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Revision as of 02:13, 31 December 2020
Forge was a town type planned for Armageddon's Blade. It was based on a mix of technology and the Might & Magic universe, and had Goblins, Zombies, people and other "borrowed" creatures using among other things chainsaws, guns, jetpacks, and rocket launchers. However, it was scrapped in the end and replaced with Conflux town (which was supposed to appear later, in Shadow of Death) – due to a few bloggers having encouraged the fans to hate the faction, thing which led to fans having negative reactions.
The Forge in the lore
The Heavenly Forge itself was created by the Ancients, a futuristic race that exists in the HOMM and MM universe, presumably the creators of the races -- of the world. However, after the intergalactic web that connected the Ancients' worlds was heavily damaged by the alien race Kreegans, the Ancients lost connection with many of their worlds and the Heavenly Forge remained inactive on Enroth for many years.
In the events of Might and Magic 7, if you were to take the evil route (supposedly the canonical one), Kastore and his necromantic would get hold of the Heavenly Forge and start using it as a 3D replicator to create equipment and everything needed to assemble a futuristic army to take over Enroth. In the end, Gelu, Catherine and Roland were supposed to take the Armageddon's Blade out of one the Ancients' vault, and then use it to destroy the Heavenly Forge itself, an event to automatically destroy every evidence of the Forge's existence.
Line-up
While being stronger than the units of the same level, the Forge troops would be produced in lower quantities and also some of the non-level 7 units would cost special resources to hire. Out of all Forge troops, only the 3 first lower tier troops and their upgrades were showcased in-game. However, their line-up was public for a while, containing:
Level 1: Grunt/Foot soldier (Goblins with pistols; the base unit would have had some kind of knife in his other hand)
Level 2: Cyber-dead/Cyber-zombie (Zombies with chainsaws and circular saws, and even a prosthesis)
Level 3: Pyro/Pyromaniac (Humans with a flamethrower in their hand, their torso revealed and googles over their eyes)
Level 4: Stinger/Bruiser (Ogres bearing a rocket launcher on their side)
Level 5: Jump soldier/Jump trooper (Minotaurs with jetpacks)
Level 6: Tank/Heavy tank (Nagas with their lower part as tanks and their upper part naked; it was later confirmed that they wouldn't have been naked in-game, and that the artwork was a bit extreme in that regard)
Level 7: Juggernaut/Dreadnought (According to one of the HoMM3 developers, it would have been similar to the Dragon Golem from the next game, HoMM4; another parallel can be made with the Droids guarding the Lincoln spaceship at the end of Might and Magic 7 (which were somewhat similar in appearance to HoMM4's Dragon Golem), the game technically being the prequel to Forge itself if the Evil route was played)
Out of these, artworks for all but the level 5 and level 7 creatures were made public.
Graphics
The supposed structure of the town, together with the showcased units:
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