Did you know that... HoMM2 Units!

So I was digging in the animation files and found some interesting things.
So lets play a game, type how many of these you did know and how many suprised you  



Did you know that:

1) Archer from knight castle is a girl

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2) Mages life source is a gem in his staff

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3) Dwarf uses only one hand to attack down because he has short arms

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4) Dragons are so fat they are rising dust and dirt from the ground when they fall

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5) Bone dragons are actually a diferent, older species, since they have a diferent ammount of fingers.
It is more than that. Since I am myself a fan of dragons: the more fingers/toes they have, the higher the rank, with five meaning imperial dragon and ones with less claws are older, more primal

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6) Centaurs are emo and have only four fingers

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7) Cyclops has green eye

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8.) Elves are designed after robin hood

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9) Goblins listen to metal and they are dabbing before death

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10) Halflings are holding a stone

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11) Golem loses his arms when he falls

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12) Medusa snakes are escaping when she dies

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13) Mummy has a mouth and there is a body inside

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14) Orc crossbow has a really weird butt (stock)

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15) Pikeman loves to sing

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16) Spirite wings are her power source and they glow

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17) Trolls are capable of doing magic and they summon themselves new stones

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haha I had a good laugh! I honestly didn't know about most of them...

Now I will look at your graphics, who knows what you are hiding!

Hmmm, I didn't know 2,6,7,9,13, but most of my life B.M. (Before Mod) I was sure that archer is a man  Cyclops eat too much crystals. Don't be like Cyclops  

5. This is interesting. Dragons in H1 have only 3 claws! Still I think that on Enroth rules Pink  

This mummy... I will be wondering, who was this person inside for the rest of my life. I always thought, that it's empty. Necromancers are even more terrible now...

All this pics are beautiful. I can imagine how many people were polishing them to look so perfect and almost noone have seen it. I love such closed discoveries

Troll is a woman too :-):-):-)

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This mummy... I will be wondering, who was this person inside for the rest of my life. I always thought, that it's empty. Necromancers are even more terrible now...

Sometimes the answers are closer than you think  




Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Succession Wars - answering the last questions of Enroth!

Hahaha I didn't know ... Too much, i knew only 2 of them.
Very nice thread!

Little update, maybe some new users will be able to find this thread

These are good! Haha
I made a few of my own:


The Cavalry temporarily gets promoted and then instantly demoted again during his death animation


The Giant's face is still visible in its dead sprite


Goblins love to dab


Obi-Wan! Noooo!



Heroes can sometimes be seen disappointed in their armies


The knight's horse's tail gets cut off on the adventure map


The Mummy's eyes glow red when they attack


Sometimes, the zombie stops to tie his shoes mid-battle


The Phoenix's eye is the last to go in its death animation


The stones that Liches throw contain fireworks


Skeletons are broken into pieces upon death


The Unicorn's horn sparks when it walks


The Vampire's cape turns into wings


The War Troll's stone becomes grey as soon as it is thrown, despite it showing as cyan in the sprite


The Air Elemental's death animation shows it crumbling into pieces just like any other elemental, despite the fact it's made of air. It also has a shadow for some reason.

Great stuff! Both the War Troll's stone and Cavalier's mis-coloring slipped right into H3SW, but now I fixed it for the next version

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The stones that Liches throw contain fireworks

This is due to the fact that their cloud sprite is recycled from Heroes 1 grey cloud sprite, which appears when the Catapult fires the castle walls.

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Heroes 2 cloud is the same, if I recall correctly, and when the hero has zero Ballistics skill, sometimes the Catapult round falls to ground instead of hitting walls. There, a downscaled version of the same cloud is used.

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The War Troll's stone becomes grey as soon as it is thrown, despite it showing as cyan in the sprite

That's because missile sprites are not upgraded like the creatures are The game uses the same missile sprite for both creature versions.

Orzie wrote:

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The stones that Liches throw contain fireworks

This is due to the fact that their cloud sprite is recycled from Heroes 1 grey cloud sprite, which appears when the Catapult fires the castle walls.

Spoiler:

Heroes 2 cloud is the same, if I recall correctly, and when the hero has zero Ballistics skill, sometimes the Catapult round falls to ground instead of hitting walls. There, a downscaled version of the same cloud is used.

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The War Troll's stone becomes grey as soon as it is thrown, despite it showing as cyan in the sprite

That's because missile sprites are not upgraded like the creatures are The game uses the same missile sprite for both creature versions.

This is interesting information! Also, recently I found out that the reason the knight's horse gets its tail cut off is because it's a Heroes 1 sprite. It only appears in the editor, not the actual game, where the sprite looks very different. Some of the editor hero sprites are recycled Heroes 1 sprites, which is interesting but at the same time makes me question why, lol.

Probably because the editor was made by other developers in the team. There is a seleciton of assets which was probably used as dummy sprites, such as adventure map hero sprites, several portraits (medium size version of Luna still comes from Heroes 1), probably some other heroes may have older H1 backgrounds too.

The editor also can place outdated alternative Graveyards during the creation of Random Maps, with them being unavailable in the standard game/user controlled editor.

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The editor also can place outdated alternative Graveyards during the creation of Random Maps, with them being unavailable in the standard game/user controlled editor.

There was a mod that re-adds the graveyards, wasn't there?