I've had my H2 for just over a year now..... taken it to Moab for multi-day wheelin' trips about six or seven times.
I've had the H3 a year longer than the H2. I've wheeled it just as hard, and just as much.
My H2 is lifted and locked front and rear, and running 4.88 gears with beadlocked 38 " tall 14.50 wide KM2's...... but it wasn't always.
I have no axe to grind here whatsoever.......
In my experience the H2 will outperform the H3 in most conditions off road. It just will. Raz I'm just telling you my experience not trying to put your rig down.
I actually started a thread trying to get people to tell me what I just told you before I bought my H2. The truth.
There are times the H3 has an advantage, but mostly the advantage belongs to the H2.
I'm not looking for a pissing contest with anybody and maybe someone else's experience might be different. That's just the way I see it. Mods can change the picture too.
I took my H2 to the hippie side of town for a fish taco the other day and it got keyed from front to back....... I wondered if that same thing would have happened in my H3. Doesn't matter........ the pinstripes from branches are much worse than the little key anyway...... makes me wonder why they even bothered.
If it wasn't fresh through the dirt..... I wouldn't have even noticed it.
