Quoting from the features list:
Solium Infernum is a turn based strategy game that offers you a chance to vie for the Infernal Throne of Hell.
Feature Include:
-Customize your Archfiend avatar by selecting your starting attributes, infernal rank, public objective and special perks.
-Level up your Archfiend in 5 different spheres of evil: Wrath, Deception, Prophecy, Destruction and Diabolism.
- Battle for the control of hell across a landscape of beautifully painted hexes on 3 different map sizes.
- Over 50 different unique legions await your orders.
-Legions gain experience and can be augmented with powerful heroes and artifacts
-Over 30 unique Places of Power dot the endless tracks of hell. Capture them and use them to secure your claim on the Infernal Throne
-Retire to your sinister ritual chamber and call on dark arcane powers and over 30 unholy relics to damage, cripple or hinder your enemies… and allies of convenience.
-Over 30 unique event cards keep the game unpredictable. Challenge your rivals in the infernal games of Pandemonium, send your finest legion on an expedition against Heaven’s ramparts or call an ill-timed cessation of all vendettas and blood feuds.
-Compete against up to 5 other humans or AI’s in a PBEM battle royal.
-Games last anywhere from 25 to 50 turns. A small single player game can be completed in just a few hours.
-Over 150 beautifully painted images can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven, what matter where if I still be the same.
Home page / more info (also demo):
[url=]http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/SI/SI_over.html[/url]
I just bought the thing (30USD) and am currently downloading it. Will get back to ya all with some impressions when I can. Though so far it seems like just the thing to scratch my turn based strategy itch IN HELL! Sorry, couldn't resist.

Considering how awesome Armageddon Empires was, I'm definitely giving this a try.

I've heard the AI isn't anything special on it at the moment. Its apparently a fantastic multiplayer game if you can find other players.

He's finished it? HA, I was waiting forever for this game. Awesome! ... And I don't have money for it. Awww...

Yeah, heard that too. Hoping it's not entirely true though as I sure as hell don't have the connection good enough for a half decent multiplayer session but the art and the premise...and the TBS and...HELL *drool*.

The online multiplayer is PBEM-based, though. You don't need a good connection for that.

It may be a bit early for those predictions - just out of beta and bound to be tweaked a little later. Heck, it was only released 12 hours ago. it's worth saying that both this and AE are games of chance and skill, not just skill, so every now and then you'll get lucky with the cards or unlucky with the cards.
I've been fantasising about buying AE for months now (loved the demo), but am now caught between the two!

I must be the only turn-based fan who didn't like AE :\
Maybe it's the fact that you needed some external software - some Adobe software I think? - to play AE, that really put me off.

Heres the link I think Peron gave me in IRC about the AI, this is from someone thats been playing the game.
[url=]http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/11/solium_infernum_a_couple_thing.php[/url]
It basically shows that the guy has 132 points and his closest AI enemy is on 20.

Then why not buying both? Also, you'd get a 10% discount :)

DONT....TEMPT....ME....

the gog forum is a collection of the most interesting RPS articles

Ok it looks like I'm actually going to have to sit down and read the god forsaken manual for once as this game seems positively bewildering to me. Though also very delicious at the same time. Makes me feel like all this is eventually going to pay off with some rewarding experience.

What about DRM?

The AI does seem rather weak - when my first match was ended by the demo's turn limit I was already way ahead of all my foes and happily farming weak neighbours for easy points.
However, lots of the mechanics are geared towards making interesting multiplayer matches - like the special ability to choose another player at the start of the match, and if that player wins, you win instead. Of course there's a rare event card that reveals and removes this ability if the target player has it.
PBEM matches between GOG forumites would be spectacular.