Heroes Of Might And Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic is a series of turn-based strategy computer games created by NewWorldComputing. Famous both for its extremely high quality and its sheer number of for the later games. According to both and the fansite, the series was inspired when someone had the idea of combining the walk-around-the-map-trying-to-save-the-world strategy of the earlier NWC game King's Bounty with the aspects of. There are occasional crossovers between the series: Might and Magic 6 shares a setting with Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2, and runs almost concurrently with Heroes 3. Might and Magic 7 shares setting with Heroes 3, and runs between 3 and its expansion pack Armageddon's Blade. Lord Morglin Ironfist is ousted from his homeland by his cousin, Ragnar. Fleeing with his few loyal followers through a portal, he finds himself on another planet, in the land of Enroth.
Enroth is a contested land: Lord Slayer, Queen Lamanda, and Lord Alamar are locked in a civil war for control of the continent. Ironfist himself quickly establishes himself as a fourth player in this power struggle. The player gets to chose which of the four warlords they control during the single-player campaign - however the canonical ending is a victory for Morglin Ironfist and the foundation of the Ironfist Dynasty. The second game's campaign centers around a civil war between Morglin's sons - Roland Ironfist, a good knight/wizard, and Archibald Ironfist, a not-so-good warlock. After their father's death, the line of succession is questioned, leading to disagreements between the two. The Royal Seer who was supposed to make the decision.
His next three successors died similar deaths before Roland is accused of murdering them and goes into hiding, leaving the fifth Royal Seer to declare Archibald the king, while Roland initiates an insurgency to oust his evil brother. The expansion pack, Price of Loyalty, included four new campaigns and some improvements to game balance. What it did not include was a continuation of the main storyline - this would continue in the third installment (and installment 6 of the related series).
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Backstory for the games Heroes 3 and M&M 6 states the canonical victor of the second to be Roland: By the time of those two games, he is King of Enroth, married to Catherine Gryphonheart, heir to the throne of Enroth's ally, Erathia. The two have a son together (Nicolai, an NPC in Might and Magic VI). It is around this point that the Kreegans (a race of aliens that look like demons) invade the North-West of Enroth and the North-East of Antagarich (the continent Erathia is located on).
The third game is the first in the series to move the action away from the continent of Enroth. Instead it occurs on the southern continent of Antagarich. King Gryphonheart of has died and the enemies of Erathia (the Antagarich branch of the Kreegan Invasion, the Dungeon Overlords of Nighon, and the Necromancers of Deyja) take the opportunity of its weakened state to launch attacks against it. Queen Catherine leads a force of the Enrothian army to reclaim control of her homeland with the aid of Erathia's local allies AvLee (elves, dwarves, and centaurs) and Bracada (human and genie wizards). The other nations on Antagarich—-the nation of Krewlod, a wasteland ruled by barbarous humans, orcs, goblins, and ogres; and the lizardfolk and gnolls of the Tatalian swamps—take this as an opportunity to bite off a little of their neighbors' territory while they are all distracted with each other, thus beginning the eight-way 'Restoration War'. The third game's first 'Armageddon's Blade' occurs after the eventual victory of Erathia and its allies in the third game.
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It features a young ranger, Gelu, and his quest to stop a devil from creating the titular artifact and using it to (or destroy the world, either one seems likely). In addition, there are some other campaigns.
In the chaos following the Restoration War, a Nighon overlord seeks to transform herself into a dragon; on the flip side, a wizard's apprentice attempts to become a dragonslayer and prove himself; a young barbarian, Kilgor, seeks to become the new ruler of Krewlod during its Festival of Life; and a Tatalian witch, outcast for her use of fire magic, tries to save her homeland from an undead invasion, led by a figure from the Restoration War. Before all of this, in a comedic prequel campaign, Sir Christian, the first hero you get in the first Restoration War campaign, has a devil of a time getting home to Erathia. The third game's other Expansion Pack 'The Shadow Of Death' acts as a prequel to the actual third game, exploring the backstory of several important character and how the of the lich resulted in him igniting the Restoration War almost singlehandedly. Using the Heroes III engine, eight standalone episodes were released called Heroes Chronicles. The series starred Tarnum, who in the first episode, rose from being a shepherd to becoming the king of the barbarians; but in his quest to free his people from the Empire of Bracaduun (the evil predecessors to Bracada), a series of painful setbacks lead him to become increasingly brutal, tyrannical, and paranoid; history would remember him as the Barbarian Tyrant.
