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[Jazzepi]

I've played Fantasy Wars. I didn't find the single player campaign terribly interesting. Most of what you do is racing against the clock to try to complete the campaign to get the "gold -> silver -> bronze" award which is invariably some unit or item or an amount of gold that you can add to your stock pile.

I played it on hard, and found the gold absolutely impossible to get, so I stopped trying. When you stop trying for the gold, the game becomes very boring. Since a unit takes two types of damage, one where you can only heal by "buying" the units in the squad that were lost, and the other which is the hitpoints of those units in the squad. When a squad rests, they get all those hitpoints back, but no additional units (you have to spend gold to rebuild those additional units).

Because your units carry over from one campaign mission to the next, the game devolves into "rest -> attack -> rest -> attack" moving as slowly forward as possible so that you don't lose anyone. The enemy almost always has overwhelming forces in the later campaigns, and you have to be careful not to "agro" the enemies in certain towns who won't come after you unless you reveal them.

Also, many enemies in towns who are inside the town walls WILL NOT leave those towns at all. They simply stand there. If you have a town that is long and narrow, you can attack the enemy on one end, and his friends will just watch you gang-bang him with three guys without assisting. Rinse, wash, and repeat. They will attack from inside of the fortress, but this is silly when you consider it's almost always tons of meele guys and maybe 1-2 archer units.

All in all I found the game interesting at first, but then when I realized how boorish the gameplay was going to become, I just stopped playing.

Also, the spells are uninteresting. They mostly just do damage, debuff people, buff your people, or heal. With different shapes of the casting radius and levels of damage/healing/de/buffing according to the spell, the magic is just... well, it's BORING. Magic in Dominions 3 is very interesting and diverse, in that game there's no difference between the spells, really.

Jazzepi