Heroes of Magic Gate 2 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2) is a round based strategy game produced by NWC and released by Ubisoft. The picture of this game is very retro, and players have to fight here. This game inherits the world view and plot of the Magic Gate series, and has been greatly modified on the basis of a generation. It is a classic of the series, only because of the shadow of death later. It is very interesting both in terms of race management and turn strategy.

[Introduction to the game]

This game is the second work in the series of Heroes of Magic Gate, and it also adds new elements to the original game. In this game, many maps will be added to players, where players should take certain strategies to fight. The whole game also has a rich story, where you need to defend in your own city wall. In the game, the protagonist cannot die in battle, which brings some challenges to the players!

[Game Features]

There are six races. Compared with H1, there are more Necromancer and Wizard, 66 kinds of monsters, and the arms have the concept of upgrading. However, H2's urban arms line is the most irregular among heroes. Some have upgraded, some have not, and even the dragon has a second upgrade; In addition, there are 72 kinds of treasures plus 10 kinds of artifact, and 5 levels of about 65 kinds of magic. As for the attributes of heroes, knowledge has finally become a familiar magic value. With the second skill, you can learn 8 of 14 skills and lead 5 groups of soldiers at the same time.

There is an expansion, Heroes of Mighty and Magic II: Price of Loyalty, which was released on May 30, 1997. However, this expansion was not actually developed by NWC. The data shows that it was developed by a company called CyberStudios, which was also released by 3DO. The expansion adds four chapters of new battles, new maps, 15 new treasures and a combination of treasures. The plot of the game has nothing to do with the main line of invincible heroes.

Under the conditions at that time, the picture and sound effects of Heroes 2 were perfect, and a full magical world was presented. The game was unprecedentedly perfect and mature in magic system, treasure system, skill system, hero system, race system and combat system, and became a well deserved leader in similar games at that time.

[Prompt that there is no CD]

After many players download Heroes of Magic 2 and enter the game, they will find that the game will prompt the players that they have not inserted the CD, so they cannot continue to play. This problem seems difficult to solve, because the CD of the game cannot be found now. However, players can solve the problem that there is no CD in the game through software. They just need to use tools to imitate the shape of the inserted CD. Here is the solution to the problem that there is no CD.

In fact, it is quite simple to solve this problem in DOSBOX

Click Download ： DOS game simulator

Before running the game, click the "drive" on the DOS BOX -- D -- to mount as a CDROM, and then a browse window will appear. Browse to the Heroes2 folder (the main folder of the game) and confirm. At this time, the Heroes2 folder will be mounted as a CDROM

Then click "File" -- "Quick Start", browse to Heroes2.exe under Heroes2, and run it (many online versions have deleted the opening animation, so if you encounter a black screen, you can directly press ESC to skip the title). The actual game effect is as follows:

[Where to input the secret script]

There are a lot of secret script codes built into "Heroes of Magic 2" that can be used. You can directly win the battle, obtain equipment, and obtain super combat units by simply opening the console in the game. In general, the secret script function can enhance the fun of the game and enable players to reverse the war situation in poor conditions, Here are the methods of secret script input and the complete code.

Press TAB key in the game and enter the following password (pay attention to case):

NwcAmbrosia gets materials for free

NwcGoSolo Automatic Game

NwcAres wins the battle

NwcAchilles Failed

NwcHephaestus gets "elven chainmail"

NwcEtTuBrute obtains the Despair Dagger

NwcExcalibur obtained "Negative Ring"

NwcNibelungenlied won the "Sword of God"

NwcTristram wins the Crusade

NwcLancelot gains the Warrior

NwcStMichael wins the Angel

NwcSevenLittleGuys Get Gnome

NwcMerlin obtained Monk

NwcCronus wins the giant

NwcBlahBlah Obtains Vampire

NwcHades gains the devil

NwcUnderTheBridge gets "trolls"

