The AI will also do a good job of collecting killer stacks and then moving into your territory to administer a beating on you. The only questionable trait it now has is that it seems to consider the control of mines to be of the utmost importance, even when both sides have more resources than they could possibly use for that map in storage. But on the whole the AI is a definite improvement and puts up a pretty decent fight. First there are a lot more unit types, heroes and artifacts to play with. In addition, the town types have been completely changed so that units that were once associated with one town are with another and each town now has a much more distinct look.
Armies can have more unit types now, and the tactical map is substantially larger.
In some, your heroes carry over their skills from scenario to scenario, a nice feature. Playing with Actual Humans For those that are interested in playing against other people, rather than just the AI, Heroes of Might and Magic III makes it possible. Free multiplayer matchmaking is available on both HEAT.NET and Mplayer. Play over the Internet was solid, the minimum amount of information that needs to be passed makes the game extraordinarily latency tolerant, and you can play games with people from all over the world pretty easily. But, it isn't clear that's all that important.