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{{user commentary|As every campaign is a set of scenarios connected together, there should be special tactics and strategy for playing campaigns, regarding that you will upgrade your heroes throughout the campaign and, in most cases, one or more heroes should be invincible, as their loss will make you lose the whole game. These are the tips how to play campaigns in the most effective way:
{{user commentary|As every campaign is a set of scenarios connected together, there should be special tactics and strategy for playing campaigns, regarding that you will upgrade your heroes throughout the campaign and, in most cases, one or more heroes should be invincible, as their loss will make you lose the whole game. These are the tips how to play campaigns in the most effective way:


* '''Protect by all means the hero or heroes who should be invincible'''. Make sure they have a proper army and enough spell points, and avoid unnecessary battles.
* '''Protect by all means the hero or heroes who should be invincible'''. Make sure they have a proper army and enough spell points, and avoid unnecessary combats.
* If it requires adequate time (both game and real life time), don't win easy scenarios until your hero or heroes who should advance to the next scenario get proper level. Take experience from [[treasure chest]]s, and kill [[wandering monsters]] (not allowing them to join or flee).
* If it requires adequate time (both game and real life time), don't win easy scenarios until your hero or heroes who should advance to the next scenario get proper level. Take experience from [[treasure chest]]s, and kill [[wandering monsters]] (not allowing them to join or flee).
* If multiple heroes advance to the next scenario, upgrade them all so as to form a powerful team of heroes. Avoid using in battles the hero who has already hit the level limit and don't pick treasure chests by that hero. If you have a choice which hero will advance to the next scenario (like in [[Adrienne]]'s [[Playing with Fire]] campaign), choose the one with the best specialty and secondary skills.
* If multiple heroes advance to the next scenario, upgrade them all so as to form a powerful team of heroes. Avoid using in battles the hero who has already hit the level limit and don't pick treasure chests by that hero. If you have a choice which hero will advance to the next scenario (like in [[Adrienne]]'s [[Playing with Fire]] campaign), choose the one with the best specialty and secondary skills.

Revision as of 11:32, 25 January 2023

Campaigns
1 - Restoration of Erathia Restoration of Erathia 1 - Restoration of Erathia
1. Homecoming
2. Guardian Angels
3. Griffin Cliff
1. A Devilish Plan
2. Groundbreaking
3. Steadwick's Fall
1. Borderlands
2. Gold Rush
3. Greed
1. Steadwick's Liberation
2. Deal With the Devil
3. Neutral Affairs
4. Tunnels and Troglodytes
1. A Gryphon's Heart
2. Season of Harvest
3. Corporeal Punishment
4. From Day to Night
1. Safe Passage
2. United Front
3. For King and Country
1. The Grail
2. The Road Home
3. Independence
2 - Armageddon's Blade Armageddon's Blade 2 - Armageddon's Blade
1. Catherine's Charge
2. Shadows of the Forest
3. Seeking Armageddon
4. Maker of Sorrows
5. Return of the King
6. A Blade in the Back
7. To Kill A Hero
8. Oblivion's Edge
1. Culling the Weak
2. Savaging the Scavengers
3. Blood of the Dragon Father
4. Blood Thirsty
1. Crystal Dragons
2. Rust Dragons
3. Faerie Dragons
4. Azure Dragons
1. Razor Claw
2. Taming of the Wild
3. Clan War
4. For the Throne
1. Farming Towns
2. March of the Undead
3. Burning of Tatalia
1. Lost at Sea
2. Their End of the Bargain
3. Here There Be Pirates
4. Hurry Up and Wait
3 - Shadow of Death Shadow of Death 3 - Shadow of Death
1. Clearing the Border
2. After the Amulet
3. Retrieving the Cowl
4. Driving for the Boots
1. Graduation Exercise
2. Cutthroats
3. Valley of the Dragon Lords
4. A Thief in the Night
1. Bashing Skulls
2. Black Sheep
3. A Cage in the Hand
4. Grave Robber
1. On the Run
2. The Meeting
3. A Tough Start
4. Falor and Terwen
5. Returning to Bracada
1. Target
2. Master
3. Finneas Vilmar
4. Duke Alarice
1. Harvest
2. Gathering the Legion
3. Search for a Killer
4. Final Peace
5. Secrets Revealed
6. Agents of Vengeance
7. Wrath of Sandro
8. Invasion
9. To Strive, To Seek
10. Barbarian Brothers
11. Union
12. Fall of Sandro
1. Poison Fit for a King
2. To Build a Tunnel
3. Kreegan Alliance
4. With Blinders On
5 - Heroes Chronicles Heroes Chronicles 5 - Heroes Chronicles
1. A Barbarian King
2. The Criminal King
3. Ultimatum
4. The War for the Mudlands
5. Siege of the Wallpeaks
6. Trapped!
7. Slash and Burn
8. Steelhorn
1. Cerberus Gate
2. The Boatman
3. Truth Within Nightmares
4. Twisted Tunnels
5. Jorm's Ambush
6. Old Wounds
7. The Queen's Command
8. Never Deal with a Demon
1. The Trouble with Magic
2. Walking on Clouds
3. Don't Drink the Water
4. Hard Place
5. The Secret in the Flames
6. The Magic that Binds
7. Birds of Fire
8. Master of the Elements
1. The Dragontalker
2. Dragon's Blood
3. The Dragon Mothers
4. Dragons of Rust
5. Distrust
6. Dragons of Gossamer Wings
7. Dragons of Deepest Blue
8. Clash of the Dragons
1. A Distant Cry
2. Senseless Destruction
3. The World Within
4. The Roots of Life
5. Rebirth
1. The Endless Sands
2. The Nameless Land
3. The Sparkling Bridge
4. The Fiery Moon
5. Vorr, the Insane
1. Hopewielder
2. The First Law
3. By Royal Decree
4. The King's Son
5. The Ransom
6. Beyond the Borders
7. Naming a Nation
8. The First Tatalian War
1. Tarnum the Overlord
2. The Land of the Vori
3. A New Enemy
4. A New Ally
5. The Capture
6. Tunnels of Ice
7. The Barbarian's Wife
8. The Protectors of the Sword
4 - Horn of the Abyss Horn of the Abyss 4 - Horn of the Abyss
1. Pirates and Palms
2. Master of the Island
3. Devil Sunrise
1. Prisoner of Doom
2. Evenmorn
3. The Shores of Hell
4. The Freedom of the Nix
5. In Search of the Horn
6. Treachery
1. Frontier
2. Heart of Water
3. Horn of the Abyss
4. All Hands on Board!
1. World on Fire
2. Beyond the Horizon
3. Dead or Alive
4. Tomb Raiders
5. Deus Ex Machina
6. Tarred and Feathered
7. New Order
8. Homecoming

