Lords of Conquest
The game is based on the board game Borderlands by Eon Productions (best known for their highly acclaimed board game, Cosmic Encounter), and was marketed with the slogan "Better than Risk!" to identify it as a…
Lords of Conquest is a strategy developed by Eon Software, Inc., released 31 December 1986 on Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Lords of Conquest is
Lords of Conquest is a strategy game developed by Eon Software, Inc. and released in 1986. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is based on the board game Borderlands by Eon Productions (best known for their highly acclaimed board game, Cosmic Encounter), and was marketed with the slogan "Better than Risk!" to identify it as a global conquest game similar to Risk. It proved to be one of EA's best-selling titles of 1986. GameSpy awarded Lords of Conquest a "Gotcha" award as one of the top games of its era. You and your opponent start by selecting countries in turn from a map. This can be randomly generated based on requested numbers of countries and volumes of water, chosen from one of the 19 predefined ones, or created using the built-in editor. Your army possesses infantry, cavalry and a water fleet…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Lords of Conquest launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Leaderboard.
Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Leaderboard.
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