PowerMonger is an Amiga miscellaneous strategy game released in 1990 by Electronic Arts. Click for screenshots, downloads, cheats.

Screenshot of the Amiga versionThe game features a game map, although camera movement is limited to rotating the map by 90 degrees or small discrete intervals and 8 pre-defined levels of zoom. Only the map itself is 3-dimensional; people, trees and other game objects are.The game features a fairly advanced (for its time) ' engine. Each person seems to have a mind of their own and will go about his or her job, fishing, farming, shepherding, collecting wood or making items without any input from the player. The player can also use a query tool to view the name, sex, age, allegiance, vital stats, hometown and equipment of any given individual. This aspect of the game has some clear resemblances (though less advanced) with the later game also designed by.While the player cannot form the land like in, actions can still have some limited effect on the environment. For example, if a large area is deforested, the weather pattern will change and more rain or snow (depending on the season) will fall, making movement slower.The player starts out on each map with a small number of soldiers, and maybe a few towns already under control.

To win the map, the balance of power needs to be tipped completely to the player's side (represented by a scale below the mini-map), by conquering all (or at least most) of the towns on the map and killing any opposing captains. Once a town is under the player's control, locals can be drafted into the player's army and bigger towns or enemy armies can be taken on. Some of the bigger towns also have neutral captains and if these survive the battle they come under the player's command as well.The player can only control as many armies as captains, so it is important to keep them alive. If a captain is killed, his army is disbanded and his surviving soldiers go back to their town of origin.

Unlike the player's main army – which the main character commands – the subordinate captains have a 'lag' time (indicated by a tiny animation next to their command icon) before their commands are executed. The further away from the player's main character they are, the longer it takes for orders to reach them.Food is the single most important resource in the game. Aside from friendly towns the player can also slaughter wandering sheep, barter food from neutral towns, or kill an enemy captain and pillage his food supply.Aside from manpower and food, towns can also provide equipment. Townspeople will occasionally make items but to speed things up the player can order an army to 'invent' at a friendly town. Depending on nearby resources and what posture the army is set to (passive, neutral or aggressive), men will then go to work collecting resources and make items. As the more useful items can usually only be made in one or two towns on any given map these have great strategic importance.There is no involved with equipment.

Once an army is ordered to equip itself from a pile of equipment it is automatically distributed. If there are bows, swords, and pikes available, soldiers will pick them up in that order.

As long as there are soldiers without any weapon in the army no one will pick up more than one weapon. If everyone has something then people with the least valuable weapon will have first pick and so on. The captain carries any excess equipment. There is no limit to how much a captain can carry, but the more he carries the slower he (and his army) will move.Powermonger: World War I Edition In 1991 an (for computers only) was released that changed the setting from the conquest of a medieval kingdom, to. The gameplay was still essentially the same, but with more ranged weapons and war-machines.Reception The game got 5 out of 5 stars in. In 1991 praised PowerMonger as 'simply superb. A joy to play'.

The magazine favorably cited the graphics and realism, but criticized its unusually strict and the need to load a saved game twice to return to the previous state. In a 1993 survey of pre 21st-century strategy games the magazine gave the game three stars out of five.Reviewing the Sega CD version, criticized the graphics, commenting that 'the maps are so that you can barely see what's going on or who's who.

After going through lots of slow strategy, a nice visual payoff of your decisions being executed would've really added to the FunFactor.' However, they gave the game an overall recommendation based on its slow-paced strategy gameplay. Gave it a rave review, applauding the high detail of the simulation, the graphics, the 'subtle' sound, and the enormous length of the campaign. They scored it 6.6 out of 10.It won Computer Gaming World's 1991 Strategy Game of the Year award. The game was ranked the 32nd best game of all time.

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References. Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (April 1991). 'The Role of Computers'. Pp. 47–54. Olafson, Peter (April 1991). Retrieved 17 November 2013. Brooks, M.

Evan (June 1993). Retrieved 7 July 2014. 'ProReview: Power Monger'. P. 48. 'Review Crew: Power Monger'.

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P. 36. Staff (November 1991). 'Computer Gaming World's 1991 Games of the Year Awards'. Computer Gaming World. Golden Empire Publications, Inc (88): 38–40, 58.

Amiga Power magazine issue 0, May 1991External links. at.

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