I am coming to HOMM3 from a long break. I have the Complete version from GoG. Whenever I boot up the game, it's displaying in classic 4:3 aspect ratio. When I was playing before, the game's aspect ratio would be such that it filled my entire 16:9 monitor's screen. I much prefer the way that looked. No matter what setting I try to adjust I can't seem to get HOMM 3 to display widescreen.

Given that HOMM3 was originally a 4:3 game I thought I might be misremembering, but I've tried HOMM2 as well as several of the Chronicles titles and those are all booting straight into widescreen.

Can anyone help me adjust some setting somewhere to get back to a 16:9 display?

Don’t think I’ve seen necromancy pop up for non-necro heroes. Won’t take it, but how interesting

So I've recently bought HoMaM4 off of gog for $2.49. and I can honestly say I can't get enough. It's a little poor in the quality, but the game itself is a masterpiece. Don't get me wrong, it has nothing on heroes, or the classic heroes2 gold. But this game gets way to much hate from everyone for being as awesome as it is.

Please I wanna hear everyone else's opinions on this. This game is underrated.

I was wondering what the life expectancy of genies is according to theories. It is said in Thane's lore that he is really old, and that he has been serving Bracada for years, that even the elders don't remember a time without him. So I was wondering if genies could die of old age or if their only way to die is if they get killed.

So.... this happened.

Been playing the SoD campaign. Got past the Sandro one, and on to the big one where all the high level heroes clash. There's 4 missions right at the beginning of the 6th campaign, and you're supposed to transfer over your heroes from previous campaigns.

I recalled (and got a character editor to fix this, don't judge me) that despite what it promises, you don't actually get the heroes as they were per whatever you had at the end of the previous campaigns, you instead get generic level 25 heroes. But when I went to the first new Germ mission, I got Clancy, and..... Elleshar. An Elleshar who doesn't actually have the skill his specialty indicates too. (And I'm missing the 30 grand elves I selected as a starting bonus, but that's a bit less important.

Anyone have any idea how this happened? Fortunately, I've got past saves right before the ends of the campaigns, so I wouldn't lose that much progress, but I'm worried about this happening again. So if anyone has any information, that would be very helpful. And if not, I hope you can at least get some entertainment out of the weirdness.

Just remembered this meme I made a long time ago for another page

How do i open this menu?

Can anyone help me figure out how i open to this menu in the game when browsing heroes before a game, I have HOTA installed on homm III complete, and cannot find any way to open this menu before the games. i get this screen when i right click:

This seems especially good for Dungeon and mage guild in general. Now Pillar of Eyes isn’t a bottleneck. Does anyone think this is a bad change since Dungeon is already good?

When I started playing Battle Brothers I was struck immediately by how much the towns, even graphically but also designwise, are inspired by classic HoMM3. Love this sort of easily readable artstyle in games, but here it feels almost like a love letter (in part because of the turn based combat, but more so just visually).

PS Battle Brothers is also among the few "strategic" RPGs (HoMM-like to some degree?) that I truly liked, and I think the HoMM connection was crucial (the upcoming Battle-Brothers inspired Happy Bastards also seems promising, though...)

Pretty much this. I loved heroes growing up and this HOTA update is amazing.

What exactly happened for this to occur?

hi guys,

is there a way, to remove penalties for rough terrain in vcmi?

i think, starting in the swamp or the snow is much harder, than starting on stone ground or gras.

After the HotA's 1.7.2 patch many spell speciallists got buffed significantly. Bloodlust spell in particular caught my attention. +10 attack on top of it's regular +6 for all tier 1 units feels like a new Lacus'/Calt's specaility! A humble stack of imps with bloodlust hit just as hard as eefrit

On top of that, Ash starts with new Eagle eye, making her even better! Nothing like stealing a chain lightning before the figvt!

Why are my templates looking like this all of a sudden?

Also my own templates arent there anymore!

Please help

Thanks in advance