Posted December 05, 2012
Saw the screenshots it looks like the aforementioned topic except more detailed, so what is it?
Xuang9
Professional
Registered: Jan 2012
From United States
digitalus
New User
Registered: Nov 2010
From United States
Posted December 05, 2012
It's more like Master of Magic / HOMM III. With a splash of Dominions 3. I didn't get a Wesnoth feel at all, save for it being 2D and being turn based.
You have hero units, overland map development, city management, army building and cool exploration scenarios that your heroes can encounter. You can build shops and forges that can make things to sell to your heroes, or focus on researching spells, or focus on building army units. Or a balance of all of that plus more.
Battles are fought in a fairly typical turn-based style.
To simplify: you do your civilization building on the main map, and combat encounters take place on battle maps.
Wesnoth is awesome, but it's pretty focused on combat, not "big picture" stuff. They are pretty different despite looking much the same.
Hope that helped a bit, I'm running on 0 sleep. Apologies for spelling and missing words.
You have hero units, overland map development, city management, army building and cool exploration scenarios that your heroes can encounter. You can build shops and forges that can make things to sell to your heroes, or focus on researching spells, or focus on building army units. Or a balance of all of that plus more.
Battles are fought in a fairly typical turn-based style.
To simplify: you do your civilization building on the main map, and combat encounters take place on battle maps.
Wesnoth is awesome, but it's pretty focused on combat, not "big picture" stuff. They are pretty different despite looking much the same.
Hope that helped a bit, I'm running on 0 sleep. Apologies for spelling and missing words.
RoseLegion
Acta Non Verba
Registered: Dec 2011
From United States
Posted December 07, 2012
You have hero units, overland map development, city management, army building and cool exploration scenarios that your heroes can encounter. You can build shops and forges that can make things to sell to your heroes, or focus on researching spells, or focus on building army units. Or a balance of all of that plus more.
Battles are fought in a fairly typical turn-based style.
To simplify: you do your civilization building on the main map, and combat encounters take place on battle maps.
Wesnoth is awesome, but it's pretty focused on combat, not "big picture" stuff. They are pretty different despite looking much the same.
Hope that helped a bit, I'm running on 0 sleep. Apologies for spelling and missing words.
Khadgar42
Illegal Commando
Registered: Aug 2012
From Germany
Posted December 07, 2012
Wesnoth has another perspective.
You perceive the game differently.
The kingdom management is an appendix that force you to think in a whole new strategical way.
It's more Like
Total War: Wesnoth
On the campaign map you have Turn Based Strategy where you can improve your kingdom, gain quests and explore the map.
On the battle map you have Wesnoth like hex-movement and visceral combat.
Oh yes, and the bloody luck factor of Wesnoth that seriously sucked isn't obnoxiously bothering you each time you attack.
You perceive the game differently.
The kingdom management is an appendix that force you to think in a whole new strategical way.
It's more Like
Total War: Wesnoth
On the campaign map you have Turn Based Strategy where you can improve your kingdom, gain quests and explore the map.
On the battle map you have Wesnoth like hex-movement and visceral combat.
Oh yes, and the bloody luck factor of Wesnoth that seriously sucked isn't obnoxiously bothering you each time you attack.