swordsman Crusader Cost 300 Gold 400 Gold Attack 10 12 Defense 12 12 Health 35 35 Damage 6-9 7-10 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Swift (6 hexes/turn)

Structure Barracks Upgraded Barracks Cost 2000 Gold + 5 Ore

2000 Gold +5 Ore +5 Crystal

Requirements Guardhouse, Blacksmith Barracks Creatures/Week

4 Swordsmen 4 Crusaders

Name Monk Zealot Cost 400 Gold 450 Gold Attack 12 12 Defense 710 Health 30 30 Damage 10-12 10-12 Shots 12 24 Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn)

Structure Monastery Upgraded Monastery Cost

3000 Gold+5 Wood+5 Ore+2 1000 Gold+2 Wood+2 Ore+2 Crystal+2 Gem+2 Mercury+2 Sulfur

Crystal+2 Gem+2 Mercury+2 Sulfur

Requirements Mage Guild Level I, Barracks Monastery Creatures/Week

3 Monks 3 Zealots

Name Cavalier Champion Cost 1000 Gold 1200 Gold Attack 15 16 Defense 15 16 Health 100 100 Damage 15-25 20-25 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn) Ultra Swift (9 hexes/turn)

Structure Training Grounds Upgraded Training Grounds Cost 5000 Gold + 20 Wood 3000 Gold + 10 Wood Requirements Stables Training Grounds Creatures/Week

2 Cavaliers 2 Champions

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Structure Requirements

Angels & Archangels

With their great offensive and defensive power and flying ability, angels and archangels are among the mightiest creatures in the game. Both do 150% damage when attacking devils. Additionally, the archangel is able to resurrect dead allied troops once per combat.

Name Angel Archangel Cost 3000 Gold 5000 Gold Attack 20 30 Defense 20 30 Health 200 250 Damage 50 50 Shots None None Movement Flying Flying Speed Extra Quick (12 hexes/turn) Very Fast (18 hexes/turn)

Structure Portal of Glory Upgraded Portal of Glory Cost 20000 Gold+10 Crystal 20000 Gold+10 Crystal

+10 Gem+10 Mercury +10 Gem+10 Mercury +10 Sulfur +10 Sulfur

Requirements Monastery Portal of Glory Creatures/Week

1 Angel 1 Archangel

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Academy of 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Village Hall Battle Scholars + 5 Ore

Artifact Merchants 10,000 Gold Marketplace

Blacksmith 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Village Hall

Mana Vortex 1000 Gold Mage Guild Level I

Portal of Summoning 2500 Gold + 5 Ore Village Hall

Resource Silo 5000 Gold + 5 Ore Marketplace

Presence of a mana vortex doubles the spell points available for visiting heroes.

Visiting heroes gain 1000 experience points from the academy. This effect is applied only once per hero for each Academy of Battle Scholars visited

You may visit the Artifact Merchants building to trade resources for artifacts.

The Ballista war machine (see War Machines and Siege Features, pg. 126) may be purchased from the Dungeon blacksmith.

On Day 1 of each week, a random creature type from a creature dwelling flagged on the Adventure Map, becomes available for recruitment at the Portal of Summoning.

This marketplace upgrade provides 1 Sulfur per day.

Dungeon Towns

Dungeons towns are built by Warlock and Overlord hero types to act as bases from which to wage campaigns of conquest for wealth and power. Similarly minded creatures are attracted as allies. Other Dungeon creatures are in thrall to their masters. Dungeon armies are possessed of a variety of long range attacks, have effective damage dealing troops, and have the ability to greatly disrupt the strategies of their enemies.

Dungeon Specific Buildings

Castle

Hall

Mage Guild

Artifact Merchants

Tavern MarketplaceBlacksmith

Portal of Summoning

Academy of Battle Scholars

Warren

Harpy Loft

Pillar of Eyes

Chapel of Stilled Voices

Labyrinth

Manticore Lair

Dragon Cave

Mama Vortex

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Dungeon Creature Generators and Hordes

Troglodytes & Infernal Troglodytes

Troglodytes are immune to blinding effects since they don’t have eyes and ‘see’ their surroundings through infrared senses.

