After a few different messes with huntress queens and beastrider punching bags, I decided to play the chaotic and go gamble with a funny build. I'd been probing my massive intellect (and the game's mechanics) to try and find SOME build that would give those barbarians a decent start that would secure me a moderately acceptable midgame.

Chaos, which is generally considered to have gotten the exceptionally short end of the stick when the balancing truck came around (this point made all the more interesting by the nation's ranged units, being stickthrowers, who indeed grasp the short end of the thing). My first win of this latest round was, interestingly, Chaos. I just recently pulled this item out, dusted it off, and started making a fool of myself again with twelve different games running simultaneously in various configurations and setups with the lord/faith combinations. Also, I'm rather enamored with the whole mess of the thing, and it's one of those titles that I just dig out from time to time, like Dungeon Keeper or Sacrifice.

The game is buggy, cuts a few corners in production, is hilariously unbalanced, and boasts an AI which is at times artificially infuriating and at others simply an artificial idiot. You can all just assume I'm talking about Lords of Magic: Actually Somewhat Playable Edition, or LOMASPE if you prefer) is a Sierra strategy title from 1997, combining aspects of role-playing, turn-based strategy and real-time strategy, all in a non-traditional fantasy environment with incredible atmospheric potential (particularly for someone with some amount of imagination or creativity), although perhaps not the most fascinating realization right off the bat. Lords of Magic (I'm not even going to pretend that I have any particular familiarity with or sympathy for the players of Lords of Magic: Not-special Edition, so I will no longer feel the need to specifically make note of the difference. Or 'LOMSE', if you enjoy using acronyms that sound funny if you try to pronounce them.

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