Turn-based strategy meets adventure in an open-world ancient fantasy realm of kings, wizards, and fearsome creatures. Players unite kingdoms against a invading empire, recruiting characters to hire mercenaries, buy supplies, and strike hostile forces. Temples offer magic services, ruins hide valuable items, and other races can join as allies through persuasion.
Exploration drives strategic planning and tactical choices in this indie PC war-game, with easy resource management and hand-drawn graphics echoing classic illustrations. Custom scenarios and modding extend replayability. Hardcore players seeking intense challenge and frequent defeats will find their match here.
Legions of Ashworld is a turn-based war-game, which brings a sense of adventure to strategic war-gaming with its first-person view of an open world environment. The game is set in a ancient fantasy world of kings, wizards and fearsome creatures. When a powerful empire invades the lands governed by humans all the realms are plunged into a great conflict. It is the player's task to organise the opposition to the invading forces, uniting the kingdoms into an alliance and ultimately in taking the war back to the invaders.
As the various characters encountered across Ashworld are recruited to the player's cause, the player can then move them around the lands, having them performing a variety of activities, such as hiring mercenaries, buying goods and provisions, and attacking hostile forces. The lands of Ashworld contain many places of interest - especially noteworthy are various temples, from those occupied by servants of wizards' orders which provide magic services, to ancient abandoned ruins where valuable magic items can be found. Outside the territories where humans reside other races live who may become important allies if persuaded to join the war.
Main features:
- an open-world environment where exploration supplements strategic planning and tactical decisions
- easy management of resources
- hand drawn graphics in the style of classic, golden age, illustration
- designed to cater for custom scenarios/modding
Special notes
Legions of Ashworld is a hard game, suitable for players wanting something different with a lot of challenge. Those who are not ready for the defeat should stay away.