His reign ends abruptly when Rion Gryphonheart, Queen Catherine's ancestor and founder of the nation of Erathia, challenged him to single combat and slew him. Judged by the barbarian gods know as the Ancestors, he is found wanting, and is resurrected as an immortal hero to seek redemption through a thousand-year series of quests fighting the forces of evil. Several of these quests also serve as a form of, as he must help those he once warred against, but in the final episode, he fails to recover the Sword of Frost before someone else did. After these events, Gelu, who now wields the Armageddon's Blade and has been driven insane by it, embarks on a quest to destroy the Sword of Frost, which has been recovered by the Barbarian King, Kilgor. When the two weapons clash, it releases Armageddon upon the world that Heroes 1-3 were set on.
Those that survived used a series of portals to evacuate to another world, which leads into the events of Heroes of Might and Magic IV. IV, much like Armageddon's Blade, features standalone campaigns, one for each town. The Life campaign follows the efforts of the knight Lysander to preserve the nation he founded and rules when a usurper king emerges, claiming to be the last survivor of the Gryphonheart bloodline and igniting a civil war.
The Might campaign centers around Warjak, a young barbarian and the son of Tarnum, as he tries to rally the barbarians and save them from extinction warring against one another (as well as concluding the story of Tarnum, the protagonist from Heroes Chronicles). The Order campaign chronicles the journey of Emilia Nighthaven as she rises from being a peasant to becoming a sorceress-queen, and eventually fights a war to stop a from. The Preserve campaign tells the tale of Elwin and Shaera, a love story with an civil war when the druid protagonist, Elwin, rebels against the elven lord who has mind-controlled his lover Shaera into marrying him. The Chaos campaign explores the adventures of Tawni Balfour, a pirate who rises from inheriting her father's ship to becoming a Pirate Queen of an entire ocean. And finally, the Death campaign tells the tale of Gauldoth Half-Dead, after he becomes the lord of an undead kingdom, only to find that the God of Death that manipulated the Armageddon that struck his previous world has similar plans for his new world. There are two expansion packs, which features even more heroes' tales, and these expansion packs have a scenarios for each pack, uniting the heroes of each scenarios for one last bang.
The original 6 heroes didn't get such, but a custom map made for the fifth game below features the closest thing you can get for it, although only Lysander, Emilia Nighthaven and Gauldoth Half-Dead (and characters from those scenarios) are present. After IV, 3DO went into hard times and NWC eventually ceased to exist.
The rights for the series eventually went to, and. The series makes use of the following tropes:.
Spammer Faction: The Necropolis. Its individual units are quite weak compared to others, but it tends to have high weekly growth, and necromancers can raise overwhelming amounts of creatures with their necromancy skill. The Conflux in III as well. The sprites and phoenixes (though the latter does have the highest speed in the game) are both weak for their tier, but produce faster than any creature of the same tiers in other towns. Necropolis' role as spammer faction in III is further exaggerated by the relatively easy-to-get combination artifact Cloak of the Undead King, that only works for full effect for Necropolis heroes. It is quite a superweapon that causes enemy dead to be resurrected as fairly powerful liches (shooters whose attacks can damage non-undead units adjacent to the target)) instead of measly skeletons.
It is not uncommon to raise armies of thousands of liches with the Cloak, while normally their amount tends to stay under 500. Thanks to their Gating-skill, the Inferno of V and VI does this another way. As a matter of fact, their own creatures are still comparatively weak, especially at the lower tiers. In a quite an interesting twist, Necropolis in VI became a mixup of Technical Faction and Elitist Faction due to the rework of Necromancy(which now allows to raise your fallen troops in the heat of a battle rather than just getting tons of skeletons). And In VII, one ability allows you to raise ghosts from necromancy, giving you all that much more power. Elitist Faction: The Dungeon. Low weekly growths and high unit/building costs, but its units are very powerful, especially its dragons which are typically the strongest creatures in the game.
Castle in Heroes III as well. Tarnum: This new world still needs heroes.:. The Necromancy skill raises a percent of the (non-undead) casualties from each successful battle as skeletons (or, in the case of dragon casualties, bone dragons).
There is also a structure in the Necropolis (necromancer/undead city) that allows you to do this with 100% efficiency using your. In the third game this is an actual spell.
