Hi, i'm new

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

So I just got the ubisoft subscription because i wanted to play Assassin's Creed: Mirage, but I found it boring so I started looking for other games and I saw battlecry 2. It looked like warcraft 2 which was such a fun game so i installed battlecry 2.

This game is everything I wish warcraft was. Retinue's that carry over between missions, heroes that level up, customization, choices, undead, demons, fey, high elves, minotaurs. this game is amazing.

Then I saw there was a battlecry 3. $10, doesnt seem to be available for free under any subscriptions.

but ive been scrolling through some of the conversations and it sounds like people aren't happy with this game.

So my question is:
1) am i going to like this game if I liked battlecry 2
2) can i modify the game with mods or something to make it better or fix whatever you guys didnt like
3) and should i buy it on steam or is there another option thats better

thank you. now im going to go back to razing my enemies, and then raising my enemies.

[Karol13]

1) you will like WBC3, but still, I wouldn't pay Ubisoft 10 bucks, I hate them for destroying all legacy games, they are like cancer, what they touch, turns into dead cell that smells and looks ugly. Buy WBC3 elsewhere, or, download free TPC (standalone mod - The Protectors)

2) there are mods, yes, but the game does not need them. Based on my expercience vanilla WBC 3 is even more stable, than WBC 2 was.

3) buy it anywhere, but not UBI. Or go for the TPC mod (which is like 90% of WBC 3 + 10% of new content)

[wargul16]

I totally agree what Karol13 said. Go for it but not via Ubisoft. They kill great games

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

Cool, so i'm playing the Protectors.
I was playing high elves and noticed I can't send anything into the mines unless I summon something that can do that.

What races can use mines, or, what is the strategy for those races that cannot fill their mines?

[Burden of Brine]

Originally posted by .Master Jiren, The Strongest:

Cool, so i'm playing the Protectors.
I was playing high elves and noticed I can't send anything into the mines unless I summon something that can do that.

What races can use mines, or, what is the strategy for those races that cannot fill their mines?

Stumbled upon this by happenstance, and a bit late perhaps, but from what I recall it is just High Elves, Dark Elves, and Fey that do not have workers to put in mines. Wood Elves had Oakmen or somesuch? Though I think Dark Elves had a unit that could summon Zombies to put in mines.

And as you found out there are some magic types that can help Elves fill their mines, such as Necromancy and Summoning, and if Nature could summon Oakmen that would also be an option for a Druid or Ranger hero.

The Protectors is a good overhaul, but it does change a lot of things about the various factions. Removing or adding units, changing the racial skills you'd get on your hero, and of course adding a lot of features not part of the vanilla game. Some good, some questionable, but overall a good package and likely the most stable and least crash prone way to play the game on modern hardware as far as I am aware.

Hope you have fun with this old gem of a game.