Fantasy Wars: Fantasy General Reborn!

[Fragamemnon]

So while I was downloading the free shitty games that Ubisoft released yesterday, I saw over on Bluesnews that there was a demo for a game with the following description:

"fantasy-themed turn-based strategy game"

That send my beard tingling. I must try this game! So I downloaded the demo for FANTASY WARS, a 1C published game being made by Ino-Co, which apparently is one of those Russian companies that are starting to pop up in legion to make games largely based on or outright remakes of DOS and early Win95 era PC classics.

As it turns out, this game plesantly suprised me. The game is basically a total rip on the old SSI Fantasy General game-lightweight hex-based turn based strategy with an emphasis on keeping the game moving without bogging down in any real micromanagement. The game is techincally competent and features a good mix of RPG (unit upgrades/item inventory), turn-based strategy (moving units around with movement points, attack/defense values) and even some wargaming elements (morale, terrain bonuses) all in a decent package (like Fantasy General did).


Anyway if you're into HoMM or the old SSI general games, check out this demo. I was plesantly suprised and enjoyed it.

http://files.filefront.com/Fantasy+Wars+English+Demo/;8448224;;/fileinfo.html

[MrAngryFace]

I SUK AT THOSE GAMES! I was up at 2:30 thanks to gamefuel playing Defcon tho. Fun game

[Van Cruncheon]

DLing now!

[MrAngryFace]

Argh, South America owned me. Russia got owned the worst tho lol, two groups of nuke subs in scandinavia and they had all their silos in the center. Plus I wiped out their crappy fleet in Defcon 2. Mexico sucked cause they were right next door and my two air bases were almost overwhelmed holding the border and most of their silos were easily in range, plus their fleets kicked my pacific fleets ass pretty soundly

[Fragamemnon]

Argh, South America owned me. Russia got owned the worst tho lol, two groups of nuke subs in scandinavia and they had all their silos in the center. Plus I wiped out their crappy fleet in Defcon 2. Mexico sucked cause they were right next door and my two air bases were almost overwhelmed holding the border and most of their silos were easily in range, plus their fleets kicked my pacific fleets ass pretty soundly

A decent GIUK blockcade should keep Russia from ever being a problem in the Atlantic.

I see this game is on Steam for $15. I think I'll pull the trigger, as it looks to make an A+ laptop game to boot.

[MrAngryFace]

Its a really fun diversion, and it doesnt force you to commit. I mean you can take your time placing things but once thats done you can force the advancement to the next defcon level with fast teh forward. I play against bots right now cause im still learning. If I was on a team and I had a friend on the other side of the atlantic I would have left russia to them.

Unfortunately it was me against south america and russia and my furthest reach towards russia is alaska and that still isn't close enough to hit their big targets, and I cant get an ID on silos cause most of my fighters cant make that range. So I have to wait for Russia to launch and hope I have enough silos on defense to stop the onslaught before retaliating.

[ToxicAdam]

Thanks for the heads up on this game. Played for a few hours last night.