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Better to take gold or experience in Might & Magic Heroes VI?
In Might & Magic Heroes VI there are certain treasure chests that let you choose between gold and experience. To beat the game most easily which one should you choose early on?
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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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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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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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How do I use a Town Portal?
I've built a Basic Town Portal in a town, which states that it allows your hero to teleport from that town to any other town you control. I've got my hero in the town, but how do I make them teleport?...
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How can I tell what version of Might and Magic: Heroes 6 is installed using Steam?
Is there any way I can check what version (for example v1.0.2) of Might and Magic: Heroes 6 is currently installed via the Steam client?
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How long is the tutorial campaign?
Are there really just 2 missions? It seemed pretty abrupt and there was no indication that the campaign ended after "Emperor's Will".
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Why do some towns not allow anything to be built?
In Might and Magic Heroes VI you can build all sorts of buildings in your main town. The most important buildings are the ones that generate new units to recruit.
How come even though I have ...
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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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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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Why is my cursor blinking constantly?
I just installed the full version of Might and Magic Heroes VI, and whether I'm in the menus or playing the game, my cursor is blinking constantly. I've tried tinkering with all the graphics settings,...
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What is a Dynasty in Might and Magic Heroes VI?
The main menu of Heroes VI is innundated with information about Dynasties. Dynasty Hero this, Dynasty Weapon that, Dynasty Abilities here, Dynasty Level there... etc.
I'd like to back up a second - ...
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Why am I not getting any crystal?
In the first missions of the Necropolis campaign, I have a crystal mine that says it produces one crystal per day, but my total daily crystal income is zero. What could be causing this?
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How does Reputation work in Heroes VI? (Blood and Tears)
In M&M Heroes 6, there seems to be a type of alignement, one side is called blood, and the other is called tears.
Am I correct in assuming this is an either/or choice and that you can only be on ...
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How do I untrigger scroll lock on the map view?
I just won a combat after-which it was impossible for me to scroll around the main map with my mouse. I was locked entirely to the area centered around my hero.
I checked under the hotkeys, but I ...
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Where on the tactical map are specific army stacks placed?
In all the Heroes games, the army stacks are placed on the tactical grid based upon which slot they occupy in the heroes' army. That is also true for Might and Magic: Heroes VI, but I am wondering ...
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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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Does Might & Magic: Heroes VI include a map editor?
I'm a big fan of map creation, as well as of playing maps other people have created, but I don't see an option for the map editor on the main menu or on the Conflux menu. Does a map editor exist?
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How do I keep my ranged units from dying?
I'm just playing through the tutorial, and having a surprisingly difficult time keeping my ranged units alive. The AI clearly targets them, and I only have two stacks of melee units so I can't form ...
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Is there a way to avoid losing my progress when Uplay is down?
Last night, I tried to play Heroes VI, only to find that Uplay was down. I was offered an "offline" mode, but upon running the game in "offline" mode, I found that none of my previous saves were ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What's the best strategy to defeat Haven Campaign 1st mission - 'Something is Rotten'?
In order to achieve best score.
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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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Is it ok to wait around for new units?
I'm having a hard time progressing because the remaining enemies simply have way more units than I do. The thing is I have tons of gold and resources. If I just click "next turn" a whole bunch of ...
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What skills exist that will help my hero level up faster?
There are so many different spells and skills to choose from that I'm having a hard time finding which ones exist to support different strategies. Early on I'd like to focus on skills that either ...
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Why are there two difficulties shown when sieging towns?
I've noticed that oftentimes when I go to attack an enemy Fort, the scout combat report lists two separate threat levels.
What do each of these threat levels mean? Which one is the "real" estimation ...
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When can you respecialize your hero?
One of the buttons at the top of the main hero page is labeled "Respecialize" and the mouseover indicates that it allows you to redistribute the ability points on your hero. However, I have yet to ...
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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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Are there preset heroes in Might and Magic: Heroes 6?
I just got Might and Magic: Heroes 6 today and tried to play a quick hot-seat game with a friend to get the hang of it. The problem is, when selecting our heroes, only one was available for two ...
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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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Can I prearrange my troops before battle?
The default arrangement of my troops at the start of battle is...suboptimal. For example, I'd prefer to start with my ranged units directly behind my melee units, but instead they tend to start off ...
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What effect do difficulty levels have?
There are three different difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, Hard). What kinds of penalties/bonuses do they cause? For bonus points, how does the "Aggressive AI" option play into things?
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Is there a way to view the Dynasty Weapon skills?
Anyone know how to view the dynasty weapon skills? Staff of Sandro has a lot of lich-named skills but there's no indication what those skills do
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How can I change from Blood to Tears? (Repentance / Reversal achievement)
So after many months of battles, I've finally accrued the 1,000 blood reputation needed to reach Blood level 2. At the moment, however, I'm at Tears Level 1, and it is not obvious to me how one goes ...
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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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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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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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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 do you reset your traits (might, magic abilities)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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 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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How do you trade artifacts between heroes?
I have two heroes in Might and Magic: Heroes VI. Each has an artifact that is part of a set. I would like to trade this artifact from one hero to the other. Both heroes are in the same town. I can't ...
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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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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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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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