Might & Magic Heroes Online: The best beta tips

"Might and Magic Heroes Online" is currently in an open beta test phase. Here are the best tips to find your way around Ubisoft's turn-based, attractive looking new browser game. The best for fans of the role-playing strategy series in advance: Many advantages of classic gameplay have been re-integrated after the last, rather disappointing regular part of 2011.

Might and Magic Heroes Online - the best beta tips

1. "Might & Magic Heroes Online" is a free-to-play browser game with the usual pitfalls of the genre. In a shop, annoying waiting times can be extended with real money purchases from action points, or cute pets and colors can be purchased to beautify your hero. But even if it initially seems unavoidable: save yourself the purchase of resources, because the game can also be mastered free of charge as soon as you have conquered the first neutral resource stores.
2. A major difference to "Might & Magic: Heroes 6" from 2011, the last regular title of the role-playing strategy series, is that you can finally see the usual hex field again - and that clever, tactical placement of your units on it again benefits brings. You can flank opponents in this way or you can stab them in the back to do extra damage. This brings an additional perspective and challenge to the game.
3. Before each battle you can set the desired level of difficulty such as "Moderate" or "Deadly". Of course there are better rewards like more experience points and items for harder battles; however, you may lose more units, which can end your lively excursion. Because there are otherwise unusual freedoms for moving around in the "Might & Magic Heroes Online" world. You move without spending any action points. You should therefore be particularly careful at the beginning, because replacing losses can take a long time.
4. Items strengthen the attributes of your hero or your troops. In the inventory you can see and compare what exactly is changing and whether it brings an improvement. A buff item such as shards can also be placed in two active fields, for example to increase your hero's riding speed. Your combat strength results from the items created and the active troops. Therefore, you should also check out potential opponents by right-clicking on them in order to assess your chances of winning.
5. There is much to do! You can play turn-based battles, conquer and mine resources, build a city, collect pets, or change the look of your hero with colors that can be found or bought. You can also complete one main and many side quests or complete daily tasks. Collected angel feathers or phantom coins can be exchanged for special NPCs, for example for new troops. Park unused units in your garrison.
6. You should definitely expand workers' guilds, because this way, conquered neutral sources will bring you more resources. You can use them to upgrade buildings and unlock new ones.
7. A look at the overview map shows you where there are neutral resource stores or buildings, or where quests are still open.
8. Since "Might & Magic Heroes Online" is an MMO, you can also fight fights with friends, which is more fun - and bigger playing fields.
9. Be economical with the special abilities of your units, because they are only available to a limited extent in every battle.
10. And lastly: Ranged fighters and archers have nothing, but really nothing to do in close combat!

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