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. a09c17d780 Title: Battles of NorghanGenre: Indie, RPG, StrategyDeveloper:Mitorah GamesPublisher:Mitorah GamesRelease Date: 26 Sep, 2016 Battles Of Norghan Key Great game. It is a mix between a sports management game and a turn based fantasy strategy game. Be careful to save your money for reviving your team members!. Great sim, I sunk a few dozen hours into BoN before it was on Steam.. 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.. I was pleasantly surprised with this game. Good game and good price for 5 $. I remembered playing this game like ten years ago and was always looking for it because I forgot the name.Was more than glad when I found it on Steam during the 100 years of Finnish independence sale!What can be said about this game? It is a fairly well done gladiator clan managament and turn-based battle game. The graphics look dated, sure, but IMO also pretty charming. 2D ages well.Your first few tries will be met with certain doom until you have hammered it into your head that you really have to pick a good character AND have enough gold for adequate equipment.Once you get the hang of it, slowly getting other units, training them and getting better equipment is really fun, as are the battles.There are some very glaring downsides, though:The game was made for 4:3 resolutions and just stretches on modern monitors. Which makes the menus look really, really bad. The devs should fix this, but who knows if this game was even touched in the last five years ;)The combat UI bar on top is absurdly tiny.Sound effects and music are bare-bones.HINTS: - Do not restart (or alt+F4) when losing a battle. Reviving characters is fairly cheap, especially when you start, and as far as I can tell there is no downside to it other than losing out on the win reward. Of course, if you end up losing all battles, do restart with a new group.- Take the best starting char you can afford, but still keep 1k gold in reserve to equip him. New members come to you nekkid.- Train! Train each gladiator each time after each battle. It really adds up and is a worthwhile investment.- Invest gold into improving your existing chars (by training or equipment or spells) before getting more characters. A good warrior is worth far more than three bad ones with bad equipment.. This game is somewhat like ogre battles and its basically a strategy combat game. The controls could be better but the RPG system is kind of ok. The game also has some bugs and can crash without warning sometimes.The game is pretty linear so if that's not your cup of tea then stay away. You basically try to murder your way though different divisions agains opponent clans while equipping and training your troops. Some of the battles after the first few divisions can get pretty fun, but I don't think most people will ever get to experience them. I only recommend this game to people that know what they are getting themselves into - it's definately not for everyone.-spoiler warning-It was a long time since I played it actually (2007 maybe?) and it's kind of easy to break the balance of the game if you know what you're doing. Ogres can get absolutely overpowered if their intelligence is trained early, minotaurs are the best fighters in the game and a combo of ogres, minos and spellcasters will break almost anything the AI clans will ever throw at you; It's really that simple.Don't know why the publishers would release this game now other than gaining some extra cash from a half-baked fighting game.. A solid game, I really like it. You manage a team of gladiators that you control in tactical turn based battles. You win money with these, and have to decide how to invest it: training, equipment, new team members.Graphics is a bit outdated, but the game concept is great. Many hours of fun for a good price.. The first few fights you get into are either you getting destroyed by the enemy when they crit you or you doing no damage because their team takes no damage from anything other than a crit. I spent the better part of an hour trying to make sense of the tutorial and try to find a team that doesn't get one shot the second I go into combat.. 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!. Great sim, I sunk a few dozen hours into BoN before it was on Steam.
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