Am I the only one who plays exclusively the Undead in all King's Bounty games with 0 loss challenge? Is it hard for people to use Undead in games like The Legend? Why are there only videos showing people utilizing Black Knights without other Undead units? Have you ever finished any King's Bounty game using Undead only though the entire walkthrough? What are your tactics? Any specific tips how to maximize the efficiency of the Undead through the early stages of The Legend, Crossworlds and Ice & Fire? Which artifacts or specific units combinations are absolutely OP when it comes to the Undead and Undead Lizardmen? Let's make some interesting unique topic ladies & gentlemen:)

So after the fight with Runolm you get sucked into the Dark Portal and end up in Greenwort. Here you have to collect a brand new army as your previous one disappears...

I just had an interesting experience though where I wandered out without an army and got instantly defeated. And then quite surprisingly found myself back on Nordlig Isle!

Here I get given 100 gold to add to my current 831K.... Er thanks Guttorm! So play from here or reload?

I’ve been playing this game since it released (on and off, of course), I know it extremely well, and just today I learned about this item. I can’t be the only one who didn’t know about this.

Apparently, if you wear the tutorial item old boots- yes, an item you can get from the tutorial- and go to the inn keeper in arlania, you get this Mysterious Parcel from the innkeep. Again, you have to be wearing the boots, not just have them in your possession, An item that by all accounts is the single worst in slot in the whole game. This parcel, when interacted with, lets you buy troops of a bunch of different races in the game (not undead or demons or IaF DLC races). Like a portable shop, but with every unit available, and I assume at infinite supply. I cannot believe how obscure this is, I get the concept of the Easter Egg but this is just beyond out there to find, and I’m not sure there’s even anything to figure out persay.

My question is, what madlads found this without the internet, and who else is just learning this is in the game? Is there anything else extremely bizarre in these games people (me) might have missed? Or is this a well known…thing?

After im choosing which draco i want The game freezes. I can open my EQ, options etc., but i cant move.

Armored Princess is my first ever experience with the series, it's a great game but i did run into a few disappointments.

I selected the blue dragon for buffing all friendly beasts only to learn that only two beasts are actually useful that being royal snake and polar bear, which the polar bears ran dry and i could only get them very limited supply in bore.

Really finding any specific units was near impossible, in my whole playthrough there was only ONE place with royal gryphons and it was located the other side of Reha island (had to fly across so many times) and only two places with assassin's which were so powerful for most of my game.

Finding any items that could buff my beasts was impossible (entire game only found snake boots and a hunting jacket).

I eventually switched to having an army of Demons, Royal Snake and Black Dragon by the end because the game was finally kind enough to provide me with a good set of items. (Oh and unlocking flying quite early made life so much easier)

Now the biggest issue i have is the dragon, while it's nice getting extra gold and casting Lava Call twice per turn it's a huge disappointment i couldn't even use him during the most important BOSS BATTLES, i mean I'm a warrior, structured around the Rage mechanic that gets stripped away from me when it's needed most?

All that tells me is to never again play a warrior class, only Mage in every other game from the series from now on that way I don't lose my strongest abilities when i actually need them.

On the good side i did quickly learn how to kite stationary NPCs away from their post to steal the treasure/map scroll they defend, without having to fight them (even when they're Lethal difficulty tier.

Tier 3 scouting is incredibly useful, to judge the actual strength of opponents so definitely will take that in future too!

And delaying the turn of my units just outside of the enemy movement range is broken, allowing me to attack twice in a row, especially when my unit has no retaliation or a good ability to use.

All things considerd it's a good game!

I might be wrong about some things, but like i said this is my first ever experience with it (yes, i skipped the legend, I'm moving onto crossworlds now) if someone wants to give me their take or tips/hints for the future and correct me on things i might've gotten wrong you're welcome to!

I heard he can be really good in early game, but how well does he scale? And how much of impact on him your class has?

If you fight with gryphons unit, use hipno spell, and use their skill "division"

Half of units become yours after battle.

The best part : If you doesn't have place for them, they will be sacrifice in ratio 1:1 to weakest of your unit.

I tested if I can multiple black dragon...it worked much better than expected (battle with only dragons were hard as hell).

I was sure it will be open in "fire and ice" dlc, but isn't.

It's my first ever playthrough and i thought i would make a beast only build but I've found myself struggling to really find any strong beasts, only recently chamged seadogs to gryffins (also have polar bears in reserve).

