Build up a great army and regain your throne in this excellent strategy game!
Battle for Wesnoth
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- 63 MB
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Game Description
Turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme!
In the Battle for Wesnoth, you will build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand!
Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir. Step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost. Vanquish a horde of undead warriors unleashed by a foul necromancer, who also happens to have taken your brother hostage. Guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home.
200+ unit types. 16 races. 6 major factions. Hundreds of years of history. The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and limited only by your creativity - make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.
Game Features
- Build up a formidable fighting force, starting from a single leader and a small amount of gold.
- Over 200 unit types in six major factions, all with distinctive abilities, weapons and spells.
- Experienced units gain powerful new abilities as they advance.
- Several multi-player options available, including internet play.
- Scores of different custom-designed maps, and unlimited random maps.
- Hundreds of campaign scenarios available for download via a simple in-game procedure.
- 'Fog of war' feature available for a true test of generalship.
- Sophisticated mark-up language lets advanced users make their own maps, factions or campaigns.
- Excellent language support - 35 different languages currently available.
- GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2 & eComStation compatible.
Player Reviews
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AWESOME !!!!!!, Nov 05, 2009
by Mark Broderick (London,Ont,Canada)
I can’t believe this is freeware!! I can’t stop playing it! I have an old computer with little ram and garbage graphics but the game graphics still out do other ” free games “. The story lines go way beyond most other games with great detail..
The battle scenes are the best part…it takes logistics and skill to win each individual battle..Each fighter has unique abilities to defeat different enemies on different terrain…( what a brain squeeze ! ). If you want a game that challenges your strategic mind and you like RPG type games, then this is it ! The first levels are easy for training but then ????
ENJOY…...
Simple to learn, yet complex to master, Sep 07, 2008
by Vikorus (Mesa, AZ)
This turn-based strategy game is one of my all-time favorites. Instead of focusing on fancy graphics, the creators opted for a focus instead on complex gameplay. Most of your playing time will consist of battling through well-written campaigns, most of which are 5-20 scenarios long. The basic idea is simple; there’s a clear goal of each scenario. In practice, it can get a little more complex, since you must balance time of day, terrain, strengths, abilities, areas of control, experience, healing, gold, and a large scale of other factors to win (don’t worry; it’s pretty intuitive to learn). There are 6 main factions (men, elves, dwarves, drakes, orcs, and undead), none of which have an inherent advantage against the others, and the campaigns mix these factions for even more variety. If you finish all the official campaigns, you can play against other players online or download one of the myriad of community-developed campaigns and factions, giving the game endless variety and interest.
The Tactical Version of Dungeons & Dragons, Jul 26, 2008
by Shuwesh (Knoxville TN, USA)
This game structure could easily be used as a tactical adjunct to D&D. The character types and plots involved are very D&D-like. All we need now are ways to advance characters beyond level 3, and we’ll have something very D&D-like.
Each individual unit has a unique name, appropriate to its character type and race.
Because of this feature one tends to become emotionally attached and sympathetic to individual units, especially main characters.
The variety of units is pleasing, but it strikes one that there is over-much use of only a few "villain" races, such as "undead" and orc
units. While other villain types appear in the course of events, such creatures tend to be weak and rare.
Due to the unlimited expandability of the game, such concerns can be easily remedied by writing a bit of code. Since the game is open-sourced, anyone can write code to modify and improve the game to their liking.
Altogether a very pleasing tactical experience. The A.I. is superior to most other games.
Surprisingly Fantastic Game, Jun 26, 2008
by Chris (Singapore)
Compared to Heroes of Might & Magic, this game would seem simple (no resources needed, just gold, no spell casting, etc), but as you play, you will learn how deep this strategy and challenging the game is.
Best of all, it’s an open source, which means other players create new campaigns for you to play. And there is also an online match that you can play with other players.
It’s worth $50 or more, but it’s available free.
Battle to the Death!!!, May 31, 2008
by Lord Artix (Somewhere)
Man! its just so good i can’t stop playing it! It dominates my mind wherever i go i just can’t get enough of it!
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