earth has missed a few things that are important here.

the game is a stretcher. you can go both ways in the games window and just seems to go on and on and on ad infinitum.

go to the left and you have spiders, goblins and such enemies to take out that do nit send waves of attackers your way so you only have to set defences with real bite on the right hand side of the area you have uncovered and towers with men is a good combination here.

as you go left and right you uncover rocks of different types and some have iron or gold as their mineable items with the odd rocks for stone as well.go left to start with and take out the spiders and their allies and set a few towers and men to the right and you will gain all the resources you need to upgrade and have knights in your side ready for the attack on towers and castles on the right hand side later.

beware that game window becomes very wide indeed and can take a while to get from one side to the other for defensive actions on the right if you have ventured a long way to the left.

3/5

not bad strategy game except very slow paced, simply hire peasants and different kind of soldiers and wizards and build different kind of buildings (and getting resources for all of those requires ALOT time and building up takes quite much time), some resources are hard to get (like iron) which limits units to be hired and upgrades, game is simple to play just hire alot units and build huts (and few food sources) along the way to hire units to replace lost units and send units marching on, quite nice graphics and sounds and music.

overall nice game but somewhat boring and player is restricted to hire spearmen mostly and getting resources takes time (except wood), upgrading can be forgotten since again resources restrict it.