Heroes 2 gameplay - Final battle of Archibald's campaign

King Roland defeated ! (After "cowardly fleeing from battle", though :) ) I wasted lot of units, but he's a tough guy :)
Heroes 2 still rules in 2008 (almost 2009) ! :)

[@Threshk]

Why is this video suddenly recommended to me after 13 years??? :/

[@nobbynobbs8182]

I dunno. Same here but this game (and homm3) had a certain kind of magic

[@SeinSchatten]

2:07 I never noticed before how the heroes do a facepalm when one of their armies die

[@l0vr036]

My mum loves this game.

[@anomiemnemonical578]

I just watched video. It was good video. Thank you for video.

[@vladimirbondzic5850]

I like the artstyle

[@jaceklutrzykowski]

Heroes 2 cool games ❗🆒💻🖥️🕹️🎮👍👍👍👍

[@TheCursedCrusader]

Where you?

[@kylemaste]

ok i got, u just cant play this game

[@avajpl]

That one skeleton you got after battle was roland :)

[@magnusm4]

avajpl but he was alive in the cutscene

[@BibleIllustrated]

I think that is the plotline with lich king Gryphonheart in Heroes III :D

[@Saurucow]

Your spelluse is poor. Useing dmg spells that does little dmg, rather then ressurect and dmg buff spells.

[@bobzeepl]

I uploaded it to share the nostalgy, not the show off my skills. And it's the last battle, so who cares how many units I lose :)

[@Saurucow]

Rob Z. Oh well, fair enough.

[@MiesterZ]

Saurucow on this game, it depends on the players power (damage on spells/duration on spells) ,knowledge (spell point total)

[@yashr3605]

+Rob Z. True true... But still, that's some poor skill :-P And also what happened to the music???

[@guillermoalonso1275]

How can you say that? He won the final battle by just using a single spell. 6:38 Kappa

[@Giorgakis96]

My first videogame.Oh the memories

[@igiii1]

I absolutely loved the video but when you kept using the lightning instead of resurrecting someone I was virtually crying!

[@Nihiliste-]

Holly shit you are bad at Heroes.

[@andreimiga8101]

true!

[@petrorsag2724]

good work and amazing game, I remember playing it with my dad when I was a child, good old days :-)

[@kikilala9103]

omg.. I still remember playing this like it was yestrday :')

[@gmilmi8822]

Thank you for polish text :)

[@nalim15]

This annotation at start warmed my heart a bit.

[@80bccaveman87]

WHERE IS NEW WORLD COMPUTING OR 3DO ? PLEASE BRING THEM BACK !

[@wintake8597]

+80BCCAVEMAN They died because the fans hated what they did in Heroes IV

[@Weigazod]

+WinTake The only thing i hate about 4 is that i can't mod it.

[@wintake8597]

Weigazod agree

[@Weigazod]

WinTake Good music, good story. It's what a fantasy game would feel like.

[@Zysku23456]

+WinTake Nope, Heroes IV sold pretty well. NWC had problems before H4, you can see that they wanted money quick just to dont get bancrupt (Heroes chronicles, which are just new campaigns, nice campaigns, but still), and Might&Magic IX which costed really great amount of money sold poorly, well mostly because it's compared to Might&Magic VI-VIII really bad game.

[@bkpalos]

who else tried to click "okay" after the battle was over???

[@Asghfvz]

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 ! What a nostalgy :) I used to play it when I was five, now I am 22 and waiting for the 7th part :)

[@DerekBoldiene360]

This game is amazing I play it all the time I also played it all the time when I was a kid.

[@anna.le.s]

Been playing for only a few months and I love HOMM2 :) my favourite secondary skills are Diplomacy, Wisdom, Logistics, Pathfinding (assumingly I always play rough terrain), Leadership, Luck, Archery, and Ballistics. For me, Scouting is the worst skill and I will avoid it for as long as I can. My best troops are Dragons, Titans, Magi, Halflings, and Druids. Worst are the slow melees, they are so pathetic it’s sad to see them trying to kill anything :)) Best spell is undoubtedly Town Portals but I think you can never get it yourself; it’s given by the mapmaker.

[@rockandwolf]

I was VERY dissapointed that 16 cyclopses can not kill a sinlge titan and die instantly....:P

[@admiral_mutch9311]

mark hoogerwaard yeah Cyclopes are useless. The barbarian is the strongest in early game but the weakest at end game in my opinion.

[@PashaDefragzor]

I like H2 more then H3 )

[@mugzyo.c9571]

Than* mate, me too mate.

[@DeadliestWarriorZZ]

Oh the good memories from this!!

[@foee]

such a great game. Brings back memories :)

[@stianwammer6068]

Heroes 2 still rules in 2018!

[@mugzyo.c9571]

Agreed, most people like 3 however i'm with ya bud 2 ftw.

[@jamesrobertarchbald6357]

someone tell me the most archibald part of this plz

[@Ohsky4]

This series of games seems to be very popular in eastern Europe countries and Russia. Especially Poland. I see it also in my videos´s statistics. Very bad use of your available spells in this first battle...

