This sounds like micromanagement hell, but another reason Elysium stands out is that you have no influence whatsoever over battles. "A lot of the battle is in analysing the enemy, not telling every crossbowman in turn which goblin's bollock to shoot off." Even trees count as temporary units with appropriate attributes. They get stronger through experience, weaker through injuries, and become further empowered or plain warped by magic items. Each of the thousands of creatures you, your rivals, and the neutral wandering AI forces bring into the world is tracked in detail. Bring the blind one as well, might as well give him a good death. Give a shaman 20 spears, 15 archers, and oh, I dunno, 3 o-baks and the armoured 7 dai-baks left from that siege. Assign them to a leader and they'll become an army, along with anything else under that leader. Recruiting a batch of 15 gives you not one abstract token, but 15 individuals to split up as you like. Like the Bakemono, a tribe of diminutive, screeching mountain oafs who can recruit clutches of poorly armed goblins with gold, some larger, more imposing ones decked out like samurai for an extra cost in iron, and big ogrous brutes one by one.īut each individual creature is an independent unit. The biggest things marking it out are its sheer amount of stuff, and the huge differences between how factions play.
You explore, gather resources, and raise as much force as possible to kill off your enemies before they get you first. Although presented like a 4X, there's almost no building, no research or diplomacy. Each player (or AI) picks from a range of mythological/fantasy factions and sets out from their starting citadel looking to conquer a procedurally generated world using a combination of soldiers, summoned creatures, and magical spells.
This time around there's basically more of everything, and a heap of changes too esoteric to list, but fundamentally it's the same game as ever. If you've played 3 or 4, you pretty much know how 5 goes already.
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It's typically lazy and unhelpful to say "if you liked that you'll like this", but Conquest Of Elysium is a series defined by iteration. In fact, I've always somewhat overlooked the series, not really understanding what it was. Their release history has intertwined since the 90s, and both series share common concepts and many, many unit types. It's near impossible to describe Conquest Of Elsyium 5 without contrasting it to Dominions 5, the expansive god-creating strategy series also by Illwinter. This is The Rally Point, a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming.
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