i'm so eastern european one of my friends was a developer on heroes v
(he also got a massive panic attack and was signed off with burnout for six months but that's a different story)
as an aside, due to an unfortunate typo on my behalf while creating the game folder, my friend circle only refers to the second instalment of the series as herpes2
I never got my hands on the PC versions due to how old the family computer was, but I put far more time into the Game Boy Color port of HoMM2 than it likely merited.