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Post by spidershinobi on Jan 16, 2016 0:39:27 GMT
Warlords! Definitely the most under-rated turn-based strategy series I can think of, largely the result of Steve Fawkner's mind. Have you guys played any of the games?
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Jan 16, 2016 1:53:14 GMT
I never heard of it, which is why I like the forums so much, I had discovered so many things here. I'm not an RPG guy, but after a while it would not surprise me if I turn into one and become a fan.
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Post by spidershinobi on Jan 17, 2016 2:23:59 GMT
It's actually not very easy to become an RPG fan. I spent most of my life being a fan and knowing more games that I dislike than ones I like, thanks to Megami Tensei the percentage is changing.
But yeah, Warlords is very very obscure, the best game was clearly Warlords III: Darklords Rising, which was a super edition of Warlords III: Reign of Heroes, containing several more units, scenarios, battle effects and even customization. A good deal of the obscurity comes from the fact that not only they're rare, but many times they need fixes just to run in non Windows98/95 machines. Huge bummer because it's actually still a great game, better than most strategy games and even has a rich story.
The series may have started with Warlords II (I think Warlords has no connection with the Warlords series), went on to Warlords III, had an ok run with a real-time spin-off subseries, Warlords Battlecry, had some success with Puzzle Quest (yes, that game was from the Warlords series), and then went back into darkness after the disappointment that was Warlords IV.
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Post by Imperial Khador on Jan 17, 2016 14:48:15 GMT
I remember the original Warlords, playing and taking turns with other friends on my old PC. I always played as Lord Bane, who only started with very basic units, but was in a secluded area of the map with I think....5 castles surrounded by a mountain range. So he could build up a massive force of basic units, but moving through the mountains to attack others took a long time. Good memories.
I think we played a bit of Warlords 2 as well, but never got into it quite as much.
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Post by spidershinobi on Jan 17, 2016 18:57:38 GMT
Oh wait! So there was a first Warlords?  Man, have you played 3? If you're playing on w95/98 every couple of turns Lord Bane himself shows up on your screen via crystal ball and gives his commentary on the match. Of course they're all pre-recorded, but pretty neat still. I've played a lot of elven sides during my Warlords 3 days, mostly dark elves, but I digged the campaign too. You know, just the cliché of knights fighting against evil forces from Bane. |
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Post by Pimpjira on Jan 17, 2016 19:29:40 GMT
Nope, I don't think the games are readily available anywhere. I've thought about trying Warlords Battlecry on the cheap, RTS can be hit and miss for me, more often miss. I guess I have played one though with Puzzle Quest, I enjoyed that game.
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Post by spidershinobi on Jan 18, 2016 15:30:57 GMT
Must have been pretty crazy for you to find out that Lord Bane isn't a character from a puzzle game.  When it comes to Battlecry, they're games of very beautiful meta, specially for a kid with the Battlecry II booklet/guide, like me. But the reality of it is that developers never found out how to balance the heroes in their RTS series, so your hero often has that "just-right" amount of strength at lvl 20 or so (max is 50 iirc), before that he's always that "unit who shouldn't engage in combat" and after that he's either "the guy who kills a huge map in seconds", "the guy who casts a spell to kill a huge map in seconds", or "the guy who converts the whole map in one swing so if any unit is spawned it will be his"; tl,dr: broken. I won't lie, though, I spent many afternoons picking sides to fight and improving heroes in Battlecry II. |
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