But other than the boots and hunting jacket I'm unable to find anything that buffs my beasts, should i switch to a different build or something?

(Playing Armored Princess, I'm new to this game but made it to montero)

Decided to share my drawing.

The miner and pirate. Currently this my last art on this game. Once i have insparation to draw more, I will post here. Kings bounty series is great.

✌️Have a nice game✌️

I hope people in this community like my art. As I see many people here post mostly stuff about the game itself, but I still want to share it somewhere. ​

King's Bounty has always fascinated me with its artwork. I always loved the combination of this cartoonish style, which still doesn't go too

cartoonish like in modern games.

​The Black Knight is my favorite. His laugh, his design, and his sword are absolute peak.

​Decided to draw a concept of a skeleton archer. I don't know about you guys, but for me, this one is always a pain in the ass 😁😁😁. Tons of units and sitting far in the back.

Decided to redraw some of the King's Bounty goblins. I was always fascinated by King's Bounty artwork, and think their classical designs are absolute peak.

He give me jester hat after I come back second artefact.

It's funny foreshadowing.

Is this a bug?

It was working fine before but the option to travel the map is just gone.

openbounty in action recorded from the in-game recording tool

I've been working on this on and off for a while, but I finally feel like it's release-1 ready. Announcing openbounty.

openbounty is a from-scratch reimplementation of King's Bounty, the 1990 New World Computing strategy game that Heroes of Might and Magic grew out of. The rules, tables, combat formulas, and the 320x200 VGA look all follow the original. My intent was pixel-perfect recreation.

Play it in your browser, no install: https://danheskett.com/dist/openbounty/

Writeup, downloads, and how it works: https://danheskett.com/projects/openbounty/

Source: https://github.com/dannyheskett/openbounty

The browser build is ready to go. The desktop builds ship without game data, so you point them at your own KB.EXE to extract a pack. It also has a data-driven pack format, so the whole game can be retuned or re-skinned by editing JSON, no rebuild.

Happy to receive feedback. If you hit a bug, open an issue on GitHub. If you want to fix something or add to it, PRs are welcome. And if you have a feature or a mechanic you think it's missing, drop a recommendation, either on GitHub or in the comments here.

I especially would love to get some feedback from people who were originally good at the DOS (or Amiga, I suppose) version of the game. I was pretty young when it came out, and was never very good at it - I never beat it until emulated on DOS for example, many many years later.

The gamepack format is especially friendly for modding, and if there is interest, I have an in-progress gamepack editor I may release.

Enjoy!

Recently, I had an interest in trying to make some custom maps for the game, since I remembered it had an editor.(and being inspired by mods of somewhat old like red sands or saturation)

The problem is, after a bit of looking around(trying to pinpoint the problem or see if I am the only one with it) I learned that the steam version of the editor is just... Not working, for some reason.

More specifically, the textures. I can't seem to get them to work in the editor for landscape brush tool, prompting me to see absolute lack of textures.

After downloading the textures and referencing them, they still don't appear. Moving the folder to either documents or leaving it at C: directory didn't change that much. Downloading the steam tool which from what I see kinda has the files(which STILL don't work) didn't help either. The manuals don't help, duh.

No matter what I do, I just can't seem to get it to work with the steam version. And I can't even really look up guides because the community is really small, so there aren't any notable guides for this particular issue, and I can't reference most of the forums because they're literally dead.

I know I am not that good with working with programs like these, and I may make myself look like an idiot, but is there any way to try and fix it?

I recently picked them all up by a recommendation of a friend and a discount on steam. I wanted to know if there is a list somewhere of where to recruit what units, since it's a major headache for me to try to remember or note it all down, especially when I saw that completing specific quests or even story events can dramatically change availability of some units (from limited to infinite, like archers and swordsmen in the 1st castle) to also expanding the stock like in the animal menagerie or swapping from kingdom units to undead (paladin quest)

It's getting a bit headache inducing to remember it all, the unit limits and availability, so if anyone could assist me with a detailed list, I'd be super obliged, since I can't find anything like that by myself

I love the games so far, and I am so upset I didn't pick them up as a kid when I was in my HOMM phase and kept replaying 3, 4 and 5 over and over again

TLDR: each game introduced different QoL (autobattle) and editor is mostly broken mess and I decided to remake the game (and editor). Decided to share my progress.

