Warlords

[Nelphine]

Yes, the 1990 version. Or at least the update that allows setting players to enhanced.

I know I know I'm 30 years late to be discussing this game, but this was the game that started it all for me.

I played on my uncle's Amiga, then was told I could get it for my birthday if I wanted, and I did. Since then I've spent thousands of hours playing it, and I've installed it, or emulators to run it, on almost every computer I've ever owned.

I'm bad at the multiplayer though, as I've never had a group of friends who could commit to hot seat games.

I've done things like winning in 11 turns with save scumming.

What I'm looking for now, is challenges other people have tried. For instance the next game I play, I intend to try to conquer the AI in a predetermined but random order. Randomly choose my species, then roll d8s to find out what order I need to right in - and I can't conquer cities of he wrong AI even if they conquer mine.

What kind of challenges are out there?

[TheMeInTeam]

I never played the original! I played Warlords 2 and Warlords 3 a lot. I consider them to still be among the best turn-based strategy games of all time, along with HOMM 3 and Civ 4.

One of my favorites as a kid was to take an empire past the point where the game gives you the option to just "win by everyone else surrendering", then switch to the weakest nation on the board and stage a comeback.

I did a few "I am the greatest" games but those tend to turn grindy as the AI will just vector clump units and attack you non-stop. Eventually you stabilize enough to hold and still gain ground elsewhere with a stacked hero, but it's not exciting stuff to do repeatedly.

Those items that double your speed are pretty broken. Even w/o scumming at all if you get one of those in the first few turns of Warlords 2 you can clear decent sized maps in 15-20 turns.

[Nelphine]

How did I never think of staging a comeback?? That's perfect. Not sure if it would be doable in the original, particularly since I play all enhanced AI (build twice as fast) but that would be awesome.

[00Ingwe]

..i'm searching players for multiplayer Warlords4 -Heroes of Etheria..

[darrelljs]

One of my favorite memories is a hot seat game where I popped 4 wizards and razed my opponent's un garrisoned backline cities.  I always took the Orcs (ah, Balad Naran ).

Darrell

[darrelljs]

They have it on iPad now for $5, just finished my first game and I can confirm its a great port.

Darrell

[00Ingwe]

@darrelljs : -so do you play it with me-??