Well as RP sever is down i started to dig my CD collection and found this good old game i played 3 years ago:)
It is RTS type game and quite unique.
You have command of small armies of ronin, samurai, warlocks and werewolves. It's more of a tactical game in spirit than a strategy game, but by taking the focus down to a much more personal level, Battle Realms succeeds in drawing you deep into the action.
Battle Realms gets by with only two resources -- rice and water. Instead of buying units outright you'll need to train your peasants as warriors in order to create your armies
In Battle Realms all units start as peasants but they can train at various buildings to become other units like spearmen and archers. You can then take those units and send them to be trained at other structures to produce even more powerful units. Spearmen can be sent to the archery range to become dragon warriors. Archers can be sent to the alchemist hut to become chemists (apparently a Japanese word for "guy who shoots fireworks at you"). You can then even take these units and train them at other buildings as well to produce yet even more powerful units.
Tons of personality in the animations and voices bring the units to life. Every warrior has a handful of combat animations that are truly thrilling to watch (your own hero unit will occasionally draw his sword and practice some moves when at rest). Samurai kneel and pray, wounded units stagger and limp around and peasants get thrown to the ground when taming horses. Perhaps the most thrilling animation is when you select a group of your units and watch them all draw their weapons in anticipation of carrying out whatever ass-kicking you've got in mind.
In SP there are 4 clans who fight to take the lead, you have Serpent clan at begining, then progressing trough Campaign will unlock other Dragon clan, game has total 4 clans wich only 2 are for skirmish/online play Lotus and Wolf....
would be nice if such old and popular games would be freeware after some time. ( like GTA 1 and 2, netstorm, warzone 2100 etc. )
i played the battlerealm demo back then - didn t like it much - prolly cause my computer couldn t handle it ( awesome 8 mb ram !!! and 66 mhz - wow, 3d graphics? no way, a 2mb vga ...:laugh:) - oh, yes, bad old times
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