Saturday, July 26, 2014

Conqueror!

There is a pretty nice little web based game called Conqueror! that might be fun to play.  Its real time medieval European war game with elements of Risk and Diplomacy/Machiavelli. Games take between 1-4 hours depending on number of players and this game will support a pile of players and AI opponents.  The turns are submitted and executed in a semi simultaneous manner so there isn't a long wait for all your opponents to move before you can go.  It's very well done and the rules are in that sweet spot between easy and complex so that it is interesting but you don't need to devote a month to running simulations in order to compete.  You can set the play time and player limits, set up open or locked games, advertise for players in the lobby and do all those other fine management things.  You can even log in with a guest account if you are one of them hippies who doesn't like to have any long term commitments.

Preview of the Conqueror! UI I snapped from the help system.

I played this as a shockwave flash game a couple years ago, but they have redone the interface in HTML 5 now so it should run on anything.  I would be down with playing this some evening for sure.

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