Games PC HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC V User Manual
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GETTING STARTED......................................................................4
System Requirements...............................................................4
Installation......................................................................................4
GAME SETUP
......................................................................................5
Main Menu.........................................................................................5
Profile and Difficulty Level .................................................6
Single Player....................................................................................7
PLAYING THE GAME
..................................................................8
Basic controls .................................................................................8
Tooltips...............................................................................................8
Mission Objectives ......................................................................9
Adventure Map..............................................................................9
Hero Management...................................................................16
Town Screen..................................................................................20
BATTLE...............................................................................................26
MULTIPLAYER
...............................................................................32
Multiplayer menu....................................................................32
Hot Seat............................................................................................33
LAN game ........................................................................................33
Ubi.com game.............................................................................34
Creating a multiplayer game.........................................35
Special multiplayer modes..............................................36
APPENDIXES
.................................................................................39
Gameplay settings..................................................................39
Audio and Graphics settings ...........................................39
Game controls............................................................................40
TECHNICAL SUPPORT................................................................43
WARRANTY.......................................................................................44
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WARNING:
READ BEFORE PLAYING
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GAME SETUP
Double-click on the desktop icon or click once on the icon in the Start
menu to launch the game.
Main Menu
After the game intro, the main menu
screen will appear. Here, you can select
one of the following options:
Single Player
This option opens the single player game
menu, where you can start a scenario
campaign or select an individual mission. Here you can also choose or change
your player’s profile. See Page 7 for more details on single player games.
Multiplayer
This option opens the multiplayer game menu, where you can select one of
the following modes: playing with several opponents sharing the same PC
(Hot Seat), playing with partners on a local area network (LAN) or via
Internet. See more details on this in the Multiplayer Page 32.
Options
In the Options menu, you can change graphics and sound settings to
better suit your own configuration. You can also change several game
settings. Check the appendix section for more details.
This menu is also accessible from the Adventure map, and some game
settings are also available from the battle screen.
Credits
Shows the game’s credits.
Quit
Quits the game to the OS.
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GETTING STARTED
System Requirements
Supported OS: Windows®2000/NT/XP (XP recommended)
Processor: 1.5 GHz Pentium®IV or AMD Athlon™
(2.4 GHz recommended)
RAM: 512 MB
Video Card: 64 MB DirectX®9.0-compatible video card
(128 MB recommended) (see supported list*)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0-compatible sound card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c or higher (included on disc)
DVD-ROM: 4x DVD-ROM
Hard Drive Space: 2 GB free
Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible mouse and keyboard
Multiplayer: Internet connection
*Supported Video Cards at Time of Release
NVIDIA®GeForce™ 3/4/FX/6 families (GeForce 4 MX NOT supported)
ATI
®
Radeon®8500/9000/X families Matrox Parhelia™
Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT supported.
These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Additional
chipsets may be supported after release. For an up-to-date list of supported
chipsets, please visit the FAQ for this game on our support website at:
http://support.ubi.com
Installation
Installing Heroes of Might and Magic® V
Insert the game disc into your DVD/CD Drive. If you have enabled the
Autorun option, the game installation will start automatically. Otherwise,
double-click on the CD-ROM icon in the My Computer menu. Find
Autorun.exe in the list of files and folders and double-click on it to start the
installation process. Select “Install” to run the installation and follow the
installation wizard guide to successfully install the game on your computer.
Uninstalling Heroes of Might and Magic® V
To uninstall the game, click on the Game Uninstall icon in the Start
menu. Follow the uninstallation wizard guide to successfully uninstall the
game from your computer.
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Single Player
From this screen, you can start or continue
the campaign , load your saved games,
launch a single scenario map or play a
multiplayer map against AI opponents.
Campaign
This option gives you access to the main
storyline. You can access all missions and
sub-campaigns that have been completed
from this screen or start a new campaign from scratch.
Warning!
Before beginning, create a new profile with your in-game name.
Custom Game
Custom games are maps with a separate
storyline and are not interlinked. In
addition to the missions that have been
intentionally created for the single player
mode, you can also load multiplayer maps
in which your adversaries will be
controlled by the AI.
On this screen, a list (1) describing the
custom game names, winning conditions,
number of players and size is displayed.
Select a custom game from the list. Check
the Include MP maps box (2) to display Multiplayer maps.
