Love of my Life - a Heroes of Might and Magic III Horn of the Abyss MAP
A Giant HotA map with an elaborate story, full of quests, worked on and tested for an entire year.
Size: Giant
Author: Tyr Antilles
Players: 8
Language: English
Teams: 0
Map finished on: 2016.09.09 (last update on 2020.02.02 to v.1.07 with HotA v.1.6.1)
Description: Demons launch a sneak attack and destroy the capital city of the Kingdom you are living in and leave the country defenseless. They kidnap the king's daughter that you hopelessly love and disappear somewhere on the demon plane.
Even worse, the neighboring kingdoms taking advantage of the weakness of your kingdom are becoming more and more aggressive.
Being named counselor of His Majesty, the King, you must protect the kingdom and try to find clues about the missing Princess.
DOWNLOAD latest version updated on 2020.02.02 to v.1.07 with HotA v.1.6.1 from here:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqtI3rSJQnG_lWVG-OeKvQugx-Iz?e=OrwE8G
Download mirror 2: http://en.heroesportal.net/maps/view/3887
MIRRORS WITH OLDER VERSIONS (not recommended) here:
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or: http://www.maps4heroes.com/forum/opinions.php?map_id=1422&game=3
Download mirror 3: http://www.heroes3maps.com/map/12245-love-of-my-life-v-1-05
TIPS about the map better read before the start of the game:
- The purpose of this map is to enjoy doing the quests. You can actually win without doing the quests, but if you do that you will lose your true love! :P Reveal the entire map or read the plot in advance will spoil all the fun!
- You can start with any of the 8 factions. The main quest have some common parts, but many events are specific for each faction.
- The game starts with no heroes. You should recruit your first hero from the Tavern. Also, some factions have no access to shipyard and the only way to travel by the sea will be to build a shipyard on a town.
- Pandora boxes from the Valley of the Dragons hold resources ONLY for the AI. Normally the player cannot reach them, so, do not attempt to get them. If you find the map too easy, you can edit it on the map editor and add more bonuses on all Pandora boxes, but I suggest to leave them like that for the first time you play the map.
- The map is very hard in the beginning because of lack of resources. I gave bonus to the enemy and handicap to the player. Otherwise it would be boring on the late game even on Impossible difficulty. That is, if you survive that much. :D
- The map is VERY large. You should consider investing in Navigation, Logistics and Pathfinding skills.
- Those nasty demons actually kidnapped 8 princesses from 8 kingdoms. Only one of them is YOUR princess. But you can return the other princesses to their homes out of goodwill (and get reward for each). Of course, you only need to marry your beloved one! :P
- I was thinking a lot if I should remove Town Portal, Dimension Door and Fly, but I wanted all capabilities of the game to be available. The map is built keeping those into account.
I hope you will enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it. :)
Tyr Antilles
