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Heroes of Might and Magic seriesArmageddon's Blade: Where is it?!(14 posts)solved(14 posts)solved
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Posted February 17, 2016
I am playing through Heroes III Armageddon's Blade for the first time and I made it all the way to the final scenario, Oblivion's Edge, where the objective is to take Armageddon's Blade to the Enemy capitol, Kreelah. Except none of my heroes have the sword in their inventory. I got Gelu to the capitol but I can't win without the sword. I searched the internet, but I can't find this glitch anywhere. Is this a known problem or am I missing something somewhere? Can I fix this or should I just say I won and watch the ending on Youtube?
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Posted February 17, 2016
Looks like you have to craft it.

[url=http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Armageddon's_Blade_(artifact]http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Armageddon's_Blade_(artifact[/url])
Posted February 17, 2016
Fixed link:
http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Armageddon's_Blade_%28artifact%29
Posted February 17, 2016
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IcyNapalm: I am playing through Heroes III Armageddon's Blade for the first time and I made it all the way to the final scenario, Oblivion's Edge, where the objective is to take Armageddon's Blade to the Enemy capitol, Kreelah. Except none of my heroes have the sword in their inventory. I got Gelu to the capitol but I can't win without the sword. I searched the internet, but I can't find this glitch anywhere. Is this a known problem or am I missing something somewhere? Can I fix this or should I just say I won and watch the ending on Youtube?
No, you don't have to craft/combine it in this level, it was already done previously.


I just loaded my game and checked. In level 7 (the one before the last one) your objective was to kill the Devil Xeron or something, and he was carrying the artifact Armageddon's Blade, which after defeating him you take over.

I just did some testing, if you defeat Xeron with one of the three heroes, Armageddon's Blade appears in their inventory in the last level. If you defeated him by another hero, then it appears in Queen Catherine's inventory.

Could you go through the inventorry again? Remember you can press the arrows in the backpack items to scroll through them and access more items. Maybe it's just hidden there somewhere? With all the artifacts carried over it can be very cluttered.
Posted February 17, 2016
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IcyNapalm: I am playing through Heroes III Armageddon's Blade for the first time and I made it all the way to the final scenario, Oblivion's Edge, where the objective is to take Armageddon's Blade to the Enemy capitol, Kreelah. Except none of my heroes have the sword in their inventory. I got Gelu to the capitol but I can't win without the sword. I searched the internet, but I can't find this glitch anywhere. Is this a known problem or am I missing something somewhere? Can I fix this or should I just say I won and watch the ending on Youtube?
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ZFR: No, you don't have to craft/combine it in this level, it was already done previously.

I just loaded my game and checked. In level 7 (the one before the last one) your objective was to kill the Devil Xeron or something, and he was carrying the artifact Armageddon's Blade, which after defeating him you take over.

I just did some testing, if you defeat Xeron with one of the three heroes, Armageddon's Blade appears in their inventory in the last level. If you defeated him by another hero, then it appears in Queen Catherine's inventory.

Could you go through the inventorry again? Remember you can press the arrows in the backpack items to scroll through them and access more items. Maybe it's just hidden there somewhere? With all the artifacts carried over it can be very cluttered.
I searched through everyone's inventory, but still nothing. Is it possible Xeron gave the blade to a secondary hero that I didn't defeat? Is there a way to replay a previous scenario?
Posted February 17, 2016
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IcyNapalm: I searched through everyone's inventory, but still nothing. Is it possible Xeron gave the blade to a secondary hero that I didn't defeat? Is there a way to replay a previous scenario?
I did some testing. If you don't defeat Xeron, but use a cheatcode to finish level 7, then you *don't* have the blade in level 8, essentially making it unfinishable (again, unless you cheat).

What could have happened, is that in Level 7 you didn't defeat Xeron, but instead took all his cities, and then after 7 days he got banished from the land with the blade. OR maybe he fleed the fight, thus you didn't take the blade. Do you remember if either of those was the case?
Or it is possible that he gave it to another hero... I don't know.

If you want, you can attach your save game here (just change extension to png) and I could use an editor to cheat the blade in.

That said, you missed all the fun in not using the blade on the last level. It's a great artifact.

