RuneQuest: Warlords

Great game. Much like Battle Sector. But many interesting twists. Challenging to say the very least; difficult yet fun. I'd highly recommend - I paid full price and don't regret it at all. Give it a try - you can always refund it if it's not your cup of tea. Interesting units, with completely different weapons and skills. Highly addictive. Go for it!

Игра вполне достойна своих денег и чтобы ее разок прошли. Тактически интересная. Не сложная даже на максимальной сложности. ИИ конечно наитупейший, но давление количеством дает некий вызов. Сюжет простой, линейный и примитивный. Финал идиотский. Баги были только в самой последней миссии, не не критично.

The game has good premise, but the execution is in need of a bit of love. Many good things, partly even new (I can´t think of a strategy game, where an adjacent unit would attack together, as an additional action), so having to think of new paths towards solutions is nice. But, to stay with above example, the unit performing that extra attack is very, if not the most squishy in the game. It´s damage, even with some skills, is very meh. And this unit (not the main attacker) is running into the counterattack, while often doing negligible damage......So you have an extra, free attack, which is nice and worth strategizing for, but then you see that unit being mercilessly killed time and again....and did I mention, experience is gone after death (each scenario, a unit survives while on the field, adds some experience, independend of actions or units killed). Again something uncommon, which is nice, but in this case works absolutely against wanting to use the other earlier new extra attack thingy...It´s almost as if the people are afraid to introduce something new, and feel the need to nerf it into insignificance before applying it. I would have loved to make this extra attack work, if it was worthwhile (either more damage or more safety), but this way, everytime I look at that unit, I just feel sad. Some scenarios seem to not be tested enough (I had one, where just a dialogue popped up about an extra attacker smashing in some gates, I popped a djinn to contain, attacked one of the new attackers, and finished my turn finishing off the last unit of the main attacker....and poof, Scenario ended with me being lauded for saving all the villagers, even though I just saw new attackers coming on screen....) Some skills seem not to be working (Lady warrior can pop a shield made of wind, which supposedly damages attackers, but seemingly not the attackers in my playthrough;). Missing is an undo function(would be really helpful, as tooltips for skills are quite lacking, I still remember jumping my warrior into the enemy rear, looking to engagefrom both sides, only to discover, that the jump was so long, it had also consumed my action point, even though the skill said not to use action points. I can to tell you, that warrior seemed really impressed with my commanding skills:/...I found out later, that jumpdistance can be extended by making use of actionpoints...) And maybe worst of all the AI is quite limited. The AI loves attacking squishy units, mainly the priestess, and will run there, even though sometimes even 3 opportunity attacks will reduce the attacking unit to insignificance/death. So there is some fresh perspective, but the concept seems not to be thought through as a combined experience. But I end I´m having fun, so a recommendation to try it out. Without any changes though I would wait for a sale.

Just needs to be actually finished. From bugs(ranging from disappearing ground effects to hard lock-ups) to one of the worst audio fx I have heard to counter intuitive campaign design(enemies appear from thin air!) ... ... it's just a bad game(rather a game in a bad state to be more precise). But it has potential and if Slitherine / Virtuos actually give it attention, there is no reason why it shouldn't become as great as Battlesector. And for me to change my recommendation. But for now, as it is? Stay the hell away, save your money. Even if you like Glorantha / Runequest, there is nothing noteworthy to be found here. Yet.

Ich war sehr auf dieses Spiel gespannt, da ich ein Fan von Warhammer 40k - Battlesector bin, welches für dieses Spiel das technische Gerüst stellt. Da ich mich über jedes Rundenstrategie-Spiel freue, dass ähnlich wie Battlesector ist, gebe ich den Daumen hoch, damit auch weiterhin solche Spiele entwickelt werden. Nun habe ich 10 Missionen von 18 beendet und muss feststellen, dass es mich nicht reizt, die restlichen Missionen zu spielen. Denn objektiv hat das Spiel leider einige Schwächen, die meinen Spaß dämpfen. --- Story holt mich nicht ab, die Helden wachsen mir nicht ans Herz --- Schlechtes Treffer-Feedback: Egal ob Explosion oder Schlag mit großen Schwert, es passiert Ingame nichts --- Die KI schmeißt einfach eine Gegnerwelle nach der Anderen in Spiel. Dann wird großflächig Giftnebel-Wolkenteppiche über das halbe Schlachtfeld gestreut. --- Das Schlimmste: Es scheint keine Sichtweite zu geben. Gegnerwellen spawnen aus dem Nichts direkt neben meinen Einheiten. Man hat keine Chance sich taktisch auf Gegner vorzubereiten. So muss man sich beim ersten Run merken, wo die Gegner stehen bzw. spawnen und dann geht's. Da macht das oben genannte Battlesector deutlich mehr Spaß. RuneQuest: Warlords macht in etwa das was es soll und kann dem einen oder Anderem richtig Spaß machen. nicht hat es leider nicht so abgeholt. Einen Daumen zur Seite wäre hier die beste Bewertungsmöglichkeit.

The last mission is bugged as ♥♥♥♥. Should be fixed I will try again. The game is a nice basic tactical. Worth the price but please fix the issues.

If you like Glorantha. It's not Runequest as such.

PS 23 hours later I bring a bemol to my enthousiastic evaluation : The ratio Time / Fun in battle isn't always on the good side of balance especially at the beginning. Sounds needs to be improved and in general I'd say that the game needs a good polish :) But I keep feeling that the experience is globaly good Really appreciate the straight way they have to join scenario and battles. Troups are nice and combats are interesting with new features compaired with Battlesector but they kept the good way fights work well. A GIGA PLUS is : if you are found of Runequest universe, you'll love this game, so far, I already see that they respect the lore. We have orlanthis vs chaos with very themed armies. I m sure I will enjoy this game. I changed again my mind. At 35 hours, I went through nearly the whole game and unfortunately it is boring. The beginning hype leaves you quite quickly and missions are fastidious. The maps, sounds and musics are not wonderful. This game needs a serious rework to match with my early estimations. That is sad. I still think that once in sales, it will worth few bucks but nothing more.

A lot like wh40k battle sector. Pretty good turn based. Story is ok so far not a particularly amazing one but not bad either. I'm not too far into the main story.

100% recomendado para los amantes del lore de Glorantha!