A campaign is a set of scenarios which should be won one by one so as to complete the campaign. In the table of records, there is a separate ranking for campaigns, and winning a scenario itself doesn't count in the table. There are campaigns which give the player an opportunity to choose the order in which some of the scenarios are being played (e.g. in the Unholy Alliance campaign, you may complete first four scenarios in any order as you like).

Some campaigns are available at start and can be played in any order. The other ones appear one by one after you finished the starting ones.

Important: The game tracks your progress through the campaigns via a save file, not a game flag. That means that you cannot play the scenarios in a random sequence. Start with the first scenario of one of the first three campaigns. When you finish that scenario, you create a save file. You should probably name that file by some appropriate name. Start the second scenario from that file. When you finish the second scenario, you save again. You should probably make a new file for this. When you complete the final scenario of the first campaign, save again. So far, so good. But when you start the second campaign, you MUST load your most recent save file first, otherwise your progress through the campaigns is lost. Continue through the campaigns with this method.


List of campaigns

This list contains links to information about the different campaigns that are available in Heroes of Might and Magic III: background, heroes, strategies, walkthroughs, and the like. Campaigns unavailable at the start of the game are given in italics.

Restoration of Erathia

Armageddon's Blade

Shadow of Death

Heroes Chronicles

Horn of the Abyss Horn of the Abyss

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As every campaign is a set of scenarios connected together, there should be special tactics and strategy for playing campaigns, regarding that you will upgrade your heroes throughout the campaign and, in most cases, one or more heroes should be invincible, as their loss will make you lose the whole game. These are the tips how to play campaigns in the most effective way:

  • Protect by all means the hero or heroes who should be invincible. Make sure they have a proper army and enough spell points, and avoid unnecessary combats.
  • If it requires adequate time (both game and real life time), don't win easy scenarios until your hero or heroes who should advance to the next scenario get proper level. Take experience from treasure chests, and kill wandering monsters (not allowing them to join or flee).
  • If multiple heroes advance to the next scenario, upgrade them all so as to form a powerful team of heroes. Avoid using in battles the hero who has already hit the level limit and don't pick treasure chests by that hero. If you have a choice which hero will advance to the next scenario (like in Adrienne's Playing with Fire campaign), choose the one with the best specialty and secondary skills.
  • Visit all objects giving experience on the map: Learning Stones, Trees of Knowledge, Altars of Sacrifice. For the latter, try to get as many artifacts as possible if your hero has good or neutral alignment (artifacts are usually guarded, therefore you will also get experience for winning combats), and sacrifice superfluous troops if your hero has evil or neutral alignment.
  • Learn only those secondary skills which are useful.
  • Learn all spells there are on the map, mainly in towns' Mage Guilds (if a spell is lacking, consider visiting shrines). Learn even spells which are considered useless or used rarely, as if a Scholar learns you a spell you already have, you will get instead +1 to a primary skill which is way more useful.
  • Visit all objects upgrading primary skills on the map, such as Mercenary Camp, Marletto Tower, Star Axis, Garden of Revelation, Arena and so on.
  • Build structures which upgrade primary skills in your Tower, Inferno, Stronghold, and Fortress towns, and visit them by all heroes who should advance to the next scenario.
  • An easy way to get necessary spells and primary skills is Town Portal spell on Advanced or Expert level of Earth Magic.

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