As a kind of back-porting of the Heroes V dwarf town this is pretty amazing. However, just speaking personally, I'm not a huge fan of when towns pick one race and make almost every unit out of that race. Having like five different units that are all basically dwarves is a bit too much for me. Replacing one or two of these dwarf units with maybe something like a bear, or a yeti, or what they did in Heroes VII, a kobold, would increase the visual diversity and make things look a bit more interesting, imho. (This is also why I'm not crazy about the Heroes V "Ashanified" versions of Dungeon, which is like four different dark elves. Castle with mostly humans gets a pass, just because not having lots of monsters and creatures accessible is part of the Knightly fantasy, imho.)
Castle in III gets a pass because neither Cavaliers nor Monks actually "register" as normal humans. The former are, obviously, on horseback, while the latter wear concealing robes. Three normal humans out of seven creatures is okay. If there's no main race in the town, it will lack integrity. The Fortress is an obvious example, but the Dungeon suffers from it as well. VI actually manages to balance Dungeon lineup pretty well, with only two units being just dark elves.
Initially I thought it was weird that Amazons, a nation from Greek mythology, is upgraded into Valkyries from Norse mythology, but then I remembered that Snorre wrote about Odin coming from the Eastern lands, and the Valkyries were his retinue. And the Amazons came from the far shores of the Black Sea, presumably modern day Crimea/Ukraine.
Like some specific town mods, this is very good, but not quite reach the tier of excellency. Lacks focus, a comprehensivep roject that makes proper lore and "fine-tune" all the ideas that don't work too well. But not to end this comment in a harsh tone: this is a great town mod, I recommend it
I waited for Dwares 😊Castle in Heroes III for years. After Disciples and Heroes V was relased, you realize that's something is missing in older games. Dwarf as infantry unit in Elves faction and forest based Castle simply is not working. I wish this castle had more beasts in it, and and Amazon as lesser Valkyrie is strange choice.
Lot of stupid things with this units, but still, if they only made such town instead of factory It would be fantastic. In Heroes 5 they did really great job with dwarf units, except the 7 tier volcano dragon which kinda suck, but if there should be another 9th town it should be something like this. based on defense and spell power. Armored canon is stupidly expensive, instead they could have a battering ram against walls or something like that. Flame gladiators are kinda cringe, too much try for interesting unit. How Amazons fit into mountain-like castle ? Thats a miss kinda. Why the hell are you not showing unupgraded versions of the patriarchs and gladiators ? Chance of casting frenzy and mass bless is utterly stupid, too much overdo. But overall good job, the city looks very pretty, music is surprisingly also sweet. Good job
As a kind of back-porting of the Heroes V dwarf town this is pretty amazing. However, just speaking personally, I'm not a huge fan of when towns pick one race and make almost every unit out of that race. Having like five different units that are all basically dwarves is a bit too much for me. Replacing one or two of these dwarf units with maybe something like a bear, or a yeti, or what they did in Heroes VII, a kobold, would increase the visual diversity and make things look a bit more interesting, imho.
(This is also why I'm not crazy about the Heroes V "Ashanified" versions of Dungeon, which is like four different dark elves. Castle with mostly humans gets a pass, just because not having lots of monsters and creatures accessible is part of the Knightly fantasy, imho.)
Castle in III gets a pass because neither Cavaliers nor Monks actually "register" as normal humans. The former are, obviously, on horseback, while the latter wear concealing robes. Three normal humans out of seven creatures is okay. If there's no main race in the town, it will lack integrity.
The Fortress is an obvious example, but the Dungeon suffers from it as well. VI actually manages to balance Dungeon lineup pretty well, with only two units being just dark elves.
This update happened long ago, but at least I could witness they managed to trade away the former cringe town theme for something better.
Oh, that breast physics... in HoMMIII
now I have seen everything
Initially I thought it was weird that Amazons, a nation from Greek mythology, is upgraded into Valkyries from Norse mythology, but then I remembered that Snorre wrote about Odin coming from the Eastern lands, and the Valkyries were his retinue. And the Amazons came from the far shores of the Black Sea, presumably modern day Crimea/Ukraine.
Like some specific town mods, this is very good, but not quite reach the tier of excellency. Lacks focus, a comprehensivep roject that makes proper lore and "fine-tune" all the ideas that don't work too well.
But not to end this comment in a harsh tone: this is a great town mod, I recommend it
It looks dope !
I waited for Dwares 😊Castle in Heroes III for years. After Disciples and Heroes V was relased, you realize that's something is missing in older games. Dwarf as infantry unit in Elves faction and forest based Castle simply is not working.
I wish this castle had more beasts in it, and and Amazon as lesser Valkyrie is strange choice.
Is amazon a translation error? I feel like they should be Valkyries.
Edit: Nevermind valkyries are the upgraded version.
Lot of stupid things with this units, but still, if they only made such town instead of factory It would be fantastic. In Heroes 5 they did really great job with dwarf units, except the 7 tier volcano dragon which kinda suck, but if there should be another 9th town it should be something like this. based on defense and spell power. Armored canon is stupidly expensive, instead they could have a battering ram against walls or something like that. Flame gladiators are kinda cringe, too much try for interesting unit. How Amazons fit into mountain-like castle ? Thats a miss kinda. Why the hell are you not showing unupgraded versions of the patriarchs and gladiators ? Chance of casting frenzy and mass bless is utterly stupid, too much overdo. But overall good job, the city looks very pretty, music is surprisingly also sweet.
Good job
But it's old update🤔
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