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- Fantasy Forces
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- Reviewed by - The Grave Digger
-
- Intro
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- Does anyone remember playing tabletop battles? You know, little painted
- lead armies of elves and dwarves marching across fake landscapes to the
- tune of rolling dice?
-
- How we cheered when the last Lich fell beneath the swords of the White
- Knights, how we scattered in terror when the zombie dragon fell screaming
- out of the sun (table lamp) and ripped my poor dwarf champion to a
- million pieces, and how everyone laughed when my mate went home because
- he lost again!!
-
- This game brings back memories very much like those I've mentioned. It
- tries to recreate the tabletop battle games and in my opinion it does it
- quite well. It's very much like Lords Of Chaos, but less involved.
-
- The Game
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- It's for 2-4 players. Each player can set up an army of various
- characters ranging from simple soldiers to large red Demons from hell.
-
- Each player can have up to 200 points in which to build his army. Each
- character that you choose will take up a few points, for instance, if you
- wanted a Elf Ranger with a bow in your army, it would cost you
- (Elf=3)+(Bow=2)=5 points. So you could have an army of 40 Elf Rangers
- all running around with bows in their hands. Spell casters are available
- as well with Wizards to Necromancers and the odd Healer there as well.
-
- There are two types of scenarios available, Total Slaughter, which is a
- kill everything in sight game or Standard Defender where an army must
- capture the others War Standard by killing the character holding it.
-
- The playing areas provided range from small to large with a few castles
- thrown in. Due to the nature of the terrain in the game areas the
- characters can only see things in line of sight so your never sure whats
- round that next tree!
-
- You can also edit the play areas to suit your gaming needs, anything from
- tightly packed to huge areas. Also you can configure the terrain, rocks
- trees holes in the ground, rotting graves etc... so your never stuck
- with the same old games.
-
- The game can also have time limit set up to 100 turns, the game will end
- there even if no-one has died!
-
- The Good/Bad Points
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- Well I love it! It is one of the best games I've played in a long time.
- There is a good balance of characters to choose from, and the games can
- last for a long time if you creep around and try hit and run tactics.
-
- The ability to edit the existing map areas or create your own in great,
- you can have a rocky mountain pass, a heavily packed forest or an
- abandoned graveyard filled to the brim with undead!
-
- I like having one army consisting of all Dwarves against an army of Dark
- Elves and seeing who wins!
-
- It can become very nail biting when you only have two archers defending
- your standard bearer, while the other player has swamp trolls closing in
- fast from all angles! This is only an early version and the docs say the
- author is changing it to run in C so the next version should be better.
-
- Although I do think it could do with a few enhancements.
-
- First it would be nice for a computer controlled army that way you don't
- have to have a friend to play it with. A few more weapons like broad
- swords, pikes, shields and the ability for a standard bearer to have a
- weapon would help as well. Horses and other transport, like chariots,
- dragons characters, Bigger playing areas and more terrain to add as well.
-
- And what I would like is the ability to create a Champion character.
-
- Apart from that I would recommend this game to any fantasy gamer who
- likes a good sword bashing!!!!!
-
- Cheers....
-
- The Grave Digger
-
- This game is available on these boards:
-
- Channel-X 0181 943 5187
- The Graveyard 01708 452284
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- An offline version of this game is being tested on The Graveyard BBS, if
- you are interested and want to play against The Grave Digger and win a
- reward for coming first then give my BBS a call on 01708 452284.
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