Bought it a couple of weeks ago, i had heard it was harder than Fantasy wars, but what i did not know is that it is harder 'annoying' rather than harder 'challenging'

Or I'm just getting too old and too impatient.... this year i also had the same problem with Disciples 2, .... i loved disciples gold but got fed up with disciples 2 because it was just too hard...... like i mean, too put it in simplest terms, in disciples gold, probably 20% of my choices around the map went bad, in disciples 2 it is like 90%, everywhere you turn it is fuxxx up. That many challenging situations just wore me down, not fun.

It's probably because the units are all more advanced and do way more damage, so it is more risky, you lose important units quicker.
I did not like Dis2 at all, way to simplistic to be any fun.

+1 and +1
I finished EL for its UI was slightly better than FW, but it was less fun. I tried to continue the serie, but soon stopped, and never came back to it.
Disciple2 is not very fun too, too hard (a bad luck, which happen not rarely, and you must restart all the campaign), and the 'improved' graphics makes the map far less readable.

I think it depend on player style and his preference - I finished campaigns of all side in Disciples 2 on average and hard difficulty level, for me Discilpes 2 is better TBS that HoMM5.

FW is really good game, only lack better AI, more units type, sadly GOG don't sell Gold edition...

with kind regards
Adam B.

rest : how get unit to rest ? put him in friendly village and castle, can only hire new units ? thanks

what does the gold edition entail?