It functions as a temporary Ressurection, but if you use it on undead units, it becomes permanent even after the battle ends. Surprisingly one hero, Thant, starts with this ability and specializes in it, making him very good for early game rushes (his units basically never really die).: An actual skill of the Stronghold in V, and a traditional ability of the dragon creatures (which has the drawback that you can't use healing and buffs on them), with some exceptions (Azure dragon lacks it and not all the dragons in V have it) that grants them immunity to all magic, which sadly means while the enemy can't use magic on them, you can't heal them with it either.: The Academy faction has this theme in V,VI, and VII. With wizards in Arabian attire riding flying carpets, commanding armies of gargoyles, and titans.: Ranged units are limited to melee attacks if there's an enemy unit adjacent to them- not only can they not use their main weapon against the adjacent enemy, they can't fire at anyone else either. In most cases, they only attack at half strength, but there are some exceptions to this rule.: The AI in HoMMIV is pretty bad. See (scroll down).: There's been a fairly drastic one pretty much every single game.:. Tarnum, of Heroes Chronicles.
In the first episode, Warlords of the Wasteland, he commits many atrocities (killing one of his two sisters unknowingly, and nearly killing the other as well) in his conquest of the wizard kingdom. He was later killed by Rion Gryphonheart. The Ancestors judged him unworthy to enter paradise and forced him to return as an immortal to redeem himself. He does this through seven later chapters, even rescuing Rion's daughter from the underworld in Conquest of the Underworld. He is completely redeemed and judged worthy to enter paradise during the Might Campaign of Heroes IV, but refused to enter, remaining a protector for his tribe in the new world.
Cuthbert in III used to use dark magic until he accidentally killed his wife by mistake.: The Conflux in Armageddon's Blade is this. They'd been neutral for a bit less than a millennium thanks to Tarnum and only fought rarely as summons or mercenaries, but when the Kreegans figure out how to destroy the world, they show.: the Armageddon spell is a rain of fire and doom that deals massive damage to all creatures. Yes, ALL creatures. Including yours, making it useful only as a final 'screw you' to a powerful enemy, or with an army full of magic-immune or fire-immune creatures (powerful dragons, phoenixes, some elementals and some golems do the trick).
Armageddon's Blade, however, grants you that spell AND gives all your units IMMUNITY to it!.: The counterpart to for the more good-natured factions. Resurrection is one of the highest level spells and, just like Raise Dead, allows you to keep the animated troops after the fight. Regeneration and Vampirism have similar effects, but work on a smaller scale without the drawback of the stack losing 10/20% of its hitpoints. And then there are the dwarves, which have a Rune of resurrection that instantly raises 40% of the fallen troops. In the sixth game, all healing spells and effects have the power to revive units if they can heal enough hit points, without any drawbacks. Most factions also have at least one creature with a healing ability, except for demons, orcs and dark elves.: Artifacts generally don't carry over between missions (except for Tribes of the East, and even then not all of them). As for expansion packs, recurring characters never get to keep the skills and bonuses you worked so hard to acquire the last time you used them.
At least the main characters (i.e. Those required to survive the scenario in question) get to keep their skills during all of the campaigns. In VI only artifacts that are part of a set carry over between each scenario in campaigns. Again, the main characters and their sidekicks get to keep their skills.:. Sandor from Might and Magic: Heroes VI is the eldest-but-illegitimate son of Duke Slava of the Griffin Duchy, and is overlooked to become the next duke in favour of his younger brother Anton. He decides to leave the politics of the Duchies behind him and find a new life as a among the of the Pao Islands.
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Sephinroth of III, an illegitimate daughter of King Gryphonhaert, joined Nighon because King Gryphonheart wouldn't acknowledge her as his child. Subverted in the fourth game, when she freely admits it was just a con.: Archibald in the second game. The undead King Gryphonheart near the end of the third game.
Sandro in the Shadow of Death expansion to the third game. The fourth game has a with each campaign having its own main villain but The Gathering Storm Expansion gives us Hexis. Kha-Beleth, the Demon Sovereign, in the fifth game.
Biara, Kha-beleth's, takes up this role in the fifth game's expansions. In the sixth game, each of the campaigns has different Big Bads, though they are all tied to one of two Big Bads in the Finale.: The name 'Mutare' comes from the Latin word meaning 'to change' or 'to mutate.' No bonus points for guessing what Mutare does in her campaign. Deyja means 'to die' in Old Norse and Icelandic.
