The game before H&A

This a Hero/AOS map with army upgrades and the possibility to build defensive structures. Heroes can reach level 40 and have standard spells each upgradeable to level 10, ultimates to level 6.

There's an orc and a human side. You have to destroy the enemy castle to win the game.

This map was a long time and uncountable versions ago "Orcs vs Humans". I changed the name of the map, because a lot of people confused it with "Humans vs Orcs" - after answering hundred times "can i load heroes?". Now it has balance, far more features and a lot quality triggers.

Why another AOS without really new features?

I balanced this map with a special aim. In most other AOSes you know after 5 or 10 minutes which side will win, even if it takes another 30 min to end. Heroes & Armies is different. There are a lot of measures for more close and exciting matches:

Heroes have 40 and spells 10 levels. Each level improves the spell, but not as much as usually. When one team is in average 3 levels ahead with their heros, it doesn't make so much differnce, that the other team has only poor chances left. And you know (e.g. footy) that those heroes will continue to level faster than the others, because they can kill far more units and heroes. This effect is damped.
On some maps units and defensive structures get totally unimportant after a certain time and become only a gold source (e.g. AOS GT). It's too easy to siege if a game lasts long. H&A provides upgrades for the spawn, additional towers and you can't overupgrade your heroes with tomes and items easily.
Unlike nearly all other AOSes the units don't target the other side's castle. It won't be overrun automatically when a barrack dies. So here are really chances to turn around the game. Another feature is the "strike back". When the castle is seriously attacked the first time, a one-time defense force will initiate another chance for the team in distress.
Made it noobie (to the map) friendly. You will always have noobies in most of your games, so they must have the chance to get a fast overview to play effective and give them no reason to leave. This is important, if you don't want to wait 20 games until you have a exciting one, because of leavers and total bad Allies. e.g. ToB has a very confusing landscape and paths on the first try, or like DotA everything's custom - you need minutes to read all the stuff, items etc. On this map everythings near to default and you'll get fast oriented. There's also a short ingame Tutorial/Introduction.

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