Structure Requirements

Structure Warren Upgraded Warren Mushroom Rings Cost 400 Gold + 10 Wood 1000 Gold + 5 Wood 1000 Gold Requirements Fort Warren Warren Creatures/Week

14 Troglodytes 14 Infernal Troglodytes +7 Warren Production

Structure Requirements

Harpies & Harpy Hags

Harpies—half-women/half-vulture in appearance—have a swooping attack that returns them to the hex they started from. Harpy hags attack with such violence their attacks cannot be countered.

Structure Requirements

Beholders & Evil Eyes

Beholders and evil eyes can attack at range with rays projected from their eyes. At close range they attack with equal damage using their multiple tentacles.

Name Troglodyte Infernal Troglodyte Cost 50 Gold 65 Gold Attack 45 Defense 34 Health 56 Damage 1-3 1-3 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Slow (4 hexes/turn) Slow (5 hexes/turn)

Name Harpy Harpy Hag Cost 130 Gold 170 Gold Attack 66 Defense 56 Health 14 14 Damage 1-4 1-4 Shots None None Movement Flying Flying Speed Swift (6 hexes/turn) Ultra Swift (9 hexes/turn)

Structure Harpy Loft Upgraded Harpy Loft Cost 1000 Gold

1000 Gold + 2 Crystal +2 Sulfur

Requirements Warren Harpy Loft Creatures/Week

8 Harpies 8 Harpy Hags

Name Beholder Evil Eye Cost 250 Gold 280 Gold Attack 910 Defense 78 Health 22 22 Damage 3-5 3-5 Shots 12 24 Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn)

Structure Pillar of Eyes Upgraded Pillar of Eyes Cost

1000 Gold +1 Wood +1 Ore +1 1000 Gold +1 Wood +1 Ore +1 Crystal +1 Gem +1 Mercury Crystal +1 Gem +1 Mercury +1 Sulfur +1 Sulfur

Requirements Warren Pillar of Eyes Creatures/Week

7 Beholders 7 Evil Eyes

Structure Requirements

Medusas & Medusa Queens

Armed with bows, medusas and medusa queens can attack at range to good effect. Their hand-to-hand attacks do the same damage and also have a 20% chance of petrifying their targets for three rounds. Petrified creatures cannot move, take 50% damage, and become unfrozen when attacked.

Structure Requirements

Minotaurs & Minotaur Kings

Minotaurs and minotaur kings live in labyrinths and devour all who enter. These bull-like humanoids are sure of their ability to dominate in battle and have good morale. This self image is well-founded as they are durable and have a very damaging axe attack.

Structure Requirements

Manticores & Scorpicores

Manticores and their venomous cousins, the scorpicores, have features combined of bat, lion and scorpion. They attack with stabs from their stinging tails. Scorpicore attacks have a 20% chance of paralyzing an opponent. Creatures thus petrified take 50% damage and are unfrozen when attacked or after three rounds.

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Name Medusa Medusa Queen Cost 300 Gold 330 Gold Attack 910 Defense 910 Health 25 30 Damage 6-8 6-8 Shots 48 Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Swift (6 hexes/turn)

Structure Chapel of Stilled Voices

Upgraded Chapel of Stilled Voices

Cost 2000 Gold +5 Wood +10 Ore 1500 Gold +5 Wood Requirements Harpy Loft, Pillar of Eyes Chapel of Stilled Voices Creatures/Week

4 Medusas 4 Medusa Queens

Name Minotaur Minotaur King Cost 500 Gold 575 Gold Attack 14 15 Defense 12 15 Health 50 50 Damage 12-20 12-20 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Swift (6 hexes/turn) Very Swift (8 hexes/turn)

Structure Labyrinth Upgraded Labyrinth Cost 4000 Gold + 10 Ore + 10 Gem 3000 Gold +5 Ore +5 Gem Requirements Chapel of Stilled Voices Labyrinth Creatures/Week

3 Minotaurs 3 Minotaur Kings

Name Manticore Scorpicore Cost 850 Gold 1050 Gold Attack 15 16 Defense 13 14 Health 80 80 Damage 14-20 14-20 Shots None None Movement Flying Flying Speed Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn) Quick (11 hexes/turn)

Structure Manticore Lair Upgraded Manticore Lair Cost

5000 Gold +5 Wood +5 Ore +5 3000 Gold +5 Wood +5 Ore Mercury +5 Sulfur +5 Mercury +5 Sulfur

Requirements Chapel of Stilled Voices Manticore Lair Creatures/Week

2 Manticores 2 Scorpicore

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Structure Requirements

Red & Black Dragons

Red and black dragons with their great mobility, flying ability, and powerful breath weapons are among the most effective units in the game. Red dragons are immune to spells below level four. Black dragons are twice as durable, do 150% damage to giants and titans, and are immune to all spells.

