Conquest of Elysium II Now Available As A Free Dow

[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 ?

[Kristoffer O]

I don't thinks so. More like net hack, regarding the fairness of the game anyway. Perhaps MoM'ish in the random world stuff. It is not too difficult, so you can easily get a clue what it's all about. Quite quick game. Not very big either. Fun. Unfair. Unserious. Fun. Random. Likable. Unpretentious. Pompous. All in all: fun!

[Blofeld]

Ah, a big thank you!
Now I'll have the opportunity to try out that fancy mages and non-humans that were disabled in demo.
The game is cool, with a lot of different creatures and distinct game eras. Try a necromancer during a fallen empire for loads of fun. I think I once found a god (God?) in one mountain site.
Just don't get attached to your troops or heroes

[WraithLord]

Wow, many many thanks to IW and Shrapnel for making this gem free. Now I can happily say I have all dominions incarnations installed on my hard drives