I absolutely love the HMM series. It reminds me of my eraly teens. I'd go to a friends place to play the HMM2 he had bought. We would spend hours playing the hot seat multiplayer games. I was terrible at it...
One day he lended me the game when he went in vacations. I played it so much that, when he was back, I actually won most of the times we played together. He was really angry to have lended it to me
I think he didn't like losing to a girl.
I bought the HMM3 complete years later in New York for a very cheap price. I guess it was less than 10 euros. By far, it's still my favorite of the series.
Btw, I liked a lot to play this HMM as for the classic it is. But I missed the necromancer and wizard a lot...