Spellforce: Conquest of Eo is like Age of Wonders and Thea made a baby

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I did a search before creating the topic.

This is a turn based, focussed/smaller scale version of SpellForce, and it looks very interesting.

I have heard it described as:

AoW and Thea made a baby.

Links of interest:

https://conquest.spellforce.com/

Forgive lack of writing.

It is a PITA to create a post using a mobile phone, and I dont get to my home computer until Friday evening, and no way am I using the work computer for this lol.

From what I can gather, there are 3 maps (one for each difficulty level) and 3 classes, and your character is never actually onscreen (so, like Kings Bounty?) But each map has randomised aspects, e.g. randomised resource nodes.

You don’t control any cities.

Your base is a Wizard’s Tower, which you upgrade.

You can expand your control by building lodges, which require a hero to construct.

Heroes are recruited in your tower.

I am intrigued.

Release is apparently soon.

I’ll be spending my evening with gamerzakh.

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Hey @legowarrior, something you might like. :)

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I think it might be. I will keep an eye on it, but right now, my game card is full.
I will add it to my wish list, and I hope to hear either great things about it from all of you. Or terrible things!

I refuse to have any ambiguity on whether this game is worth it! I will be watching this thread!

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Wishlisted

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The Explorminate article contains a Interview with one of the developers, so while it’s a short read make sure to watch the video. Aside from that, THQ Nordic showed off tons of footage back during Gamescom. Each segment is between 20-40 minutes long, and there’s some repeat gameplay but the devs do change.

Day 1:

To me, one of the most interesting bits is the fact you can pick up your Tower and just plonk it down somewhere else. I do wish more people knew about it cause it seems very fun/interesting but also flying under the radar at the moment.

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Got this one wishlisted, can’t recall where I heard about it. But given its location on my wishlist (i.e. at the bottom and therefore not yet categorize by how much I want it) I have to assume it’s a recent discovery.

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Welcome, and thank you for sharing!

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This is a spin-off developed by the guys who’ve made Fantasy General 2 plus its gazillion expansions. That game received good reviews and positive word of mouth. It’s safe to assume though their Spellforce game will have a rather small budget and a flexible attitude towards asset recycling.

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Its been highlighted that the footsteps sounds your units make in battle is apparently the exact same one as in FG2…

I watches the full 100 minutes ganer zakh video and it has got me intrigued.

There’s a very high chance I’ll buy this at release.

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Wonder if this is even ready? BBB, you got the inside take on this one by chance?

Guess we’ll find out sooner than I certainly expected (feb 3rd):

Probably good idea to get out the door well in front of AOW4.

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Feb 3? Wow, that was a lot sooner than expected.

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Sources say it is.

I’m not one of those sources by the way!!!

I had heard end of March…

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Many peolle are comparing the 2, but i think AoW = 4x, paint the map.

CoE is something else, reimagined Kings Blunty the Legend, travel the map.

I mean, it has weeks as a mechanic, lots of other stuff.

You never control a city either.

In other words, plenty of room for both

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And eeeeoooo is the sound you make after passing the King’s Blunty.

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Save the Reefer Kingdom, milord!

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I almost wish I smoked…

I will not correct this. Let my humiliation stand.

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Thanks for the info, I’m actually glad to hear these have some separation in terms of what they’re about.

And good idea leaving it as it is, a good chuckle from that.

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2023 is filling up with strategy goodness really fast! Really interested in this one.

Plus I’ve got my eye on:
AoW4
Gal Civ 4 Next(the big patch that will coincide with the Steam launch)
Shadow Empire: Oceania
Alliance of the Sacred Suns
Phantom Brigade on Steam!?
Zephon
Men of War 2
Field of Glory Kingdoms
Zodiac Legion

This doesn’t bode well for getting my own game out the door…

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Yeah, this is looking like a really good year for the type of games I like the most.

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I suspect they may have moved it up a month after the AoW4 announcement. I’m sure that may have put some pressure on them to avoid overlap. For me it’s perfect. I can play this until AoW4 comes out.