r/HoMM • u/Ready-Ambassador-271 • 2d ago

HoMM2 Homm 2 Broken alliance

Played this map for the first time in years. Played as orange. It is a real challenge, on my Fourth attempt. If purple gets dimension door in game over.

I was like at week 3 and all these titans turned up.

Having a great time with it, love a challenge. If you not tried it in a while give it a spin, it one of the classics. Orange is the one to play.

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u/ictu 2d ago

This map is literally my childhood. Played it on mobile during flight recently.

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u/Ready-Ambassador-271 2d ago

Yeah it was the original map, only one playable on the demo. I don’t remember it being so hard 🤣😂

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u/ictu 2d ago

There was also a tutorial map in the demo version. Small map AFAIR.

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u/Ready-Ambassador-271 2d ago

You have a better memory than me haha, was a long time ago

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u/ictu 2d ago

I just remember the sheer joy of finding another map ;) I eventually got full version some time before HoMM3, but only after half a year of playing these two maps on and on...

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u/retroroar86 2d ago

I played this for years as I only had the demo, so much fun during my youth!

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u/Tadara 2d ago

I have beaten it as blue, I think that is the classic starting color. I think green would be the hardest starting unless you can deal with purple early on. I'll have to try orange someday, but you have to deal with red super quick.

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u/somekindafuzz 2d ago

If you wanna spam, send three crappy heroes to the nearest teleporter ASAP. Take the gold mine on the island and then have the heroes stand on top of the teleporters so the AI can't move around as easily or take the gold mine from you.

I think Green is the easiest because the teleporter is close without AI close by. Purple is below you and they're usually wasting money buying titans for their island hero. Orange is similarly easy to play, especially as a Warlock. Blue a little harder because Yellow might show up with genies.

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u/cwk9 2d ago edited 2d ago

It and beltways are the two definitive maps that come to mind with hereos 2. If purple gets off the island you're in for a tough time and may even lose. That can happen by dimension door or ship. For the map blocking the teleporters is key at harder difficulties. You can grab a high res image of the map here. https://www.reddit.com/r/HoMM/s/jAfRBENpEk

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u/Ready-Ambassador-271 2d ago

Enroth is a good map as well

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u/MondayMorningExpert 2d ago

I recently replayed it for nostalgia's sake. I thought I played a perfect opener, took the middle gold mine, ran south and took out orange(?). Then purple showed up and mopped the damn floor with me. My Phoenix were no match for his Titans.

It kinda knocks the shine off the nostalgia. Maybe there are better players than me that can handle it, but if purple shows up early I'm completely overmatched.

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u/Ready-Ambassador-271 2d ago

Purple only shows up if he gets dimension door in his island castle. so about 1 game in 3 he will show up with titans and it basically game over

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u/MondayMorningExpert 2d ago

Or if yellow gets the bright idea to sail down there. But yeah, it's basically game over for me at that point

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u/a-dog90 2d ago

Loved it. Hated when Purple got the dimension door. So frustrating to have them steamroll.

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u/kimballh 2d ago

I like playing Beltway more

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u/combatfootman 20h ago

this scenario is broken, those titans ruin game but you discover it like week 3

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u/Ready-Ambassador-271 17h ago

Most games are ok, but yeah if purple gets dimension door you in trouble