Xathras Prize glitch

[Silver]

So on this map there is a town where the green player starts the game (in the "earth" terrain section of the map, north east of the volcanic terrain) which I assigned to a rampart player.

Here, I conquered the town playing as red castle player and with Sorsha the Knight. I then moved across the sea to the town in the badlands to the extreme east of the map.

My previously conquered town was to be attacked by opponents, so I wanted to help strengthen its garrison - but suddenly I realized the flag of the town isnt red, its grey (as if no one owns it).

But clicking on the town opens the town menu, and I can recruit creatures too. But if I recruit a hero who then appears before the town entrance, the game crashes.

So I moved the cursor over the town entrance and realized there is a copied instance of Sorsha the Knight here.

Whichever direction my real Sorsha is facing on the world map, the copied Sorsha in front of this glitched town is as well. If she is on a ship, there's a copied ship symbol in front of the town entrance.

Enemies cannot attack this copied Sorsha. And none of my other heroes can enter the town because the copies instance of Sorsha is at the entrance; they can trade with her, and her inventory + creatures is a carbon copy of my real Sorsha elsewhere on the map. Crazy bug

[Lyle]

Weird. Is it reproducible?
What if you save and reload?

[Silver]

Well I managed to win the scenario (took me 2 days lol, playing on Very Hard) and the map didnt completely glitch out and crash on me. 2 towns were affected by the glitch, the other one was also a rampart and had an invisible Galthran the Death Knight in front of it.

Just meant I couldnt send one of my heroes into these towns and add the recruited stacks to the hero's army; use blacksmith and so on, but otherwise the affected towns worked just like before.

[Lyle]

Come to think of it, that creepy 'illusionary' hero stuck in the castle entrance mimicking the original hero is actually something I remember from playing homm3 in the Olden days.

Might be a legacy bug that youve encountered. Cherish it :'D