Civilization 3 - Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Mod

[BlakesSanctum]

This is amazing.. a guy called Tom2050 at CivFinactics has completely converted Civilization 3’s UI, graphics, units, techs, factions etc to look exactly like Heroes of Might and Magic 3!! As a kid growing up in the 90s playing endless hours of Civ and HoMM I always dreamed of some sort of hybrid game that gave me the HoMM experience but in the Civ sandbox world. Looks like this guy has made my dream a reality!

Pics & info etc:
https://blakessanctum.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/3075/

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[BlakesSanctum]

Tested it myself with my steam copy of Civ3. I’ve only had a quick look and played a few turns so far but this mod (at least initially) appears as nothing short of a friggin masterpiece! I’ve never seen Civ3 altered so much in my life. Almost every part of the game is changed. New intro ripped from Heroes of Might & Magic 3, new menu image & music from HoMM3 (although I got a black screen at first but clicking seem to stop it), entirely new world/terrain graphics from HoMM3, your palace upgrade screen is now the HoMM3 city screen slowly getting built (different ones for each race if you switch the files), the city sky view screen is now a map of Erathia, all GUI & menus have been given a HoMM3 look (thank goodness as I never liked Civ3’s GUI), all cities/units/techs have been changed to HoMM equivalents, and the Civ3 soundtrack is replaced with HoMM3s. It really feels like HoMM3 but with the freedom and sandbox goodness of Civilization. Also once you go above the original race count you get ‘castle 2’ ‘inferno 2’ etc meaning you can go up to Civ3’s max player count of 31, just imagine playing an epic 31 player HoMM3 style Civ game on a huge map!! :O

I’m gonna play the hell out of this in the near future and will prob do a video too..

[[NN]Natmeris]

Yeah its a cool mod. There are some other cool ones like Tides of Crimson, Age of Imperialism, and Anno Domini. Then you know, theres mine :) : https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/thelen-epres-mrel-nelthelrinae.619542/ not to the same scale as HoMM3 though. That guy converted all that stuff himself, while I merely took what he and others posted for download. It takes a lot of dedication and thought to see a mod through.

[BlakesSanctum]

Originally posted by NNNatmeris:

Yeah its a cool mod. There are some other cool ones like Tides of Crimson, Age of Imperialism, and Anno Domini. Then you know, theres mine :) : https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/thelen-epres-mrel-nelthelrinae.619542/ not to the same scale as HoMM3 though. That guy converted all that stuff himself, while I merely took what he and others posted for download. It takes a lot of dedication and thought to see a mod through.

Oooh thanks I didn't know about your one. In fact I think the only one I recognise out of that list is Age of Imperialism so I definitely need to check those out.

Drift's Master of Myrror (Master of Magic) mod is another total conversion Civ3 mod that blew me away too! It's a shame both he and Tom have disappeared as I'd love to chat to them about their amazing work.

[BlakesSanctum]

I also recently found another HoMM mod for Civ in a German Civ forum. This time it's a HoMM2 mod for Civilization 2. However sadly the guy went and got himself banned lol but thankfully we were able to track each other down on a different Civ forum and he speaks great English (thankfully as I only speak English and bad English lol) so we're now working together on finishing it.

It's 20 years too late and it's obviously not going to be as amazing as Tom's HoMM3 for Civ3 mod above but we'll do the best we can and have some fun haha.

I've made a moddb page for our project (I really want to do a moddb page for Tom's project too but he went AWOL just before I discovered his project :( ) and am posting regular dev diaries there on our progress if it's of interest to anyone.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-mod/articles

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