Hi all,

Haven't been playing this game for a while.

Heard that there is a fan created patch called New Horizon.

So for those of you who have tried this patch, is it buggy?
Does it work with campaign or only with single player maps only?

I remember seeing somewhere that the patch doesn't work with campaign.

NH isn't very buggy code-wise, because it is mostly content mod, and you can fix it with notepad if needed. There are possible bugs with translation and unexpected skill interactions. (For example, all creatures with Hydra's Attack all ability regularly caused crashes and got this skill changed to round attack)
Current situation with NH as far as I know:
Campaign killer bug appears in 1/3 of campaigns..
In the beta-version of NH on the Russian language bug with campaign is fixed, but this version isn't released yet.
Translated version of NH isn't up to date even with current Russian version.
I don't know about state of the translation.

It's pretty cool, well worth playing. Didn't notice any severe bugs in the latest version. Just minor translation errors. Go for it.
It is way more "sandboxy", so I am not sure I would want to play a campagin with it.

Hey jamotide and everyone,

I am actually trying the New Horizon patch now.

And I am playing the campaign. Just started on my first shard.

I realize that for the New Horizon campaign, all the level 1 units are already unlocked in the very first shard.
If I am not wrong, some of the contracts and building are also unlocked in the beginning.

I remembered when I played the original version, I still have to conquer several shards in order to unlock
all the level 1 units. Did I remember wrongly?

Because it was at a least a few months ago when I last played the original campaign.

Wrongly. Currently game should give all T1 units on second shard. You would need to unlock magic schools, IIRC.
Game locks most of the buildings on tutorial shard.

In older versions (1.3-1.4) you needed to get T1 units too, but amount of initial buildings was increased in 1.5