Heroes of Annihilated Empires HOAE Unofficial Patch v.1.0

Description
HOAE Unofficial Patch is a mod for Heroes of Annihilated Empires, created by Magitek.
The author describes this mod as:
I discovered this game nearly a decade after its release and I was very surprised at just how good the game is. Another surprise was finding out just how unknown the game is. The original 2006 version release was infested with Starforce and the game was released with a real lack of multiplayer maps, but other than that there's a ton of content as an RTS. Unfortunately the developers dropped it very quickly which probably explains the whole situation.
Here's an update fixing what should have been fixed a long time ago. Most of this patch is really just very basic fixes that could have done on a sunday afternoon by the developers. For the unit balance side of things, I didn't change many units unless they were in a severe state as most of the unit balance isn't too bad, at least against the AI. For spell balance, I got a little more creative and tried to make the majority of spells worth using while remaining balanced. There were some seriously worthless spells, some broken ones, spells that didn't level up at all, and some that had no equal. I also tried to reduce cooldowns to reasonable levels where possible. For item balance I mostly focused on eliminating the negative bias on items, there were simply too many items which were more damaging to your character than helpful, now hopefully you can choose from a variety of items without being penalized heavily.
Some of the changes do not affect the campaign, specifically the unit changes. The campaign has its own balancing and I did not think it wise to upset it, other than making the first mission slightly easier. Items, spells and hero skills are all enabled on the campaign however.

All players in multiplayer require the same version.

Installation:
1. Locate your Heroes install and ensure it is version 1.1 (I recommend the pre-patched GOG version, but the steam version should work also)
2. Install the patch to your Heroes directory.
3. Run the game, if installed successfully, you should have "Unofficial" in the bottom right of the main menu.

To uninstall the patch, just delete patch02.gs1 from the Data directory in your Heroes folder.