The Battlecry series took the much-loved turn-based Warlords games in a real-time direction, and did a very competent job of it. The games each offer a detailed campaign and a skirmish mode with a variety of map types, races, and units to play. One of the best features of the game was your retinue - a collection of up to 8 units you could transfer from one map to the next, keeping the experience they had gained. Each battle comes with a certain number of starting points, and as your retinue level up they can become quite expensive to deploy, but watching your level 8 fairy zooming around single-shotting the orc hordes makes it all worthwhile. Battlecry 2 offered a nice graphics upgrade, and Battlecry 3 is (not surprisingly) the most polished, and has more races and units available, but the original game had some neat features that were removed from the sequels in the name of simplicity, including ships and airships for transport. I'm hoping that we'll soon see Battlecry 2 to complete the trilogy, but between the original and the third game you do get most of what the series has to offer.
