Heroes of Annihilated Empires

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Genre: Strategy

Year released: 2006

Ross's rating: Unrated

Link to game: https://www.gog.com/en/game/heroes_of_annihilated_empires

Free to play: No

GaaS: No

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[BurningSheep]

It's essentially GSC making a fantasy version of their Cossacks games. The twist here is that together with mass armies in a traditional RTS structure, there are also heroes. Playing with heroes and units in the campaign wasn't for me, but playing in skirmish mode with heroes turned off was exactly the right thing to do. The four factions are fairly well balanced with a good amount of interesting unit and upgrade choices, though it has to be said that two of them (the main campaign factions) are more diverse than the others. It has a decent look and some decent music as well.

[biosynth8]

I still got the box somewhere. I remember the campaign losing me pretty early on, but the gameplay was generally solid.

[DoktorAcula]

I played hundreds of hours in skirmish mode in demo version and I really liked it. Interesting part is that at start of skirmish you have a hero with option to start a base, but this turns hero into statue for quite long time. The stronger the hero the more workers you receive when you start the base.
Or you can SELL the base creation spellcard and just play with hero.

Also over time hero can get so powerful that no army stands a chance.

Balancing between hero and base is quite challenging, but the game is quite nice to play.