Rocco J Carello wrote:

> --- In mac-homm@y..., "rogue?" <rcarello@n...> wrote:
>> "The 3DO Company and New World Computing
>> Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete
>> Version 4.0.1 Update
>> March 2001
>>
>> Thank you for updating the Heroes of Might and Magic III
>> Complete game. T his update corrects some known issues that
>> should make playing the Heroes III: Complete game even more
>> fun.
>>
>> * Game now correctly runs Spoils of War campaign.
>
> I have kept your message with the url on my machine, but how
> necessary is this patch? At the moment, I'm still stuck on Playing
> With Fire: Burning Of Tatalia, and I can't remember whether I've done
> Spoils of War or not. So far, I haven't experienced any problems at
> all. In fact, Heroes III, even the original Erathia CD, has been one
> of the best behaved games I've ever had.e
 

Well, if you start a new Restoration of Erathia Campaign game and choose
Spoils of War first (that's the fortress/stronghold campaign) the game
will just crash.  There is a workaround for this bug which is to play one
of the other two campaigns (Long Live the Queen or Dungeons and Devils)
and then go on to Spoils of War (since those three can be played in any
order).  So it's not totally necessary.

Thanks for that. I have applied for the patch, but it's a long time since I played the Erathia campaigns and I did play them in the 'correct' order, so that's why I had no problem. I think I must have read something about this at the the astral wizard site:
http://www.astralwizard.com

-- Rob Bannister