Under the list, a map description will appear, detailing the scenario
associated with the selected custom game.
Set the main options for the selected game using the options panel on the right(3).
Click on Create to access the Custom Game.
On this screen, you can select your flag
colour (1), faction (2), starting hero (3) and
bonus(4).
Use the arrows beside each icon to make
your selection. If a Dice icon appears, your
choice has been set to random.
Some of these parameters may have been
preset and cannot be modified.
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Save/Load Game
Save game
You can save games in the campaign,
custom games and in some network
games. To save a game, click on save in
the options menu.
The save game panel will appear. You can
accept the saved game default name, edit
it the appropriate field (1), or overwrite an
existing saved game. To do this, simply
select one of the saved games in the list showing the existing ones (2).
Once you are, done save your game.
You can also Quick Save and Quick Load with F5 and F8. In this case, don’t
enter the save/load screen and the name is always “Quick Save”
Load game
To load a saved game, select it from the
saved games list on the left (1). You can
check the details of the selected saved
game on the right panel (2). After having
selected the game, you can either load (3)
or delete (4) it from your computer.
Profile and
Difficulty Level
Once you have selected single or
multiplayer, you can create or select a
profile identifying you throughout the
entire game. You can create as many
profiles as you want. Saves are associated
with the loaded profile.
Beneath the profile selection, you can
select the difficulty level (1). The difficulty
level is chosen once for the whole campaign for the current profile. The
difficulty level determines your PC-controlled adversaries’ “intellect” level,
the initial amount of resources given to your party at the beginning of the
mission, as well as the might of neutral troops that are your potential
enemies. There are 3 levels of difficulty: Normal, Hard and Heroic.
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Mission Objectives
Objectives are given at the beginning of
the mission and new ones may be added
during the missions, depending on events
and situations. You must complete all
primary objectives in order to complete a
mission. Each objective is described in a
menu, accessed by pressing the Objective
button on the main interface of the
adventure map.
Adventure Map
Your experience within the world of Heroes will begin on the adventure map.
The events that occur there correspond to the game’s strategic level. This is
where the parties develop territories, gather resources, and interact with
various objects, neutral units and each other. The adventure screen shows
where the current mission’s events are taking place. You can see the terrain
within your hero’s field of vision. The rest of the territories are covered by a
“fog of war” and are not shown on the map. Most maps also include an
underground level, which you can access through specific buildings.
Main interface
Use the blue arrows to hide interface elements or bring them back.
If you have several heroes, the one you have selected will have his portrait
framed in yellow. To select another hero, click on his or her portrait.
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PLAYING THE GAME
Basic controls
Camera controls
Scroll the map by moving the cursor to the edge of the screen. Rotate and tilt
the camera while holding the right mouse button. Zoom in and out with the
mouse wheel.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Many actions in the game are linked to keyboard shortcuts. You can
check these shortcuts in the Appendix section at the end of the manual.
Tooltips
During the game, a lot of information will be provided through tooltips
and floating icons. Here is a brief description of the main tooltips:
• Tutorial
The first campaign includes a tutorial to help you learn how to play the
game. It is composed of pop-up messages and flashing icons.
• Adventure map
Throughout the game, tips appear as soon as you point the cursor at certain
objects.
Each tooltip is made up of one or two windows. You can cycle through the
windows by clicking on the right mouse button.
• Right-Click
In addition to the standard tooltips, you can right-click on all interactive
elements in the game to call a detailed description of the object.
• Battle map
Right-clicking on a creature will display a complete list of its statistics, and a
second window will describe all the spells and effects that are active on the
creature.
• Floating tips
When your hero interacts with his environment, you will see icons and tips
fly off. They will briefly describe how the event has affected you hero’s
status.
A more detailed description of some important events will appear just
below the resource panel.
• Banner
During the game, the most important events will be described through a
banner tip that will appear at the top of the screen, just under the resource
bar on the adventure map.
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Resource panel.
Mini Map.
Shows the main
map’s terrain with
its building
schematics.
A building’s
colour corresponds
to who owns it
(neutral buildings
are white).
