HoMM I: Misty Islands by Huntka

Misty Islands
@2018
by Huntka

"It's time to overtake the marvelous Misty Islands in the name of Lord Ironfist!"



1 Human, 3 Computers
Size: Big
Water: Yes
Language: English

Spoiler! Minimap:

Download from Behemoth's Lair:
http://mapy.heroes.net.pl/mapa/1048
Mirror (Microsoft One Drive cloud):
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ahfxr6a8tP2F7zzrD8Uv4dXwlq7B
Mirror (Google Disk cloud):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=16uSJ0txpxWDYlwop-NPpaUUWzMuqGs9k

My little review:
Holidays, finally! Well, for some people it's already almost month, but for me the time of vegging out has just started! While awaiting for Polish mapmakers competition organised by Akademia Wojny I've decided to restore memories of older sister of HoMM III. I picked Misty Islands and I wasn't dissapointed. The map is hard and after my first attempt with all handicaps I had to own to failure. What does not mean I won't try again!

The scenario is very well balanced - the number of mines, treasures and monsters is in ideal proportions. Our enemies advance harmoniously, they don't grow armies too fast and they don't have problems with expanding their cities. The island of our heroes is also in a perfect equlity - many depends on the level of difficulty that we chose and our skills. It shouldn't be very tough to win on Normal, but Hard level can be problematic

Every part of the map is domesticated - unlike most of H1 maps. The author had a think of every detail. Maybe Grass is a bit monotonous, but Huntka did  best with rough H1 map editor and when thinking of H1 standards map looks gorgeous. Playing on this map is a reall pleasure and thus I think that it deserves rating 8,5/10 (in my personal H1 scale ).

Edit:
Much better now

Lord Haart on level 22:

The detail and liveliness of Huntka's creatives is a thing I always missed in original Heroes I, where the maps tend to be uninteresting (and this is why I rarely play the conversions of them in H3SW). If you have your personal favorites, probably we could discuss some map conversions for the mod as well, as an idea for future development

I didn't think about it. Currently I even don't have enough time to follow the most recent maps. Huntka's maps are very big and complex, so it would take some time to recreate them, while the gameplay could change drastically. I would really love to see some new maps exclusively for H3SW instead and I hope that my dreams will come true soon