Good evening everybody.

we are here to share some information regarding the current vote of sylvan play-style in Might & Magic Heroes VII and also some additional information.

Sylvan has three play-styles from which you can vote. Voting for certain play-style will enchance the characteristics of the option.
As an example:
Treant from The Strength of the Forest will have more defense than power and average initiative.
Treant from Earth’s Perfect Balance will have average defense, lower power with average initiative, but more abilities.
Treant from Sylanna's Fury will have highest defense and power, normal mobility and higher initiative, but least abilities.

The reason we have decided to give you these different options is so you can have a say in what the faction should be like.
You can see with quick look at units and line-ups name as to what type of option and properties it represents.

The Strength of the Forest is based in nature growing more slowly as nature takes its time, but it's powerful line-up. It is the heaviest line-up at the cost of mobility.

Earth’s Perfect Balance is more classical approach giving different kinds of units and making battles more dependent on unit abilities and mobility rather than just damage.

Sylanna's Fury is our new take on sylvan for more aggressive approach. It relies on taking the battle to the enemy with high initiative and high damage capabilities at the cost of some mobility and special abilities. This is also our option if you wish to have more elf and humanoid-based faction instead of having so many creatures.

The reason many of you have e-mailed critique about line-ups has been mostly about the change of the green-dragon. We understand that many people have nostalgia about dragons flying. Originally we had planned to make the dragon more of a classical unit. However in the end we decided that it would be better if our line-up with balance was walker and flier so we changed the dragon, but we had already made the line-ups and agreed them with Ubisoft so this left the other line-ups with two heavy walkers. We still feel that heavier walkers suit both Strength and Fury options as they can stay back and protect the ranged units while other units are advancing towards the enemy.
We realize that not all of you are not fans of our new courses of Sylvan, but we have gotten so much feedback asking for alternative options in factions and this is why we created different options.

This morning we were reading some of the complaints saying Sylanna's Fury was cheating. After doing some checking this doesn't appear to be true. While there was small spike in new accounts created at same IP-addresses it made very small difference and we cannot delete the votes because we can't tell if the accounts were created from common or public areas.
We apologize on behalf of whole Limbic Entertainment, but we cannot stop this even if they were cheating. If it looks like these same addresses keep creating new accounts all voting for same faction we will take action, but as it stands the effects are minor and accusations cannot be truly proven. We cannot demand each account to have a game as has been suggested because it is technically very hard to do and we don't believe this will actually change the vote.

In official capacity we are limited as to which features we are able to disclose in accordance with Ubisoft as https://mmh7.ubi.com/en/blog is not run by us. It is Ubisoft that adds the news based on our material and this is why some statements do not go fully in accordance with with written facts currently, but rest assured we are working for fix this.
We have been granted permission to publish some info here and you can expect weekly updates straight from us here. In the future hopefully we will be able to provide information directly at the website.

I'm glad to also inform you that you will have chance to vote for Stronghold line-up a month from now. We have had so many inquiries about Behemoth so we have decided to include it in one of our line-ups.
We will also have a water/sea based champion as possible choice and it will be by far the most dominant unit of the game in sea-battles. This unit will be revealed at the line-up vote so hopefully this is something you look forward to.
Thunderbird I'm afraid will not be making it's appearance in this game at least in the original version based on feedback so far.

Look forward in hearing from us next week or once the current vote is over.