[@Gamefanaticzz]

ahh heroes 2 and heroes 3 are awesome. The gameplay was awesome, the pictures, despite being cartoonish just fitted the best, and the music of Heroes 2 was mesmorising.

[@JackyHHD]

OMFG i remeber this

[@PrzezWielkieM]

liked, greetings form Poland :)

[@bkpalos]

damn i miss this game!!!!

[@SYSTEMMU]

Szkoda że nie masz tego więcej np całej Kampanii. Pozdrowienia z Polski :)

[@harrybenson6731]

epic battle

[@pl03112000]

this game awesome getting 5 from amazon actually did it today amazing game though

[@smenkinsa]

awesome

[@Paul17np]

When i played the campaign mode, my last map wasn't this. It was another. Can you explain me that please. I'have never seen this map. ( sorry for my english i speak spanish ) From Peru

[@yashr3605]

+PPatrick Nuñez In the second game, you have 2 campaigns. Good or Evil. If you choose good (humans, fairies or wizards), you fight evil (necromancers, barbarians and warlocks) and vice-versa if you pick evil, you fight the good. Each route had different maps including the final map. Technically you want to play and beat both campaigns and they're not too long either.

[@MajorKreissack88]

Is it possible to play homm2 online against a friend? I know DOSBox has some kind of old protocol emulation but haven't tried it. I keep trying to convince him to play HOMM3 but he refuses to let go of HOMM2 :)

[@yodamovies3029]

Cos o polsce bylo na poczatku nie?

[@dominik7014]

Still playing in 2018

[@pavelgl5926]

Wow, it was pretty something :) Even with twice luck on crusaders attacker managed to lose.

[@mekagolaputa]

My faworite part of heroes ;)

[@soccerlegand1204]

i love this game i thought i was the only one that played it

[@thegernik]

Haha dziekuje :)

[@sirroger11]

i remember playing this very long ago with my brothers 1 always kept going for black dragons he said that they were the best in the game

[@PanSzrama]

4:36 i loooooove the fight afterwards its so exciting to actually think all can happen and to last slash dont be sure who wins. although the gamer chose really bad strategy, when saw his spellbook to say the least ;) anyway fine movie cheers from Poland ;)

[@MrFreebrowsing]

Still rules in 2015

[@shadowdancerRFW]

You could have very easily won the first fight. What possessed you to use low dmg spells in a battle with high army numbers ? Bless, Steel Skin and a few other spells deal A LOT of dmg, or absorb it.

[@Werkitten]

Вторая часть намного лучше третьей и всех последующих. Именно потому что там нет чрезмерно огромных армий и слишком мощных заклинаний.

[@roxterat]

mind you not to forget about Slovakia..? :) Thanks for the video! ;)

[@dresiarz154]

nice :D

[@jhscooby]

"Third of Polish viewers are below 18 years old" I FUCKING LOVE YOU GOG

[@vikingablod1016]

why do all the heroes have same units, is it so hard to come up with something new?

[@dominikgrzywa5342]

Such a classic game...

[@krull007]

the best game i’ve ever played

[@bobzeepl]

well, Fraps for example. But this one was recorded directly by DosBox (as far as I remember)

[@wojtusjeremiasz7955]

actually hom&m and m&m used to be very popular in poland back in the day, now prob younger brothers/sisters enjoy this game differently than we used to. and also GOG is the most amazing side on internets, which makes me cry whenever i see old tittle on sale. ;__;

[@jeffkuzzen]

Oh the memories

[@ppalavichkoo]

Wow im a huge fan of heroes 3 but never played 2. Looks quite different

[@minkusink6]

+Иво Георгиев the battle actions are so much faster than heroes 3, heroes 3 gives you enough time to enjoy the music ;)

[@omegastar19]

Not true, the speed of the animations are adjustable just like they are in Heroes 3. This guy simply set them to highest. Also the music is midi (meaning the guy is not using a sound-card for the game), the actual music of Heroes 2 is quite good (though heroes 3 has better music, agreed).

[@kingstannis1158]

Where are the diplomacy heroes? Or did you just not count them?

[@vonFisch]

This game is my youth!

[@TeBeYT]

Hmmmm.... I am watching this game first time.... I see this game first time! And for me: this game is nice, but I wouldn't play it. I just love Heroes III, and 3rd game will be my favourite one from HoMM series. Nice m8, nice.

[@TovChapaev]

Oh, the humanity!

[@Cleric775]

The instruments played are different on this one. Different "sound fonts".

[@xxlCortez]

The teams were sooo unbalanced in Heroes 2.

[@Jarppispecial]

hehe ite uppasin just roland campaignin vikan battlen :D ilmestyykö sulla heti toi high quality näppäin ku oot upannu? mul meni tos yhes videos tunti et tuli :\

[@zedpapa]

the main menu is exactly like Age of Empires 2 menu :O

[@SilenceManifests]

u go gurl!

[@yashr3605]

+the reSident waSkian You're the dude from Eye of the Beholder, right? Is that really you??

[@SilenceManifests]

What is Eye of the Beholder?