NwcKingMinos Get the Human Body Tauren Monster

NwcXanthus Gets Nightmare

NwcFafnir obtains Black Dragon

NwcDoYouSmellBrownies Get Kid

NwcFenrir obtains werewolf

NwcFixMyShoes Get Genie

NwcTheLast obtained Unicorn

NwcRa obtained Phoenix

NwcValkyries obtained Demon Monks

NwcGrendel obtains the monster

NwcPoseidon obtains the sea monster

[Introduction to the Cost of Loyalty]

Heroes of the Magic 2 contains the cost of loyalty in a large expansion. However, this expansion may be more difficult than this one, so you need to master a lot of game skills higher than this one in order to pass the test more easily. Otherwise, it is easy to make your race economy lag behind your rivals. Here is a skill guide that brings the cost of loyalty.

1. At the beginning, don't waste your mobile power to get unimportant resources and treasures. You should see what you need most, and give priority to seizing gold and the main materials needed to build the castle (if you are not planning to build the castle, let alone; if you want to recruit gods and monsters, don't forget to grab the treasure stones). Quickly build the building with the strongest army life in the castle to recruit troops, Other resources can be delayed. There are all kinds of minerals (gold mine, diamond mine, etc.) and treasures (sword, armor, etc.) on the mainland, all of which are shining. Don't be dazzled! There are 38 kinds of treasures (only magic books can be purchased). There are gold bags that can provide 1000 dollars a day. There are also things like the chapter of bad luck that can greatly reduce morale. You can't throw them away if you take them!

2. At the beginning, farmers, archers, small evil spirits, hooligans, nomads and gods outside the castle should be recruited as far as possible to rapidly expand their strength.

3. Once you have a certain strength, you should eliminate the enemies who compete for resources with us as soon as possible. On the one hand, it can destroy the enemy's effective force, and maybe get the enemy's treasure; On the other hand, it can also directly attack the enemy's material sources.

4. Before fighting with the enemy, you'd better check the strength of the enemy first (right click the enemy's castle or hero to see the enemy's information, and the level of detail depends on whether the hero has magic). If there is no absolute advantage, you should try to improve your morale (see statues on the mainland or buoys on the sea) and increase your luck (go to the fairy dance ring or fountain). If you are not as powerful as the enemy and close to your own castle, you can hide in the castle and rely on the arrows in the city to destroy the enemy's effective force.

5. Increase the hero's experience value as soon as possible (1000 experience points can be increased when you go to the pavilion), and improve the hero's various abilities. Heroes do not appear in the battle. They are only responsible for commanding and applying magic in the rear. However, his (or her) ability will affect the ability of the members of the army. His (or her) ability can be improved by accumulating experience points, upgrading, equipping various treasures, learning various magic (it is simply an RPG) and other means. A hero is the soul of an army. The ability of his subordinates can be increased by increasing their ability. For example, if a hero is equipped with a supreme sword, the weak goblins of his subordinates can compete with dragons in their attack skills.

6. When encountering an enemy whose strength is obviously stronger than yours, if your hero has important treasures and high abilities, he or she should choose to flee or surrender at an appropriate time. Because if the whole army is destroyed, the hero cannot be recruited again by you, and the treasures on his body are also given to the winner, so your hard training will be wasted. If you choose to escape or surrender, the hero can take away the treasure and be recruited again. If you choose to surrender, although the enemy will ask you for a certain amount of money according to the situation of your remaining troops, you can also take the army away and recruit a company army to recruit them back together. Of course, the defeated heroes will not die, but will go to a place called Hero Pool and wait to be recruited again, but they cannot be recruited by you.

7. The superior forces should be concentrated to fight, and the strongest arms should be concentrated in the hands of the strongest heroes, so as to reduce the casualties of the troops. Since each hero can only lead five troops at most, and each army has one branch, it is better not to let the troops be full and leave one or two empty seats. In this way, when you attack weak stragglers, the enemy may surrender and join your troops (even if there are the same branches as them), otherwise, there will be only one battle.