Name Red Dragon Black Dragon Cost 2500 Gold + 1 Sulfur 4000 Gold + 2 Sulfur Attack 19 25 Defense 19 25 Health 180 300 Damage 40-50 40-50 Shots None None Movement Flying Flying Speed Quick (11 hexes/turn) Super Quick (15 hexes/turn)

Structure Dragon Cave Upgraded Dragon Cave Cost

15000 Gold +15 Wood +15 Ore 15000 Gold +15 Wood +15 +20 Sulfur Ore +20 Sulfur

Requirements Mage Guild Level II, Labyrinth, Mage Guild Level III,

Manticore Lair Dragon Cave

Creatures/Week

1 Red Dragons 1 Black Dragons

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Blacksmith 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Village Hall

Blood Obelisk 1000 Gold Glyphs of Fear

Glyphs of Fear 1000 Gold Fort

Cage of Warlords 1000 Gold Town Hall,

Resource Silo 5000 Gold + 5 Ore Marketplace

Shipyard 2000 Gold + 20 Wood Village Hall

Fortress Towns

Fortress towns are built at the edge of swamps and are often used as bases by the Beastmaster and Witch hero classes. Their armies are primarily made up of deadly creatures—born of the swamps, and then subdued and trained for warfare. While among them there is only one ranged attack creature, Fortress units are possessed of many special abilities to offset this deficiency.

Fortress Specific Buildings

You may purchase the First Aid Tent (see Wa r Machines and Siege Features, pg. 126) from

the Fortress blacksmith. The Blood Obelisk gives heroes a +2 to their

Attack skill during siege battles.

The Glyph of Fear gives heroes a +2 to their Defense skill during sieges.

The Cage of Warlords gives visiting heroes a permanent +1 to their Defense skill.

This upgrade to the marketplace provides 1 Wood and 1 Ore per day.

Ships may be purchased from the shipyard for 1000 Gold + 10 Wood.

Basilisk Pit

Blacksmith Castle Blood Obelisk

Shipyard

Marketplace

Wyvern Nest

Lizard Den

Mage Guild

Hydra Pond

Serpent Fly HiveGorgon Lair Hall

Tavern

Glyphs of Fear

Gnoll Hut/Captains Quarters

Cage of Warlords

Glyphs of Fear

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Fortress Creature Generators and Hordes

Gnolls & Gnoll Marauders

Armed with morning stars, gnolls and gnoll marauders are above average foot soldier units.

Structure Requirements

Structure

Gnoll Hut Upgraded Gnoll Hut Captain’s Quarters

Cost 400 Gold + 10 Wood 1000 Gold + 10 Wood 1000 Gold Requirements Fort Tavern, Gnoll Hut Gnoll Hut Creatures/Week

12 Gnolls 12 Gnoll Marauders +6 Gnoll Hut

Structure Requirements

Lizardmen & Lizard Warriors

Lizardmen and lizard warriors are armed with bows for ranged attacks and daggers for hand-to-hand fighting.

Structure Requirements

Serpent Flies & Dragon Flies

These giant, flying insects attack by striking with their tail stingers. Their attacks dispel any beneficial spells affecting their target.

