Conquest of Elysium II Now Available As A Free Dow

[Reverend Zombie]

The direct descendent of
Dominions 3: The Awakening, Conquest of Elysium II is where the addiction originated.
Unfortunately, for fans wanting to see how their favorite fantasy series began, acquiring a
copy has been difficult, at least until now.

Bolded word should be ancestor or something similar.

[lch]

Heh, yeah, I wondered about that aswell. It's meant to be predecessor, I guess, but ancestor is maybe more appropriate...

[Actuarian]

I actually bought that game. It's a fun short-term diversion. If I remember correctly, it behaves strangely with big armies. I think armies are limited to a certain size in battles, and after an army gets over that size the program will randomly choose which troops get to participate in a battle.

[Gandalf Parker]

I bought mine many years ago. It is very retro. People who used to play on commodores or ataris will get a kick out of the graphics. At one time it was an excellent example of what could be done on those machines with programming languages that anyone could use. Its also rather addictive.

[Kristoffer O]

> If I remember correctly, it behaves strangely with big armies. I think armies are limited to a certain size in battles, and after an army gets over that size the program will randomly choose which troops get to participate in a battle.

It might behave strangely, but not random. THere are three positions on the battle field. -1, 0 and 1.
-1 = support etc
0 = archers and commanders
1 = melee
THere are room for 16 units in a row IIRC. All melee units fill up rows until all are used. If you have too many melee units the 0, and the -1 are moved outside the screen and cannot be targeted until you kill off a few.

Units recruirted latest have higher nbrs, meaning they are placed behind the older units in the same position. If a unit is killed his nbr is available for newly recruited units.

[Nix]

Cute game. Some of the icons carried over into Dominions, like the symbol for regenerating units.

[B0rsuk]

QQ: Is the game anything like Master of Magic ?