Eador Genesis Demo

[haphazard1]

I have never seen much point to the diplo alliance system either. The AIs certainly don't, given the way they instantly declare war the turn you meet. I prefer to just attempt to fight my way to victory.

The various special world types/characteristics does seem to be a Broken World thing. Some of the effects are much more important than others; maybe I will get a chance to show some of them in the future.

And now, update time. My latest target was the tiny shard Yssirdor, a "world of death" shard. Supposedly most of this type of shard is devoid of life, empty deserts with no population, etc. But I did not actually notice any differences from a normal shard. Not sure if there was a bug, or if the description was incorrect. Odd.

Anyway, here is the end of the struggle, with my hero having reached the local lord's stronghold and begun a siege. Note the enemy hero in the next province, about to attack in an attempt to break the siege.



The enemy warrior failed to defeat my hero, but it was a close thing; my army had been badly mauled by the cutthroats guard in the capital province and was down to two spearmen and a healer (plus the scout, of course). The enemy warrior killed both spearmen before dying to arrows, so my scout was sieging the enemy stronghold almost by himself. Not something I would normally do, but returning to my own stronghold to hire more troops and refit my army would have taken about 10 turns round trip. So I risked attacking with just the hero and healer, and fortunately the local lord only had a couple weak units in his stronghold.



Add another shard to my growing home world. Yssidor unlocked two more tier 2 unit buildings and another tier 2 magic school, plus some tier 3 craft shops with better (and more expensive!) equipment for my heroes. Plus it would add another 5 astral energy per turn to my income stream.

I was worried about the latest rival I had met in the astral, as he had threatened to attack me. So I spent some astral energy to transfer my scout to the next shard. I had to strip away all of his troops, spells, and gear to afford it but the hero himself had some solid skills.



When I returned to the astral, I saw this:



Yep, Doh-gor was coming for my home world. You might think you would have a huge advantage on your home shard -- a big empire, lots of money and territory, etc. But all you actually get is whatever free starting items (if any) you have accumulated from previous shards -- extra income, equipment in your treasury, and starting garrison units -- and the ability to see the entire map. That's it. Otherwise you start from nothing just like any other shard.



Definitely glad I spent the astral energy to transfer my hero. I suspected something like this was coming, and having a level 8 hero will help a lot to get a fast start. If you lose when defending your home shard, you lose the entire campaign.

Here is Doh-gor's start, off to my northwest (I turned on the mini map).



I have no idea what benefits or hero Doh-gor might have spent energy to bring into my shard. Hopefully he does not have anything too powerful....

[haphazard1]

Life has been busy lately, so not much time for gaming. I did find enough time to start defending my home shard from Doh-Gor's attack. I have taken control of the region around my stronghold, with two heroes working to secure the area and clear out monsters.

Advancing further has been difficult. This map is larger than the shards I have been conquering so far, and enemies become stronger with each additional step outward from your stronghold. The next "ring" of provinces has much tougher defenders, with tier 2 and even some tier 3 units. My primary hero (the scout I brought from the previous shard) is now level 10 and has a double shot attack, but I only have tier 1 troops and magic at this point. I am building up my stronghold infrastructure, working toward tier 2 units and spells, but that is going to take a while. Until I get stronger, I am clearing locations in my provinces for experience and loot.

Some distance to my northwest is Doh-Gor's fortress. He has cleared his first ring of provinces and not much else so far. One scout hero is visible.

[naufragar]

If anyone reading this feels a desire to try Eador for yourself, GoG is currently selling Eador: Genesis for $0.89. (Regional pricing may affect that.) Broken World, the version Haphazard is playing through, is a little steeper at $3.

[haphazard1]

The devs are apparently working on a new game set in the Eador universe. It sounds like they are just beginning the process, so who knows when it might get released, but they have started work.

[NobleHelium]

Whelp I tried to launch a Broken World campaign but it keeps crashing to desktop. There's a Reddit post saying it can be fixed by removing read-only on the files, but they set themselves back to read-only every time I try to change it. Might be my antivirus, but I'm not going to disable my antivirus to play the game.

Going to try to refund the game most likely.

[haphazard1]

Sorry to hear you are having problems running the game, NobleHelium. I know from the Steam discussions that a lot of people do have issues. I seem to be one of the fortunate ones, and have never had any problems, so I can't offer any advice.

[NobleHelium]

Are you on Windows 10?

[Kaiser]

I am running it on Windows 10 without issues appart from two error messages to click away after voluntarily closing the game.

[haphazard1]

I am also on Windows 10. No error messages on closing for me -- game starts and stops without issues.

[naufragar]

I'm sorry to hear that, Noble. I've had problems with read-only files when games were installed in Program Files.

While looking around, I came across this report, in which the user couldn't start until he manually added a save folder. (Probably not your issue.) Good luck if you try to fix it; sorry for the inconvenience if you've got to refund it.