Wow, I’m impressed by your deduction skills. It is indeed the original Warlords, a cover I have never seen for reasons best left unexplained of a game I dearly loved back then. Hotseat PC strategy has never again been so much fun.
For those who care, there is an EXCELLENT port/reimplementation of Warlords 1 for iPad.
What they need to rerelease is Warlords 2.
(And then what I need is to recover the files for the old Cthulhu-themed reskin scenario I built for it in college!)
@Arioch – I played a ton of Warlords back in the day, too, and never saw the cover. Because it was totally pirated.
I went to absolutely Herculean efforts to keep Warlords II Deluxe working under various versions of WIndows, for years. Although I think it’s pretty easy now with dosbox and virtualization software.
I actually liked Warlords III quite a lot because it added a few more interesting systems, but that one became mega-impossible to play very quickly for various reasons. I think I have a virtualbox image somewhere just for it specifically.
Quest For Glory 2?
Immortal?
Archon II.
W3: DLR is a timeless classic.
Man, the original Archon was my first favourite game.
There was an Archon sequel? I remember a… weird reboot, a few years back.
Archon II: Adept was the pre-reboot sequel.
Yep, it’s Archon II: Adept! I had to post an easy one as I’m on vacation starting now. I was telling my wife during the drive that I was surprised nobody had guessed it yet then said I had no doubt @Gordon_Cameron would be on in an hour or so and nail it. Nearly exactly an hour later, wham!
More complex but not as fun, I remember bouncing off the sequel pretty quickly.
I thought it had some cool ideas and was a legit attempt to make an interesting sequel, not just a cash-in. That said, the stuff with the elements was probably too complicated for its own good. Also some of the piece mechanics (e.g. Siren) maybe looked better on paper than in actual play. Still, my brothers and I had fun with it, though it never really supplanted the original.
New frame:
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines?
Nope.
Dang. That’s funny I thought he had it. I was thinking in a similar register, Ravenloft or something with some Frankenstein creatures in the D&D stable.
I spy a “not Nazi, honest” shield on that helmet, so… Commandos?