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I really liked this game when it came out. It had everything - strategy, management, tactical battles and RPG-type adventures. It also had a very extensive tutorial, which made it very easy to figure out the rules. I never played the actual table-top (or if you prefer pen&paper) game, but from what I heard, most of the rules were implemented in the computer gamea and quite successfully.

Unfortunately, I always had a sort of bad timing with it. When I first got it, my computer was just a bit below the minimal hardware requirements for it. The game was still playable, but there was always a danger that it would crash especially during the above mentioned tactical battles or adventures. I had to be very careful not to give too many commands in a quick order and increase the risk of crashing that way. This problem was increased with the saving game rule - you could only save the game at the beginning of the turn and each turn had 3 actions. So if your first two actions were successful (like taking over a guild or assassinating an enemy general) and your game crashed on the 3rd action, you had to replay the first two as well and risk them failing.

Then when I got much better computer, it turned out it was too powerful for the game. First I couldn't even start it. The developer Sierra-On-Line had a mandatory system check to see if your computer was good enough and when it came to testing processor it would give 'Integer divided by 0' error and crash... I remember somehow overiding this test, but the game was running so fast that it was not playable at all.

And now there's DosBox available (the game was made both for dos and Win 95 at that time), but I don't have the disk anymore...

So, did any of you guys play this game?