Combat

Combat is a general term for encounters in Heroes of Might and Magic III, where heroes and their armies compete against each other in order to vanquish the hero and his troops. Combat takes place, when a player or computer commands his hero to attack another hero or a wandering creature stack. Winner of the combat will be the hero, who can destroy all of other hero's army or all the wandering creatures. Addiotionally, the losing hero can either retreat or surrender.

Combat takes place on battle field, that is 11 rows of 15 hexagonal frames (or hexes). Because size of most the creatures is one hex, a creature with speed of 13 can traverse across the battle field to attack another creature stack directly opposite to that creature. Additionally, a creature with a speed of 18 can tarverse diagonally from one corner to its opposite.