Heroes of Might and Magic IV Windows, Mac game

Heroes of Might and Magic IV

New World Computing | 3DO | Released 2002

Following the events of Heroes Chronicles: The Sword of Frost, Gelu, the leader of AvLee's Forest Guard and wielder of Armageddon's Blade, attacks Kilgor, the Barbarian King of Krewlod, in an attempt to claim and destroy the Sword of Frost. As foretold by a prophecy, when Armageddon's Blade and the Sword of Frost clash in battle, the result is a massive explosion (known as the Reckoning), which destroys the world of Enroth. Many of the inhabitants of the planet, however, manage to escape through mysterious portals that appear during the Reckoning which lead them to another world, called Axeoth - also the setting for Might and Magic IX. Included among the refugees are many of the heroes of previous installments of the series, and many return to their old ways shortly after arriving on their new home.

RTX Remix

RTX Remix is a modding platform by NVIDIA, which allows modders to create stunning HD remasters of classic games (see all supported), with ray tracing and DLSS. Playing RTX mods requires a RT capable GPU. Learn more here.

Heroes of Might and Magic IV's compatibility with RTX Remix is:

Status: Not Compatible
RTX Remix Runtime Version: N/A
Conf File: N/A
Captures: 0 captures - add new
Assets: 0 assets - add new
Mods: 0 mods - add new
Hide: This dialog

Post article RSS Related Articles

Heroes 4 Enhancement Mod 1.2 Overview

Jun 15 2023 Heroes 4 Enhancement Mod 1 comment

Heroes IV Enhancement Mod update 1.2 overview

Download Heroes IV Enhancement Mod v1.2

Mod manager

Mod manager introduced! You can run it with "H4MS_Manager.exe" and choose what modifications should be applied on your game.

H4EM 1.2 comes with some plugins included:

TurnOrderMod. Hold Shift or toggle Caps Lock to see order of turns in combat.
H4EM FixPack. It includes only bugfixes and minor changes, if you want to play original Heroes 4 but improved you should, no, you must use this!
H4EMAI. Improves AI and gives it some bonuses. It uses configurable "difficulty profile" system so you always can correct AI if you think it's too strong or too weak.
EnhancedAdvObjectPack. It includes new adventure objects added in EM 1.2 as well as objects from Equilibris 3.55 and H4ObjectPack. Turning this plugin on will make your game compatible with most maps made for Equilibris even if you are playing original version of the game!

Advanced Classes

Lots of advanced classes got buffs and reworks to make them unique and strong. Some of them can change the way you play drastically!

New buildings

Phylactery Forge (Death town): Grants visiting heroes Immortality.

Requires: Armory.

Cost: 6000 gold, 10 ore, 10 sulfur.

Cave Lair (Chaos town): Allows to recruit Trolls, Evil Eyes and Troglodytes for free (works like weaker creature portal but creatures cost 0 gold). Replaces Thieves Gauntlet building.

Requires: Den of Thieves or Orc Towers.

Cost: gold 4000, ore 8, crystal 2.

Order Library (Order town): Adds 1 extra order spell on every level of magic guild.

Requires: Magic Guild Level 1.

Cost: gold 2500, wood 2, ore 2, gems 4.

Adventurer's Guild (Nature town): Allows to hire Order and Death heroes in the tavern.

Requires Tavern.

Cost: gold 1000, wood 15.

War Institute (Might town): University with Tactics, Combat, Scouting and Nobility skills.

Requires: Fort.

Cost: gold 4500, wood 5, ore 5, crystal 1, sulfur 1, mercury 1, gems 1.

Town Conversion

Heroes with Grandmaster Nobility now can convert towns to their faction.

More info about town conversion here: Moddb.com

New abilities for creatures

Positive Morale (Minotaurs): This creature's morale can't get lower than +2. It is also immune to Sorrow and Despair spells.

Corruption (Venom Spawns): This creature's attack reduces target HP by 25% and applied healing or resurrecting effects by 75%.

Tactical retreat (Nomads): This creature can retreat from battlefield together with your heroes or on their own.

Gate Destroyer (Behemoths): This creature deals full damage to the castle gates.

Terrain walk (Dragon Golems): Creature ignores terrain penalties in combat (including quicksand).

Strikes and shoots twice (Gargantuans).

Invulnerable (Zombies): Creature resurrects loses at the start of its turn (power of resurrection = 10% of current stack HP).

Changed adventure map movement formula

Creatures with low movement were useless not only in combat, but also on adventure map because they slow down your army. Fast creatures on the contrary make your army significantly faster, so after playing Heroes 4 for a while you start ignoring creatures like trolls, earth elementals etc.

Enhancement Mod changes adventure movement formula to reduce difference between slow and fast creatures: maximum movement limit remains the same of 30, but minimum increased from 12 up to 20!