Games PC HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC V-HAMMERS OF FATE User Manual

WARNING

READ BEFORE PLAYING

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

GETTING STARTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

GAME SETUP

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Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PLAYING THE GAME

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New Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Game controls

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GETTING STARTED

System Requirements

Supported OS: Windows® 98/2000/ME/NT/XP (XP recommended) Processor: AMD Athlon™, Pentium® 1.5 GHz (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 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 (excluding GeForce 4 MX) ATI® Radeon™ 8500/9000/X families Matrox Parhelia™

Laptop versions of these cards are not fully supported. 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, or consult the readme file on the game disc.

NVIDIA® nForce™ or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for DolbyDigital audio.

NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives.

Installation

Installing Heroes of Might & Magic V Hammers of Fate

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 & Magic V

To uninstall the game, click on the Game Uninstall icon in the Start menu.

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 the Heroes of Might & Magic V manual 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 the Internet. See more details on this in the Multiplayer section at the end of the Heroes of Might & Magic V manual.

Options

In the Options menu, you can change graphics and sound settings to best suit your own configuration. You can also change several game settings. Check the appendix section of the Heroes of Might & Magic V manual 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 credits.

Quit

Quits the game to the OS.

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PLAYING THE GAME

New Features

Caravans

Three new tabs have been added to the in-town creatures purchase interface: Hire creatures from dwellings; Hire creatures from neighbouring castles; Caravans’ estimated time of arrival.

Hire creatures from dwellings

The “Hire creatures from dwellings” tab shows all dwellings owned by the player in which creatures can be hired. It also shows the creatures themselves.

The ‘buildings’ icons are replaced with the ‘dwellings’ icons; the figures show the number of creatures, the increase per week, and the caravan movement time. The dwellings are sorted by running time from the top down.

Hire creatures and send them by caravan by clicking the Confirm button.

Hire creatures from neighbouring castles

In the “Hire creatures from neighbouring castles” tab, the player’s castles are shown with all creatures that can be hired there. Everything else is similar to the dwellings tab.

Caravans’ estimated time of arrival

This tab shows all caravans travelling towards this town. The caravans are sorted by arrival time from the top down. Similar creatures are grouped depending on their time of arrival and the type of place they left from (dwellings are grouped with dwellings, castles with castles).

Caravan mechanics

A caravan is a self-steered cart (a special unit on the adventure map) visualised as a cart model. A caravan can only move creatures, and does so between towns belonging to the player or from dwellings belonging to the player to his towns.

A caravan travels by itself (automatically) from the preset origin to the preset destination. A travelling caravan is visible both to the player who owns it and to his opponents (if it comes within their scope). A caravan travels at the speed of a hero who has Expert Logistics and Pathfinding. All terrain penalties are considered. A caravan consists of an arbitrary number of creatures, but no heroes. The number of creature slots in a caravan equals the number of slots for a hero. Creating the caravan itself is free.

Caravans can be attacked by enemy heroes. This leads to a battle, controlled by the player, but without a hero on the side of the caravan (because there are no heroes in caravans).

An allied hero can interact with a caravan (when the mouse cursor is moved over the caravan, its shape changes in the same way as when interacting with a friendly hero). Before the interaction attempt, the player receives a [Yes/No] Message Box saying, ‘Do you want to withdraw creatures from the caravan? Caravan will be disbanded’. If the player responds Yes, an interface similar to the Swap Creature interface opens, where troops can transfer between the hero’s army and the caravan. After the interaction, the caravan is disbanded, and any troops remaining in it disappear.

A caravan selects the shortest unblocked route to its destination. If travelling is impossible (blocked by other units or respawned monsters), the caravan stops, with an icon over it showing that it stands idle. Once the caravan owner’s turn begins, he sees a popup window saying, ‘One or more of your caravans is standing idle’, with the OK button. A caravan’s destination can’t be changed.

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