Warlords Battlecry

I am more a TBS player but this game is quite good even if you are not too god with RTS games. The pause feature helps a lot so your units do what you really want. The game is centered around your hero, who gets experience at the end of the maps and can upgrade his base stats, skills or spells. In the campaing, only human hero can be selected but in the skirmish maps you can select a hero from almost any race (there are no barbarian heroes). Every skills has a purpose and are equally useful. It is best to improve training first so you can get more XP and more Ability Points. Mage heroes need to add a ton of points in magery, magic schools spells (to unlock), even then, mana regeneration is a bit slow, so, it's best to start with a warrior or rogue type hero first. There are tons of units and buildings, some factions really play different (undead transform his skeletons to more powerful units, orcs don't get armor upgrades and can't repair buldings) so the gameplay never gets really repetitive. I finished the campaing two times and it's pretty lenghty. You can choose after the second episode the path of light or path of darkness. In the first, you play the dwarfs and wood elves and in the second you play orcs and undead. It's best to decide one path, because if you go back to the other path, you don't play with your level 15 hero but with a low level stored version. Highly recommended, i will play some more time and then get the second part.

Alright, this game takes me back to 2002, first PC and I just started buying gaming magazines, one of which includes this game as a gift CD. Having only played Age of Empires before this, I didn't know what to expect, but boy, never had I expected this much fun and countless hours spent with this gem, even 20 years later. Immersive world with plenty of playable races creates a strong atmosphere along with epic soundtrack. Story is strong, yet simple, it's mainly an RTS game afterall, but still you have a sense of purpose and pursue your quest. RPG aspect of the game is great. Your hero gets experience after battle and you get to choose from loads and loads of skills, perfect to tinker with your desired build. AI has different difficulty settings, from easy (knight), to a completely ruthless grand warlord who can still beat the sh*t out of me even after so many years. Campaign is long enough to keep you entertained over a weekend, and then there's skirmishes and multiplayer. Haven't checked the functionality of multiplayer, but the game itself runs smoothly on win10, no problem at all. Well done! I can recommend WBC2 and WBC3 as well, but this one will always be the best for me.

I played WBC3 quite some time ago, so I was interested in seeing what the predecessors were like. First some positives. There's a lot of different factions that all play differently, no mirror factions here. As such there are many different units, as well as many different Hero classes. The Hero progression of the series is one of the better implementations I've seen in an RTS, and the Retinue idea is pretty great as well. The major downside for me is that you can only play the campaign as Human to start. You get a bit of time with other races depending on which path you take, but much less time spent than humans. The gameplay is also pretty slow relative to other RTS games, I find myself getting bored slowly building up before really doing anything. Other things of note - while WBC is mostly stable, I have hit a couple crashes and a couple graphical glitches where the game screen goes black for a few seconds. Also, this might be just because I'm kind of bad with Humans, but this is possibly the most difficult campaign I've played. This game on Easy is at least as difficult as most of SC2 on Brutal.

MEMORY: Great strategy. I have great memories of the series: Warlords Battlecry. WARNING: I got it on discount. Tried to run it on Windows 10, Intel HD430/NVIDIA GF 1050TI. I couldn't get it to run in 2025 on this configuration sadly. I got a refund in my wallet within an hour on an Easter evening. Very impressed. I'll use my funds to get a modern game that'll run without tricks. You could probably get it to run on an older system, in VM with Windows XP or some other hack but I didn't feel like it. RECOMMENDATION: Get the game into GOG. Fix the resolution and crash issues and I'd be glad to get it again.

played this since my childhood! Ilove the first warlords battlecry!