Yes, yes i am a big Heroes fan, and after finishing heroes 3 and 4(about 3-4 years ago) i decided its time to move on so yesterday i installed Disciples II - rise of the elves (i know its a bit old, but trust me there are lots of old games that are way better than the new ones)

I haven’t played it much but i like it because its more realistic than heroes:

- only the characters that battle gain experience and by this way they upgrade to a higher level

- you cannot stack 398625962 characters in your party, each character represents 1 character, not more, not less(except the fiends and gryphins and the similar characters which use 2 slots in your army)

- before you act you have to think your status over, although the game is autosaved at the end of every turn you need to figure out and think it over that will that move help you or not.

- melee units can only reach opponents in front of them or close to them, they won’t be able to hit anyone

On the Elves saga i managed to get to Chapter 2 - The hunt. Everything is cool the only problem is that i have to defeat the humans and not let them get their message to the empire.

The human’s army isn’t a weak army and the whole irony of it is that there’s no way to defeat them unless if you have 3 heroes with a party made of lvl 3 characters.

Well you can get 3 fully upgraded parties but that would take you about 20 hours of playtime(really) and then you could finish chapter 2.

The “Messengers” Consists in 3 armies, and every time you engage a battle they will attack first -> you 100% loose one of your characters.

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I managed to defeat one of the parties, but the other party killed my lvl 3 hero -> what i got left was 4 parties of lvl 1 characters which can’t even scratch the other parties and they will win.

I’m playing on Userlevel(difficulty) : Average. I don’t like playing games on the easiest difficulty level because i don’t like being a LOW-Level player.

As far as i realized the key in this game lies in they way you manage your army and buildings and decide what to conquer and who to fight and who not to fight.

The most important thing is patience, if you aren’t a patient man i don’t suggest you start playing the game. If you are remember that Patience is a virtue!

I think i’ll skip the elves saga and move on to the Human saga , 20 hours to waste on a chapter is way too much for me, lol.

Conclusion: If you liked heroes you will surely like Disciples II also.