Guess which faction rules over the Kingdom of Deyja. Presumably in order to evoke kabbalistic or otherwise mystical connotations, the halos of the archangles in V are composed of traditional Hebrew calligraphy (but except in a single piece of concept art, where they spell 'Shadai/שדי' one of the names of God, they don't say anything).: The Order campaign in the fourth game ends with the heroes saving the world from the, but as he's immortal, he is put into a catatonic state. The main character becomes the Queen of Great Arcan, but is permanently crippled by a sword through her spine. And also, the other becomes her main advisor because her old mentor is hypnotized by the and later killed when he tries to assassinate the main character.: When you trade resources in the marketplace in II and III, you get this message: 'You have received quite a bargain. I expect to make no profit on the deal' - despite the amount of resources you are buying being worth several times less than the amount of resources you are selling.: The alternate upgrade for hydra units in the fifth game's expansion Tribes of the East have acid for blood.: The Logistics skill, especially in V. Being able to move further on the map may not be exciting, but damn if it isn't useful. Enlightenment in V.
It's a fairly boring stat boost with largely unimpressive perks, but it makes a big difference at higher levels. Amusingly, the barbarian faction in V get the best perks from Enlightenment.: Fairy dragons, rust dragons, crystal dragons, and azure dragons from III, plus megadragons in IV. Can't be recruited in towns, have high costs, low population growth rate. They will still kill you dead if you meet them on the map without a very powerful army.
Any spellcasting creature can also qualify, as they usually cast devastating spells, allowing them to completely outclass any other creature of a similar level. The spellcasters were so horribly powerful in IV that their casting power was reduced in V. Some of them are still a pain in the ass though. The infamous master gremlins are also this early in the game, as they can hit from very far away when you don't have access to fast troops, usually guards vital locations, and deal relatively high damage. If you don't have any ranged troops of your own (and some towns don't that early) it can be a pain to collect resources guarded by Master Gremlins. Some heroes can cast Disguise, which can cause you to see false statistics (normally you are given a general estimate of the strength of the army). In V, any hero who uses the Ballista build can also deceive opponents (even computers), due to the fact that their skills and warmachines are not factored into the estimate.
Efreeti in IV. Flying, fast, strong, and have the Fire Shield ability. Attacking a large group with a Hero in close combat is suicide. If the counterattack doesn't kill you, the reflected damage almost certainly will. The sixth game introduces proper boss fights, mostly against beefed up versions of the various Champion creatures from each faction, though two of them came before the regular creature was introduced in Shades of Darkness. For a more regular example, Phoenixes are this. Not only are they fairly strong, none of the damage they cause can be healed, making it impossible to avoid losses unless they are severely outmatched.: Catherine in III and Biara in V.
Averted with Isabel and Freyda.: All sorts of bad things happen to Christian in the Armageddon's Blade campaign 'Foolhardy Waywardness' (a prequel of sorts to the Restoration of Erathia). Half of them are, and the other half are played for scenarios. The campaign ends with Queen Catherine rescuing Christian from the pirates on her way to Erathia and Christian If you played the original Heroes 3 campaigns, you know what happens instead.
There is ◊ bottled message in the seventh map of the Archibald campaign in Heroes of Might and Magic TWO, makes you wonder how much this guy has suffered or whether this is an unintentional.: Ragnar's father and Morglin's father in the backstory of Heroes I. Archibald and Roland Ironfist in II. Canonically the 'Abel' Roland wins. Rolf and Wulfstan in V's Hammers of Fate expansion have this dynamic despite only being half-brothers. Curiously enough, Wulfstan has no direct part in Rolf's eventual death. Zehir ends up killing him in Tribes of the East. In fact, the same is true for Archibald and Roland Ironfist — neither proved willing to actually kill the other, and when they last met they semi-reconciled and parted ways on peaceful terms.
This was after the 'Cain' Archibald had helped save his brother from the devils because, in his own words, even he couldn't bear the thought of Roland in their hands.: This happens often thanks to necromancy. In III King Gryphonheart is revived as a powerful lich that proves to be more than the necromancers of Deyja can handle. And in V Nicolai is brought back as a vampire that can no longer feel love towards Isabel — only a thirst for blood.
Subverted utterly in VI with Anastasya - following her death in the intro-sequence, she's brought back from the death by her Necromancer aunt - apparently no worse for wear except for occasional complaints about feeling cold. If anything, getting killed has made her a better person - during a later, she realizes that her death was brought on by her own weakness and childishness, and resolves to grow up and take charge of her own destiny. Of course, in VI, the Necromancers are the closest they've ever been to.
