I’d like to at least complete a couple of my unfinished campaigns. I’m not done with Might & Magic Heroes VII quite yet. In a typical session I find myself moving from having a great time exploring, conquering, constructing, and fighting to becoming consternated that I need to head back to an earlier save due to an impossible-to-predict obstacle to wondering whether it would make much difference if I just let the computer fight all my battles for me. That said, I’m not sure I need to see it all. Developer Limbic Entertainment definitely didn’t skimp on content. I’ve dumped around 15 hours into Might & Magic Heroes VII over the last week with coming close to finishing all the campaigns. I’m not sure if I know of an answer to this particular problem, save perhaps to have fewer battles but somehow engineer all of them to be exciting. Knowing that fights will be boringly easy and having the ability to bypass them is a clear boon to play, but it also tends to keep us out of combat except when absolutely necessary, which sort of seems to defeat the purpose of playing a strategy game. On some overworld maps you may only dive down to the battlefield and take personal command of your troops a handful of times. In fact, the predicted outcomes of most battles – helpfully shown in colour-coded text ranging from grey (you’re going to win, probably with no casualties) to crimson red (you’re going to die, badly) – are so accurate that smart players will likely just avoid all but the easiest of battles and choose to auto-resolve combat whenever possible to save time.

This is a game much more about superiority of numbers than clever movement flanking plays a role with almost every attack, but only rarely changes the overall outcome. With just a plain grid the likelihood of defeating a vastly superior force via brilliant maneuvers is deeply unlikely. That said, it’d be nice if the battlefield maps were a little more dynamic rather than just a grid with some impassible locations or fortifications running through the centre. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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