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Fantasy General

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4.5/5

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4.5

124 Reviews

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Fantasy General
Description
  Fantasy General includes the "Island Challenge" add-on.  For over a century, the world of Aer was a place of peace, joy and prosperity. Through advances in technology and magic, its inhabitants created a harmonious society, rid of disease, destruction and evil. All was well within the land of A...
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Product details
1996, Strategic Simulations, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 2 GB HDD...
Time to beat
41.5 hMain
53.5 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
46.5 h All Styles
Description

 

Fantasy General includes the "Island Challenge" add-on. 

For over a century, the world of Aer was a place of peace, joy and prosperity. Through advances in technology and magic, its inhabitants created a harmonious society, rid of disease, destruction and evil. All was well within the land of Aer... Until the Shadowlord came. Once a mere man with a voracious thirst for knowledge and power, the Shadowlord explored where no other dared, forsaking his humanity for absolute control. Summoning forth creatures of evil and attracting the most despicable of men, he created a powerful army and conquered Aer, engulfing it in pain, suffering and death. With the populace kept weak and divided through brutality and fear, few dare to openly challenge his reign. But now, The Council of Five, a leadership of Aer’s wisest rulers and mages, has selected a powerful general to unite its people and challenge the Shadowlord’s rule. With magic, beasts, mortals and mechs at your disposal, you must construct and lead your army across the lands of Aer, defeating the Shadowlord’s forces and generals.. Join the battle and restore peace and happiness to this broken world. 

Fantasy General is the third instalment in Strategic Simulations’ Five Star General Series, and invites you to leave the trenches of World War II and enter a world of heroes, swords, magic and beasts. As a turn-based strategy game, you must lead your army into battle with the Shadowlord’s forces and defeat each of his lieutenants across varying terrain and battlefields. Build your army from the ground up, research upgrades to strengthen your forces, and augment your army with items and heroes who will aid you in your plight. With an atmospheric choral soundtrack, a user-friendly, point-and-click interface and engaging strategic gameplay, this contrasting addition to the Five Star General Series will have you hooked from the opening cinematic and will keep you plotting and battling to the very end. 

- Battle the Shadowlord’s forces and lieutenants across 5 continents 
- Choose your general from four champions, each with its unique traits and abilities 
- Customise and upgrade your army, with over 10 unit classes and four races to recruit from 
- Uncover hidden items and heroes to upgrade your troops and lead your army 
- Choose from three game modes: Campaign, Scenarios and Local Multiplayer

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Goodies
Fantasy General Manual Fantasy General Manual (DE) Fantasy General Soundtrack
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:

This game is powered by DOSBox.
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
41.5 hMain
53.5 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
46.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.15+)
Release date:
{{'1996-03-01T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
202 MB

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Languages
English
audio
text
Deutsch
audio
text
français
audio
text
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What improvements we made to this game:
Update (13 November 2024)
  • Fixed an issue where intro music would be cut in the English version
  • Updated DOSBox configurations for smoother performance
  • Validated stability
  • Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
Update 1.0 20211006 (11 October 2021)
  • Improved track cuts and volume levels
  • Slightly changed volume balance
  • Limit speed so scrolling the map is okay
  • Hopefully keept number of audio drops low
  • Forced doubling the size in order to improve output on some chipsets
Internal Update (21 March 2019)
  • Added Cloud Saves functionality
DLC addition (21 May 2015)
  • The English version of Fantasy General now includes the rare Island Challenge add-on
  • The Island Challenge add-on is accessible via the main menu by clicking the "Mini-Campaign" button
  • A huge "Thank you!" goes out to our community member Artki!
Language addition (14 May 2015)
  • We've added the German version of Fantasy General for all three supported operating systems along with the German manual for the game. This addition was made by possible with the help of our community member, Mondfels. Vielen Dank, Mondfels!
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Posted on: November 18, 2018

Bibbitm5

Verified owner

Games: 10 Reviews: 1

Oh the memories, still an awesome game.

I remember this game when I played it after the original SSI Panzer General came out. I decided to take a gamble and buy it on gog, despite the notice in the description that it might not work on future windows 10 updates. Game worked fine and hopefully will do so in the future on my windows 10 computer. I'm looking forward to completing the main campaign with each of the four generals. The music and the simple style of the units are so awesome. I found Darklands is on gog too, I am very tempted as I spent tons of time on that game and never thought I would be able to play it again.


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Posted on: July 11, 2017

pavle1419

Verified owner

Games: 41 Reviews: 4

7/10 Pretty good

Story - (6/10) Meh, not much imersive, could be much much better Gameplay - (7/10) It's great, the UI didn't old well so you will probably have problems to understand the menu; the game is a strategy and a very hard one so you will replay some levels a lot of times; The units, their pictures are fantastic, I like them Soundtrack - (10/10) Beautiful! One of the soundtracks in games


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Posted on: April 21, 2017

Pustako

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 5

Absolutely fantastic

Brilliant turn based strategy game. Accessible and relatively easy to learn, even though it shows its age in very scarce amount of in-game help and tooltip information, so it is worth to print the manual or at least scan through after first couple of scenarios. Great unit design, interesting world, decent graphics and nice music, recommended to anyone who enjoys Beer&Pretzels board games or already played and liked other General games.


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Posted on: May 4, 2019

LATESTACORONATA

Verified owner

Games: 741 Reviews: 229

Simple, and yet challenging.

Some good ol' hex-tactics game right here, it's easy to understand, even for newcomers of the genre and even manages to be challenging ( at least for my personal level of skill in this kind of games). Some minor issues with camera control but overall solid gameplay, from managing your army (be careful to not lose too many troops or it will become impossible to go on) to the engaging battle, that could have used a bigger or more detailed map, but at the time I think it was not possible. Not a masterpiece but still a game that can be picked up even today and play surprisingly well.


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Posted on: January 6, 2018

Lifthrasil

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 46

Panzer General ... with Dragons!

There is hardly more to say that that. It's the best game in the Panzer General series. Well balanced, challenging but not unfair gameplay, a nice Fantasy setting and a great soundtrack. If you like turn based strategy, get it!


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