Chuftie
Augur
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- Nov 4, 2010
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So it's my first LP, so expect me to do something wrong somewhere down the line and an awkward introduction.
Heading back to the subject of the game, it holds a special place but necessarily nostalgic place in my memory as one of the games I played on the PC when I was child. It was also my first non RTS strategy game which meant I sucked at it since it was nothing like Starcraft or Age of Empires and of course I was a kid. Never got too far in Roland's and I can't remember much in Archibald's except necro was easier for me and bone dragons are raddest thing ever. Still despite sucking at it I was enthralled by the board game like aesthetics and I confined myself to playing around inthe non campaign stuff. Roc around the clock and some other maps too.
Now I return decades later to play it and still suck mainly because I still haven't got the proper feel for it down. And that's where I call upon the hivemind to guide and help me learn the game or more likely misdirect and misinform me, as well as laughing and face palming as I screw up. Anyway I got Heroes Gold Edition and plan to play through the main campaigns, and then maybe some of the expansion stuff too.
Anyway opening up the main campaign gives us this lovely cinematic, detailing the two brothers, how lineage works in this place, and of course the troubling tendency for the seers to die. And of course how one of the brothers is evil and the other good and you know the usual shit that comes with the territory
Alright so now at this selection screen we get our choice of who to work and which campaign to start with. I got no real preference, but if no consensus is made I'll choose Archibald because Skeletal Dragons are rad and also because I'm more familiar with the Roland stuff. So which is it Codex? The guy with the cheesy flame pattern oriental looking shirt, or the hippie who looks like the priest units from Age of Empiries?
Heading back to the subject of the game, it holds a special place but necessarily nostalgic place in my memory as one of the games I played on the PC when I was child. It was also my first non RTS strategy game which meant I sucked at it since it was nothing like Starcraft or Age of Empires and of course I was a kid. Never got too far in Roland's and I can't remember much in Archibald's except necro was easier for me and bone dragons are raddest thing ever. Still despite sucking at it I was enthralled by the board game like aesthetics and I confined myself to playing around in
Now I return decades later to play it and still suck mainly because I still haven't got the proper feel for it down. And that's where I call upon the hivemind to guide and help me learn the game or more likely misdirect and misinform me, as well as laughing and face palming as I screw up. Anyway I got Heroes Gold Edition and plan to play through the main campaigns, and then maybe some of the expansion stuff too.
Anyway opening up the main campaign gives us this lovely cinematic, detailing the two brothers, how lineage works in this place, and of course the troubling tendency for the seers to die. And of course how one of the brothers is evil and the other good and you know the usual shit that comes with the territory
Alright so now at this selection screen we get our choice of who to work and which campaign to start with. I got no real preference, but if no consensus is made I'll choose Archibald because Skeletal Dragons are rad and also because I'm more familiar with the Roland stuff. So which is it Codex? The guy with the cheesy flame pattern oriental looking shirt, or the hippie who looks like the priest units from Age of Empiries?