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There is an Autoresolve option for the impatient, but once the game progressed to higher level encounters between larger armies, I found the results unpredictable to say the least, as if the A.I. It might not boast the depth of a Final Fantasy Tactics and its ilk, but it’s a serviceable combat system, helped by the addition of a scrolling turn ticker on the left hand side of the screen, making it easy to comprehend exactly which units are in play and when, and a Swarm mechanic that sees bonuses rack up for surrounding or flanking individual enemy units.

Right-click on an enemy unit cluster on the strategic map and you’re taken to a traditional isometric view where individual units can duke it out.

There’s a heavier than usual emphasis, due in part to the wandering monsters, on solving things in a martial manner in Legendary Heroes with the use of turn-based tactical combat. The latter are simplistic RPG-style objectives such as fetch quests and clearing out bandit encampments, with the possibility of achieving final victory by completing all quests. The former are visible on the strategic map, and rated on a five-point scale, from Weak to Epic, allowing you to judge when is the right time to take them out. The wrinkles added to the 4X format are the roaming monsters and quests. Meanwhile, expanding your nascent kingdom’s borders brings you into contact - either violent or diplomatic - with other factions as you all seek to achieve victory by conquest, uniting the different kingdoms under you or casting the final game-ending super spell.īorder patrol in the Kingdom of Athica - not the most exciting posting for a soldier The core of the game remains much the same as Fallen Enchantress: choose a Sovereign hero character, found a capital city on a patch of land with high resource totals and then proceed to construct building additions to boost your economy and manage your population, while researching along a triple-pronged tech tree of Civilization, Warfare and Magic.

But have they finally managed to craft a silk purse from Elemental’s sow's ear? The tainted “E” word may have been dropped from the title, but at heart this is another attempt by Stardock to right the many flaws of that ill-fated game. While marketed as a standalone expansion to last year’s Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, Legendary Heroes is better thought of as a revision, the latest step in a process stretching back to 2010 and the disastrous launch of the original Elemental.

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