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Is Warlock a fun game?
That is sort of a loaded question. Is it a fun game? Yeah of course. I love how you never feel like you need to keep huge armies everyhwere and how there is a sort of dynamic between the races (Humans generate the most gold, Goblins generate the most food, Undead generate the most mana, and Elves generate the most research). As well when you first start the game seems to hold untold treasures!
Is it a good game?... That is up for debate. Honestly in many ways it isn't. The AI is really awful, the balance is non-existant, luck outright determines the winner, and in many ways your starting race is less meaningful. As well the magic never really gets epic and for a game that is taking hints from "Master of Magic" that is a shame. It is actually shame because the spells just end before they really get epic. In fact you will run out of god spells (spells given to you by a diety) way before you get anywhere close to a very high relationship.
You can even make your own character with his own advantages from a pool... but the vast majority of them are useless or quickly useless (Yay... 100 starting gold...) or REALLY powerful (+20% research? My goodness!). Don't expect their point cost to tie into their true value as a lot of them are just for flavor (Like having a starting Koatal village)
Elves are sort of incredibly unbalanced at the moment. The issue with Elves is that their unit theme is that they have high upkeep but for that exchange you get a lot of power. Goblins also do not balance well for their "low" upkeep because you will realise that this isn't a game where wave tactics work, this is a game about a few key powerful units.
Yet in many ways it is. The way everything comes together with you stacking your spells and upgrades into singular powerful units to siege towns no one could normally. Getting heros of unmeasurable strength and oddity (You can recruit any hero, but the ones you find are always high quality. Mind you my "best" hero was recruited for tons of cash and was pretty much game breaking).
As I said it is a game that doesn't do anything really wrong, but it just doesn't really come together as a good game.
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I really hope you eventually take a leader Mech#4. I am a bit surprised you didn't do it this time just so you could wallow in his misery.
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