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Posted by sfidanza at 19:07, 3 May 2007:
Heroes V Patch 1.5 now available

The 1.5 patch is available in all languages. In about 50Mb, it contains pdf guides for the new tools (preset editor, campaigns, replays, observer mode). Use the mirrors indicated in the official announcement on the Might and Magic site.

This is bound to deserve some discussion and explanations among the Heroes community.

Posted by GenieLord at 16:52, 1 May 2007:
New Role Playing Games

Role playing games (Also known as RPG) have been developed pretty well in HC recently. The basic idea is simple; every player creates a character, and all the players write together to continue the story.
New RPG's in HC:

1. Heroes of Might and Magic RP (By William) is a new one that has become popular. It brought a lot of HC members to play RPG's. The story, characters and comments.
2. Elementalist (by TitaniumAlloy) is another new good RPG. The story, characters and comments.

Click here to get into the Bards Glade Pyre (Role Playing Games Forum) in Heroes Community.

Posted by sfidanza at 13:48, 27 Apr 2007:
Heroes V Patch 1.5 due next week

Ubi_Wuigi, Community Manager on the french Ubi boards, just announced that patch 1.5 is due to be released next week.

1.5 will bring the 2.1 necromancy and training changes to the 1.x branch, as well as fix a bunch of bugs, many of them AI related. Most of all, it will introduce new tools like the duel preset editor, campaign editor, replay editor... Be sure to check the patch 1.5 thread on Heroes Community for all the latest details!

Posted by GenieLord at 14:52, 23 Apr 2007:
Heroes 5 Weekly Quiz and Contest

The popular "Heroes 5: Temple of Ashan Weekly Quiz" (by TDL, Elvin, Alcibiades and Ma_Trix) has been running in HC in the last two months. This is a 'Heroes of Might and Magic 5' knowledge quiz. Every week, new questions are posted. The competitors get points for correct answers.

A different kind of weekly contest has been running in the last month, the "Altar of Wishes: Weekly Faction Contest" (by GenieLord and Elvin). Every three weeks, the organizers name a race. The competitors shall create a faction for the given race. The current race is Trolls.

Posted by sfidanza at 01:10, 18 Apr 2007:
Heroes 5 Manual 2.1 available in spanish

With some delay, the spanish 2.1 version is now available, in both high-quality and light versions. These are the result of the continued dedication of the team La Torre de Marfil, who I'd like to congratulate for their new Portal url: http://www.heroesofmightandmagic.es.
Now we feel even more like a community! :)

Note that the traditional url http://www.torredemarfil.org is still valid, and now the home of the forums.

Posted by GenieLord at 15:43, 16 Apr 2007:
New H3 Tournament and Contests

A lot of new contests are running on HC:

1. A new 'Heroes of Might and Magic 3' Tournament, the "LRH Heroes Tournament". A new forum for this tournament was opened on HC. The official site, explanation, the forum.

2. HOMM Board Game contest, by Kookastar. The full explanation is here. Post your entries here.

3. The HOMM RP and Writing Contest, by RedSoxFan3. You can find all the details here.

4. There are two new contests (by Baklava), of creating characters with the program HeroMachine: The Superhero contest and the Supervillain contest.

Posted by VokialBG at 10:47, 15 Apr 2007:
Heroes 5: Ghost of the Past Mod

GotP aims to be for Heroes 5 what WOG and Equilibris were for the old games of the HoMM series. The basic idea of the project is to restore, some of the removed HoMM traditions in Heroes 5, like legendary old heroes, artifacts, creatures... but also to improve the gameplay and to add new features.

Currently the project is in Alpha (0.3) version, but till May the new Beta (0.5) version will be released (only for testers). Features in the incoming beta:

Renegades as a playable race - the Sanctrum, new heroes per town, new neutral creatures, menus, spellbook features, changes to almost all towns, new single- and multiplayer maps, and some others.

Discuss and read more about GotP at HC | Discuss the new Sanctrum town | New Heroes Discussion

Posted by Valeriy at 06:58, 15 Apr 2007:
New Team Members

Age of Heroes Team welcomes two new members today!

VokialBG is the founder and leader of the HOMM5 GotP Mod project who will keep you updated about the latest developments. GotP aims to be for Heroes 5 what WOG was for Heroes 3.

GenieLord is a patron of Heroes Community who organized few recent events including ICTC2. He will bring AOH and HC closer together with regular news and editorials about the best of what HC has to offer.

Posted by sfidanza at 22:19, 5 Apr 2007:
Second Heroes 5 addon annouced: Tribes of the East

After some April's Fools confusion that saw several fake announcements, here is the real news, officially announced today: the much anticipated second addon for Heroes 5, Tribes of the East will be released in Fall 2007.

As expected by the fans, it will feature the Orcs as a new faction, with Goblins, Cyclops and the Dark Messiah's Pao Kais. The Renegade Haven lineup will be generalized to all factions, with each unit now having two alternate upgrades, continuing the progressive inclusion of Heroes IV innovations into Heroes V!

Tribes of the East will be a standalone product, and the conclusion of the H5 story.

Discover the first "Tribes of the East" screenshots, and discuss this second addon with the Heroes Community.

Posted by ThE_HyDrA at 06:33, 30 Mar 2007:
King's Bounty Resurrected

The game that started it all has been revived by the Russian company, 1C, and is being developed by Katauri Interactive, a little-known Russian conglomerate (not surprising). The adventure map sequence is played in Real-Time, while the battles are turn-based, as in Heroes. The game, now known as King's Bounty: The Legend, first surfaced under the guise of Battle Lord in mid-2006, and is expected to be released some time this year.

Have a look at their official site (in Russian), and Daystar's thread on Heroes Community (in English) for more information. You can also find some screenshots at GameSpot, as well as a small description on the publisher's site, here.

Alexrom66 of Heroic Corner has dropped us a line saying they have 4 videos available, and that the game is one of the most anticipated for Russian gamers this year.