hercufles: too bad that it crashes sometimes but 3 is a good game if i dont forget to save sometimes.
I don't think I've ever had it crash, in literally hundreds of hours of play. I have had it freeze two or three times when I had been keeping my computer going for days at a time and putting it to sleep at night with 25 browser windows open instead of just closing everything and turning it off for realz. I figure that's asking for so much trouble with memory leaks and overlapping updates that I pretty much deserved what I get.
At any rate, HOMM series games can take a long time to get through, and I hate being hit with a plague week, so tend to save a whole lot anyway.