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[Zamolxis108]

As guessed by most of you in our poll here, the 5th town seems to be the Nature (Rampart/Preserve) town. The first reports coming from the Game Convention taking place this week-end in Germany, talk about some creatures (Druids, Treants) than can only have their home in such town, and also about a town resembling the H4 Preserve. I don't think we need more than that to vanish our doubts regarding the 5th town.

So now, ladies & gents, let's place our bets: units, heros (type, vehicle, speciality, how many of the old once made it), magic school, associated colors, philosopy, worship, symbols a.s.o.

[Surtur1982]

**** it!
A HoMM without Barbarian towns is s**t!
I want my barbarians!
Put the greenstuff in other towns!

[Zamolxis108]

I'll start.

Creatures:
1. Sprite/Pixie or Dwarf/Battle Dwarf or Halfling/Halfling Elite
(at least one of them will be here, and one at the Academy)
2. Centaur/Centaur Captain
3. Elf/Grand Elf
4. Druid/Elder Druid
5. Unicorn/War Unicorn
6. Ent/Treant
7. Firebird/Phoenix

This is my prediction. As a wish list, I would change the top 2 into:
6. Pegasi/Silver Pegasi (why would they be any weaker than the Unicorns, both are horse-like, and the flying ability should make them a higher level unit)
7. Ent/Treant or Green Dragon/Gold Dragon (as sb already pointed out: what would a Firebird/Phoenix do in the middle of the forest, but burn down everything around)

Hero:
With the Druids as a unit, I guess the only thing left is Ranger as a hero. And then we have the range attack as class speciality (correspondent of the Holy Charge). The vehicle can be a horse, but it can as well be an Unicorn (even though there are few cases, maybe none, of humans riding the Unicorns - they are too pure, wild & noble to accept to be ridden).

Magic School:
Summoning

Associated Colors:
Green and (maybe) Brown

Worship:
Gaya (less probable though) or some Dragon of Life or Earth.

Philosophy & Symbols: Here the developing team already proved to have a real talent of completely mixing & screwing up traditional symbols with not much logic (maybe just for ignorants) that any attempt to make a prediction is a waste of time.

[rasdel]

I just hope there will be NO "real" animals. I like the fantasy based ones...
My guess...

sprite/pixie- this is a creature that MUST be in this town... IMHO

dwarf/battle dwarf- even though in HOMM IV they went all the way to the academy, i think their place is with the sorceress.

elf/grand elf-without elves there's NO sorceress... they are a SYMBOL of this town.

unicorn/unicorn lord-this is another creature that IMHO will make it, since it is really cool!

Druid/Ancestral Druid?-I hope they return as creatures... they where aweosme in HOMM II!!!

Dendroid/Treant-Another creature that is very... and i mean very likely to be in this town...

Firebird/Phoenix-They are a must have too!!!

In other words... my guess... is that it's gonna be a mixture of HOMM II and HOMM III sorceress, since those (IMHO) where the BEST concepts.

Hero- I believe it's gonna de the Sorceress... yeap she's the most likely to come back IMHO.

[Zamolxis108]

Originally posted by Surtur1982:
**** it!
A HoMM without Barbarian towns is s**t!
I want my barbarians!
Put the greenstuff in other towns!

I feel your suffering. I feel the same. No, wait. For me it's more than that. It's double. As I mourn with the same grief also the burrial of the Swamp town.

[Elafron]

Originally posted by Zamolxis108:
The vehicle can be a horse, but it can as well be an Unicorn (even though there are few cases, maybe none, of humans riding the Unicorns - they are to pure, wild & noble to accept to be ridden).

Well that migh be a zebra or somethink like that like in H4 if I remember right. By the way, the unicorn may accept to be ridden if the hero is closer to nature... an elf maybe but not a human, or maybe some pixie hero (that's a joke ofcourse... pixies have their wings )

[Zamolxis108]

Originally posted by rasdel:
<STRIKE>Phoenix/Phoenix"something"</STRIKE> Firebird/Phoenix-They are a must have too!!!

Good thing you changed that. I deffinetly don't want a Phoenix"something". I want my Firebird, one of the "coolest" (or should I say hottest) top level basic creatures.

And you're right about the hero. If not a Ranger, then Sorceres would be my second choice (and maybe even better than Ranger if I think about it). It would be cool, and I think it would make the H2 fans very happy.

[Zamolxis108]

Originally posted by Elafron:
Well that migh be a zebra or somethink like that like in H4 if I remember right.

I strongly hope we won't have a zebra. I mean, what's this? First they promise us a more mature game, and then they give us "Racing Stripes"...

[KingImp]

Here is my lineup from the other thread, with one change. It would be as follows:

Level 1: Pixie/Sprite
Level 2: Elf/Grand Elf
Level 3: Centaur/Centaur Savage
Level 4: Druid/Elder Druid
Level 5: Unicorn/War Unicorn
Level 6: Ent/Treant
Level 7: Firebird/Phoenix

[Campaigner_1st]

Nature town - Some of the creatures which I feel will be included with it: Elf, Druid, Ent, Unicorn and Pixie/Sprite.

It would be fun though, to see some new creatures. Creatures that are aligned to the forest.

F.e a Nature Elemental or a Elf Cleric