r/heroes3 • u/pewsquare • Jul 17 '22

Question - Solved Help/question about enemy stack mechanics

Hey there. I have been getting back into homm 3 in the past weeks. And i have a question about enemy stacks. What makes them split up or stack up. Often times depending on my hero i would prefer the enemy to have many stacks (if i have good spells like chain), other times a single stack would be better (if i have a strong shooter stack).

Is there a way to somewhat manipulate that in regular play?

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u/Michelrpg Jul 17 '22

Your overall army strength (which doesnt include your hero stats iirc). If your army is much stronger, they will have less stacks. If its about equal, it will be some stacks. If you are much weaker, they'll have the max stacks.

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u/pewsquare Jul 17 '22

Gotcha, so only the value of my units matters, higher value = less stacks. Thanks.

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u/kiwibeaf360 Jul 17 '22

I think the stronger your army the less stacks they Wil have

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u/Abelhawk Jul 17 '22

Interesting. I always thought it was completely random.

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u/Krollebolle2 Jul 17 '22

See table at the bottom for HotA numbers. I suspect that other versions of homm3 are identical. https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Wandering_creature

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u/pewsquare Jul 18 '22

Oh nice, even better. I kept searching for the wrong terminology it seems. Thanks.

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u/IncrediblySadMan Jul 17 '22

It's random. I believe you can edit that in the editor. But default is random.