Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat

I keep coming back to this game, every few years I play it a whole bunch. Still one of my favs!

Good game and works fine (no crash on Win10).

I made a full let's play of this game. in a nutshell you basically roll a dice to see if you can proceed to the next level. In a not so nutshell: You take your mercenaries into battle, you fight greenskins and skavens, you squint your eyes for secret items, you manage your casualties and roster. Branching paths, not many, one in the early game that can lead to some interesting missions and allies(which you get anyway but later). Granted most branching paths are just optional missions. Very difficult game that requires you to play a battle a couple of time to learn the flow of enemy reinforcements. This is absolutely great if not for one thing....everything is a random dice roll and if you take unknowingly too many casualties you have to restart the ENTIRE CAMPAIGN should you accept the victory. Every battle is a random event where even if you execute it perfectly a bunch of stickers can wipe out multiple regiments because of dice rolls, dice rolls everywhere. You would think your top tier armor cavalry(not the starting one) can survive at least one volley of arrows...nope! dice rolls!! because dice rolls were a thing of the 90s, you gotta have dice rolls in "vidjeogaimes" This, Fantasy general and every SSI game aside from sword of aragon(best game ever made) suffers from this problem, dice rolls.

I've discovered this game too late, thank to the gods, because it could have destroyed my social teen life. The game is quite old, time is graving on UX and tactical view of the units. By the way the story, pixel art and music are still great today (for my personal taste). Make tactical map and midi music work under Linux has been really a pain, but know that it works I'm really enjoying it. If you are a fan of retro-gaming and Warhammer Fantasy world I can easly reccomend it to you.

There is a good game here, somewhere behind all the Jank. The game runs pretty well I haven't had any visual or audio problems the only issue I have is that it takes a bit to transition between menus. Now I will give my sincere opinion the game absolutely needs a remaster. As said before there is a good and possibly great game here especially if you're into Warhammer The Old World. I am one of the newest fans of Warhammer and I'm always keen to play more Video Games on my favourite universe but this is really not playable for me. I am no stranger to 90's RTS games. I grew up playing StarCraft, Command & Conquer and Age of Empires so I know what to expect from early RTS jank with pathfinding, controls and such but this game feels worse to control than the original WarCraft and Dune 2. Nothing feels natural I can't pan the cammera by moving the cursor to the sides of the screen and it uses that old Dune 2 style of controls where you have to order your units my clicking on the move button and then on the ground to move a unit. As for the UI it's awful and you can't really tell at a glance what button does what. All in All there's a great game here that needs some love I am saddened that it will probably remain as an early 90's jank and never get a remaster it so desperately needs. As of now don't spend your money on it unless you're familiar with the game and its quirks, if you want a simmilar experience to this I can't recommend Mark of Chaos enough and Total War Warhammer 2 (soon to be 3) if that kind of game. Great game its age kills it!