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Ok. Beat it. General useful tips:

 * Magic is horribly unbalanced. Your very first starter mage hero with the default troops is all you need to get through the entire game...

Hmm... I may just be doing something wrong, but the only map I used the mages (trainee's/archmagi) for had almost all of the enemies weak to the element I used and I still lost. Again though, I'm probably just doing something wrong.

Quote from: Draco18s on June 20, 2010, 01:42:36 pm

Steam, by Valve, the alternative to Impulse.

Speaking of which, you can take your AI War key that you bought in Impulse and register it with Steam too.

Yes, thank you. I know what steam is. I don't know what he meant by 'make an announcement' or 'ask around on steam'. Ask whom? Where?

For anyone that might not know there's a Dwarf Fortress Community on Steam. Just click on Community when you start up steam and do a search for the DFC. It should pop right up and you can join there then make announcements/post comments/etc. There's quite a lot of Team Fortress 2 going on there, but there's also a bunch of other games. It seems like people can pretty much just mention something and at least a few other people will play.

Edit: Also, downloading the demo. Looks like a lot of fun from what I've read.

Hmm... Dosbox doesn't work (I tried it earlier on my win7 64-bit laptop I keep at work) but I'll have to try that virtual PC out sometime when I'm at that computer.

So, assuming I found the same game you did (the Caesary on kongregate that popped up on google) it's... Evony. In flash form. It's been a while since I've played Evony though, so this may just be based on it or whatever. It kind of gave itself away when the tutorial lady kept saying "My Lord". But yeah, if you like that kind of "idle game" as they call it (start something, walk away for half an hour, come back to do the next thing) it seems pretty polished.

Haha, well the 5th level wasn't bad and I'm working on the last one now. I guess we'll see how I do... I might have to figure out how to slow it down if that makes it easier. Probably not, but maybe.

Edit: Huh. I don't know if I figured something out part way through, but levels 5 and 6 as well as the intermediate and advanced random levels I played weren't as hard as 3 and 4. Fun game! Thanks for pointing it out.

Yeah it reminds me of the Lufia dungeon too. The "artifacts" aren't special weapons, by the way. They're just random stuff that happens to show up in a yellow chest which means you can keep it. Some of them can be quite good, but I'll agree the arty weapons I've found have been fairly lacking so far.

That Evolution game looks really neat, but I can't get it working on Win7 (keep getting MEM BAD POINTER errors, even in Win95/256 colors compatibility mode and after using the reg file). AntRush looks pretty cool too and I'm setting it up right now. Hopefully it runs!

Edit: Seems to be running ok and the game itself looks pretty neat.