[Maximillian]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
It's a fairly well known historical period, occurring around 150-180 AD in China. There's a TBS wargame series based around it, as Zen mentioned.

It's a historical period, and also the name of a classic novelization of the same period, which most males grown up in any Chinese-influenced culture know by heart.

It was a period where the Emperor's power was almost gone, and dozens of warlords with conflicting ideals waged endless wars against one another, making it one of the bloodiest eras in the history of China. The novelization of this era describes the vast strategic battles in detail, while also focusing on each of the hundreds of different characters who take part. It does a fascinating job of making most of them memorable, likable and identifiable, even in this modern world almost two thousand years since that era.

In the 1980's Koei, a developer well known for making solid strategy titles, made this historical period into a game which became an instant classic. As Norfleet mentiond, part IX of the series came out Last year, and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series was and still is considered by most Asian wargamers as the best turn-based strategy game ever created.

Apparently, they didn't hear of Dominions yet

But seriously, it is an extremely deep and involving strategy game made especially so by the fact that you can play your favourite general of the period (whose personal achievements and history you know by heart) and either try to recreate history, or make a "what if?" scenario.

However, due to its deep historic roots and attempts at accurate protrayal, I don't believe the game will be as fun to anyone who's not intimately familiar with the historical novel of the same name.

[ March 12, 2004, 01:43: Message edited by: Maximillian ]