Fallen Enchantress - Legendary Heroes

This is their 3rd civ clone right? wasn't there another FE that was supposed to fix all of the problems WoM had? I assume this one is the best of the bunch?

Got it for 50% off since I already owned Fallen Enchantress. Pretty fun little game. Still trying to figure out everything going on and what exactly the best strategy is moving forward. Unlike FE the game is actually a bit of a challenge. I far prefer this iterations version of leveling up and acquiring champions as opposed to the original. Where I never quite understood if they just threw a die and "here are your three options."

I have Warlock as well and don't remember it clicking for me quite as well as this game. But, honestly, I can't remember any reason why.

Cool thanks. Can someone expand on how this is deeper and improved over Civ (and which civ you'd compare it to)?

It is only like Civ in the fact that you establish cities, research various things and build an army or win via other conditions. Other than that is is pretty dissimilar. Think of Civ games like Warcraft II/Starcraft and LH is more like Warcraft 3. They are similar but there is a much larger focus on leveling heroes and creeping as opposed to initial warfare. The map is already established with randomly generated mobiles (well they aren't truely mobile they have a 'den' usually), quest spots and things like that. You can still capture resource nodes on the map to make certain things but there is also an equipment/shopping mechanic that is absent from Civ games.

People just say it is like Civ because it is the most similar to that. But honestly it plays more like a hybrid of HOMM + Civ.

Never played it but since it looks like an old styled Lords of Magic then yeah, kinda. Really saying it is a hybrid between HOMM and Civ is the best example I can give.

Phazael_sl said:

So more like Master of Magic?

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That's what they were aiming for yeah. WoM was rubbish. Fallen Enchantress made huge strides forward in playability/accessibility/non stupidity, but was still a bit rough around the edges.

I will check out the new one, cause, hey, free stuff, and on steam.

Game is a complete time vampire, just like civ/homm. In fact, the game literally is what you'd get if you smashed civ5 and homm5 together. Not saying that's a bad thing, especially if those kinds of games are your bag.

I'm liking this one a lot. Didn't play WoM but bought FE so I got this 50% off on steam which is awesome. I may not have gotten it otherwise. I've definitely noticed it's a lot more challenging than FE which is great, since I thought that one was too easy. The new skill trees for the champs are pretty awesome too and a big improvement than the random clusterfuck.

Bad experience with one of the last FE games I bought. When I would get to late game, the game would start to lag really bad and/or crash. Tried all kinds of different settings (and my computer contained a lot of BIS hardware components), but the game would still get shitty in the late part. Memory Leak? Maybe, no idea.

But really, is this game any better at that? I loved the game, just not its performance.

Daid: It's basically a revamp + expansion pack to it - so the fundamentals are the same, just tweaked - including a TON of performance tweaks that I've seen noted.

Yeah, I pissed about the first two...But this one is exactly what I hoped the others would be...An enormous timesink.

Whats your guys' normal strategy? When you get your first hero do you group them with your sovereign or do you form another army? I'm having issues with figuring out the best way of handling the early game to maximize myself in the late game.

I'm still figuring that out myself. I didn't realize initially that random creatures will attack your cities now and I've had a few ransacked by giant lizard monsters because I didn't realize I needed to defend them so heavily or else make sure the area is cleaned out completely. I like it though, feels more like a post-apocolyptic type world.