Desura preorderTom Chick talks about necromancers (and going to be doing articles like this all week long)
Conquest of Elysium 3 is an old school fantasy strategy game. You explore your surroundings conquer locations that provides the resources you need. Resources needed vary much depending on what character you are, e.g. the high priestess need places where she can gather human sacrifices, the baron needs places where tax can be collected and where iron can be mined. These resources can then be used for magic rituals and troop recruitments. The witch can use fungus to summon a catoblepas whose gaze can annihilate an entire row of enemies per turn. The demonologist can summon powerful demon lords, but only if he is brave because the likelihood of a demon lord attacking his summoner is quite high. In short the main thing about this game is the amount of features and special abilities that can be used.
Well it wont be winning any beauty contests, but it sounds neat. One person in the QT3 thread talked about the game before this as a "strategy roguelike", which sounds fantastic to me!
I've been playing CoE2 a bit, for the past couple of days, and while there's some stuff with the interface I don't like, most of that seems to have been fixed in the sequel. It sort of reminds me of a strategy roguelike, I suppose, in that it plays fast, you die rather often, and there's a bunch of different kinds of monsters, heroes, magic artifacts and the like. There's no level progression though, although in CoE3 it will be possible to improve mages, so they can cast better spells.
Speaking of CoE2, it was released in 1997 and
oh look, its a free download now. I'm grabbing it and going to give it a spin.
Anyway, sounds like an interesting title.
