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Barbecue? I Hardly Knew her! Swords and Soldiers. $2.50 on Steam! 12/29
Huntera
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Rude BoyRegistered User regular
What the fuck is this shit?
It's pretty simple, actually, from steam;
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods!
Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities. Demolish your enemy’s castle at the end of these two-dimensional battlefields and lead your troops to victory!
Oh, so it's a strategy game?
Yes! And a fun one at that! With 3 races, each with their own nuances and play-style, the game can get pretty complex, even if it eventually might come down to who can make more units the fastest.
Now, races:
The Vikings are pretty straight forward, with overall good unit health, and being a little on the slower moving side, they make up for it with some of the best magic spells in the game, the majority of their mana regeneration comes from bought upgrades
The Chinese are a somewhat in-between race, they have some odd units, like a monkey who throws bombs at people then teleports behind them or a wizard who floats people into the air for about 5 seconds, killing them, and some very useful spells, the majority of their mana regeneration comes from buddha towers that you can place, which while faster at regeneration than the other two teams, means you have no defensive structures to place.
The Aztecs, the oddest race, they almost never have much health, or do an especially large amount of damage, but they are the fastest moving race in the game, with the exception of their Sun giants. They have an emphasis on poisoning people to do damage over time, and with a necromancer who can summon weak skeleton units out of corpses, you could rarely have to actually make troops at all, the majority of their mana regeneration comes from sacrificing troops, and you get mana back depending on the units level of health.
Game is steam play, it's $5 right now, it's super fun, you won't regret buying it, I promise you.
There's multiplayer between two people, and when you do the single player campaigns, you unlock mini-games that each have leaderboards.
And thanks to Druhim for pointing this game out in the steam thread and asking people to give it a shot.
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all three races are really balanced in that one can trump another but IS trumped by another, and yet you can still win if you're playing rock and they're playing paper
it feels like simply sidescrolling starcraft and it's great
Wow me, T4CT
and just probably did 3 or 4 rounds of back and forth
very much a good time
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fuck the Aztecs
Chinese are tough too but they also blow up real good from lightning
beat the campaign. short but fun.
people on multiplayer seem to either suck horribly or kick my ass with a minimal amount of effort.
I bet someone does
it's fun!
let's play!
I AM CAT MAN
or
i opened SOMEONE'S gift because I'm playing it
I could see the vikings, but I never really considered the aztecs devious or the chinese crafty.
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Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
then we can play it
FACT
i want to get a bunch of people playing it
and then league it
Put the sale price in the thread title.
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Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
i just wrecked a bunch of randoms online
and feel fucking great
i should have expected this!
he was vikings
i also got my shit WRECKED by another viking who pumped out all his runes of mana early on and would send one guy so he had sight on my gold line and just lightning'd my workers all to death
and so what if they're totally stereotyping?