I've never been a huge fan of the gnolls from the Fortress in Heroes3. Not a single gnoll hero carried forward to Heroes4 or beyond, as far as I know. But we have four gnolls and four lizardmen in Heroes3 as is. I've been tempted to replace them with humanoids, but I haven't yet done so, and may not get around to it. I am thinking about replacing (again) their portraits, however. I made a quick collage.
The top row is the original portrait images of the four gnoll heroes, Alkin, Drakon, Merist and Rosic, in order. The second row is the ensrick replacement, which I have loaded in the game right now.
The third row our five of my potential alternates. While in general I'd say that I quite like the alternatives, I do also think that they are pretty generic, and there's nothing that causes any of them to either stand out from each other very much, or tie them back to the original hero portrait so that I can quickly recognize them. So, I'm on the fence if I like them or not. Or rather, I know that I like them, but I'm on the fence if I want to adopt them or not. I will probably. I'm finding that as I get further into this game again that I'm more bold and willing to make more drastic changes with the portraits. But for now, I'm won't load these new images, nor identify which of the new ones will be associated with which hero at this point, but I'll continue to think about it...
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And... I forgot all about Tiva! I never played much Fortress, to be fair.
I actually had six images, but the five above were my favorites. I ended up using all five of them, although I hand-drew an eye tattoo like Rosic's on the middle one. I was playing around (not with Fortress) and saw some of the images come up in the tavern, so that was kind of fun, I guess.
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