Editing Victory and Loss Conditions

'''Victory or loss conditions''' or are a characteristics of an map or a scenario which a player must complete in order to win or fulfill in order to lose. Typically to win a scenario a [[kingdom|player]] must [[File:Defeat All Enemies.png]] conquer all enemy [[town|towns]] and defeat all enemy [[List of heroes|heroes]]. And vice versa, to lose a scenario a player must [[File:Lose All Your Towns and Heroes.png]] lose control of all towns for a period of seven days or have the last hero defeated while controlling no towns.

'''Special Victory Conditions:'''
* [[File:Acquire Artifact.png]] ''Acquire a Specific Artifact'': You must find a specific artifact. Win by placing the artifact in one of your heroes’ backpacks.
* [[File:Accumulate Creatures.png]] ''Accumulate Creatures'': Your kingdom must acquire X number of a specific type of creature.
* [[File:Accumulate Resources.png]] ''Accumulate Resources'': Your kingdom must acquire X amount of a specific resource.
* [[File:Upgrade Town.png]] ''Upgrade a Specific Town'': The hall and castle of a given town must be upgraded to a specified level.
* [[File:Build a Grail Structure.png]] ''Build a Grail Building'': You must find the Grail and build a grail building in one of your towns.
* [[File:Defeat Hero.png]] ''Defeat a Specific Hero'': You must defeat a specified hero.
* [[File:Capture Town.png]] ''Capture a Specific Town'': You must occupy a specified town.
* [[File:Defeat Monster.png]] ''Defeat a Specific Creature'': You must defeat a specified wandering monster.
* [[File:Flag All Creature Dwellings.png]] ''Flag All Creature Generators'': You must control all the creature generators on the map.
* [[File:Flag All Mines.png]] ''Flag All Mines'': You must control all the mines on the map.
* [[File:Transport Artifact.png]] ''Transport a Specific Artifact'': You must acquire a specific artifact and transport it to a specified town.
* [[File:Defeat All Monsters.png]]{{-wa}}{{-wh}} ''Defeat All Monsters'': You must defeat all wandering monsters.
* [[File:Survive Until Time Expires.png]]{{-wa}}{{-wh}} ''Survive Until Time Expires'': You win if you have not lost the scenario within the specified number of days.

'''Special Loss Conditions:'''
* [[File:Lose Hero.png]] ''Lose a Specific Hero'': You lose if the specified hero is defeated. 
* [[File:Lose Town.png]] ''Lose a Specific Town'': You lose if the specified town is occupied by an enemy.
* [[File:Time Expires.png]] ''Time Limit'': You lose if you have not won the scenario within the specified number of days.

=="New" Victory Conditions==
The Special Victory Conditions ("Defeat All Monsters" and "Survive Until Time Expires") appear in the various [[Armageddon's Blade (Campaign)|Armageddon's Blade campaigns]]{{-wa}}. These victory conditions, however, did not appear in the [[Armageddon's Blade]]{{-wa}} [[Map Editor]], but were instead added in the [[Horn of the Abyss]]{{-wh}} [[Map Editor]].
* Defeat All Monsters
** [[Festival of Life]] - [[Taming of the Wild]]
** [[Playing with Fire]] - [[Farming Towns]]
* Survive Until Time Expires
** [[Foolhardy Waywardness]] - [[Hurry Up and Wait]]

Without using the HotA map editor, it is possible to make use of them by hacking the h3m file. The first step is to open the .h3m file in a [[wikipedia:gzip|gzip]]-compatible utility, such as [[wikipedia:7-Zip|7-Zip]], to get access to the raw, uncompressed scenario file. The victory condition for "defeat all monsters" has hex code <code>0B</code>, while the victory condition for "survive until time expires" has hex code <code>0C</code>. After the victory condition come two bytes that work as Boolean values, the first being whether the scenario can also be won "normally" by defeating all enemies, and the second being whether a computer player can win through this special victory condition. After these two bytes, for "survive until time expires", there is an additional three bytes that represent the amount of days, in little-Endian notation. After editing the file, it should be gzipped back to return to its normal .h3m form.

== Gallery ==
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== See also: ==
* [[Score]]

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[[File:Taming of the Wild - Defeat All Monsters.png|300px|Taming of the Wild]]
[[File:Farming Towns - Defeat All Monsters or Defeat All Enemies.png|300px|Farming Towns]]
[[File:Hurry Up and Wait - Survive Beyond a Time Limit or Defeat All Enemies.png|300px|Hurry Up and Wait]]
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