Warlords battlecry series and warlords.
Still no games like them.
Was that the old dos game with with 8 different colors of races in fixed positions on a map, you hire heros, raid dungeon hoping to recruit dragons, conquer cities and build armies? Blue horselords in the middle? Black humans in the mountains in the upper right? Orcs were red in the middle right? Yellow giants and green elves near the bottom left?
That was a neat game. Took forever to play, but neat.
Warlords II (and Warlords II deluxe) took that and added in random maps, a map editor, and a scenario/unit editor and such as well. There were a few more sequels after Warlords II.
The Warlords Battlecry series is a RTS game with loads of factions and races, and your heroes level up from game to game (In hindsight, that feature was not the best for a multiplayer RTS).
Yeah, Warlords 3 being probably my favorite of the series for the turn based version. Warlords 4 wasn't really as good. However, I think warlords 3 (and 4) are far more sophisticated and a lot more to them than warlords battlecry. Sadly, warlords 3 doesn't work on windows 10, and I did all the suggested fixes people post. I don't want to use a virtual box or whatever it is that one site suggests doing. Warlords 4 works fine though, so that is good enough.
However, GOG may never be able to sell the Warlords series. Supposedly the original creator of the series doesn't have any copy of the game anymore and/or the rights are all owned by Ubisoft for the warlords franchise. So GOG only has the WB games for sell.
Warlords battlecry 2 and 3 are both really epic though, more simple than Warlords 3 and 4...but still a lot of fun. I kind of like WB3 more though, since its pretty much (at least to me) WB2 but better and more stuff. My favorite being an undead necromancer (kinda the cliche and popular choice lol)...since its such a fun race/class combo to be. But you can be a minotaur archmage if you wanted, you aren't limited at all. Or an Orc bard, or whatever you want to be...just threw out a couple examples lol. You can even be an insect style race that gets ants, or a dinosaur inspired race and get t-rexes lol.
Personally though, I like the persistent heroes that I never see in any games. Closest may be starcraft and warcraft, but the heroes aren't persistent. It does make it VERY unbalanced in multiplayer, but I always play against the AI anyway. So personally doesn't affect me. Still, for RTS games, I never see the persistent hero as a feature at all which is my favorite thing of WB and warlords 4.
Plus I also love all the unique races you can be (with warlords battlecry having more than warlords. Though warlords does let you play as a dragon race lol)
Also, it would be VERY easy to fix the unbalance of a persistent hero. make a singleplayer hero, and a multiplayer hero as separate. And make a level cap of 50 or something, so a hero can't just keep leveling and be all OP. Which is a problem in singleplayer too, you can keep leveling in warlords battlecry and just pwn everything. Its why I never level past 40-50 so the game is still challenging lol.
In any case, warlords battlecry is easy to get from GOG and has so many unique races. If no one has played it, its still a top notch game many years later in 2015. I recommend WB2 or 3 though (as I said, I prefer 3). A lot of unique features I still don't see much in RTS games. And SO many fun races to be, like I still don't really have a favorite cause they are all so fun to play.
And warlords (4) series being super hard to find anywhere, and except for warlords 4, none of the older ones work on windows 10. You'd need to dual OS, which I won't do personally lol. And warlords 4 DOES have an unofficial patch that does fix a lot of the initial problems the game had (like the non-aggressive AI), and some custom campaigns/maps to do.
Here is a good site for a bunch of maps/patches etc and stuff for the warlords series (not warlords battlecry)
http://www.warlorders.com/
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