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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted December 16, 2010 05:51 PM |
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That is some valid thinking, I recall some were treasure guardians below the earth.
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Fauch
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted December 16, 2010 06:25 PM |
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maybe it will be the forge 
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted December 16, 2010 07:22 PM |
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You know what? I'm calling Stronghold for Plains. You heard it here first. 
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted December 16, 2010 07:23 PM |
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perhaps the Naga are the ones guarding Mother Namtaru 
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill
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MattII
Legendary Hero
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posted December 16, 2010 07:55 PM |
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You know what? I'm calling Stronghold for Plains. You heard it here first.
You may want to rephrase, Stronghold is 4th, and it's in jungle.
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FuntimeManchop
Adventuring Hero
Adventure!
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posted December 16, 2010 08:21 PM |
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This leaves us with a rather bizarre spread of 1 good town and 4 that are either evil or opposed to it, though. Haven's gonna be pretty lonely...
I've never considered religious zealots to be 'good'. I would have liked it if they'd played up the evils of Haven. I really like the idea of all factions being evil.
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maybe it will be the forge
Lolz!
Barbarians have disliked magic for the past two HOMMs. I'm thinking that Stronghold would use Primordial magic, which would be a weird quasi-magic, instead of 'normal' magic, to suit their magic-hating ways.
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serptico
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 16, 2010 09:11 PM |
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So im guessing those units posted for stronghold are only the core units? Can't wait to see the elites & Champion unit. Can we guess what they are? I'm thinking the warmonger should be one of the elites.
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maken
Known Hero
Hail Hydra!
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posted December 16, 2010 09:13 PM |
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Guarder
Supreme Hero
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posted December 16, 2010 10:05 PM |
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Elves? Wood Elves?
Not HoMM without the forest native woodies 
I also give a guess for academy. Didn't Ubi recently said it was 400 years ago, the time when the Necromancers began their revolt upon the Silver cities? Great story when one of two parts isn't presented as a own faction 
My guess goes for sylvan and academy, both good factions.
Probably nagas and dungeon in some expansion, dlc, add-on, whatever, etc. I think Ubi hinted to nagas and dungeons in H6 once...
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Valen-Teen
Famous Hero
UFOlolOgist
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posted December 16, 2010 11:30 PM |
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5 faction will be Nagas - I heard on the radio!
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted December 17, 2010 12:08 AM |
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I'm thinking that since Stronghold is a Mesoamerican Plains, we're going to see an Asian-influenced Naga faction in the jungle. Underground without a faction tied to it would make more sense than Jungle without a faction tied to it.
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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Foonlegacy
Hired Hero
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posted December 17, 2010 12:31 AM |
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I agree completely with SwampLord, we might actually see the return of the Fortress from H3 with reptilian creatures. I thought the Fortress had the best theme and overall feel than all the other towns in H3, so seeing it in H5 would be awesome. I speculate the town line up to be something like this:
Sanctuary
Core:
Swamp Light/Wisp
Lizardman/Chameleon
Serpent Fly/Dragon Fly
Elite:
Basilisk/Basilisk King
Gorgon/Medusa
Naga/Naga Guardian
Champion:
Hydra/Ancient Hydra
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FuntimeManchop
Adventuring Hero
Adventure!
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posted December 17, 2010 02:46 AM |
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A remake of HOMM3s legendary sunshine and rainbow happiness that was Fortress?
That's not gonna happen 'cus our best friends at Ubisoft said the 5th faction is going to be completely new.
I'm hoping though, that Hydra and Basilisk make it in there.
It can still be a new faction with a few Fortress Friends TM.
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zazu1
Adventuring Hero
Makes Sense
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posted December 17, 2010 03:37 AM |
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For one, u can't have a heroes w/o the classic black dragon.
However, I do miss fortress. The last thing I want is faction based apon one race, so I won't vote Naga, but it would be cool to see the naga as an elite. I don't think you would necessarily need lizard men. but a swamp/reptilian/amphibious faction would be awesome
LOL wut they had somthin like this guy, cept obvi not cartoony
Edit: I just noticed how perfect this guy would be since everyone is asking for an asian theme'd.
C'moooon how cool would it be to have a Heroes rendition of this guy leaping around heroes tiles!!
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted December 17, 2010 05:04 AM |
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A remake of HOMM3s legendary sunshine and rainbow happiness that was Fortress?
That's not gonna happen 'cus our best friends at Ubisoft said the 5th faction is going to be completely new.
I'm hoping though, that Hydra and Basilisk make it in there.
It can still be a new faction with a few Fortress Friends TM.
I'd be satisfied if the town packed the Gorgon and Hydra, enough of a tribute for me.
In any case it won't be mesoamerican so it will definitely have a new aesthetic style even if it channels Fortress in spirit.
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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defxon2
Tavern Dweller
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posted December 17, 2010 09:29 AM |
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definitely gonna be naga cuz they were supposed to be in the last game plus they have that water dragon thingy. nagas are supposed to be worshipers of the water dragon aspect. gonna be interesting to see the creature lineup.
me thinks that we're gonna see both the dark and wood elves return in an expansion pack explaining why they were absent from the first one cuz they were at war.
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Danny
Famous Hero
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posted December 17, 2010 09:48 AM |
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For the love of god, don't make the last faction be another human faction!
I don't think they'd even consider that, they'd rather just implement another classic D&D race when all else fails, even a different version of Elves, before they tried to struggle with coming up with more human units. I wouldn't be surprised either if Academy got snubbed only because of the human factor.
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Zenofex
Responsible
Legendary Hero
Kreegan-atheist
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posted December 17, 2010 10:14 AM |
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Edited by Zenofex at 10:16, 17 Dec 2010.
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Academy had a single human in its line-up, that's not really too many. Stronghold however has 7 out of 7 orcs, 4 of them completely generic. If I am to scrap either of these, guess which one will I choose.
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Danny
Famous Hero
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posted December 17, 2010 10:27 AM |
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Academy had a single human in its line-up, that's not really too many. Stronghold however has 7 out of 7 orcs, 4 of them completely generic. If I am to scrap either of these, guess which one will I choose.
It's still a human based faction centered around a random lineup from the previous games. Had they tried to revamp it, they would have needed to come up with other human stuff. Stronghold has the advantage of being "beast-men" which allows at least slightly more freedom.
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Zenofex
Responsible
Legendary Hero
Kreegan-atheist
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posted December 17, 2010 10:34 AM |
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Edited by Zenofex at 10:36, 17 Dec 2010.
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They used this freedom to introduce Harpies (which is old too and was in Stronghold in Heroes IV). And there are tons of things one can do with a faction that relies heavily on magic - both regarding line-up and racial uniqueness. You can even get rid of the Mages and leave the Wizard heroes the only humans. This hardly makes it "a human faction" in my book.
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