Name Gnoll Gnoll Marauder Cost 50 Gold 70 Gold Attack 34 Defense 56 Health 66 Damage 2-3 2-3 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Slow (4 hexes/turn) Slow (5 hexes/turn)

Name Lizardman Lizard Warriors Cost 110 Gold 130 Gold Attack 55 Defense 67 Health 12 12 Damage 1-3 2-3 Shots 12 24 Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Slow (4 hexes/turn) Slow (5 hexes/turn)

Structure Lizard Den Upgraded Lizard Den Cost 1000 Gold + 5 Wood 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Requirements Gnoll Hut Lizard Den Creatures/Week

8 Lizardmen 8 Lizard Warriors

Name Serpent Fly Dragon Fly Cost 220 Gold 240 Gold Attack 66 Defense 88 Health 20 20 Damage 2-5 2-5 Shots None None Movement Flying Flying Speed Ultra Swift (9 hexes/turn) Very Quick (13 hexes/turn)

Structure Serpent Fly Hive Upgraded Serpent Fly Hive Cost

1000 Gold + 5 Wood + 2 1000 Gold + 2 Mercury + 2 Sulfur Mercury + 2 Sulfur

Requirements Gnoll Hut Serpent Fly Hive Creatures/Week

8 Serpent Flies 8 Dragon Flies

Structure Requirements

Basilisks & Greater Basilisks

The basilisk and greater basilisk have developed the ability to petrify their prey for three rounds. Their attacks have a 20% chance of making this occur. Petrified creatures take 50% damage from attacks and are unfrozen when struck.

Structure Requirements

Gorgons & Mighty Gorgons

The sturdy gorgons attack with their acidic breath. The Mighty Gorgon has a Death Stare with a 10% chance per attack of killing the top creature of a troop outright per 10 Mighty Gorgons.

Structure Requirements

Wyverns & Wyvern Monarchs

Wyverns and wyvern monarchs attack with swipes of their stinging tails. The wyvern monarch’s stinger has a chance of poisoning its target for three rounds. The top creature of a poisoned troop loses 50% of its health each round. Poisoning can only be removed by the Cure spell.

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Name Basilisk Greater Basilisk Cost 325 Gold 400 Gold Attack 11 12 Defense 11 12 Health 35 40 Damage 6-10 6-10 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn)

Structure Basilisk Pit Upgraded Basilisk Pit Cost

2000 Gold + 5 Wood + 10 Ore 2000 Gold +5 Wood +5 Ore

Requirements Serpent Fly Hive Basilisk Pit Creatures/Week

4 Basilisks 4 Greater Basilisks

Name Gorgon Mighty Gorgon Cost 525 Gold 600 Gold Attack 10 11 Defense 14 16 Health 70 70 Damage 12-16 12-16 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Swift (6 hexes/turn)

Structure Gorgon Lair Upgrade Gorgon Lair Cost 2500 Gold +10 Wood +10

2000 Gold + 5 Wood + 5 Ore

Ore +5 Mercury +5 Sulfur

Requirements Serpent Fly Hive, Lizard Den Gorgon Lair, Resource Silo Creatures/Week

3 Gorgons 3 Mighty Gorgons

Name Wyvern Wyvern Monarch Cost 800 Gold 1100 Gold Attack 14 14 Defense 14 14 Health 70 70 Damage 14-18 18-22 Shots None None Movement Flying Flying Speed Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn) Quick (11 hexes/turn)

Structure Wyvern Nest Upgraded Wyvern Nest Cost 3500 Gold + 15 Wood

3000 Gold +10 Wood +10 Mercury

Requirements Lizard Den Wyvern Nest Creatures/Week

2 Wyverns 2 Wyvern Monarchs

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Structure Requirements

Hydras & Chaos Hydras

Hydras and chaos hydras are multiheaded serpents attacking with vicious bites. When they attack, they attack all adjacent enemy troops. This attack is so overwhelming no counterstrike is possible.

Name Hydra Chaos Hydra Cost 2200 Gold 3500 Gold + 1 Sulfur Attack 16 18 Defense 18 20 Health 175 250 Damage 25-45 25-45 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn)

Structure Hydra Pond Upgraded Hydra Pond Cost 10000 Gold +10 Wood 15000 Gold +10 Wood

+10 Ore +10 Sulfur +10 Ore +20 Sulfur

Requirements Basalisk Pit, Wyvern Lair Hydra Pond Creatures/Week

1 Hydras 1 Chaos Hydras

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Blacksmith 1000 Gold+ 5 Wood Village Hall

Brimstone Stormclouds 1000 Gold + 5 Sulfur Fort

Castle Gate 10000 Gold +5 Wood Citadel

+5 Ore

Order of Fire 1000 Gold + 5 Wood Mage Guild Level I

Resource Silo 5000 Gold + 5 Ore Marketplace

Inferno Towns

Inferno towns can be found in Erathian regions blighted by the emergence of the underworld on the surface. Demoniac and Heretic heroes stand in uneasy alliance with these towns. Inferno armies have great hand-to-hand attack units and are only slightly hampered at the lower levels by a lack of flying units until the awesome, teleporting devil and arch devil units can be brought into play.