8. The troops led by each hero should have fast attacking arms (especially flying arms) and long-range firepower (such as archers), This is more advantageous in combat (For example, when the enemy is five archers, there are centaurs, stone elephant ghosts and griffins in your army. At this time, you use stone elephant ghosts and griffins to attack the enemy's second and fourth forces head-on, so that the enemy's archers can not use their long-distance attack ability, but can only rely on daggers to attack, greatly weakening the enemy's attack power, and you can use centaurs to attack from a distance, so that It's easy to deal with). Have you seen the beautiful Goddess Officer in the Battle of Alslan? She is like the god of arrows coming down from the earth. One person can defeat an army.

However, the shooter in "Heroes of Magic Gate" does not have her ability. His ability to attack and defend at close range is very weak, so he should be surrounded in the middle in order to play a good role. In addition, since the turn system is not used in the battle, but the attack order is determined according to the army's action speed (real-time system), the fast army has a great advantage. In addition, if there is no long-range firepower and no flying arms in the troops when attacking the city, they can't quickly attack the city (they can only break through the city wall with luck as soon as possible), and they will only be attacked outside the city. Of course, with teleportation and other magic, the importance of long-range firepower will be reduced, and magic can make up for many shortcomings of troops.

9. In combat, we should make full use of advanced arms. Dragons, phoenix and Cyclops can attack two forces obliquely, and six snakes can attack all the enemies around at the same time (teleportation and galloping can make up for their slow moving speed). These powerful forces are unmatched by other forces. Make full use of their speed to reduce casualties.

10. If the arms of the castle you own are relatively weak (such as human castle), you'd better not only recruit troops from your own castle, but occupy the enemy's castle as soon as possible and recruit stronger arms. If the castle is lost, you should try to recapture it before Monday, because the number of troops that can be recruited can only be increased on Monday, whether in the castle or in the village or in other armies.

11. The game stipulates that players can recruit up to eight heroes, and each hero can only lead five arms. There cannot be multiple troops of the same arms (the enemy can have them, which is unfair). The same arms will be merged with the same old arms after joining (the number increases). The more the number of each kind of arms, the better. The more the arms, the stronger the combat effectiveness. But at the beginning, players' financial resources are generally limited. My personal opinion is that you don't need too many heroes! When you get rich, you can recruit more heroes to speed up the process of the game.

12. When the magician guild has not been established, you can go to the temple to learn magic or show the strength of all parties (there are two kinds of temples). If you don't have a magic book, you should buy it in the castle where the magician guild is built.

13. When picking up treasures, you'd better measure your strength first (you can save them once), because many treasures are guarded by hooligans (you can't see them). In addition, some treasures need to be bought with money. If the money is not enough, they cannot be taken away. Of course, some treasures do not cost money (usually there are obvious enemies nearby).

14. When dealing with ghosts, the soldiers you killed become ghosts, so you should protect the arms with weak defense ability and eliminate the arms with strong concentration ability one by one, otherwise the ghosts will fight more and more.

15. There are many stone towers on the mainland. You can get some information about the treasure map from the stone towers. If you combine them completely, you may get a treasure that will help you to win the final victory (such as the supreme sword that increases the hero's 12 attack skills). However, it takes a lot of time, so if it has nothing to do with the task, don't rush to play this jigsaw puzzle game.

16. In addition to obvious mines, treasures and materials on the mainland, there are many other buildings that can also get treasures and materials, such as metal, oil or gems from windmills every week, 1000 gold from waterwheel mills every week, treasures from ship wrecks, and treasures from tombs (if not found, morale will be reduced), You can also search for treasures in the devil's cave (if you encounter a devil, you will be blackmailed, and if you don't pay, you will be eaten). However, if you can find the treasure, you still need to fight with ghosts. If you lose, the result is the same as that of other enemies.

Configuration Requirements

Windows XP/Vista/7

DirectX 9c

1 GHz

1 GB RAM