Warlords Battlecry

I had no experience with this series. Some of the mechanics are a bit weird but overall this is still a very good game. The gameplay is great! Give it a fair chance, you wont be disappointed :)

I played this and Baldur's Gate 1 at the exact say time back in 2000 and really enjoyed it. I found this on GOG and was so jazzed to relive those days. Sadly time has diminished the experience for me. The problems I have with this game are the same I have with other city builder style games - too hard AKA requires too much immersion to make it fun. I get that some people like the thrill of just surviving a skirmish by the skin of their teeth. I don't. I play games to unwind from a long work day. These style games require so much study to have even a snowball's chance of survival that you might as well just read a book instead. Because before you even get out of the 1st chapter you'll be outgunned so badly that only pure blind chance or a masters knowledge of each race and individual unit will give you even the slightest chance. It's so skewed against the player as to take the relaxation aspect completely out of the game. This is my experience. You may have a different one. It depends what you want from a game. For me the fighting is incidental. I enjoy the building, the creating, the problem solving. There's not even a space bar pause in this game to collect your thoughts and catch your breath as the enemy hurls dozens of enormous beasts at you in an endless chain. Monsters it would take you an hour of irl time to make just one - if you had access to the resources. Which you don't. The game has AI which perfectly understands not only each unit and it's usefulness but can calculate what units you have and plan against you. So basically you're playing a chess supercomputer but instead it's a city builder game. No difficulty options to make your life easier. In the end I tried the last battle of the 1st chapter about 40 times and couldn't get even 5% through it. That was more than enough wasted time for me. Like many builder games this one is beyond the means of a normal Joe. Thanks for the memories but Warlords Battlecry is going back on the shelf where it belongs.

i bought this from a bargain bin instead of GOG . for people who played warcraft 2 and 3 before they discovered this game, i fear they would be disappointed like me. it has a novel and non-tedious way to gaining resources for building stuff, but it's rather non-intuitive unlike the warcrafts. otherwise feels like the missing the link between WC 2 and 3. nothing really impressive. but worth looking into for fans of fantasy themed RTS games.

Warlords Battlecry has come a long way. But the first installment, if your first was the second game, aged like milk. So few unit choices, cheating AI (easy mode campaign will have you pulling your hair out) and big bulky buildings make base building a nightmare. Skip this one.

The epic menu music does not work for some reason. Which was what I was looking really forward to!