Heroe icons
Town icons
Controls field
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On dry land, the travelling speed (distance that the hero and his army are
able to cover in a day) depends on several factors:
• Terrain type: paved roads enable fast travelling. Across unpaved areas,
the speed depends on the terrain’s accordance to the hero’s origins. If a
terrain is “Foreign” to the hero, is takes longe to cross.
• Current army: the hero’s speed depends on the speed of the slowest
creature in his army.
Calendar and Time
In-game time
On the adventure map, one turn takes one day. When all your heroes
have achieved all their objectives or exhausted their movement points, your
turn is over. When all the players on the map have finished their turns, a
new day begins. After seven days, a new week begins, and after four
weeks, a new month.
The current date can be seen through the tooltip attached to the End
Turn button on the adventure map screen. The day ends when you click
on End of Turn.
When each week starts, the new creatures’ drill is completed in the town
buildings, and they become available for enlistment. New creatures can
also be hired from the dwellings on the map.
Week of…
At the start of some weeks, the position of the heavenly bodies causes a
major event. As a result, new units of a creature type may randomly
appear on the adventure map and their number increase in towns. Other
weeks will generate other random bonus and penalties. Only experienced
astrologers can predict these events…
Resources
The resource panel shows your current stock of resources. They belong to
your kingdom as a whole, meaning that when you lose a town or a hero,
you keep all of your resources.
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Controls field
• Next Hero: select the next hero and centre the camera on him or her.
• Mission objectives: call the mission objectives screen.
• Toggle Underground/Surface: switches the map between underground
and surface views.
• End Turn: end current turn. Weekdays are highlighted in blue within
the button’s radius.
• Game options: call the game options screen. From this screen you can
save and load games, change the game and hardware configuration, exit
to the main menu or to the OS.
• Spellbook: open the current hero’s spellbook to the page showing
available adventure spells.
• Walk/Dig: Walk the selected hero along the plotted course. If the hero
hasn’t moved, the “Dig” icon appears, allowing the hero to search for
the grail under his current position.
Travelling
Routes
To set your hero’s route, click on the desired destination or object with the
left mouse button. If the hero can reach it, a coloured dotted line
corresponding to the hero’s faction’s route will appear. Confirm your
destination by clicking on the same spot again.
You can tell the hero to move without choosing a route first by doubleclicking on the destination.
Some events may affect your plotted path:
• If the shortest route to the destination is blocked by an enemy, the game
will try to set a new route in order to avoid the threat.
• If the destination is out of the hero’s range, the line outside of the range
will appear in grey.
• If your destination or the route to it is controlled by an enemy and there
is no way around, the route will be plotted in red.
Terrain and speed
As a rule, open fields and roads are always open to a hero. Rocks,
marshes, thickets, lava-flows, forests, rivers etc. are not passable. Rivers
can usually be waded through if a path leads down to the water. Deep
bodies of water (lakes and seas) can only be travelled by ship. To get on or
off, you must find a suitably shallow area.
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Creatures’ dwellings
These buildings can be seized. Unlike town buildings, these dwellings do
not accumulate creatures, thus it is advisable to visit them at the
beginning of each week. When seized, these buildings also increase the
growth of matching creatures types in towns under the player’s control
Garrisons and forts
Garrisons are military buildings guarding key passages on the map. You
can leave one or more units to guard a garrison.
Forts let you drill and enlist basic-level creatures in exchange for gold.
The Hill Fort is a special building that allows upgrading creatures instead
of hiring new ones.
Observation
If seized, magical towers and cartographers enable you to see the
surrounding terrain for miles around.
Weekly income sources
These are various mills and gardens. They will offer the stock they have
accumulated within the week to the first hero to visit them.
Neutral dwellings
Some buildings belong to neutral creatures. They cannot be seized, but a
hero can attack them, defeat the guards and take its contents or hire
itsinhabitants.
Restoring magical energy
Magic wells restore the hero’s magical energy.
Temporary bonus
Some buildings and locations, like the rally flag, for instance, will give the
visiting hero a temporary luck or morale bonus.
Improving a Hero’s skills and experience
Some buildings can be visited to improve your heroes’ skills, to learn new
spells and abilities or to gain extra experience.
Teleportation
Portal buildings allow heroes to teleport from one location to another on
the map. They can be two-way and one-way.
In the sea, Whirlpools connect different water areas on the map. When
you use them, some creatures in your army may drown.
