This is a re-working of Caeser/Cohort. Although primarily a city building/province management game you can build an ar ny to fight off various barbarians via a simple but pretty tactical battle system. I arn not convinced of the numbers behind it (phalanxes seemed to be able to beat off legions attacking them in the flank without too much bother) but it is fun.

The game itself is extremely attractive and worth a look ( I've seen it around for 25 - 30 pounds). Unusually for a new game it makes no outrageous demands on your PC - I had absolutely no trouble running it on a 20486/DX66 with 8 megabytes of memory - it installed from the CD-ROM with no trouble at all. However I did have to run it in DOS for although it claims to be Windows compatible I couldn't get it to run as such. {Thanks for the warning}.

Ben Wilkins is the editor of Battlefields magazine.

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• Operation Crusader
• The Last Blitzkrieg
• Great Battles of Alexander
• Blood and Iron
• Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat
• Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations
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