
That's respectable at the early game and occasionally fight-dictating later. The Tower's Gremlins were actually the best at that, iirc - the only 1st-level ranged units, and available in lots of like.40. The only thing I disliked about the inferno was that the Magogs' fireball attack also hit my own units, even those immune to fire.I typically never use them.ġst-level minions are supposed to be expendable, that's what justifies the rate at which you can create them. Later game, Vampire Lords and Efreet Sultans in numbers of 60+ were nigh unstoppable - VLs just keep coming back, and Sultans generally hit first, and hit like trucks. They die quickly, but you can get enough of them that having them get the first strike is enough that retaliation isn't a big threat. In H3, I played the Necropolis and Inferno towns the most, just because their minions seemed the most prolific - getting the hero with the % bonus to Necromancy meant that I could easily send a hero with a single stack of 3k skeletons to go conquering visitors, and Imps are.well, imps. HMM3 was definitely the best and most well-rounded, imo, but I really enjoyed the H4 engine - the combat system was much more fluid, and the heroes' fighting and non-hero caravans were genius. Though the Necropolis' Ghost Dragons are kinda weak for a tier 7 unit. Then again, my next favorite towns, the Rampart and Necropolis, seem pretty solid overall, so that's nice. The only good units are the Mages, Nagas, and Titans, and that last are expensive as hell to get ahold of (25k gold + 30 gems to upgrade their temple?!). And Gargoyles and Golems are strictly average. Why must those Gremlins be so frail that I lose them by the hundreds whenever anything gets close to them, and by the dozens at least whenever my opponent has any ranged capabilities whatsoever? And Genies suffer from similar frailty. A pity that the city I like the most, the Tower, seems to have a lot of poor units. I'm now on the 7th campaign's second level.

With some basic tips from GameFAQs, I've been doing well enough. I only recently remembered I had it, and decided to try it out again. I got it a long time ago after playing it at a cousin's house, but the previous times I've played it, I've not been any good at it.