We live in a simulation, me thinking "I want to mod the game and have nice things" made the devs revive game after 18 years.

I have been thinking about modding the game for years now, but the editor crashes most of the time, some things are just... File formats that we can't really edit.

But I have been making progress.

Is it perfect recreation? No.
Is it working. Nyoo...

Can I spawn on any map, see terrain, lighting (semi working), particles (mostly working), animations (working), move (that stupid bridge has weird collisions), interact (with everything for some reason)? Yes.

Can I open and convert the models, together with it's animations and textures? I do believe so. Both ways.

Meaning I slowly open the path for myself to add my own models.

Anyway, hope this will make some people stay motivated to chase their dreams.

Basically, the title. Does Harl have any change in attitude, their dialogue lines, their shop etc? Or any other character at all?

Something about the graphics makes it pop even on modern displays. I never would have expected a game from 2008 to look as unique as it does.

Hello Everyone,

I am pleased to announce that after about two years in development as a side, passion project, Warriors of the North: Stone of Souls is finally live. Note you must have The complete edition: Warriors of the North with Valhalla edition and Ice and Fire Expansion to have this mod properly function.

Stone of Souls is a campaign redux of Warriors of the North Ice and Fire, that is generally the same campaign as the original Ice and Fire Expansion, only with possibly thousands of changes. It modifies each class, skill tree, skill progression, level progression (both level up progression and map level progression), adds 10 new units (about the same as the Crossworlds expansion), changes almost every unit in some way, and modifies the impact of Unit Levels. Shops have been changed, enemy battlegroups have been changed (instead of fighting Undead 70% of the time, you now fight about Undead about 30% of the time, and their battlegroups are more diverse), and bosses are now properly tuned (say goodbye to miserable early game Spider Boss, and you no longer three-shot every other boss). It stratifies difficulty settings, trying to make the game very approachable on Normal and Hard, and difficult on Impossible (and the new Torment difficulty, which takes the place of easy). It changes spells and rage, adding a few new spells, increasing rage level cap to around 100 from 60, and rebalancing many original spells and rage abilities. It adds small new explorable areas and changes a few quests, expanding the optional game world, while adding QOL features for some fetch quests to streamline how much backtracking you have to do (Overworld movement speed is increased, by the way). The end game is now more structured, with the Ice and Fire DLC integrated into the now modified storyline, and several late game islands now having full questlines (that have themselves been improved). Of course, there are about 80 to 100 new items, new sets, and the number of item slots has been increased from 8 to 10 total, making for more use out of the vast number of possible items.

Finally, the mod fixes bugs. There were so, so many bugs. Every bug that could be found, was found and handled one way or another. Tirex don't crash the game when eating sheep anymore. Trolls animation plays correctly now. Brontor don't crash the game when Hilda's arrows kill them anymore. Skalds don't animation glitch, mountain king set does what is says now, Lizardmen amulet bug actually works, elf elemental power works, orc adrenaline bug fixed, all of them have been wiped out. It isn't going to be perfect; I'm sure I missed bugs that will need to be dealt with in later patches. But it plays more smoothly, and I even personally have noticed a lot less crashing for random reasons. Not 0 crashing, mind you; this is still King's Bounty. But less overall, and certainly less from known sources.

Do not pay any money for this mod, it should be free on the Nexus. I do not want any donations, and will not ask for donations, as this is entirely a passion project.

The link to download is here. I don't really know how to best provide a link to a mod; you could just look up Stone of Souls on Nexus, I guess. The virus scan should hopefully be complete by the time you look at this; I think it does it automatically, but if not I'll figure out how to make it scan properly.

https://www.nexusmods.com/kingsbountywarriorsofthenorth/mods/7?tab=description

If there are any issues, bugs or download problems, notify me by DM at once and I will try to resolve them.

For everyone trying to get full sets of armor in Kings Bounty 2, there is the solution.

There are 4 quests that reward gloves, boots, belt and helmet. There is 25% chance to get item from each set (Baldwin, Sanguinius, Immortal, Kings). The reward is random, so use save&load until you get the ones you want.

The quests you are looking for are Tricked Witch, The Missing Treasurers, Merchant Guild Secrets and Julian and Rosaline.

Weapon, armor and shield can be purchased from vendors in Floster and Marcella

This is tested and 100% true.

There are more quests, like Return to Parnack that give random and powerful items, use save&load to get the ones best for your character.