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Author Topic: Anybody Else Like Heroes of Might and Magic?  (Read 3555 times)

Settembrini

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« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2006, 05:21:06 PM »
Me and my wife play HOMM3 very often. It´s a multiplayer blast! The campaign game is boring.

Conflux rulez!
Tower rulez!

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« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2006, 07:45:46 PM »
Multiplayers rocks, true. The official 1P campaigns tend to be rather monotonous after a while.
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« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2006, 08:23:32 PM »
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Me and my wife play HOMM3 very often. It´s a multiplayer blast! The campaign game is boring.

Conflux rulez!
Tower rulez!

Did you know that you can form a mega-artifact out of similiarily themed artifacts? The are awesome!

Tower's are my favorite!! :)

How hard is it to set up multiplayer on Heroes III?
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« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2006, 06:39:33 AM »
I've only played hotseat (HoMM is the only game with which I find hotseat to be enjoyable) and that's very easy to set up.

I love Conflux, especially if I can get my magic hero to learn the skill Tactics and the spell Bless early on. :)
 

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« Reply #19 on: April 27, 2006, 03:37:52 PM »
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Yeah, when IV came out I didn't have a machine that would run them.  Did any of you ever try any of the differen versions in multiplayer offhand?

edited as Technomancer responded before I did.




I've played one or two of these as a hot-seat multiplayer game, which is multiplayer on one computer.  It works because it's turn-based.
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« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2006, 08:09:36 PM »
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I've played one or two of these as a hot-seat multiplayer game, which is multiplayer on one computer.  It works because it's turn-based.

When you play hotseat, do people leave the room when it's not thier turn or do they get to stick around and see what each other are doing?
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« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2006, 05:15:40 AM »
When me and my friend is playing, we generally play allies. Makes things more pleasant all around. :)
 

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« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2006, 05:34:50 AM »
Steel Panthers works well as a multiplayer Hotseat.
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« Reply #23 on: May 01, 2006, 05:42:15 PM »
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When you play hotseat, do people leave the room when it's not thier turn or do they get to stick around and see what each other are doing?

Usually we don't leave the room during the other player's turn; sometimes offer what we think is helpful advice, even to not officially allied players; but generally don't hover right by the other person's shoulder all the time (late in the game, a half-hour turn is not unheard of).
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« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2006, 12:07:02 AM »
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When me and my friend is playing, we generally play allies. Makes things more pleasant all around. :)


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« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2006, 05:14:59 AM »
Just gamed a bit with my wife yesterday. We have two PCs, so we are in the same room, and can surf the internet or do some work  while waiting for our turn. It´s very easy to set up, just type in IP adress and there you go. It´s the same over the Internet.
We only recenty found out, that you can combine several matching artifacts into Mega-Artifacts, which has become the new craze with us, yesterday I created the Armour of Dead, which casts Curse, Slow +2 others on opponent before combat starts!. Pretty neat catch up mechanism if someone else gets the grail.
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« Reply #26 on: May 02, 2006, 09:43:56 AM »
Hrmmm...  My wife and I love Heroes of Might and Magic...  All of them.

It's one of the few games any more that we can play together, because it's got hotseat multiplayer...  Age of Wonders and civilization are the other two.

We always play allied, because it's more fun for us to share resources and gang up on the computers.  In the maid-late game when the turns get longer, we take turns doing the house cleaning while waiting for the other to finish.

...And oh, yes...  Grandmastery Stealth in HoMM IV is the shit.  Get experience for sneaking past a bad guy AND for killing him.  It's like a two-fer.
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