Heroes of Might and Magic II: Gold
released on Dec 31, 1998
Lord Ironfist is dead and the Kingdom is plunged into a vicious civil war by his feuding sons. At stake is the ultimate prize: control of the land and succession of the royal throne. Will you support the villainous usurper and lead the armies of evil or be loyal to the righteous prince and deliver the people from tyranny. Chose your allegiance and take what is rightfully Yours!
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I had a lot of fun trying out this style of gameplay. HOMM 2 offers an interesting concept of turn based gameplay centered around grabbing resources around the map, while upgrading your heroes cities, powers and raise huge armies to assault your opponents with.
The combat is interesting and challenging enough because you have to take in account every numbers laid out (damage, hitpoints per units, unit sizes, speed etc.). It's a more intricate style of chess (or checkers even) that requires you to think ahead against your opponent's different army setups.
The main campaign is really good in the challenges it brings, without necessarily over stretching the length of gameplay. Although I will warn you, the AI is both very smart and dumb. You WILL need to think carefully in your decision making.
As for the expansions, I can't really say much as I haven't tried them, but I've read that they are hit or miss. I personally had enough with the main campaign alone, so I might just skip them altogether and go straight for HOMM3 instead.
You can grab a copy on GOG for relatively cheap prices (and often goes on sale for less than 5$):
https://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_2_gold_edition
The combat is interesting and challenging enough because you have to take in account every numbers laid out (damage, hitpoints per units, unit sizes, speed etc.). It's a more intricate style of chess (or checkers even) that requires you to think ahead against your opponent's different army setups.
The main campaign is really good in the challenges it brings, without necessarily over stretching the length of gameplay. Although I will warn you, the AI is both very smart and dumb. You WILL need to think carefully in your decision making.
As for the expansions, I can't really say much as I haven't tried them, but I've read that they are hit or miss. I personally had enough with the main campaign alone, so I might just skip them altogether and go straight for HOMM3 instead.
You can grab a copy on GOG for relatively cheap prices (and often goes on sale for less than 5$):
https://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_2_gold_edition
Un juego muy adictivo y divertido.
Su comunidad la sustenta el online que está plagado de gente de Europa del este. Igualito que el War Thunder y el Counter
Finished the main campaign and three expansion campaigns. The main campaign is really good, it improves pretty much everything on the first game, all the maps are fun and don't overextend themselves too much. Story is nothing to write about, but it works and gives you interesting opportunities, like betraying the side you have chosen earlier.
The expansion content is hit or miss, the maps feel a lot longer(and tedious) and way more chaotic, password mechanics are very buggy and you may get unlucky and have the enemy AI break the whole map by getting teleport at the start of the game, bypassing all doors. I was going to play all of the expansion campaigns but honestly it became too time consuming and tedious, but I admit there are interesting ideas thrown in there and some really (good) challenging maps. I may return and do the final one later.
The expansion content is hit or miss, the maps feel a lot longer(and tedious) and way more chaotic, password mechanics are very buggy and you may get unlucky and have the enemy AI break the whole map by getting teleport at the start of the game, bypassing all doors. I was going to play all of the expansion campaigns but honestly it became too time consuming and tedious, but I admit there are interesting ideas thrown in there and some really (good) challenging maps. I may return and do the final one later.
Played the fHeroes2 version. Nostalgia overload.