
A hero can have up to five regular skills and always has the proper racial skill. There are two sets of skills available to heroes: racial skills and regular skills.
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Map view of a bastioned bridge across a river.Ī hero can learn a new skill, upgrade an existing one, gain a new ability or create combos of multiple abilities upon gaining a new level or visiting special buildings on the adventure map.
Units: pixies, blade dancers, hunters, druids, unicorns, treants and green dragons. The hero for the Sylvan Campaign is Findan, a diplomat. Their racial skill gives entire armies bonuses when fighting certain enemies they have slain previously. Their heroes focus on archery, and so do their creatures, who can finish off their enemies without touching them. The old Rampart faction from HoMM III in spirit, the Sylvan faction is more distinctly Elvish this time around. During the game, the camera flies through the 3D environment Necropolis' units: skeletons, zombies, ghosts, vampires, liches, wights and bone dragons. Their unique atributes contain re-animating and neutral morale. The Hero for the Necropolis campaign is the shrewd and cunning Markal. They can use the dark magic of Necromancy to re-animate slain enemies and fill their own ranks with shambling corpses. Once a secret cult flourishing within the dark underside of the Empire, the Necropolis is ruled by corrupted wizards who worship a twisted version of the Dragon of Order, seeking to find everlasting peace and beauty in death that has been denied to them in life. Units: imps, horned demons, hell hounds, succubi, hell chargers, pit fiends and devils. They are the protagonists of the second act of the campaign, where they are led by Agrael. The demons are the primary antagonists in the game, led by their evil overlord, the Demon Sovereign Kha-Beleth. Making their infernal home on blasted lava terrain. Units: peasants, archers, footmen, griffins, priests, cavaliers and angels Ī dark kingdom of demons from the underworld, the Inferno is a faction which uses "Gating (H5)", a method used to summon additional, though temporary, reinforcements onto the battlefield. Their main Heroes are Queen Isabel, and Godric, the king's uncle and the top general for the Griffin Empire. They are the primary protagonists of the game's campaign missions. Arising from their military tradition, they have the ability to train their soldiers, promoting them from one level to another. Units: scouts, blood maidens, minotaurs, dark raiders, hydras, shadow witches and Shadow dragons Ī faction populated by humans and ruled by religious warlords, the Holy Griffin Empire propagates "Law and Order" as their supreme goal. The hero for the dark elf campaign is Raelag, a mysterious and ambitious warlock. They mastered the ability of Irresistible Magic, which made their spells so powerful that even those who had the strongest resistance to magic have little chance to resist. They were once part of the Sylvan faction, but became renegades when they made a pact with the mysterious Faceless. Hailing from the underground empire of Ygg-Chall, the dark elves are a group of fallen elves whose society is built around secrecy, plots, and betrayal. Units: gremlins, gargoyles, golems, mages, djinns, rakshasa and titans. The hero for the Academy Campaign is Zehir, the son of the late Arch-mage Cyrus and the new Arch-mage. Most of its heroes focus on magic, and their army comprises mostly shooters and flyers.
Not much has changed besides its location, moving away from snowy mountains of the Tower City in Heroes of Might and Magic IIIto a vibrant desert scene closer to the original Wizard castle, now filled with Mughal dress. The Academy is a town dominated by wizards and magical creatures since its debut in the second game of the series. Additionally, the game's expansion packs added the Fortress and Stronghold alignments.Įach of these factions is unique and fits a different gamestyle, ranging from defence orientated factions such as Haven, to the summoned armies of the Inferno.
There are six factions in the game: Academy, Dungeon, Haven, Inferno, Necropolis, Sylvan.