I remember this one! So many games totally forgotten but this was a masterpiece and trailblazer of its time. I was really curious how well this would work for me today and surprisingly the basic strategy part is still as good as it was back then. Limited forces and above all limited time to gather and concentrate them makes this game very, very hard if you are ambitious about stopping the hordes early. The quest part is weak, to put it mildly, by modern standards. I suspect that most if not all who have no fond memories of OLD games will find this game unbearable due to total lack of eye candy and sounds and the lack any sort of stuff we have grown accustomed to in titles like TotalWar, but as a nostalgy trip it is a little gem that made me smile. 5 stars in 1984, 0 stars in 2013 = 3 stars
The one bad thing about Silent Storm was that they did not make more games from this mold.
