Questions tagged [might-and-magic-heroes-6]
The 6th game in the Heroes of Might and Magic series, released in 2011.
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How to win on Might & Magic Heroes VI - Haven - Something Is Rotten campaign map
I've tried the map three times already and lost each time. Played on easy difficulty always.
I tried following the conflux advice but the enemies are still eventually overrunning me with superior ...
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Heroes of might and Magic 6: First base not making recruits?
I'm playing through the first campaign and I have captured two fortifications so far, but my initial fortress is not producing and recruits. I have upgraded it many times, but every week there is ...
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What's the best strategy to defeat Haven Campaign 1st mission - 'Something is Rotten'?
In order to achieve best score.
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Hotkeys for HOMM-VI / Heroes 6
I know that keyboard commands can be found in: Settings -> Options -> Hotkeys
Is there a cheat-sheet in-game? ready read-me file? any hotkeys cheat-sheets out there?
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How can I replay a campaign map without loosing saves in HOMAM 6?
I want to replay the first necropolis mission with a new hero but the game warns me that doing so will erase all of my save files.
How can I replay any campaign map while still connected to the nexus ...
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Dependence between spells and spellpower
Is there any kind of list with the dependence between spells effects and spell power?
For example I have Irina (sanctuary) level 19, with 28 spell power. At this point my tsunami stuns for 1 turn. I ...
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Placing Shooters in keep during tactical phase
I'm having one troubling question. Just as the title. During my campaing as haven i have noticed enemy is placing liches during tactics in the keep before the actual combat starts. I would like to do ...
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Hide Passive Unused Withheld Army
I don't know what to call it, but in several past versions of Heroes, I could deselect certain armies before a battle. When going into certain fights I may not want to bring out my priestesses or ...
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What does swords icon mean after attack in Might and Magic Heroes VI?
sometimes after an attack in combat in HoMM VI, I see not only damage dealt/units died counts, but also Swords icon with a number appear.
What does it mean?
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Enemy ranged vs melee units
I am having a difficult time seeing what enemy units are ranged units (aside from graphical cues). Is there a marker in the enemy info sheet that shows that units have a ranged attack?
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What are the exact effects and formulas for high and low morale?
In previous Heroes games, I believe the formula for good morale was something like +10% chance of a second turn per positive point of morale. But some mention that morale was debuffed for Heroes 6. ...
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Can you permanently improve movement points?
My heroes for the final campaign have extreme differences in their movement points. Irina has 92, Sandor 68, & Kiril 63. I noticed they could move MUCH further at the end of campaigns then the ...
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Custom maps for Steam Version?
Does anyone know if it's possible to play downloaded custom maps in the steam version of the game? And how? I was never able to get it to work with Heroes 5.
Thanks.
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How can I beat the first mission of the final campaign with a might warrior?
I got to the final campaign (finished the inferno campaign). Ii chose Kiril (inferno) to complete the final 2 campaign missions. At the moment I am at the first mission and I found myself in a ...
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How do you reset your traits (might, magic abilities)? [duplicate]
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When can you respecialize your hero?
I know you reset the traits from the multiplayer by clicking the respecialize, but how do you reset the ones from the campaign?
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Why can't I upgrade my units in Heroes VI?
I've played quite a few campaign missions but none of them allow me to build the buildings for upgraded troops, even after having built everything else possible in a city or town. For example, I can ...
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How to get the "For the Audience" achievement?
Is there a way to ght the For the Audience achievement in Might & Magic Heroes VI?
The achievement says Kill Michael with at least 4 minions still alive., but every time he takes damage it is ...
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What does this light-emitting pillar do?
I'm playing the Necropolis campaign in Might and Magic Heroes 6, and I noticed this pillar/tower-like thing on the battlefields. It seems to have some sort of light coming from it and landing on a ...
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What causes "InvalidKey"?
I bought the game, installed it and the Ubisoft launcher asked for my serial key. I entered it, and it accepted it.
I then opened the game and I could start a game, etc. But trying many other things ...
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Does the Soul Forge cost something (except time)?
As the title says, does the use of the Soul Forge in the Conflux web application cost something except time?
It takes time to upgrade a Dynasty Weapon, and it doesn't consume my Dynasty points. So I ...
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Heroes VI Altar of Wishes - Buying Creatures
Do creatures you buy through the Altar of Wishes get assigned to your main Hero on each map? I am wondering it they are really worth purchasing. If they are faction specific this could lead to a ...
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How do I unlock the level 2 ability of the Sword of the Griffin?
I'm playing through the second mission of the tutorial campaign in Heroes 6 and the only remaining quest (short of finishing the mission) is to get attuned to the Sword of the Griffin.
I'm online and ...
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How do you use the plunder mine ability?
I gave my secondary hero the Plunder Mine and Destroy Mine abilities.
Then I walked up to a mine. Nothing happened.
Skipped a turn and tried to visit it with full movement. Nothing.
I even tried ...
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How can I improve my completion score on the first campaign mission?
I just finished the first campaign mission (Griffin Bane) on Normal difficulty and apparently my completion score was 12250 (46%). The tooltip says I can
Increase [my] score by completing quests, ...
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Is there any benefit to attacking enemies from different angles?
Given enough movement points to adjust the position of my units, I can attack my enemies from different angles. It looks like each enemy unit just turns to face me anyway, so is there really any point ...
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How can I obtain the Trait Slots 4 and 5 in Heroes VI?
