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Conquest of Elysium 3 is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with 18 distinct factions. You vie for control of the map and aim to defeat your enemies, using your faction’s resources, mechanics and goals to shape your strategy. Its rules can seem simple at first, but decisions become more complex as you contend with randomized maps, events and battles.

Factions and scenarios

Each faction plays differently, with its own resources, rituals or special abilities, mechanics and goals. Druids can build forest and jungle empires to harvest ingredients for summoning creatures of the woods, with little practical need to conquer mines. Dwarves depend on mines and produce units at a set rate each turn; because their units are difficult to replace, they focus on upgrading them to survive longer.

Six scenarios help randomize the setting. They range from the early days of an agrarian world to a fallen empire scarred by battlefields and tombs and filled with the living dead. Another scenario features a giant, gleaming capital that can be conquered and sends out patrols of human guards. Random events, from merchants and pillaging to portals opened by the gates of the underworld, can complicate your plans before you encounter an enemy.

Armies and combat

Combat is automatic, but army composition and positioning matter. Each unit has a preferred place on the battlefield: archers belong in the rear, while heavy infantry fight at the front. You need enough strength to protect rear-line archers and spellcasters, while judging the enemy’s forces and looking for ways to counter them.

Different armies have different strengths. Ten trolls may threaten even a dragon, but can kill only ten creatures at once, leaving them vulnerable to an army of 50 small units. A wizard with a powerful spell might destroy those 50 units in one cast but be unable to harm the trolls. Hits, damage and the spells units cast are randomized according to their abilities, so battles can bring sudden losses and force you to change plans.

Multiplayer

You can play over a network or in hotseat multiplayer. Team play lets you join another player against the AI, for example.

Creatures and abilities

The game includes many monsters and abilities, along with 42 magic paths. Among them are:

• Stealthy troops, which scouts can detect, and invisible troops, which require better detectors such as a star spawn or a beast bat.
• Assassins, who attack a target before combat begins.
• Catapults, Hill Giants and Rocs, which can throw or drop boulders during sieges.
• Immortal Liches and Vampires.
• Regenerating trolls, which rise from the dead if they have not been killed too badly or their side has not lost.
• Large worms, which can swallow smaller enemies whole; swallowed units take digestion damage each round until freed.
• Shape changers, which appear to enemies as something else.