Inferno Specific Buildings

The Ammo Cart war machine (see Wa r Machines and Siege Features, pg. 126) can

be purchased from the Inferno blacksmith. During a siege, the Brimstone Stormclouds

increase the Power skill of a hero by two

The Order of Fire permanently adds one to a visiting hero’s Power skill. This effect is applied only once per scenario for each Order of Fire visited.

A visiting hero can pass through the Castle Gate building to any other allied Inferno town with a castle gate as long as that town does not have a visiting hero present.

This upgrade to the marketplace provides 1 Mercury per day.

Town Hall

Demon GateCastle Brimstone

Stormclouds

Forsaken Palace

Order of Fire

Mage Guild

Imp Crucible

Blacksmith

MarketplaceHell HoleFire LakeHall of Sins

Kennels

Tavern

Castle Gate

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Inferno Creature Generators and Hordes

Imps & Familiars

Small, frail, and armed only with their natural scratching claws, imps and familiars are among the weakest units in the game. They are, however, produced in great numbers. When familiars are on the battlefield, they channel 20% of spell points spent by enemy spellcasters directly into their hero’s spell point pool.

Structure Requirements

Structure Imp Crucible Upgraded Imp Crucible Birthing Pool Cost 300 Gold + 5 Wood + 5 Ore 1000 Gold 1000 Gold Requirements Fort Imp Crucible Imp Crucible Creatures/Week

15 Imps 15 Familiars

+8 Crucible Production

Structure Requirements

Gogs & Magogs

Gogs and magogs hurl fireballs and attack with their claws at close range. Magog fireblasts affect the target hex and its surrounding hexes like a Fireball spell.

Structure Requirements

Hell Hounds & Cerberi

These demon canines have a fearsome bite and good mobility. Cereberi have three heads and can attack three adjacent enemies in a single attack.

Structure Kennels Upgraded Kennels Cages Cost 1500 Gold + 10 Wood 1500 Gold + 5 Sulfur 1000 Gold Requirements Imp Crucible Kennels Kennels Creatures/Week

5 Hell Hounds 5 Cerberi +3 Kennel Production

Name Imp Familiar Cost 50 Gold 60 Gold Attack 24 Defense 34 Health 44 Damage 1-2 1-2 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn)

Name Gog Magog Cost 125 Gold 175 Gold Attack 67 Defense 44 Health 13 13 Damage 2-4 2-4 Shots 12 24 Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Slow (4 hexes/turn) Swift (6 hexes/turn)

Structure Hall of Sins Upgraded Hall of Sins Cost 1000 Gold + 5 Ore 1000 Gold + 5 Mercury Requirements Imp Crucible Hall of Sins Creatures/Week

8 Gogs 8 Magogs

Name Hell Hound Cerberus Cost 200 Gold 250 Gold Attack 10 10 Defense 68 Health 25 25 Damage 2-7 2-5 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn) Very Swift (8 hexes/turn)

Structure Requirements

Demons & Horned Demons

Both types of demons are capable hand-to-hand attack units.

Structure Requirements

Pit Fiends & Pit Lords

Pit fiends and pit lords attack with tormenting whip blows. Once per combat, pit lords are able to resurrect dead allied troops as demons in place of another action. The number raised cannot be higher than the number of pit lords performing the resurrection.

Structure Requirements

Efreet & Efreet Sultans

Efreet and efreet sultans are recruited into Inferno forces from the realm of fire magic, and are, consequently, immune to Fire School spells. They are natural enemies of genies and do 150% damage against them.

