General discussion about Heroes of Might and Magic II.

My first computer game and my favorite part of the Heroes series. So many memories that it's hard to gather my thoughts, but I'll start in order. First, my friend and I got a buggy version, where if you press the "skip turn" button, it crashes to the desktop. And we started coming up with combinations – to gather the first army and kill the nomads at the bottom. And a legend arose: their grandfathers didn't defeat the Mongols, their fathers didn't defeat the Mongols, but they defeated the Mongols!!! Then a kind person brought us a normal disk, and we started playing with the ability to skip turns. But I took the disk and went home to play the Campaigns. I started with Roland, but somehow his ideas didn't impress me, and I switched to Archibald on the transition mission). As a result, I pushed Roland back on a couple more maps and eventually locked him in a cage. I also completed the other Campaigns, but I don't remember the details of most of them very well. After completing the Campaigns, my friends and I started gathering at home and playing 2 vs. 2 against the AI. Among the individual maps, "Pirate Utopia" was a masterpiece; we often played it together, all four of us. It's a huge map, and there's a player you can't play as, and he starts with a hero named Guardiant and 5 dragons, each with 25 units. And all the players start from different locations; I had one hero starting on a small island. At the same time, there were no alliances, so in addition to a tough AI, the players also messed with each other and ruined each other's expeditions. And the goal was to take a very distant Castle, which was extremely difficult to reach. Usually, one playthrough of such a map to the end took 5 days, with 5-6 hours of gameplay each day. We just saved and continued the next day. In general, the game is simply a masterpiece in every way!