Warlords Series

The Vault Dweller

The Vault Dweller

always looking for water.
A long time ago I played Warlords 1 and thought it was one of the best turn-based strategy games ever. Which is why I was so perplexed when Per told me about how much better Warlords 2 is since I didn't even know a sequel existed.

Since it's freeware I downloaded it, but only got around to playing it now. This may be the perfect example of adding to existing features and making new ones without removing old features or altering them for the worse.

Random maps (balanced just enough to provide fair play, but not enough to provide identical and boring outcomes) with random start locations and random heroes makes for excellent replayability. They expanded the units (which there were already plenty of) and added the ability for heroes to gain levels which not only makes sense, but provides greater benefit to keeping them alive which is very demanding.

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/warlords-2.php

I'm certain a lot of people here haven't played Warlords 2 considering its age and I'm also certain they'd love it even if the graphics are ancient and there's no sound. Just play some music in the background. Numerous themes fit the battle/fantasy setting too.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

*EDIT*

I also forgot to ask has anyone played the RTS spin-off series Warlords Battlecry? I'm skeptical about such an awesome game being changed from TB to RT and still being great, but I've seen high reviews for it, but supposedly the games are obscure due to low-sales. I assume they counted on Warlords fans to buy it, but they didn't want something not TB and normal RTS fans wouldn't buy something "new" in that genre.
 
I've got Warlords 3: Reign of Fire which was fun. At least back in the day when I was about 14. Think I played Warlords 2 demo as well which was pretty similar.

Not sure about the Battlecry stuff as I only tried the demo way back but the reviews for Battlecry 3 are good on GoG.
 
I've played Warlords Battlecry II when it came out and it was fun. True, I've never played any of the previous Warlords games so I can't make a comparison... Lots of different civilizations and a somewhat nice graphics.

Also tried Battlecry III and its bad bad bad.
 
The Battlecry games are alright, balance tends to start getting really messed up as heroes get too high level, they just become too powerful. I love Warlords 1&2, I've heard good things about 3, and I didn't much enjoy 4.
 
I really enjoyed warlords battlecry 2 but you're right, the heroes sort of become all there is to the battle as they level up. Still, it's a fun game with a lot more depth and options compared to other RTS.

I loved Warlords as well though never bought any of them :-\.
 
SimpleMinded said:
I really enjoyed warlords battlecry 2 but you're right, the heroes sort of become all there is to the battle as they level up. Still, it's a fun game with a lot more depth and options compared to other RTS.
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Oh I agree that it's fun, it's one of the games (Warlords Battlecry 3) I play with my buddies when we LAN but we're talking about locking our characters at level 20 to keep them from getting too crazy. It's a fine game, I just wouldn't call it great.
 
^ I found great that Warlords Battlecry 2 combined all the good feautures from RTS games to make it kind of ideal. It was kind of unbalanced though, and the difficulty curve was kind of weird.

I really enjoyed it overall. I heard it was quite a shock for the old Warlords fans which were used to turn-based games.

EDIT: Also, I think it's one of the only RTS games I ever finished.
 
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