History Headscratchers / HeroesOfMightAndMagic

* While it's perfectly understandable from the point of game mechanics and balance, isn't it weird that creatures like Beholders whose ranged attack is shooting FrickinLaserBeams out of their eyes, are affected by availability of Ammo Cart? What could there possibly be in it for them? The same goes for Monks and Wizards (fire balls) and Titans (lightning bolts). It could be explained that said creatures use mana for their attacks but in this case it should be useful for spell-casters as well.

*** Well, ranged attacks that don't involve actual material projectiles are probably fairly exhausting if used repeatedly, and there would be the need for special high-energy food supplements or outright drugs to keep those shooters going. Especially beholders/evil eyes, though liches for example clearly use magic in their normal attacks (including the melee one in V). The closest real life example are laser weapons, which are impractical due to the enormous amounts of energy needed to repeatedly produce a beam that is both powerful and long-lasting enough to cause damage. If, for example, you could manipulate air, dust and heat to emulate DragonBall style ki-blasts, even on a small scale, it would probably come with the unpleasant RequiredSecondaryPowers of a massive stomach, visible to the outside world as am Akebono paunch and the [[BigEater matching appetite]] to fill it, at least after using up all that energy.

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* What's wrong with the elven Blade/War Dancers from [=HoMM=] 5? They look male, there is no mistake, with them being topless, but their voice patterns are definitely female! Not even boyidh high-pitch but exactly female! And you can't write it off as an "elven thing", because Hunters and Druids all have quite normal male voices. So, what's the deal? I have some vague speculations about the terrible ordeals of training in Battle Dance Arenas (all those huge swords they are swinging...) or even about some pagan ritual aimed at sublimating warrior's inner energy and channeling it into combat skills and, simultaneously, imbuding him with bitter hate for the enemies of the forests (well, for the whole world, more precisely, but enemies are legit to hack) but they are to horrendous for me to usher. Any ideas?

* The Orkish faction in ''Tribes of the East'' has apparently recently freed itself from a long period of slavery, and they're constantly yammering about freedom and how nobody will ensave them again. And then I enter their town and I check their special building and what do I see? A slave market. Where you can sell your own troops. What. The. Fuck.

** Though admittedly, this is probably a holdover from the Freelancer's guild of HoMM 3.

* What's wrong with the elven Blade/War Dancers from HoMM 5? They look male, there is no mistake, with them being topless, but their voice patterns are definitely female! Not even boyidh high-pitch but exactly female! And you can't write it off as an "elven thing", because Hunters and Druids all have quite normal male voices. So, what's the deal? I have some vague speculations about the terrible ordeals of training in Battle Dance Arenas (all those huge swords they are swinging...) or even about some pagan ritual aimed at sublimating warrior's inner energy and channeling it into combat skills and, simultaneously, imbuding him with bitter hate for the enemies of the forests (well, for the whole world, more precisely, but enemies are legit to hack) but they are to horrendous for me to usher. Any ideas?

** [AWizardDidIt Magic], guys. Perhaps being hit help the victim to remember who he is, what's going on, and feel what to do to break the spell (maybe simply sheer strength of will).

** Interesting question (and the short answer is that the writers wanted a DiabolusExMachina), but I think it all boils down to how much healing magic can or cannot heal. It's not going to fix a scratch or broken nail or something equally minor, it's designed for getting injured soldiers and heroes back into battle -- and the injury, while crippling, doesn't prevent Emilia from casting spells. Besides, the text makes it clear that the best healers in the kingdom worked on her, and saving her life was already considered a miraculous enough achievement -- considering she was struck in the stomach by a magical sword designed to ''kill gods''. And if you accept ''Legends of the Ancients'' as canon, she does eventually get better.

* The Orkish faction in ''Tribes of the East'' has apparently recently freed itself from a long period of slavery, and they're constantly yammering about freedom and how nobody will ensave them again. And then I enter their town and I check their special building and what do I see? A slave market. Where you can sell your own troops. What. The. Fuck.

* The Orkish faction in ''Tribes of the East'' has recently freed itself from a long perios of slavery, and they're constantly yammering about freedom and how nobody will ensave them again. And then I enter their town and I check their special building and what do I see? A slave market. Where you can sell your own troops. What. The. Fuck.

* At the end of The Price of Peace campaign in Heroes IV, when Emilia Nighthaven is paralyzed, why can't the healers just heal her? They have healing spells, regeneration spells, even resurrection spells! And yet the healers say that she will never walk again. Heck, with the very common Monk skill build, she could even cast every single healing spell herself.