Fantasy Kommander: Eukarion Wars

For an old role-playing player like me, who started playing the first edition of D&D in the 80s, Fantasy Kommander is a turn-based strategy game that perfectly recalls the beautiful atmospheres of battles of the past. Not to be missed for nostalgics and those who want to discover the strategic simulation part of the good old role-playing games. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Per un vecchio giocatore di ruolo come me, che ha iniziato a giocare alla prima edizione di D&D negli anni 80, Fantasy Kommander è uno strategico a turni che richiama perfettamente le bellissime atmosfere delle battaglie di un tempo. Da non perdere per i nostalgici e chi vuole scoprire la parte strategica simulativa dei cari vecchi giochi di ruolo.

Very nice strategy game. As far as I have played, the units seem well balanced and varied to me. Graphically the game shows its age, although overall it is visually pleasing; the gameplay however remains valid and current.

IDK. I've played dozens of games like this. I just wished the campaigns had some wiggle room. I end up in the situation where you complete the mission with all honors or not at all. Having all honors, so maxed on team and money. I start the mission with harpies. and I just run out of men after stopping the ritual. Maybe if there was random fight on top of the campaign. I want to recommend this game but I can't. Oh on bugs. Switching to windowed screen has odd behaviors, and I often have to restart the mission I'm on. Given the nature of the game. I find myself wanting to play it while in queue for a pvp game. So windowed is a must.

I almost liked Fantasy Kommander: Eukarion Wars. The tactical combat is good, and the dated, clunky interface did not bother me much. What killed the game for me was the victory system. I do not mind a hard turn limit as a mission condition. If I have 15 turns to take an objective and otherwise I lose, fine. I may dislike it, but it is still a tactical constraint. What I hate is being told that I won, but not well enough because I took too many turns, especially when the better victory also gives more experience and money. At that point the game stops being a tactical wargame and becomes a speed optimisation puzzle. Instead of thinking about the best tactical way to win the battle, I am thinking about how to shave off another turn, whether I should reload a bad roll, whether a different sequence of moves gets me the top result. It pushes me straight into save/reload, and that becomes tedious very quickly. The annoying part is that the tactical game underneath is actually good. But the scoring system actively gets in the way of enjoying it.

Barely playable, with 90s graphics

It's a close call for me, There's a lot I like, but I have some major problems. 1) lack of good tooltips/documentation, so I am often confused and just need to sus out what is going on. I still don't actually know what the attack/defense or damage/armor stats do. I can only guess 2) maps often having events halfway through that result in very bad things happening immedietely, so the design really says you have to restart and try again. worst one was on enemy turn 1 (before I did anything) a powerful unit spawned, and instantly caused a scenario loss. A completely unforseeable game over that felt very unfair and unfun. 3) Units you get later are just very slightly better versions of earlier units, and it isn't possible to upgrade your old guys, so the "right" choice is to constantly be selling your guys you've spent the last 5 fights leveling up to take the small downgrade to get a new level 1 guy of the higher tier, and I find this frustrating 4) the English/localization isn't great 5) the UI is poorly implemented, stuff is zoomed in too far, requires too much scrolling, and wastes a bunch of space around the edges