[@yashr3605]

Haha ok I must've mistaken your avatar for an Eye of the Beholder char. It's a fabulously difficult 90s "3D" dungeon RPG. But now I realise your avatar is a dude from HoMM III, cool too!

[@ForGlory]

Hey, man, Poles aren't the only ones watching!

[@BGSlopy]

@YinsShadow ITs the way the game is balanced . Humans are for fast rush early game, while let say wizards are for late game even the manual states that . Its not a balance flaw its just a design thing .If you are playng whit a human (castle) you need to rush your paladins and take some other strong towns for late game .As for the flying units - it kinds of make sence if they fly they are the fastes and most manuverable on the battlefield .

[@squupa1207]

proc pl?

[@YinsShadow]

And when trying to match them up perfectly in battle, no realistic case goes "okay your 1st tier vs. mine, that's the only way to have this battle." If you think the knights are balanced, you're immensely skewed in your perception they have no advantage besides the extra one person per tier each week the barbarians also get. This is such a miniscule benefit that cannot compensate for a lack of stacks, and any other skill like conserving troops or rushing, is applied to other classes as well.

[@RabidWeasel]

The hero with the Dragons probably had high defense

[@1oglop1]

I'd like to see how to play last round in roland good campaign! its impossible for me :/ jinak jsem z ceska :)

[@chocapicwarrior]

According the numbers of troups in your team and Roland's team you spend at leat 4 month in this campain =) :D not so good, but thanks for the video !

[@TheSunsayy]

superrr game

[@lowcreature]

This is a best game of all the world.

[@pejsless992]

Spoko

[@moracomole8090]

i know it's not canon but I've chosen Archibald he respects you more as his general than Roland

[@YinsShadow]

The only complaints I had with this game, were it's uneven classes, and the fact that any flying creature could move anywhere on the map in 1 turn. Other than that, it's not my favorite, but the one that has the highest nostalgia rating for me, and the last one that more like a classic game since number 3, though better overall, didn't have that fairytale look to it. But I will still love playing the knights against the other classes on hard mode to give myself a challenge.

[@AmirAksak161]

Бомбическая игрушка.

[@Meresortsitar]

I was watching the video and then automatically right-clicked Roland to see his stats. When the options 'Copy video URL etc' popped out instead I realised what I was doing :D.

[@Komotau4691]

I think same too...

[@WymiatXD]

fajowa gra

[@14crodo]

Столько косяков! Слил бой персонажем, который спокойно рвал весь гарнизон! Кривой выбор спелов! А так просрать фениксов - это надо уметь. Короче, учись парень. Пока очень слабенько

[@giovannibertocci8944]

Алексей Бакаринов Do u know English dude?

[@michaelsarkisov2546]

Согласен. Сердце кровью обливается от этого боя.

[@warbossgarbag]

Прям обидно за компа, чуть-чуть ламера не дожал;)

[@user-fo1ml6mq6m]

Алексей Бакаринов, нормальный игрок даже комментировать этот бой бы не стал, а ты стал, значит ты сам нуб еще тот))) ломоть плешивый))

[@WeaponLight]

Giovanni Bertocci spaghetti pepperoni bitch

[@idiotonfieryfire]

I thought I was bad at this game...

[@Jauzness87]

This fucking game man.. it was the shit. Once those Crusaders get close stuff just die.

[@bobzeepl]

hehe, Heroes 2 and Drowning pool :) Well if I got your question right (it looks like you use spoken finnish, which is often difficult to understand for me :) ), the answer is, that you have to record the video in high quality to have the button available. If I remember I used the recording funciton of DosBox for this one...

[@Acaquowara]

rly old movie :o

[@RabidWeasel]

I know right!

[@DjScudMissile]

Backseating in the comments is priceless, thks for uploading I started and ended my Heroes of Might and Magic on the 3rd.

[@tuulanykanen9801]

I love Heroesin ll

[@user-fo1ml6mq6m]

how strong I wanted computer to beat this noob!!!

[@BGSlopy]

Some gamer you are ... im sayng that thanks to the fact their units are cheap you can get paladins first or secound week (depending on the map and dificulity) and rush to your enemies while they still have low tier units and whit fewer numbers (lest say mummies fighting aganst paladins).And the secound worce archers in the game (we are talking about tier 2 ) are the orcs not the casles rangers whitch upgrated are preaty good since they shoot twice and are cheap.Upg swordmans are good to .

[@paweljankowski7836]

Best Heroes game, I hope someone upgrade it onto android. Someone did the android version, but it was terrible port. Graphic stylistic of H2 is so cool

[@cHotomaTekutaSai]

nope! the ballistas from the enemy castle would destroy the mirror image

[@ericmartin927]

Hilarious how you won with a single Armageddon in the final battle.

[@foojam2002]

You can't record with dosbox and fraps at the same time. Try using dosbox only.

[@Nefus1988]

Yes, the fourth was bad, but not as bad as 5th and 6th. I would really love to see a remake of the third with better graphics. Heroes 2 was released for smartphones but the UI did suck, buttons too small to press etc.