I'm still in Silver Rank in HOMM6, and I've unlocked the 2nd and 3rd slots for the traits
The game hints you that there's 5 slots, but the Altar of Wishes doesn't show them
Has anyone been able to ...
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Is there any way to access Dynasty Traits in offline mode?
I am playing Might and Magic Heroes VI and have come across Dynasty Traits. It appears that they are not available when playing in offline mode. Is there any way to enable them while in offline mode?...
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Are there ways to play Heroes 6 with an intermittent connection?
How often does Heroes 6 need to be online? I have a consistent internet connection but since it's just one of those USB sticks, the connection isn't reliable. I'm always connected but at times my ping ...
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What determines how much structural damage a stack does?
In order to quickly break down the defenses of an enemy town or fort, your creature stacks have the option to attack the door and the walls. Sometimes my creatures do 1 structural point of damage, ...
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What is the best strategy to defeat Uriel?
I've made it to the end of the Necropolis campaign without any major problems. Unfortunately, the end of the campaign is a boss battle against an extremely overpowering Angel and his retinue. In my ...
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Is there any way to turn off the synchronizing of save games?
When Might & Magic: Heroes VI is closed, Ubisoft's Uplay service pops up a window that says "Synchronizing Save Games", which takes a very long time to complete and often fails without any obvious ...
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Why can't my sisters heal?
Sometimes when my Sisters turn arrives they can use their heal ability; sometimes they can't. I can't quite figure out when they can and when they can't. Seems they can only use it once per turn, but ...
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After clearing necropolis hero-champion in last campaign I do not get access to the next cave enterance?
So I did a blitz with my necro hero taking frogs castles within two weeks and went forward killing orcs and opened the first dark barrier. Then I cleared humans and disabled the second dark barrier ...
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Is it possible to hire heroes from another faction during the campaigns?
I have been working through the Necropolis campaign and at one point found myself in possession of an opposing town with a lot of creatures ready to be hired. However, when I went to the Hall of ...
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Town Portal bugs?
I'm in the necro campaign of M&MH 6, and I have had repeated trouble using town portal spells. I've got two towns that have both a Basic and Advanced town portal in them. Because an enemy hero was ...
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Heroes VI graphical problem in third Necropolis mission
In the third Necropolis mission, after I take the first Orc Stronghold, when I see the screen that says what artifacts I have won my graphics card appears to reset (both of my monitors reset) and ...
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How are each of the Dynasty Weapons obtained in Heroes VI?
Judging by the achievements, there should be at least 25 of these things, but I'm not sure how to get more than a handful of them.
How does one unlock the various dynasty weapons?
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Is there an easy way to tell which stacks in a battle have all their units?
It is important to try to get through as many battles as possible without losing any units, but I find it tedious to constantly right-click every stack to see if they are at full strength, and I've ...
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Who is the Dragon God Lamya?
The Heroes VI Collectors Ed has a Dragon god Lamya T-shirt included. Who is this Lamya? AFAIK, there's only Asha, Urgash, Elrath, Sylanna, Malassa, Shalassa, Ylath, Arkath and Sandro (if he counted as ...
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What is the significance of these obelisks?
Every map I've played so far seems to have a feature in common: pairs of obelisks that serve as a chokepoint between areas.
The colors vary, but they're always there. Is this just a favorite feature ...
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Does it matter what order I play the campaigns in?
Is there any reason to play the campaigns in a particular order, or should I just pick whichever one strikes my fancy?
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What's the difference between Prime Magic and Arcane Exaltation?
I'm looking at both of these prime spells, and they seem to do almost the same thing. The first claims to award 3 magic power to the hero, while the second claims to award 2 magic power permanently.
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Why won't the mission selection screen update?
I have just completed the second mission of the tutorial campaign in Might and Magic: Heroes 6. However, when I click on the "Next Map" button on the screen at the end, it just starts me over on the ...
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What Effects exist and what does each Effect do?
Many of the skills indicate that they cause an Effect on the target stack. For example, Storm Winds II states that creatures are "inflicted by the "Dazed" effect" and Ice Armor "applies the "Chilled" ...
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What's the Difference between HOMM VI Online and Offline mode?
What are the differences to the two modes? If I play offline do I get less features than had I played online? The only feature I can think of that I'll be losing are the Conflux orbs, but are there ...
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Where can you find the unit production for a town?
Navigating a town's menu I can't find this information anywhere. Is there a way to see how many of each unit a given town is producing per week?
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What's the difference between Guardian Angel I, II, and III?
Over at Duke Slava's heroic abilities in Might & Magic Heroes VI, I couldn't help but notice that the first 3 versions of the Guardian Angel ability are identical. What's the difference between ...
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How do you see the specialization of a hired hero?
After you hire a new hero in the Hall of Heroes, how do you see the details of his/her specialization?
When I go into the heroes heroic abilities, I can see the name of the specialization but no ...
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Can I enable autosave when running Offline mode on Heroes 6?
For some reason I can't get autosave working in offline mode.
I gave a try to online mode but after being kicked out from game without saving just when I finished final battle I have decided to play ...
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What is the Might and Magic: Heroes 6 Damage Computation?
Anyone figure out yet how damage is computed?
Heroes 5 used:
Creature Dmg * Stack Size * (1 + (.05 * (Attacker's Attack - Target's Defense)))
Is it still the same for 6?
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