One of the most revered mobile games in history is Robot Entertainment's Hero Academy [Free], which launched six years ago nearly to the day and brought with it easily digestible but highly tactical turn-based battling against players online. It was at a time when online multiplayer on mobile was still coming into its own, and the asynchronous nature of Hero Academy made it a perfect way to experience a dose of strategy gaming that fit into those free moments throughout your day. Well, obviously that was a pretty long time ago but the Hero Academy fanbase has stood pretty strong over the years. While we've lost the original game to the 32-bit Appocalypse, Robot Entertainment announced in the spring of 2017 that they were partnering up with fellow Texas-based studio BonusXP to create a sequel, and in fact they soft-launched that game in select countries at around the same time. That, too, was quite a while ago but today this new journey can finally begin as Hero Academy 2 [Free] has officially launched in the App Store worldwide. I have to admit that strategy games have never really been my thing, and while I really appreciated what Hero Academy did so well all those years ago it's never been a game I've played much personally. As such I have no real frame of reference for if this new sequel is an improvement over the original (I'll let a more qualified person make that determination in our forthcoming review soon) but one thing I do know is that Hero Academy 2 is a pretty r...