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[lazygun]

I was playing Battle for Wesnoth. Excellent game. For those who don't know, it's a wargame based in a fairly standard fantasy setting with elves, dragons, undead, and of course dwarves. Plenty of user-generated campaigns too. The gimmick for the campaign I just downloaded and started is that you have an unusual form of magic, elementalism, not seen elsewhere in the game. So there I was in a cavern learning how to summon an army of water elementals, fire elementals, and so on, and then... the dwarves broke into my cavern while mining for a particular rare and magical metal! I looked in stunned surprise. Every now and then a campaign scenario will suddenly change the rules leaving the player out of position and unprepared. And then I started laughing! I am the HFS! Mwahahaha! And then I crushed the dwarves.

[breadbocks]

Sound dorfy!

[Dae]

I tried that game. It actually IS quite good, but I couldn't get myself to play it after a point.
For those who haven't played Battle for Wesnoth, every unit in your army has experience, gains levels and slowly evolves. The thing is, once you lose them, you lose them forever. I made the mistake of growing attached to some of those, and have been extremely frustrated when I lost some random dude who just happened to be with me from the beggining.

But now, I've played DF. I probably would make each of these lovable soldiers I slowly grew attached to, kill each other in a fiery blaze of blood and thunder, then make the winner wear the skin of his former friends so he can remember that day. Because, you know, life sometimes gets a little harsh.

[Untelligent]

Also it's completely free, so I recommend it to anyone who likes strategy-RPGs (Final Fantasy Tactics, Fire Emblem, and the like).