Heroes is the game I own in most formats (even Gameboy, PS2, iPad, etc.)
I used to play it in the army, and we used to joke in the morning with how many turns one gets to the kitchen. The tiles on the ground were hexagonal like the one in heroes (we were playing 1, 2 then, and once I was out 3 came out).
I still like V, played a bit of VI, but III, and Palm Heroes one are the one playing lately...
Also Disciples II, and a bit of III (but it's buggy).
I suspected that there will be a sentiment for this game here ... one of many reasons for me to become a hacker. Through games, their small imperfections, I've started programming computers and get passionate about it. Nowadays with game consoles, many kids will miss the joy of hex-editing binary files.
I spent a large part of my childhood playing HOMM while not many of my other friends ever really played the game. One of the most underrated games out there IMHO.
You likely were saying that rhetorically, but in this particular case, Heroes of Might and Magic 5 was released pretty recently and is more or less the same game.
You should try the King's Bounty series. Actually, I think that the HOMM series was based off of the original King's Bounty game. King's Bounty was remade and updated, and it's quite fun -- and challenging. It's different from HOMM in that you are completing quests in a large world, instead of fighting against rival leaders, and you only get one character that you move around. You recruit from various structures in the world instead of building up a castle. But the combat is the same.
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Heroes is the game I own in most formats (even Gameboy, PS2, iPad, etc.)
I used to play it in the army, and we used to joke in the morning with how many turns one gets to the kitchen. The tiles on the ground were hexagonal like the one in heroes (we were playing 1, 2 then, and once I was out 3 came out).
I still like V, played a bit of VI, but III, and Palm Heroes one are the one playing lately...
Also Disciples II, and a bit of III (but it's buggy).
And Wesnoth (open source)