After a few years you might have a huge patch of ant mounds and you can go scoop up some ants for your armies (they're pretty strong.) Can also easily create more mage commanders which is unusual. He can use the drained life to summon monsters: one possible outcome of his level 2 summoning ritual is an ant queen that creates a mound that creates more ant queens. The Scourge Lord makes pillars and pyramids that drain life from surrounding tiles, eventually turning them into desert. Has mages that are extremely powerful against humans and animals, confusing or putting to sleep huge swathes of non-mindless enemies Can also use mirrors to travel quickly between strongholds across the map. The illusions' attacks can be resisted but not easily and the highest level mirrors spit out extremely deadly monster illusions. The illusionist makes mirrors that spit out spells or illusionary troops. One of the weakest factions early on, the enchanter has a dizzying amount of rituals available: he can turn 1 iron into a fragile animated sword, bow or two spears, if he's in a swamp he can make free heavy pike infantry out of clay (or just turn the swamp into a clay golem), he can use corpses to make snakes out of bones that mind control people, he can make tools that increase the output of his mines (or just turn the mines into more golems.) His high level golems that are created using the most valuable mining sites will stomp hundreds of enemies while taking little damage but they can also be killed very quickly by necromancers and demons using Decay spells The carrion monsters can't be controlled directly but will roam around capturing sites for you. After a year or two his mom shows up, she (or other shamans you might be offered to hire) can harvest fungus and turn forests into carrion monster factories. Can be killed very quickly with spells like soul slay and decay and can't deal with getting set on fire so watch out. He can deal with a huge number of mooks and expand quickly. Probably the faction with the most powerful starting army, the troll king has a huge health pool, armor and regeneration. I haven't played nearly all of them but here are the ones I've tried so far in coe5: I've played the game a bunch but I've still barely touched planar stuffĪ big draw of the game is the variance between the different factions: there are 24 of them and many of them play very differently. You'll play through a lot of games without ever seeing more than the three 'basic' planes (Elysium, Sky and Agartha) and very frequently opening passages to other planes will just make life more difficult for you (Inferno is filled with armies of brutal monsters, Primal is filled with brutal monsters and Irish mythological figures, Void is filled with brutal monsters and being there makes your commanders crazy etc) but there's a ton of stuff to find. The map is split into 9? different planes. Gameplay is split into two parts: the strategic map where you move your armies and manage your faction, and a tactical layer where combat happensĪs in Dominions you do not control the tactical layer directly: you can equip units with magical items and you have some control over what spells your mages use but that's it. If you lose all your citadels OR you lose all your commanders it's game over, so be careful! As with Master of Magic and Dominions there's no campaign or ongoing plot, just you trying to take over the map and kill your chosen competitors with whatever tools you have at your disposal. The goal of the game is simple: you're a wizard (or a fish cultist, or a birdman, or a big troll or something) in Elysium and you want to conquest it. More recent versions have added more modern features: in particular, CoE4 added actual battle maps that units move across, and most of the old 90s-era sprites have been replaced with higher resolution assets, but the bones of the game are still pretty old The CoE series is actually their original game project from when they were known as Magical Science, with the first title being released in the 90s for the Atari Falcon. Conquest of Elysium 5 is the latest game from Swedish dev team Illwinter Software, mostly known for their Dominions series of fantasy 4X games.
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