Posted November 16, 2012
Right, there was a strategy game I played when I was younger, very similar to HOMM games. So much so that I thought it WAS a HOMM game until i looked the all up and realized it wasn't.
I loved it, so please help me find it. Here are the things I remember.
1. Overworld, it looked an awful lot like a HOMM game, with graphics perhaps between 2 and 3, but more cartoony.
2. Instead of playing the battles out yourself they were auto-calculated, but the composition and abilities of your units factored heavily (archers would shoot enemies before they attacked, assassins would kill enemies before the battle even started etc). A window would pop up with your two armies, and they'd take turns hitting each other with a distinctive "thwack, thwack" noise. Only the bottom unit in each stack could fight, and each stack would just pound away at each other.
3. It had an INSANE number of different units, and you could make completely new factions by combining different units using a points system, and design your own banner.
4. One of the prebuilt factions was called the horse lords.
5. It started with a cheesy FMV of a guy in a Skeletor costume.
6. There were loads of hero types, like warior, thief, vampire, warlock, shaman etc, who would just appear at random, and let you choose their gender and name etc before you agreed to hire them.
7. There were three schools of magic, white, black or grey that a faction would possess.
8. When you took over a town, you got three options, occupy, sack, or raze. Sacking gave more gold now and less later and razing was useful for scorched earth tactics to permanently destroy a city you knew you couldn't hold.
9. Boats played a big part of getting around. One boat was a barge made of bones. Accidently misclicking would see you drown your own troops an awful lot =/
10. The overworld was full of tombs and crypts with things like fire elementals, undead, demons and phat loot to give your heroes all sorts of awesome powers.
I hope this is enough to be going on with, I would be SUPER grateful to anybody who could name it, and itf it's available on GOG I'll possibly pass out from nostalgiagasms lol.
I loved it, so please help me find it. Here are the things I remember.
1. Overworld, it looked an awful lot like a HOMM game, with graphics perhaps between 2 and 3, but more cartoony.
2. Instead of playing the battles out yourself they were auto-calculated, but the composition and abilities of your units factored heavily (archers would shoot enemies before they attacked, assassins would kill enemies before the battle even started etc). A window would pop up with your two armies, and they'd take turns hitting each other with a distinctive "thwack, thwack" noise. Only the bottom unit in each stack could fight, and each stack would just pound away at each other.
3. It had an INSANE number of different units, and you could make completely new factions by combining different units using a points system, and design your own banner.
4. One of the prebuilt factions was called the horse lords.
5. It started with a cheesy FMV of a guy in a Skeletor costume.
6. There were loads of hero types, like warior, thief, vampire, warlock, shaman etc, who would just appear at random, and let you choose their gender and name etc before you agreed to hire them.
7. There were three schools of magic, white, black or grey that a faction would possess.
8. When you took over a town, you got three options, occupy, sack, or raze. Sacking gave more gold now and less later and razing was useful for scorched earth tactics to permanently destroy a city you knew you couldn't hold.
9. Boats played a big part of getting around. One boat was a barge made of bones. Accidently misclicking would see you drown your own troops an awful lot =/
10. The overworld was full of tombs and crypts with things like fire elementals, undead, demons and phat loot to give your heroes all sorts of awesome powers.
I hope this is enough to be going on with, I would be SUPER grateful to anybody who could name it, and itf it's available on GOG I'll possibly pass out from nostalgiagasms lol.
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