I still have a copy of Warhammer (Shadow of the Horned Rat) for PS1. It was made by Mindscape(SSI) and is a great game. You lead a Mercenary Army with over 25 troop types from Calvary, Crossbowmen, Wizards to Cannons and Morters (which tend to blow up on you). You have great control over units and you must learn to move them correctly and take others in the flank etc.

EA bought out Mindscape as a lot of us were waiting for the day the new one came out. It was truely horrible, EA screwed the Pooch on this game. For some reason they did not use the same "engine" of the earlier one. Within days, most people I know had sold back their new games and if they could, bought back the old, used Mindscape version.

I always wished I could buy the rights to it. It could be made into Alexander the Great or the US Civil War or anything between. I've always thought someone blew this BIGTIME! I've played many a Squad Leader or older type board games played with turns and dice.

Here was a game that did it all for you. And very lifelike (for Orcs etc, lol) I have yet to find a game done as well. If they ever make one like it again, I will prepay to own it. My old game is in perfect shape and I can play it on my PS2 but cannot save it. So I dug out my PS1 and I'm playing it now. There are over 40 Battles depending on how well you did in each, much like Mindscapes's Wingcommander.

The A.I. is super which cannot be said about a lot of such games. I admit that it is almost impossible to win due to the lack of money you start out with. If you reach the last battle you tend to be out of money to pay your troops. However, the "old" Gameshark had codes for it (still listed at the old company Website). Look it up. The number one code was extra money. After that extra units and adding to the size of the units. However, you must trade the size of the units with the movement of them. The larger the unit, the harder to control (just like real life).

As the Commander(Of the Grudgebringers), you tended to get a lot of agro from the Orcs etc. I found this to be a secret to winning battles since you could preprogram your movement into the battleplan (unless it was a ambush) As a Calvary unit I would show myself then get the enemy to follow me into a killzone of my Archers, Crossbowmen and Cannons. BtWay, you could kill off a your Wiz or shoot into your own troops if you were not careful.

As I said, as a ex-Army Officer I played a lot of board type games like The Thin Red Line (Waterloo). I have never gush over a game before but this is one I would want bad. After you practiced with the keypad and got good with it it was awesome. EA seemed to try to make movement simpler and it sucked.

Please, please put out another one as good:) (and make it hard) And if anyone has info on this, please post or e-mail me at likeuntogod@excite.com. Thanks.

Edited, Mon Jun 6 00:53:33 2005

I'm a huge warhammer fan. I'm almost hoping it doesn't turn up for a long while. I still have so much to do in FFXI. ; ;

Why not Warhammer40000? No more "fantasy" MMO please!!

Geeze we were at the press conference and I get back to post about it and Maia already has it up. You are way too efficient.