~ legionmac Legion for Mac ~
. ~ Overview A revolutionary, high-level strategy game, which unfolds during the rich history that was the Roman Empire. ~ Legion features both strategic and tactical elements. ~ At the strategic level, the player controls vast armies and carves out an Empire from the assortment of tribes and city-states that occupied ancient Italy, France and Britain. ~ At the tactical level the player must position their armies to take advantage of terrain and make use of the best formations, in order to achieve victory. ~ The battles are a spectacle as well as a game play feature and players will enjoy them purely for the fun of watching hundreds of men fighting a bloody engagement. ~ Features Epic gameplay with large game areas, accurately mapped real world locations. ~ All maps are based on real atlases of the ancient world. ~ Each game can have up to 20 AI sides to compete against, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, based on the nations that would have been present at the time of the scenario! Diplomacy with so many nations it's impossible to win by conquest alone. ~ Careful use of diplomacy will be required if you're going to succeed. ~ Huge realistic battles allow you to choose how your troops deploy for battle, controlling their formations, making best use of the terrain available and allowing for their morale and experience. ~ The combat model is being based on historical data to give the most realistic look and feel ever seen in a computer game. ~ Hundreds of men will be displayed to give a really epic feel to the battles. ~ All uniforms and weapons will be based on historical data to make sure they are as accurate as possible. ~ The battlefield is made up of 3D rendered terrain. ~ Height is modeled and will affect the combat model. ~ Multiple resources; Iron, Wood, Cloth and Food, each with their own special uses and methods of collection. ~ Control your cities, allocate workers to collect resources, control city growth, and train new regiments. ~ Increase production by constructing new buildings or upgrade your city hall to expand the amount of land that can be developed. ~ Build fortresses for protection and to better strain your soldiers. ~ Play each map a number of times in a completely different setting. ~ e.g. ~ initially fight over Italy to unify the tribes into the powerful nation of Rome. ~ Later fight over the same map as the Romans when they are invaded by the fearsome Gauls. ~ Great care has been taken to ensure that the maps, the scenarios, the soldiers and the game engine capture the flavor of theancient world and its warfare. ~ legionmac;