[Argitoth]

This may sound like Conquest of Elysium, but I’ve never played it.

My Perfect Illwinter Game:

Imagine Dominions III except played from the commander perspective. You play as a C’tis/R’lyeh/Ulm/etc… Mage/Prophet/Commander/etc… whatever you want. It’s not an RPG, you don’t play as one character. You play as a commander in your army and you can switch between controlling a commander. In co-op mode, two or more players control commanders. Commanders are no stronger than hired/summoned/trained units, any unit/commander can become very strong. Your commanders can be complete weaklings while your hired units can be very strong if that’s how you like to play.

But you may still pretend to “be” one commander, for example:

You can acquire a mage commander and be the kind of mage that spends your time collecting death gems and raising a powerful undead army 300 units strong and your strategy is to sit back and enjoy the show. You never have to have more than one commander. Or you can be a strong commander that only has hired 5 other units, but they are just as strong as you so you can take out much larger amries. You can be a mage that focuses all your time on learning devastating battle spells. Or you can be the vanilla commander that just hires the biggest army possible.

Here’s the best part!: You can have a 4-player co-op and never hire any units and just become extremely powerful and play in a very RPG-like way.

Anything a commander could do in Dominions III, you can now do. Search for sites, forge, cast ritual spells, but it would be a realtime game and one game would take days to complete. The graphics would have to be 2d of course, but keeping the particle spell effects, that’s always nice.

DISCLAIMER: There’s many ways to come up with how my game idea would fundamentally work and function, how it could be feasible, etc. I’m not going to get into that, it’s a whole other beast. There’s lots of problems to sort out with this idea, too. But anyway, just take it as is, not trying to promote my idea, just putting it out there for you to read and think about.

Let me see your ideas