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Ok, so the reporter who said that you won't be able to flag mines and dwellings unless you conquer the nearby city first said he was pretty sure that's what they said. Apparently Ubisoft was pretty clear and he has no idea why other reporters haven't picked this up. Still no word on his preview though.

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The four years Erwan mentions include the first version of the game made by Nival Interactive, so there was quite some work done, but all got scrapped with the new developer.

And Nival indeed started pretty early. It think it was even before Heroes V got shipped. But of course at such an early phase all they could do was to establish a new style for the next game.

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Why did Ubi changed developer if they were already working on H6???

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Aka: The Knights of the Light
In a nutshell: A feudal Holy Empire, protected by medieval knights and monks with access to “Light” Magic and “Angelic” elite troops.
Inspiration: Medieval Western Europe (for the general atmosphere and design), Imperial Rome (for the military organization and “Pax Romana” concept), Knights Templar (for the sense of religious mission), Victorian England (for the puritanical nature and strict class division).

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Aka: The Demons, The Lords of Chaos
In a nutshell: Demons are embodiments of Chaos. They believe that the only meaningful moral value is individual freedom, and they feel no need to justify their actions. They kill because they can, or they want to.
That's why they are viewed as "Evil" and dangerous, and why the other factions of Ashan prefer them to be locked up in their prison-realm, Sheogh, that Sar-Elam created for them. However, there are individuals, among these nations, who are seduced by this absolute notion of Free Will above all, and end up converted to demon worship.

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Aka: The Necromancers, the Undead
In a nutshell: Necromancers began as a splinter sect of the Wizards, and grew into a powerful nation. They worship the "Death" aspect of Asha. Their interpretation of the Goddess's darkest aspect is fanatical, emphasizing death alone and exalting the state of un-life to which all Necromancers aspire. Necromancers study death-magic in order to become eternal, but on their way to un-life, they learn how to control the spirits of the deceased (ghosts) or how to raise the dead from their graves (skeletons).

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Necropolis architecture is frighteningly uniform. The Necromancers' devotion to Order is reflected in their obsession for symmetry and sharp, angular shapes. Pyramids and obelisks are their archetypal buildings, unadorned except for the ever-present symbols of their Spider Goddess. Their favourite construction material is the cracked black stone of the southern deserts, making it seem as if entire cities are drinking in the light of day and swallowing it down.

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Racial ability: Necromany - Any living creature or Undead falling on the battlefield feeds a special gauge. The player can use it to increase one of his own stacks. X% of the raised creatures remain after combat.

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Necromancers, like Wizards, are rarely seen on the front lines. They usually stay in the rear echelon, either as command cadre, or as
support units.
Otherwise, Necropolis armies consist of wave after wave of the walking dead, countless in number, infinitely obedient, immune to fear
or pain.
These lesser Undead are generally slow and clumsy, but they have the numbers to drown their enemies in bodies, and the ranks of the
dead enemies are "raised" to replace their own fallen lines.
Necromancers also engage ghosts in battle, for quick surgical strikes. In many ways, ghosts are to the Death Lords what the Djinns are
to the Wizards.
Necromancers will generally press an attack for hours, knowing full well this is one of their advantages. Their troops, after  all, never get tired.

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Haven Srategy: "Stand Your Ground"

Haven troops are excellent defensive fighters as well, and are legendary for getting their enemies to fight on their ground of their choosing.

Haven generals should focus on winning in the long run by resisting the opponent's assault and outhealing his damage output.

Haven hero and creature abilities combine to Weaken, absorb and redirect the enemy attacks, to heal its damage to retaliate to his assaults.

- Strengths: Mass buffs and healing abilities, temporary total immunity (racial ability), most resilient units, very high morale, high relatiation damage.

- Weaknesses: Limited ranged offense, low damage output.

- Racial ability: Guardian Angel - a friendly stack becomes imprevious to damage and ill-effects.

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Haven's best weapons are healing and defense, so the offensive focus has to be on the opposite damage dealears, in order to reach the point when the enemy can be "outhealed".

Enemy creatures able to disable or strike hard at the Haven support units should also be considered a priority.

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Inferno inspiration: Greek Maenads / Bacchantes (the frenzied followers of Dionysos-Bacchus), Decadent Rome (Nero, Caligula, Heliogabale, etc.), Carthage or Aztec priests

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Inferno Strategy: "Divide, Summon and Conquer"

Gate in as many extra troops as you can while spreading chaos and fire  in the enemy’s ranks. Then let your shock troops finish
them.

Inferno generals should focus on fast massive area of effect damage, "mass" offensive abilities, disruption of enemy support  and
tactics, free expendable reinforcements.

Strengths: Best direct damage magic, good mobility, melee units are both resilient and lethal, can control Chaos (Fate / Luck,
Space and Time) to their advantage.

Weaknesses :No support abilities, weak morale.

Racial ability: Gating - Inferno troops can summon temporary reinforcements of their own kind directly on the battlefield.

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The entire nation of Demons is an army. Each one lives only to raven and destroy, and is quite capabl  of wreaking tremendous
havoc on his own. Forged together into a disciplined army, they would be nearly unstoppable.

Fortunately for their enemies, instilling that discipline is harder than it looks, and the lesser demons often need to be driven along
by massive, whip-wielding taskmasters.

But the mere intimidating presence of the demon legions on the battlefield isn’t enough, and they’ll use every trick at their disposal
– destructive "area" spells of all kind, mind control, shape-shifting, curses, etc.

Only then, once the enemy has been sufficiently softened up, will the  demonic forces charge. If the demonic ranks hold their discipline, they generally power straight through anything opposing them. If not, they turn into a ravening mob.

Demons have also two wicked aces up their slaves:
Able to alter the space-time continuum, they can teleport on the field of battle.

And their "Gating" ability allow them to summon instant reinforcements from their prison-realm.

Demonic weaponry is serrated, barbed, and spiked so as to cause maximum pain and damage, and to make healing any wound they
inflict that much more difficult.

Chaotic by nature, Demons have a wild combat behaviour and erratic tactics.

Their unpredictable and area-of-effect abilities have a tendency to  damage or affect their own units, so the goal is often simply to  make  sure the opponent suffers even more.

Generally, it is better to sacrifice gated units than permanent ones, so playing it slow at the beginning is good, at least until  the  Inferno leader has enough summoned troops to launch in.

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The second new castles have also undergone a facelift. Three things about them. The first is that once the capture or taking of a castle, our main building will benefit from a control area. The control area will allow the player to automatically capture all the mines and resources in an area near his home. The developers explain this by the fact that the player would lose usually get a few laps to its resources before starting the real adventure. It's understandable. Second thing, these castles are now entitled to a 3D representation of their contents, seen from the outside. This allows, as an enemy castle seen, know what production unit of the opponent has. Finally, the management of the castles has been reviewed. She is now separated into joint production buildings, whose locations are unlimited and unique buildings that give bonuses and production resources, but have limited location. The aim is obviously to force the player to specialize the various castles in the economy or production units.

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How did you arrive at that percentage?

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Of course there is nothing special mathematical explanation for that.
We have 6 more nominees so everyone has 16.666 percent chance. I gave double chance for wizards because of some really weak references, that's all.

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Actually we have an unnknown number of nominees, and there are multiple factors affecting the likeness of appearance, most of which we are not privy with. But that's all obvious.

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Since official source said that "we'll have 5 races out of the 10 from HoMM universe" we have 6 number of nominees.
Discussion closed.

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Yes I know they were a rarely seen neutral unit. I mean they weren't part of any faction's lineup.

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