Granted, whether she winds up as a better or worse person at the end of it all is - if you take the Path of Dragon's Blood, this former aspiring priestess of light can wind up quite bloodthirsty and cold, and you're free to blame that on your undead nature.: In V: Tribes of the East, Zehir was granted by a Djinn the ability to summon fourth a flying town using a spell. It was only when he first summoned said town that he realizes the spell costs experience points to use instead of conventional mana (justifying when it comes to his levels).: It's never explicitly stated, but since the first four games take place in the same continuity as the games, it stands to reason that most of the ancient 'magical' artifacts encountered are, like in itself, actually just incredibly advanced technology left over from the. The tentative decision to introduce the Forge town, an explicitly futuristic faction, was a nod to this, and to the continuity.
But (along with ). To be fair, were a bit.: All the games in the series have used a system where the skills a hero was likely to learn as well as his attribute growth was determined by his or her class. The fourth game, as part of a allowed you to change your heroes'.: In the 5th game, the AI gets building cost reduction, unit cost reduction, revealed maps and instead of actually battling wild monsters, it runs an loss estimate, which is usually favorable for them, among other things.
The cost reduction starts at normal level and goes as far as 70% off on the highest level. All just because the AI is really stupid, doing things like not picking up treasure lying around and fleeing at the start of the battle, effectively giving up their entire army they had on that hero. Not just 5, although it's the most egregious.
Earlier games also had a cheating AI at least in the sense of being able to see through the. in III, as Easy and Normal give the player a resource advantage and makes the AI play poorer, Hard and on has the AI play as well as it can and the only difference is in the amount of initial resources the player gets.
The 4th game was paticularly frustrating in this aspect. Several of the campaign levels featured one-way teleporters right into your territory. Coupled with the AI being unaffected by fog of war (and perhaps even shroud), you're going to get a lot of invasions as soon as you leave your towns at the least bit disadvantaged. At least in II, heroes resting up in castles get their spell points back at the beginning of their turn, for players anyway; for the computer? Well, the computer gets spell points back at the end of its turn. They attack you in a castle, no spell points back. You attack them in a castle, they've got them all back.
Apparently, the development team for VI is working to make this as minimal as possible. We'll just have to wait and see how this works out. Unfortunately,. In the first and second games, it's quite likely that the population growth in towns owned by computer players is greater than in towns owned by you. For example, if you take over an enemy Knight castle on day 1 of any given week, you will likely find 12 Archers available to recruit, even though the weekly growth rate for Archers is 10.: all over the place in the first games with early characters, and again in V and VI, despite taking place in a separate universe.: The 'Legends of the Ancients' fan-made campaign for V, including tons of references to the previous games and the series, with nearly all the characters as familiar faces. The stand-alone custom scenarios in VI are essentially love letters to previous games in the Might and Magic universe. 'A Princess of VARN' takes place on VARN, the setting of the first Might and Magic game.
'The Succession Wars' re-tells the battle between Roland and Archibald Ironfist in Heroes of Might and Magic II. 'A Tale of Two Guardians' does the same with the final battle between Corak the Mysterious and Sheltem the Dark on the world of XEEN in Might and Magic V. There are also new overworld themes in Shades of Darkness which are remixes from the themes in 'III', along with the returning Dungeon faction unit lineup being rather inspired by the Dungeon in 'III'.: The intro to II features a series of scenes where the successive Royal Seers of Enroth keep getting killed off, with the descriptions of the deaths and the visuals being off-kilter (except for the dragon attack. Of course, dragon attacks can be both random or orchestrated), with the descriptions calling them accidents and the visuals pointing to someone causing them (for instance, the 'boating accident' was caused by a mage calling down a lightning bolt on the boat). This seems to have been a bit too much to believe for the royal court, since the next move by the prince implied to have been responsible for the deaths (Archibald) is to accuse his brother of murdering the Seers.:. that have absolutely no chance of defeating your army will typically run away rather than face you. You may choose to let them leave peacefully.
Goblins in the fifth game have the 'cowardly' trait, meaning they will almost always run away when hit with a melee attack rather than, unless they are backed into a corner, surrounded or otherwise unable to escape.: The original Heroes of Might and Magic was this for the first five games, as its cast consisted of premade characters and NPCs from the Might and Magic games fighting for towns that share names with the Might and Magic towns. Starting with the sixth Might and Magic game, the Heroes franchise was integrated back into the RPG franchise, though some had to be done in order to do so.: No matter which brother you side with in the main campaign of Heroes II, the winning side does this to the losing side:. If Archibald wins: 'Well, Roland, it seems I've won our little contest. But don't worry.
