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From: Peter Steele <snakesbloodpussycat@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Heroes o Might & Magic III
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 20:49:06 -0600
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
  despite their age still look
> pretty good.
> 
> Which isn't to say I disagree with your assessment. I never played the
> game intensely enough to really notice; I was more of a dabbler in the
> franchise than a die-hard fan. But -for me at least- the competency of
> the AI was the least of the series' problems.
> 
> 
> 
> 

The need for an AI is the difference in trimming the bushes so to speak 
and chasing the gardener with hedge clippers.  I spent 10 hrs trimming 
the bushes in HOMM 4 and then never played it again.  I kept waiting for 
something intelligent to happen, but it never showed.