[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by tylertoo:
My guess -- the devs would face a huge amount of additional work to allow player-managed tactical combat for SP.

It is the other way around. The game begun (1997) as a tactical battle simulator where you gave individual orders to every soldier. This was not feasible in a strategic multiplayer game with simultaneous hosting and hundreds of units. Thus it was removed when we made a game out of it.

- This was in the ancient times when there were only two nations. Pythium and Man. Pythium and Arcoscephale had not yet been separated and there was only one monster - the hydra. Spells did not exist and neither did arrows.