About This Game Battles of Norghan is a unique gladiatorial management and strategy game where you not only must recruit, train, and equip fantasy gladiators, but also control them on a tactical grid in turn-based combat as your team fights their way to the top division. This game has a lot of depth and replayability. Imagine a football manager game with fantasy world creatures such as orcs, drakes and minotaurs and turn-based strategy battles instead of football matches. Recruit mercenaries from 22 different fantasy races and classes and manage dozens of fighters as they battle in a variety of different terrains against easy to highly intelligent AI or other player-controlled clans. Train and hone each fighter’s skill through monthly training as well as directly in combat. Build secondary skills such as dodging, shield blocking and dual wielding as well as attributes such as strength, intelligence, hit points, and magic points. There are 200 items and 42 spells available to equip your gladiators, including armors, bows, weapons, magical staves, and more! As each combatant grows with your clan they will age as well and eventually retire. Careful planning and management of your clan can ensure you never have an off season. Original release dates outside Steam: V.1.0 in August 2005. Version 1.12 in October 11 2016. 7aa9394dea Title: Battles of NorghanGenre: Indie, RPG, StrategyDeveloper:Mitorah GamesPublisher:Mitorah GamesRelease Date: 26 Sep, 2016 Battles Of Norghan Download Ubuntu It should be first said that this is definitely a retro old school game. The graphics are only slightly better than what you would see in an 80's gold box game or 90's Master of Magic etc... So with that expectation properly in mind, I would very much give this game a hearty recommendation. If you're familiar and enjoy TBS and management games this is one of the better ones I've seen. If you're new to the genre or on the fence the dev has a free demo on their website that I highly recommend trying before purchasing. I purchased the Gold add-on which allows you to edit all the stat's of the units, which is fun to play around with. Game runs fine on Windows 10, just may require a reboot after install.. Last summer I fired up BoN to see how well it still played. The overall impression is that it's still unique in its (very small) class of gladiatorial tactical TBS titles.Imagine a sports manager game, tied to a tactical RPG scenario generator. That's what you're getting, and now you know if you're interested. If you've sunk dozens of hours into Out of the Park Baseball, and also played lots of slow-paced tactical RPGs, you'll probably play this sort of game -- and feel like it's an efficient way of getting both experiences at once.The balance for the strategic game is quite good. There are always hard decisions to make about how to spend money, and even as you figure out the "best strategy", it's still a lot of fun to see how well you can do using self-imposed restrictions that force you to try a completely different approach ("no archers, all magic", etc.)The tactical engine is very simple, and missing many of the modern features that you might expect in a full-featured game. There are no fractional modifers for cover, or elaborate line-of-sight or elevation systems, and even terrain is minimally varied (passable vs impassable). Still, everything that's been attempted works very well, giving the game a nostalgic appeal that calls back to a 90s era console-based tactical rpg.Nice features of the game include:* themed enemy teams (like a team of only one class) that all "feel different", and are sometimes amusingly named* a "press your luck" mechanic where you can sink lots of money into hiring short-term ringers -- which might pay off big, or might just waste a ton of money when you fall just short of the big prize* a realistic retirement system, which means you'll always want to keep developing new rookie stars and rotating them into the line-up* spells that encourage symbiotic relationships between the classes* lots of paths to success (big team vs small, magic vs melee vs ranged, speedsters vs bruisers). I was pleasantly surprised with this game. Good game and good price for 5 $. First and foremost, this game reminds me of Mail Order Monsters which is why I like it so muchDon't get me wrong, there is still a lot of refinement that is needed to make this game great but it is a great deal of funI enjoy the simplicity of the concept of the game, but also the complexity of the unit growth and detailsClean up the UI a bit to make it smoother and improve the AI and this game will be awesome. Great sim, I sunk a few dozen hours into BoN before it was on Steam.. Battles of Norghan is a hidden diamond in the rough. Team-sports-manager sim meets classic RPG; this game shines as a beacon of hope for gamers wanting deep immersion and old-school, brutaly honest gameplay without necessarily needing the best graphics. You won't like this game if you've never read a rulebook. You won't like it if you're used to adrenaline fueled, instant reward gameplay - and you definitely won't like it if you crave compensation for your in-game achievements. Battles of Norghan spits on your homebrew team's struggle and fortitude while setting you up, match after match, with intricately diverse AI team composition dynamics that test whatever creativity and nuance that you thought you might have cultivated. This is a game that values ultimate strategic thinking and crucial turn based reasoning to adequately combat the vastness of it's scope. You can recruit a bunch of scrubs that empirically might work (the classic warrior, mage, archer, priest) only to be butchered by a solo dwarf who has elite training and equipment. Or your minotaur duo could tear through all the expensive ogres, giants, witches and wizards that are going into combat next-to-naked due to their upkeep fees. Sure a druid *sounds* like a good idea, but after they've run out of mana summoning bear and wolf fodder, what good are they with their staves and likely poor armour, once the enemy lizard-men have slaughtered all your 'knights' and 'cool summons'?An Indie game with a heart of gold - with the publisher\/dev still answering questions and active in the community.Thank you, Mitorah Games!. This turn-based strategy brawler has been around since 2005, though aesthetically it could pass as an early 90's release. However.. aesthetics are not so important in a game such as this, and thankfully it works where it matters. It is somewhat overwhelming at first, even with the in-game tutorial.. but read the manual and watch the video tutorial, multiple times if you must, because the gameplay is surprisingly deep and very fun indeed! The game is tough as nails, though you can customize the difficulty.. I found it very hard to put down. Addictive.
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