Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Board Game

BaBalleflassstar5.0

Great looking game with cool artwork and OK miniatures. The player aids are mostly useless as they use a ton of text to explain very simple things and not using the space for more important stuff like iconography. The rulebook is terrible, but you can mend this to some degree by using the one here from the Files section. The downtime in this one is extreme if players are doing combat (even with the simple combat system from the core box). This will be far worse with the combat system in the expansion which I believe should only be used for 2-player games. Player "elimination" is a thing as you are mostly out of the game if your opponent has a better hand for combat than you (assuming you both have same hero level and an equal army). I mean "out of the game" as in you will need to spend a ton of resources to create a new army, but by then your opponent will have taken all of your mines as you only get resources every other round. Seems like a cool idea for those who wanted this game purely because of nostalgia as this is as far away from a modern game design as throwing horseshoes on a stick. Would love to see a better developed combat system. PS. I know you can discard cards during each of your turns to prep your hand for combat or other stuff, but that do require you to be somewhat lucky when drawing relics, spells and abilities that suits your combat style which do make it somewhat swingy again. I wish we could se a rotating market place like in the Pax games where there is always 10 cards on display for "purchase" every time you are told to get a new card.