Posts from General discussion about Heroes of Might and Magic II. Auto-translated

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!

My modest review of the second part of Heroes, purely for nostalgic purposes
P.S. Update 03/18/2021: I re-uploaded the review with new voiceover and re-edited video in several places: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-y1VqJNLmY

I played it after 3, 4, and 5, but it didn't really appeal to me – the downsides include the lack of a wait time, a flying turn covering the entire battlefield, a constant shortage of gold, a shortage of one army slot, and the inability to transfer heroes between campaigns (which makes the later missions excessively difficult). Maybe if there were interesting maps made for it, it would be more fun. As a result, the heroes become too expensive; a hero costs 2500, which is much more than 2500 gold in 3, 4, or 5. There's not much space for artifacts, but it's good that you can get rid of negative artifacts like taxes (-250 gold per day) by buying and firing the hero. Otherwise, there's nowhere to put the useless artifacts.

But overall, it's not a bad game; I liked it more than I disliked it, even though I initially played games that were better in every way. I might even play it once a year).

I played it after 3, 4, and 5, but I didn't really enjoy it - the downsides include the lack of wait time, the flying turn covering the entire battlefield, the constant shortage of gold, the shortage of one army slot, and the inability to transfer heroes between campaigns (which makes the last missions absurdly difficult).

This isn't a downside, it's a plus. Wait time is just cheating. And Heroes 2 is a game for men, not for those who like easy games, like in Heroes 3.
Anyway, here https://handbookhmm.ru/forum/, fans of Heroes 2 still communicate; the forum is active.

Come on now.

And the fact that if you have higher speed, it negatively affects you, is that logical, or does acceleration harm itself?

By the way, I couldn't find where they have the type of formation (in a group or something else). By default, the formation is such that it's easy to burn yourself with a dragon. And it seems to have average speed.

The type of troop deployment is located in the hero's window, in the upper right corner. The speed doesn't decrease, of course, but it's not as powerful as in Heroes 3. It's a matter of skill; you need to get used to the combat system of Heroes 2. When I first started, I couldn't complete the scenario. I thought, "What?" After a few games, I got the hang of it. I also have enough money for everything (collecting from the map, capturing cities, and mines). Sometimes, I even accumulate tens of thousands.