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Heroes of Might and Magic II is a turn-based strategy game released for MS-DOS in 1996. Developed by New World Computing and published by The 3DO Company, the game is set in the fantasy realm of Enroth. It incorporates role-playing elements and is presented from a bird's-eye view perspective.

Players command heroes who lead armies across a strategic map divided into distinct territories. The primary objective is to explore the landscape, gather resources, capture enemy castles, and ultimately defeat opposing factions. Progression is structured through weekly turns, during which players manage their towns, recruit creatures, and move their heroes to expand their influence. A key gameplay system involves exploring the map to find mines, treasure, and special structures that allow for the recruitment of neutral creatures. The game features six distinct castle types, each aligned with a specific hero class such as Knight or Necromancer and capable of producing a unique roster of six creatures.

Combat occurs on a separate tactical screen where armies engage in grid-based, turn-based battles. Players directly control their assembled creatures, which range from basic units like pikemen to powerful beings such as dragons and hydras. A central gameplay mechanic is the ability to upgrade many of these units at specific structures, improving their statistics and sometimes granting them new abilities. Another major system is magic, which utilizes a spell point pool that heroes spend to cast spells during exploration or combat, moving away from a memorization-based system. The game world is populated with a wide variety of creatures that can be recruited or encountered as neutral parties, adding to the strategic depth of army composition and map control.