Not only have I decided to spare your life, but I am appointing you monarch of the Western Tower. You will be the ruler of a mighty empire, one whose every crack and crevice you will know. In ten minutes. Perhaps I will come and visit your splendid court, when you are not entertaining important rats and spiders.' .
If Roland wins: 'Brother Archibald, for your crimes against the kingdom and myself, I give you a mercy: I sentence you to be turned to stone and locked in the west tower until future generations should take pity upon you and restore you to life. If they ever do. In any case, you may rest assured you will never lay eyes upon the crown again.'
. Your mileage may vary on whether being locked up, or being turned to stone and locked up, is crueler.: Gundula, after realizing Duke Boragus is not her true father, goes off to join the military to die an honorable death in battle, but stays alive long enough to become a feared commander.: Heroes Chronicles: Sword of Frost, where Tarnum fails to get the Sword of Frost before Kilgore's wife does.
Tarnum had a chance to kill her, but imprisoned her instead. Well, she escaped. Tarnum states in the end, 'Please don't let my compassion destroy the world!'
Well it does, Tarnum.: Dragons are a major part of the religion of Ashan. The dragon Asha is worshipped as the Goddess of Order creator of the world, while her brother, Urgash the, is despised as a. When the two fought one another during the Mythic Age, Asha was seriously wounded, so she spawned six more dragons (representing the six elements, fire, water, earth, air, light and darkness) to protect the world if Urgash should reappear, and now slumbers within one of the planet's moons, regaining her strength.: They first appear in II as natural creatures with the traditional affinities of Air/Earth/Fire/Water.
In III's Armageddon's Blade expansion pack, they are part of new 'Conflux' town, and psychic was added as new element. Their upgraded forms are Storm, Magma, Energy, Ice, and Magic.
Become the subject of Heroes Chronicles: Master of the Elements, where Tarnum has to face the four elemental lords.: The third game uses the traditional Air/Earth/Fire/Water as spell schools. Other games use different schools, but the traditional four elements are still present. The Dungeon racial also focuses on them, allowing 'elemental chains' that, either via spells or Dungeon creatures attacking.: In III, the elementals have a hierarchy of power: Air elementals are the weakest (level 2), then Water elementals (level 3), then Fire elementals (level 4), and the strongest are the Earth elementals (level 5).: Averted in the first three games, where dwarf and elf units are part of the same town(!); then played straighter from the fourth game on, where elves and dwarves always inhabit separate town types.
That said, even the first three games played this straight to an extent; dwarves were always with limited, while elves were always. It was probably V that took it furthest, with the Ultimate Skills being opposite of eachother: Elves' Ultimate Luck causes every attack performed by your creatures to became lucky, while Dwarves' Ultimate Protection causes normal attacks performed by the opponent's creatures to become unlucky, and lucky ones normal. In the unlikely scenario that two heroes with these abilities meet,.: The world of the first three games, Antagarich, was destroyed when two swords who each possessed enough power to destroy the world collided. The world of Ashan, the setting of V and VI, also has its share of world ending threats. The Demon Sovereign wants to unleash his legions of Hell to burn Ashan to ashes. And he still pales in comparison to Sandro, a lich who considers the entire universe to be a prison created by the gods and wishes to use the to unmake reality itself and reshape it in his image.: No matter how many angels you've got in your army, nobody ever seems to object when you march right into a conquered necropolis or outpost of hell and, instead of razing it to the ground, violate nature by raising unnatural horrors to do your presumably virtuous bidding.
Though it should be noted that having creatures from different castles serving under a single hero tends to decrease their morale. Becomes a plot point in The Shadow of Death when the barbarian and ranger heroes fail in their initial attack against Sandro because their troops can't get along with each other. Also occurs as a gameplay obstacle in V, when Demonlord Agrael has to field elves. That promptly begin to desert his ranks every day. This comes up again in Tribes of the East, where you burn down conquered towns as orcs instead of being able to use them. Granted, you pillage a lot of resources this way.
The sixth game also gives you the option of converting buildings and towns to your faction. Which generally none objects to either, but it does come up in a few scenarios.: The third game's campaign 'Song For The Father' features a team-up between the necromancers of Deyja and Queen Catherine when the former discover that the recently undeadified King Gryphonheart is. Also, the dark elves in V and its first expansion, then the alliance between wizards and orcs in Tribes of the East. Charna from IV is described as being capable of evil that 'even the demons balk at.'
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