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Name Demon Horned Demon Cost 250 Gold 270 Gold Attack 10 10 Defense 10 10 Health 35 40 Damage 7-9 7-9 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Slow (5 hexes/turn) Swift (6 hexes/turn)

Structure Demon Gate Upgraded Demon Gate Cost 2000 Gold +5 Wood +5 Ore

2000 Gold +5 Wood +5 Ore

Requirements Hall of Sins Demon Gate Creatures/Week

4 Demons 4 Horned Demons

Name Pit Fiend Pit Lord Cost 500 Gold 700 Gold Attack 13 13 Defense 13 13 Health 45 45 Damage 13-17 13-17 Shots None None Movement Ground Ground Speed Swift (6 hexes/turn) Extra Swift (7 hexes/turn)

Structure Hell Hole Upgraded Hell Hole Cost 3000 Gold

3000 Gold + 5 Mercury +5 Sulfur

Requirements Demon Gate Mage Guild Level II, Hell Hole Creatures/Week

3 Pit Fiends 3 Pit Lords

Name Efreet Efreet Sultan Cost 900 Gold 1100 Gold Attack 16 16 Defense 12 14 Health 90 90 Damage 16-24 16-24 Shots None None Movement Fly Fly Speed Ultra Swift (9 hexes/turn) Very Quick (13 hexes/turn)

Structure Fire Lake Upgraded Fire Lake Cost

4000 Gold +10 Ore +3 Gems 3000 Gold + 5 Ore + 5 Gems +3 Mercury +3 Sulfur +5 Mercury +5 Sulfur

Requirements Mage Guild Level I, Demon Gate Fire Lake Creatures/Week

2 Efreet 2 Efreet Sultans

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Devils & Arch Devils

Devils and arch devils can teleport to any hex on the battlefield. Their overwhelming attack leaves no possibility for a retaliatory strike. They also do 150% damage to angels and reduce enemy Luck by one when they appear on the battlefield.

Name Devil Arch Devil Cost 2700 Gold + 1 Mercury 4500 Gold + 2 Mercury Attack 19 26 Defense 21 28 Health 160 200 Damage 30-40 30-40 Shots None None Movement Teleport Teleport Speed Quick (11 hexes/turn) Extra Fast (17 hexes/turn)

Structure Forsaken Palace Upgraded Forsaken Palace Cost

15000 Gold +10 Wood +10 Ore 20000 Gold +5 Wood +20 Mercury +5 Ore + 20 Mercury

Requirements Hell Hole, Fire Lake Forsaken Palace Creatures/Week

1 Devil 1 Arch Devil

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Necropolis Towns

Necropolis towns are overrun and ruled by undead creatures. They are the natural bases for the Necromancer and Death Knight hero types. Necropolis armies have many units with abilities to weaken their opponents. This quickly gives them an edge over equal or even more powerful enemy armies.

Necropolis Specific Buildings

Structure Cost Requirements Benefits

Blacksmith 1000 Gold+ 5 Wood Village Hall

Cover of Darkness 1000 Gold Fort

Necromancy Amplifier 1000 Gold Mage Guild Level I

Resource Silo 5000 Gold +5 Ore Marketplace

Skeleton Transformer 1000 Gold Cursed Temple

Shipyard 2000 Gold + 20 Wood Village Hall

The First Aid Tent war machine (see Wa r Machines and Siege Features, pg. 126) can be purchased from the Necropolis blacksmith.

The Cover of Darkness creates a permanent shroud over the town for enemy heroes. While heroes moving through the shroud remove it as normal, it is regenerated each day.

The Necromancy Amplifier adds 10% to the Necromancy skill of all Necromancers under your command.

This upgrade to the marketplace provides +1 Wood, +1 Ore per day.

Creatures brought to a town with a Skeleton Transformer may be turned into skeletons by putting them through a skeleton transformer.

The shipyard allows ships to be built. Ships cost 1000 Gold + 10 Wood.

CastleCover of Darkness Mage Guild

Necromancy Amplifier

Marketplace Blacksmith

Shipyard

Cursed Temple

Skeleton Transformer

Graveyard

Tomb of Souls

Estate

Mausoleum

Hall of Darkness

Dragon Vault

Town Hall

Tavern

Unearthed Graves

Section III

Games PC HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC III User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

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