Legions

Legions is a video game in the strategy genre developed by Mindscape, Inc. and published by Mindscape, Inc. originally released in 1994. It is currently playable on Mac, Windows 3.x.

Legions is an ignored war strategy game from Mindscape, designed for Windows 3.1.

It is a simple and unique strategy game, but it has some serious flaws. For starters, even though it runs on Windows 9598, the age of the game shows, as the graphics are simple and you move around the map with the scrollbars, and ONLY with those scrollbars. The main objective of the game is to choose a nation and conquer the world with it. You can choose from a series of historical or random situations, from 1200 BC to 800 AD. Each turn, you can manage your economy (deciding what to buy or sell, although your advisor takes care of critical food and supply needs), build military units, manage diplomacy and move your units. Each nation also has an 'elite' unit that includes the ruler. This unit is very powerful in battle, but if it is destroyed, your ruler dies. However, this is where one of the unique ideas comes into play: you automatically get an heir to continue the game as long as you have a major city. To destroy another civilization, you have to take all of its major cities AND kill its ruler(s). Also outstanding are the game's fantastic help menus (with easy to understand information) and the great story sections in the manual. more games should have this! In addition, your nation needs to have a strong economic infrastructure to support your army, as your cities supply your economy, and supplies are needed to keep your units in the field. Without a strong economy, you will be forced to disband units and will not be able to buy materials to build more. This is a feature that more strategy games should have.

It is also fairly easy to learn how to play. However, after playing the game a bit, the flaws come to the surface. Simply put, the game is too SIMPLE. Combat is handled abstractly, selecting a tactic when facing enemy units. You have no control over your cities and can only move military units. Diplomatic options are limited, the AI is horrible, and even on the higher difficulty levels the game is easy to beat once you know what you're doing. It will keep you entertained for a while, but it doesn't have the exciting 'one more turn' feature. Players new to war strategy games or looking for a game set in the ancient world will enjoy it, for a while. All others are advised to stay away.

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