Heroes of Annihilated Empires

played this game as a kid and to this day still havent seen a game that allows me to have fantasy armies like this game does

Heroes of Annihalated Empires is classical RTS game with base building but it also has rpg elements with the main heroe - an elf nothing less - who has to finish different quests but this more or less a part of standard strategy quest scheme. The game has a very good storyline but since the game wen't mostly unnoticed the storyline was never finished with an expansion. You will get at least 10 hours gameplay out of it if you are a very good strategy games player. If you are more of a casual player you will get over 20 hours for sure but probably a lot more. Its unfortunate that the game went unfinished since they brought a really interesting sci fi element in the end - you could see a kind of a Red Alert tank there hinting at a new science faction for the new game which unfornately never came. The game if I remember correctly was released in the time that Warcraft 3 came and was just a footnote because of that - similar to Imperial Glory and Empire: Total War. Well eitherway. Highly recommend the game to any strategy player.

Heroes of Annihiliated Empires is an interesting game for many reasons. It has beautiful art, an interesting combination of RTS and RPG and the four factions are highly unique. However there are a few flaws: 1.Lack of humanity: There is a lack of human faction of any form in this game. 2.Map choice is rather limited. 3.The game is difficult to beat. Other than that, I still think it is a game that I would highly recommend to others.

I just discovered that the homepage of the game is still up: www.heroesofae.com It shows there that it was planned as trilogy. Maybe outdated content but still nice to watch and some nice design art. Check it out.

...of the day when there will be a sequel. This was a really great game and deserves a try.