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I don't know if there is a way to replay level 7. Do you keep previous saves. There is a save you make at the end of each level, so you should have one you made after finishing level 6. Unless you overwrite them?
Post edited February 17, 2016 by ZFR
Posted February 17, 2016
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IcyNapalm: I searched through everyone's inventory, but still nothing. Is it possible Xeron gave the blade to a secondary hero that I didn't defeat? Is there a way to replay a previous scenario?
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ZFR: I did some testing. If you don't defeat Xeron, but use a cheatcode to finish level 7, then you *don't* have the blade in level 8, essentially making it unfinishable (again, unless you cheat).

What could have happened, is that in Level 7 you didn't defeat Xeron, but instead took all his cities, and then after 7 days he got banished from the land with the blade. OR maybe he fleed the fight, thus you didn't take the blade. Do you remember if either of those was the case?
Or it is possible that he gave it to another hero... I don't know.

If you want, you can attach your save game here (just change extension to png) and I could use an editor to cheat the blade in.

That said, you missed all the fun in not using the blade on the last level. It's a great artifact.

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I don't know if there is a way to replay level 7. Do you keep previous saves. There is a save you make at the end of each level, so you should have one you made after finishing level 6. Unless you overwrite them?
I definitely remember defeating him outside his final castle. And he didn't use the Armageddon spell against me. Unfortunately, I saved over my previous saves. How do I attach my save to the post? I get an error message when I try to change the extension from cgm to png. I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm not computer savvy at all.
Posted February 17, 2016
What error do you get, is extension changing blocked by a newer version of Windows?

If you still can't I've PMed you my email. You can send me the save there.
Posted February 18, 2016
It just says "File not found. Check the file name and try again." I'm getting the same message when I try to email it. It lets me attach it to the email if I leave the extension alone. Is it necessary to change it on the email or just for forum posts?
Posted February 18, 2016
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IcyNapalm: It just says "File not found. Check the file name and try again." I'm getting the same message when I try to email it. It lets me attach it to the email if I leave the extension alone. Is it necessary to change it on the email or just for forum posts?
No. email it with its original extension. Changing the extension was necessary only for the forums.
Posted February 18, 2016
Okay, it's sent!
Posted February 18, 2016
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IcyNapalm: Okay, it's sent!
Alright: good news/bad news time.

The bad news: I'm sorry but I can't edit the blade into your file. I tried for almost hour and I officially give up. Unlike the previous edition, the saves in HoMM3 Complete are zipped and it appears encrypted, so I can't edit them. Tried all possible ways. After that I tried loading the game and editing the memory, using the guide here:
http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=18817
but it didn't work. Not sure if it isn't outdated but I just couldn't find those addresses. And I searched for all various possiblities (artifacts, units, primary stats, XP).

Sorry about this :(

Now the good news:
_You DON'T need Armageddon's Blade to finish the game. If you capture all enemy cities and kill all heroes, you will win the level.

As an alternative I could send you my saved file after finishing level 7, so you can start level 8 with the blade. Unfortunately this is not my original gameplay but one I did for testing, so I used cheat codes and you'll get a rank of Cheater. I suggest you use the other method (capture all enemy cities and heroes) instead.
But, you could use my saved game just to try out the artifact ;) As I said it's pretty cool.

Also, whatever you do, when you finish the campaign, you have to immediately start a new one and NOT go to the Main Menu and New Game. Otherwise, the final campaign will not be unlocked.
Basically, you finish the camapign you'll be to the campign selection screen with a check mark on the ones finished. You start a new one, save and then only can you close the game.

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As a final resort, if beating the level becomes too tough, you could use cheat codes.
Post edited February 18, 2016 by ZFR
Posted February 18, 2016
Thanks so much! I appreciate all your effort! I think I will beat it normally and then play your save with the blade to see what it's like.
Posted February 18, 2016
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IcyNapalm: Thanks so much! I appreciate all your effort! I think I will beat it normally and then play your save with the blade to see what it's like.
Cool. Good luck.

It was fun tinkering with the memory. First time I've done it, since I usually just try and hex-edit game saves instead, so I learnt something new at least.

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I've sent you my save file. Let me know if you don't receive it.
Post edited February 18, 2016 by ZFR
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