veteran_player said:

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They add to the complexity and variety of the unit composition of the player's armies. To further expand on and explain my original idea: The hero should have the ability to transcend his alignment and accept a wider variety of troops from different factions. He or she shouldn't be restricted to using a single set of units from a single alignment. Instead of having 7 slots for 7 specific tiers, how about having 8 slots, and not having to depend on his or her town's weekly creature growth so much. There should be other sources for recruitment, like random stacks joining. This is the critical fun factor of the original HoM&M formula.

Thank you for your consideration!

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Alon said:

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There's a game called Legend of Keepers that sort of uses this system of resistances - you're supposed to choose monsters and attacks to maximize damage based on hero resistance and resistances that minimize damage taken from hero attacks.

But bear in mind, this mechanic doesn't really make sense with every Heroes faction. Just about every Castle/Haven/Knight unit causes physical damage. Of the 6 towns of H2, H4, and H7, the only one with big variations in attack type is the Tower/Academy/Wizard, plus maaaaaaaybe the Dungeon/Asylum/Warlock.

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FirePaladin said:

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Edit: An idea would be adding damage resistances and more reasonable damage types like "physical", "fire", "magic", "lightning", etc. Each creature, for example fire-breathing dragons, would have a 80% fire damage resistance and 80% magic, but only 10% physical and 0% ice.

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Alon said:

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But bear in mind, this mechanic doesn't really make sense with every Heroes faction. Just about every Castle/Haven/Knight unit causes physical damage. Of the 6 towns of H2, H4, and H7, the only one with big variations in attack type is the Tower/Academy/Wizard, plus maaaaaaaybe the Dungeon/Asylum/Warlock.

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MattII said:

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FirePaladin said:

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Edit: An idea would be adding damage resistances and more reasonable damage types like "physical", "fire", "magic", "lightning", etc. Each creature, for example fire-breathing dragons, would have a 80% fire damage resistance and 80% magic, but only 10% physical and 0% ice.

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Hm, 'Physical', 'Fire', 'Lightning', 'Ice', and 'Magic' is pretty good, though you could go further and add others, like 'Death' (doesn't affect undead, elementals, golems, etc), 'Anti-Magic' (only affects undead, elementals, golems, etc).

Alon said:

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But bear in mind, this mechanic doesn't really make sense with every Heroes faction. Just about every Castle/Haven/Knight unit causes physical damage. Of the 6 towns of H2, H4, and H7, the only one with big variations in attack type is the Tower/Academy/Wizard, plus maaaaaaaybe the Dungeon/Asylum/Warlock.

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Well I imagine it would be more used for spells than creature damage anyway.

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FirePaladin said:

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But it would be necessary for creatures if it exists for spells, at least in my opinion, since I think it's secondary for spells. Resistances should be a max of 20%, with some exceptions (and not even necessary to have them for all damage types). Death could exist, but it's still somewhat connected to magic, so maybe "Death Magic(al)" damage? Also "Poison" and "Astral".

The 80% fire and magic resistance was from KB's Blackies, which works well there, but it would be OP in HoMM . In HoMM, I think it should be a max of 50%, with much indulgence.

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Alon said:

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Golems and dwarves have high magic resistance in H3. It's not OP provided you leave a vulnerability that every faction can exploit given sufficient scouting and good enough play.

Let's say you're building tons of golems, intending to counter my magic hero. I should be able to see this in advance if I play well - maybe there's thieves' guild information, maybe I should actually notice how slow your hero is moving on the map, maybe I can even sacrifice a scout army to check your army comp. Your golem army is slow so I should have a few turns to build a decent might army before all my castle is belong to you. I should have a strong might hero ready to command this army without having to level one up from scratch because when we started playing I was aware you're playing Tower and could go mass golem and I should be able to switch from magic to might if need be.

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Alon said:

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I so want to try coding this and invite people to test this in a Discord channel, but I'm terrible at coding. I think I know how to code combat and it might even be object-oriented, but a lot of stuff would have to be hardcoded and I can't even begin to figure out how to integrate this into Discord so that people can play 1v1 on the Internets.

EDIT: give modular enough code, it shouldn't be a problem to let people play with balance.

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Alon said:

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Does VCMI work if I want to do tweaks like let heroes have 10 different unit stacks instead of 7? [I presume it allows creatures to have their own spells as in H4 rather than relying on the hero to cast elective spells.]

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