Title: "Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars" + addon "Price of Loyalty"

Developer: New World Computing

Publishers: The 3DO Company (original version), Buka (russian edition)

Release date: 31 october 1996 (original version), 2003 (russian edition)

Genre: Turn-based strategy

Age rating: no limits

Platform: DOS / Microsoft Windows (original version)

The game is the second installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series and is typically credited as the breakout game for the series. Heroes II was voted the sixth-best PC game of all time by PC Gamer in May 1997.
An expansion pack, The Price of Loyalty, was released in 1997. Later, 3DO bundled Heroes II and its expansion pack in one box, released as Heroes of Might and Magic II Gold 1998.

Screenshots

Free Heroes 2 (Free Edition)

Final Version: 22 jan 2015 (r3274)

Files:

WIN версия 12,3 Mb (7zip self-extract archive)
WINCE version 2,06 Mb (ZIP archive)
LINUX source 5,04 Mb (Tar.gz archive)

SDL2-2.0.3 win32 (x64) 452 Kb (ZIP archive)
SDL2-2.0.3 win32 (x86) 387 Kb (ZIP archive)

Previous version: 09 oct 2013 (r3181) WIN 7,87 Mb (7zip self-extract archive)

For play:

Copy original Data/*.agg files in to Data directory.
Copy maps files (*.mp2) in to maps directory.

Hot keys:
all hotkeys may be redefined (see fheroes2.key)

Big archive of maps for Heroes 2

From this site, compressed to 7zip archive (smaller to download)

Update: 11 march 2014