Why can't my character fight?

[Fandango]

Oh that's right, in HoMM IV the leader involves in the fights! Forgot about that one... never really liked the newest one compared to the older ones.

I think Disciples had a good way for using the leaders in fights. Altough the battle system is very different in that serie.

[Gatts]

Originally Posted by Fandango

Oh that's right, in HoMM IV the leader involves in the fights! Forgot about that one... never really liked the newest one compared to the older ones.

I think Disciples had a good way for using the leaders in fights. Altough the battle system is very different in that serie.

Not to mention that in Disciples, if you lost you best hero + all his/her troops, no resurrection, no "flee battle" option... he/she were just total goners... so you had secondary hero with some levels you was lucky, if not, you had to pay 500 (max money in D was 9999, average was 200 ) to buy new one - level 1 newbie bastard...!!! GOSH!

[Fandango]

Hahah, true! It is quite painful to realize in Disciples that you are facing far more superior force, which you just don't seem to be able to win and to face the fact that... you just saved your game and the next save would be from the start of the scenario. Bye bye my most powerful leader.

Back to the subject... I don't think it would work very well in this type of games. In King's Bounty you have large numbers of creatures in stacks. How would the leader be then? Mage/Warrior/Paladin 1. What would he's stats be? How he could go against hordes of dragons? In my opinion, it didn't really work out so good in HoMM IV and it would not work out very well in KB. If anyone has an idea, how to actually get the leader to involve in to the battle and make it work well, I'm all ears.

[Holywhippet]

I think Heroes V lets the hero attack as well IIRC.

[Ryastar]

Originally Posted by Holywhippet

I think Heroes V lets the hero attack as well IIRC.

I believe so as well, but he cannot be attacked back. I've always thought that kinda dumb in this kind of game, just realistically speaking. If the hero is present to direct all his troops in battle - a single, small human (or whatever) - why doesn't a black dragon go and EAT him?

I know why they don't let that happen, but it is kinda unrealistic, don't ya think?