Underworld portals and ladders connect the surface and underground
levels of the map.
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Gathering resources
There are 7 types of resources that can be gathered by capturing mines on
the adventure map.
• Sawmill: Wood • Ore pit: Ore
• Alchemist lab: Mercury • Crystal cavern: Crystals
• Sulphur dune: Sulphur • Gem pond: Gems
• Gold mine: Gold
Other sources of income
There are several other ways to get resources.
• Town buildings: some town buildings can produce resources. You can
also use the Marketplace building in your town to trade resources. The
more market places you own, the cheaper the rates are.
• Weekly resources: every week, buildings such as mills or mysterious
gardens give resources to the first hero to visit them.
• Unique resources: when exploring the adventure map, you will find
chests and heaps of resources that you can pick up.
Gold, wood and ore are universal resources. Mercury, crystals, sulphur
and gems are rare resources, required for erecting magic guilds, other
magic-orientated buildings and for hiring the most powerful allies.
Buildings
On the adventure map, heroes can interact with various buildings. Some
of them can be captured. A seized building has the hero’s emblem on it. If
the object has not been seized by anyone, there is a stream of light over it.
Towns
A town’s appearance enables you to see how developed it is.
Mines
To guard a mine, you can leave one or more units on it.
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Neutral units
The neutral units’ attitude toward your hero will be modulated according
to several factors.
First of all, their attitude depends on your army’s strength: if your forces
are inferior, you will most likely be attacked. If they are more or less
equal, the neutral units may be willing to join you for pay. If your
strength leaves no considerable chances for them to win, they will try to
flee, or offer to join you for free under special circumstances.
In the case of a flight attempt, you may pursue and fight the enemies for
extra experience, or let them go to avoid wasting time and troops. In this
case, you will gain less experience. Once they have fled or have been
defeated, the unit will disappear from the map.
You can increase the probability for neutral units to join your army in
several ways:
• The hero’s and the unit’s origins or race are the same.
• The hero already has creatures of the same type in his army.
• The hero has Diplomacy. Diplomacy can also decrease the amount of
money needed to convince them to join the hero’s forces.
• The hero specialises in this type of creature.
If a neutral unit wants to join the hero, but the hero has no free slots for
new units, the Army Selection screen will appear. On this screen,you
can either combine units of the same type or dismiss a unit. If a neutral
unit wants to join up for pay, the requested sum is deducted from the
resources, if the hero takes on at least one creature.
Evaluating the enemy’s strength
The composition of the neutral unit cannot necessarily be seen, but a
unit can often be identified by the figure of the creatures in the unit. The
tip also shows an approximation of the number of creatures in the unit.
Enemy units can guard income sources or forts that may block your way.
The composition and approximate amount of creatures in stacks can be
seen in the tips under hostile heroes, forts and towns.
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Individual items
On the adventure map, you can find heaps of resources as well as
artefacts and chests.
A chest can be used in two ways: by improving the kingdom’s financial
welfare or gaining extra experience for the hero who found it.
On water, shipwreck, flotsams and floating chests can also contain
resources and money, but they may be empty.
Searching for the Tears of Asha
The Tears of Asha is a major artefact
that is needed to erect a special
building in one of your cities. In most
missions, this is not a requirement, but
it definitely gives you a major
advantage in completing your mission.
Searching for the Tears of Asha
includes revealing the puzzle map
which can be seen on the Mission
Objectives screen. A fragment of the map is revealed each time you visit
a special obelisk. The fragment showing the exact location of the Tears of
Asha is the last to be revealed. When you know (exactly or approximately)
where the Tears of Asha is hidden, you may try to dig it out using the
Dig button in the Controls Field.
Digging requires a whole day, meaning that the hero cannot do anything
else that day.
Once obtained, the Tears of Asha is to be brought to to a city under the
player’s control . If the hero carrying the Tears of Asha is intercepted and
defeated by the enemy, the Tears of Asha will disappear.
Opposing forces
Your heroes’ main adversaries are the heroes belonging to the enemy. You
may also encounter individual stacks of neutral creatures on the adventure
map (“neutral” means they don’t belong to any of the parties, but their
attitude towards you may not be neutral!)
Some of the buildings on the map can also be occupied by enemy or
neutral units. When trying to capture such a building, you will have to
fight its guards.
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