Oh man, what a nostalgia trip. I spent a lot of nights as a teenager playing Savage, S2 and then HoN. Thanks for the link. I have a fond memory of Marc kicking me off a pub S2 game because I slow debuffed him as the commander.
One time I walked into James Fielding’s office, our lead designer. He had a crumpled keyboard on his desk that he used as a pencil holder. I asked him what the hell, and he said it was a trophy from an inhouse game when Marc smashed his keyboard after losing.
He was an interesting fellow. He tried to teach me the value of self awareness, a lesson I was too young to internalize. I see now it was because he spent many years trying to break his raging habit.
The full source tree is at https://github.com/shawwn/hon by the way. There’s a lot of server side components and installer misc that were eluded from NoH, but you might like browsing.