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So this is about a thing I would really like, anda mentioned once in a different thread: The combining of Factions. I think it  is a strategical worthy point, with several options and Aspects:

1. Towns&multi-faction-units
2. A faction-combining hero skill
3. Multiple/mixed Racials

1. Towns & multi-faction-units:
This topic gives a whole lto of options, SO many things you can do wiht the town, making even it multi-factional, etc. etc.
For the beginning, I'll start with the idea I once mentioned:

1.1: Embassys.
Embassys are town buildings which open the gate to the faction of the embassy. Theoretically, each faction could have embassys of every other faction. Embassys would open up special buildings and dwellings, where you can recruit multi-factional units. Multi-factional units fit perfectly with BOTH factiosn they belong to. You can only have the embassy of ONE other town in your town, but you can change the embassy for an extra sum of gold, later in the game.
This also uses building upgrades, which function just as this: you click on the building, choose an upgrade, and buidl it. It's like building a normal building, except that some Buidlings can have more than one upgrade built.

There will be buildings & upgrades that just need ANY embassy, not a special one:
Trade Route: Upgrade for the City Hall, needs Market. Increases your daily income by another 500 gold for any town under your control fitting to your embassy (so if you built a Warlocks Tower and control 3 Dugneons, you gain +1500 gold per turn).
Guest Chambers: Upgrade for the City Hall. Ensures that, at the beginning of the week, there will be a hero fitting to teh embassy in your tavern. Such heroes cost 500 gold less. When a hero fitting to the embassy defends the town in a siege, all units gain +1 moral.
Alliance: Upgrade for the City Hall. In this town, during a defense, there is no moral penalty for using units fitting to your embassy. If there are only units of the town faction and the embassy faction, initiative of all units on first turn is increased by 10%.
XYZ merchant: Building. Needs Town Hall & marketplace. Allows 1-1 exchange of the ressources fitting to town/embassy.

So here, first, some embassys for the Academy Town (note taht embassies aren't necessarily real embassies, they can be enclaves, secret orders, etc.)

Warlock Tower (Dungeon Embassy):
The Warlock Tower opens up the Special Dungeon Buildings, Building upgrades and Dwelling of Academy. It also grants any WIZARD or WARLOCK visiting this academy +1 Spellpower.
Special Buildings & Upgrades:
-Protection Pact: Upgrade for the Warlock Tower. In a Siege, your castle does not shoot, but casts a random Lvl 2 Destructive spell, with basic/advanced/expert mastery, depending on your mage guild level (1&2,3&4/5). The castle is handled, here, as a hero with spellpower = (Town_Level*_Number_of_Dungeon_Towns_you_have*Mage_Guild_Level/10)
-Library Enhancement: Upgrade for the Library, grants you one more lvl 1&2 spell (only destructive or dark)
-Arcane Walls: Upgrade for city defense. Strengthens the City walls.
Special Dwellings&Creatures:
-Tier 2: Harpy Nest -> Harpies; Pretty much like Furies, but flyers and a bit less initiative, yet slightly more health&defense. Upgrade to Blood Harpies witch Cleave and stronger dmg. or Harpy Hags with no retaliation and more health&defense.
-Tier 5: Manticore Cage -> Manticores; The good old H3 ones, quick, strong attackers, initiative not so high, good dmg. Can upgrade to Scorpicores (Paralyzing effect) or Royal manticores w. Bravery&Armoured

Enclave of Light (Haven Embassy):
The Enclave of Light opens up the Special Haven Buildings, Building upgrades and Dwellings of Academy. It also grants any WIZARD or KNIGHT visiting this academy +1 Knowledge.
Special Buildings & Upgrades:
-Library Enhancement: Upgrade for the Library, grants you each one lvl 1&2 Light Magic Spell.
-Protector: Upgrade for Castle. Requires Tavern. In a Siege, the Castle will be defended by a Knight hero, whose level is equal to the town level. If there allready is a defending hero in town, the Protector still takes over the army if his level is higher. When you establish the protector, you can also level it up and choose his skills...as you can do whenever you build a building in this town and therefore enhance the town level. So you keep control over the Protector. A protector can NEVER leave his town. He also has no hero name, just, protector, and has no hero special. (Yet he has the Knight racial ability)
Special Dwellings&Creatures:
-Tier 3: Haven Garrison -> Pikemen. Pikemen are pretty good fighters, which can attack from one square distance, and with that prevent retaliation, and also use the pikes for defense. Can upgrade to Helbardiers (loose Spearwall Ability, gain much offensive power) or  Guardsmen (Increased range of the spears, great spear wall ability, very slow).
-Tier 4:

Summoner School:
The Summoner School opens up the Special Inferno Buildings, Building upgrades and Dwellings of Academy. It also grants any WIZARD or DEMON LORD visiting this academy +1 Spellpower.

Special Buildings& Upgrades
-Library Enhancement: Upgrade for the Library, grants you one more lvl 1&2 spell (only destructive or summoning)
-Forbidden Library: Needs Library incl. Enhancement. Teaches any visiting hero with certain capability in Summoning Magic Demon SUmmoning Spells. The FL exists in 3 levels, each teaching one spell (randomly chosen from the level), and needing a higher level of the mage guild (2,4,5).
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Demon Summoning Spells:
-Level 1: Summon Imps, Summon Grunts
-Level 2: Summon Hell Hounds, Summon Succubi
-Level 3: Summon Hell Stallion, Summon Pit Spawn, Summon Devil
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-Fire Walls: City Defense Upgrade. Adds a row of flames in front of the usual city defense.

Special Dwellings&Creatures:
-Tier 4: Summoner Academy -> Summoners, which can cast "Summon Imps" & "Fist of Wrath", and attack in range (weak attack, though). Can upgrade to High Summoner (can cast Summon Hell Hounds, but is much weaker in stats (except mana) than summoner) or War Summoner (can cast "Fire Wall", and is better in stats)
-Tier 5: Red Pavillon -> Efreets, similar to those in H3, a demonic, fiery version of djin, with fire absorbance, fire attack, fire shield. Can upgrade to Efreet Sultan (Cursing opponents, great health) or Fire Demon (Melee attack works similar to fireball, good att.+dmg.)


Black Order:
The Black Order opens up the Special Necropolis Buildings, Building upgrades and Dwellings of Academy. It also grants any WIZARD or Necromancer visiting this academy +1 Knowledge.

Special Buildings& Upgrades
-Library Enhancement: Upgrade for the Library, grants you one more lvl 1&2 spell (only dark or summoning)
-Tower of Necromancy. Requires Citadel, Mage Guild Lvl. 3. Can teach a visiting Wizard Necromancy, as if it was an ordinary skill. The Wizard has access to the normal perk, but not to the ultimate perk. Instead, he has access to a different, special perk for necromancy called "Will of the Wizard", preventing the moral loss for fighting together with undeads, for all troops in the wizards army.

Special Dwellings&Creatures:
-Tier 3:
-Tier 6:

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All right, for Goblin Hole, how about +2 goblins for every 3 levels of the hero?

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I'm somehwo confused...may come from the heat , tho. feels like 40° C in shadow...at least, though net may say it's only 33 (about 91.4° F...40 would be about 104 F...)

so you want to make the embassy you can establish/found/built IN a fortress town which than makes you capable of building the respective academy structures there?

for the stronghold/inferno thing: I guess you meant that in stronghold, you build this tribal hall, and than can build the units, which are inferno style?!?

Hell, I AM confused

EDIT: jsut saw your warrior/noble suggestion.
Warrior coudl be fine, yet I'm unsure, sicne it seems so general.
Noble, indeed, seems not so much a fighter...how bout Veteran?

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Veteran, indeed, is much better. Maybe Veteran for first thing and Expert for upgrade?

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For the Stronghold thing: I thought that we were doing one embassy for each town, and so I did an embassy for Stronghold, rather than Academy. I shall have to redo that. And for the Fortress thing, it's the other way around. I want to make you can build in an Academy town with Fortress creatures.

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