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Doomforge
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posted September 02, 2008 06:41 PM |
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The hammer of gods!
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this game on HoMM forums, as it is the progenitor of our favorite series!
Hammer of Gods was a game pretty much similar to HoMM, although it many elements similar to the Warlords series, too.
The heroes of HoG were pretty much like heroes of HoMM4 - they fought personally and could be killed. The exploration was similar, although there were no adventure objects - only towns and ruins (which were activated only if a quest has been given to the player). The goal of each game was to complete the quest pack of pyramidal structure - at first you have had many to choose from, with poor rewards, and on each level, there was less and less quests, but with better rewards.
Cities had no dwellings and could only produce 3 types of units (basic infartry, archers, special unit unique for each of 4 races and viking heroes, available if you were rich enough to attract them)
There were items that could be worn by heroes (you could possess multiple heroes in one army btw) and magi. The magi were an advanced shooting unit.
There were four sides. Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Trolls. humans had the special unit of berserker - tougher infantry, elves had better archers - elves, dwarves had, well, dwarves! and trolls had trolls.
The combat was unique and in my opinion better than in any HoMM game. Each unit could move only 1 tile forward, so the importance of shooters was much much bigger. You targeted units manually with archers - yes! It took some practice to learn how to aim  Melee combat was also more interesting - units could block hits, taking no damage, and the higher their DEF was, the better the chance of blocking got. The units used the classical "attack-retaliation" method, but there wasn't just one attack or one retal ; The attacker struck 3 times unless the opponent died, and the defender retaliated twice.
There were many units, and they could be only acquired as quest rewards - along with heroes and items. Some of them were pretty fun - ogres, giants, dragons, magi  The standard fantasy selection of units.
The cities differed in size (from village to city). Villages had just a bit of peasants as defense. Towns, burgs and especially cities had better defenses, including archers, knights, barons and dukes (the latter was a neutral counterpart of a hero). There were also castles and monasteries on the map; you could loot and destroy them, but they were heavily guarded.
Even conquering a city was interesting. You had four options. You could subjugate it, which was the equivalent of capturing the town in homm. You could raid it, which gave you some gold, you could plunder it (new recruits at your town + even more gold but the town was left severly crippled and pretty much unusable), finally you could raze it (max gold, but the town was obviously destroyed in progress ).
The game is abandonware now but don't even dream about running it without dosbox. Since I'm planning to buy PSP though, and since PSP can emulate dos games, perhaps I will sink into that Norse fantasy world again )
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Daystar
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Back from the Dead
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posted September 02, 2008 10:08 PM |
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do you have a linky?
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How exactly is luck a skill?
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Doomforge
Admirable
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Retired Hero
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posted September 02, 2008 10:12 PM |
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sure thing
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It's from underdogs so it means a horrible download speed, but it's working. I'm sure you can find it in a thousand of other places over the internet, too - that site is just the most famous when it comes to abandonware.
Don't expect it to work without dosbox 
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Daystar
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posted September 03, 2008 04:47 AM |
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dosbox?
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How exactly is luck a skill?
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phoenixreborn
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posted September 03, 2008 04:58 AM |
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Old school. I'll definitely check it out.
Uh, Turn-based right?
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Geny
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Undefeatable Hero
What if Elvin was female?
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posted September 03, 2008 09:38 AM |
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned this game on HoMM forums, as it is the progenitor of our favorite series!
Actually, they got released in the same year (1995), which in itself is kind of odd, so I doubt you could call it a progenitor. But that's just nitpicking of course.
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Doomforge
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posted September 03, 2008 09:51 AM |
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Uh, Turn-based right?
yup.
Daystar: Dosbox is a x86 emulator. Excellent thing. Every DOS game works on it with sound and everything!
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