I found something interesting, just now...
I translated it using Google. I was studying German...
Hello everyone,
My personal H2 patch balance is now available for both versions of Heroes 2. People who never got the expansion pack can now try it.
I finally found all the offsets for the main, non-expansion Heroes 2 executable (v1.3). All the offsets that I knew in GSM 2.1 were easily found in v1.3 with a little searching.
I didn't touch the multipliers for spell power, spell/Mage Guild probabilities, and secondary skills for the simple reason that the corresponding offsets could not be found in the executable file (but will be soon, however). I did find manors, though, but didn't change it.
Necromancer is now less Mercury/Sulfur intensive (and requires much fewer crystals/gems). This was done to balance the 4 rare cost of the common resource across cities. I came to this conclusion after completely building 6 castles from scratch and looking at their resources.
You can download it here:
Heroes 2 Price of Loyalty (v2.1). Should work with Heroes 2 gold as well.
http://pages.infinit.net/plague/H2mod.zip
Heroes 2 Price of Loyalty (v2.1), No CD version
http://pages.infinit.net/plague/h2_modnocd.zip
Original Heroes 2 (Succession Wars), v1.3
http://pages.infinit.net/plague/H2modb.zip