Civilization 2 – Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Mod download

Platform	Civilization 2
File Size	45 MB
Version	v1.1
Update	27.10. 2025
Author	MetroPolis, Blake
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How to install Civilization 2 – Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Mod

This project is a Heroes of Might & Magic 2 total conversion mod and scenario for the great classic game Sid Meier’s Civilization II Gold (MGE). Inspired by Tom2050’s amazing HoMM3 mod for Civ3 to create the most HoMM2 like experience within the limitations of the old Civ2 MGE engine. Almost every part of Civ2 has been changed making this possibly the largest Civ2 MGE total conversion mod ever made!

Requirements:

Civilization 2 Multiplayer Gold Edition (MGE) also known in some parts of the world as Ultimate Civilization 2 Classic Collection. This mod will NOT work properly with prior editions of Civ2 (vanilla Civ2, Conflicts in Civ, and Fantastic Worlds) or the later Test of Time edition (there will be a special ToT edition coming later).

Please make sure your copy of Civ2 MGE is fully functional (eg you can start new games and play in-game videos in) before attempting this modpack installation. If you’re having troubles getting Civ2 working I recommend that you use the excellent Civ2UIA tool to improve your Civ2 experience and compatibility on modern 64bit operating systems. If you’re also having Civ2 video issues keep in mind they run off the Civ2 CD and require the Indeo video codec. Hopefully one day we’ll have a fully compatible easy to install Good Old Games or Steam copy of Civ2!

Lastly please make sure Throne Room, Diplomacy Screen, Animated Herals, High Council, & Wonder Movies in your Game/Graphic Options menu (only viewable when playing a game) are all turned on otherwise you will miss out on vital features of this mod!

Installing Civilization 2 – Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Mod:

This is one of the largest Civ2 MGE modpacks ever made so many files will need to be replaced. Therefore it is STRONGLY recommended you backup your Civ2 install folder either into another folder or into a compressed zip file before installing our mod. That way when finished with our mod you can easily replace all the files with their original versions again.

• Download the latest 7zip file for this modpack if you haven’t already.
• Create a HoMM2Mod folder in your Civilization 2 scenarios folder.
• Now extract our entire HoMM2 modpack 7zip contents into the new HoMM2Mod folder. If you don’t have 7zip installed, you should as it’s better than all the others. https://www.7-zip.org/
• In the new HoMM2Mod folder you will see a number of files and subfolders. Open the 1EXTRA_FILES folder and you will see all our custom/modified files and 3 subfolders containing our replacement video files and sounds.
• Once again please ensure you’ve BACKED UP your Civ2 folder before this next bit!
• While inside this 1EXTRA_FILES folder select ALL of its files & folders, copy (CTRL+C), then navigate back out to your main Civilization 2 root install folder (eg could be C:\Games\Civ2\) and then paste (CTRL+V) clicking yes on all prompts to override any original Civ2 files and folders.
• Start Civ2 and you should see our new and very different looking HoMM themed intro video and main menu! If not then you got the previous step wrong you muppet lol!

There are 2 ways to use our modpack. Either play our pre-made scenario or use our modded files to create your own new sandbox game. We recommend the former as we’ve created a very special and fun map for you and a new map will not contain all of the special decoration we used and you’d need to place them yourself however we’ll provide you with instructions for both ways anyway!

Playing scenario:

• Start up Civilization 2 and select ‘Begin Scenario’ from the main menu.
• Navigate to your newly created HoMM2Mod folder and load the HOMM2.scn scenario file.
• You will receive a WARNING in our intro about this modpacks biggest problem! Civ2 is hardcoded to disable throne room & wonder videos in scenario mode, while all special events are disabled in regular sandbox non-scenario mode! We don’t have many events so we recommend choosing throne room & wonder videos!
  • If you choose to keep throne room & wonder videos and miss out on events then hit CANCEL and back your way out to the Civ2 main menu. Then click on ‘Load a Game’ and navigate to the HoMM2Mod folder again and load one of our provided savegames instead where we’ve started our scenario and then disabled scenario mode using a hex editor. You’ll find a starting savegame for all 7 factions (eg StartKnight.sav , StartWizard.sav etc).
  • If you choose to miss out on throne room & wonder videos but get our events simply hit OK to proceed to the next window and start the scenario.
  • We recommend you play in non-scenario mode and then once you have all the wonders and a finished castle puzzle (throne room) then switch back to scenario mode by going into the cheat menu and saving as a scenario and then loading that scenario file up. This will turn events back on and you can go attack Dragon city and other fun places.
• Turn off Civ2’s music and double click on one of our _HoMM2Civ2MusicPlaylist files in the HoMM2Mod folder to play our included HoMM2 midi soundtrack!
• Lastly in the HoMM2Mod folder you’ll see a 2ALT_FILES folder. This folder contains alternative files you may wish to use instead of our defaults such as city background images for each HoMM faction. Simple copy the file for the faction you want to play as and rename the copy to City.gif, then copy and paste it over the top of the City.gif file in your root Civ2 install folder. There are also some alternative terrain and unit styles MetroPolis created if you don’t like Blake’s defaults.

Using our modpack to start your own new game:

If you wish to play sandbox games instead of the scenario then you will also need to override your core default Civ2 Sound files (after backing them up) with ours. To do that go into the HoMM2Mod scenario folder, then it’s SOUND subfolder, select ALL files, copy (CTRL+C), then navigate back out to your main Civilization 2 root install folder (eg could be C:\Games\Civ2\), then it’s SOUND subfolder, and then paste (CTRL+V) clicking yes on all prompts to override any original Civ2 files.

• Start up Civilization 2 and select ‘customized world’ from the main menu.
• Choose the following recommended options:
  • Size of World – Normal or Large (or some factions may disappear)
  • Land Mass – Large (we have minimal naval units)
  • Land Form – Continents (no amphibious units so 1 square cities are not optimal)
  • Climate – Wet (more rivers and we use the swamp & jungle slots for new terrains)
  • Temperature – Temperate (same reason as above)
  • Age – 3 billion years (our custom terrain suits grouped formations/regions of similar terrain instead of a scattered patchwork quilt look).
  • Civilizations – 7 (otherwise you’ll miss out on one of our custom races and possibly break a critical game start event)
• Save your game and edit the map in the Civ2 map editor or in the cheat editor if you wish.
• Once you’re happy with your map you may wish to switch to each civ (using cheat menu) and help them build their first city as sometimes we’ve seen them disappear and die (although larger maps should reduce the risk), but do NOT end the turn!
• Save your game as a scenario (using cheat menu) which will automatically load in all our special events and rules to setup the 7 HoMM factions as well as spawning several special map objects.
• Quit out to the Civ2 main menu and select ‘Begin Scenario’ from the main menu.
• Load your newly created scenario file from the HoMM2Mod folder (move it in there if it got saved elsewhere) and start playing your game until turn 4. By that point all our special faction setup events should have run and now each faction can only build their unique racial unit line-ups and 2 factions should gain their true city style.
• Turn on cheat mode and check each AI city to switch its build to its level 1 unit (or everyone will get a goblin lol).
• Turn off cheat mode again and save your game in the HoMM2Mod folder.
• Load your savegame file in a Hex Editor (I used HxD Editor). Edit offset position 20 where the cheat & scenario mode flags are stored, and change it to zero and save. Pictures & more info about this step in this post.
• Go back into Civilization 2 and load your edited savegame and you should find that cheat mode is off on your score and your throne room & wonder videos should work. However any special events from this point onwards will not work unless you save as a scenario again.
• Turn off Civ2’s music and double click on one of our _HoMM2Civ2MusicPlaylist files in the HoMM2Mod folder to play our included HoMM2 midi soundtrack!
• Lastly in the HoMM2Mod folder you’ll see a 2ALT_FILES folder. This folder contains alternative files you may wish to use instead of our defaults such as city background images for each HoMM faction. Simply copy the file for the faction you want to play as and rename the copy to City.gif, then copy and paste it over the top of the City.gif file in your root Civ2 install folder. There are also some alternative terrain and unit styles MetroPolis created if you don’t like Blake’s defaults.