>>2230772 (OP)
3

>>2230772 (OP)
7

>>2230797
>>2230824
AND WHY?

>>2230848
Because

I've probably played fheroes2 the most. It's so fucking cozy and the qol stuff it added makes it easy to play. I've started played 7 a bit recently and it's a pretty decent modern adaptation of the formula, just fucking buggy. Might try it more with the 7.5 mod.

>>2230953
I’m really glad that a basic random map generator has been added to the new release. I can’t wait to see how it will be developed further.

>>2230772 (OP)
probably 3
homm2 through fheroes2 has been catching up in recent years, but I don't think it'll break the hours I put in homm3 back in the day

>>2230772 (OP)
Mostly 2 and 4. They're both much mechanically simpler than 3 so when I finally got to play it, I thought it was overwrought.

homm2. Knight faction before all the angel bullshit pervaded it is the best.

>>2230848
3 because i played it so much i got burned out on the style of gameplay and had no particular interest in returning to it

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>>2230772 (OP)
Chronicles of Might and Magic.

>>2230772 (OP)
4 and 5
Not three, because I first played it on a buddy's PC before my parents got me one.
Once I got a PC it came with pre-installed games (as is often the case in the B*lkans) one of which was HoMM4.
When 5 came out it blew my 12 yo mind with the 3d graphics, and the town vistas especially. Both games are great and underappreciated.
I also played the browser-based game with a few buddies in high school. We were in the top 3 clans in the EU server for a while too. Good times

>>2230772 (OP)
I really, really hate homm. Zero depth in both campaign and battles. Everything is so simplistic and primitive

>>2230772 (OP)
3 because it's the best in the series

>>2230772 (OP)
In order:
3, 2, 5, 4, 1
Unapologetic necrospammer. 10 IQ deathball.


Also Songs of conquest lol

3, 2/4, 1, 5 (5 is tied with 1 if counting processing AI turns)

HoMM? more like HoMMosexual lmaooooo gottem /thread!!!!!!!!!!!

>>2231575
I prefer 3, but agree that the angel in the castle faction, and the entire inferno faction are out of place, and have derailed the franchise. Conflux sucked even more. Rampart should not have had dragons (giving a type of dragon to almost every faction sucked in that game, and in later titles too), should have kept the phoenix (with art closer to it's original design).

>>2230772 (OP)
3=5>2>4-------->rest
I like all first four game in series. Each one is great (even the fourth) and has something unique and charming about it.

>>2230772 (OP)
3
You know why

>>2241366
>the angel in the castle faction, and the entire inferno faction are out of place, and have derailed the franchise
dangerous and controversial take but I think you're right

>>2230772 (OP)
>HoMM
the prequel King's Bounty for Genesis. on emulator though.

3

>>2230772 (OP)
HoMM 3 followed by HoMM 4 and HoMM 2, because those games are the best looking with the most fun campaigns in the series, or in the case of 4 has the most unique gameplay that you won't get from any other game in HoMM. I've actually been playing HoMM 5.5 again recently, and I feel like it gets overrated by people quite a bit. 5.5 is basically HoMM 5 but boring with a fuckton of ridiculous nerfs, neutered artifacts, neutered skills (especially logistics and pathfinding holy fuck), and Stronghold going from being pretty damn strong to downright unusable. Imagine assembling the Cloak of the Undead King or Titan's Thunder in HoMM 3 and the only benefit you got was +6 Spellpower, what a crock of shit.

>>2230848
3 because it was one of the games that I've seen a lot and thought that it was gonna be a Warcraft clone, but then I played it and by god it was amazing! And I played it quite a bit!

3 but only because I was making maps for 3.
4 would be close second.