When the start button is pressed a peal of thunder is heard and the battle commences. Some missions feature no battle at all, and any money spent to employ units is wasted. Once units are selected, most missions allow you to deploy your army however you wish, though some feature an ambush and you can only determine the marching order of your army. If your gold reserve is depleted you will no longer afford to hire the essential core unit, and the game will end. There’s also a constant retainer cost just for keeping a unit in the army. Units are hired with gold, their cost based on the unit’s size, strength, and skill level. At the beginning of each mission you select a number of units from your reserves to send into battle.
The tactical part of the game sought to apply the rulesets of the tabletop wargame, Warhammer: Fantasy Battles in a real time strategy context. The game is divided into two parts – the tactical battles which form he core of the gameplay and the map view of the Old World, where the player can choose his next mission, hire additional mercenaries and replenish his losses. Berhnardt unwillingly becomes the main force foiling Tuhanquol’s plans, at first accidentally, as his army grows bigger and stronger, and he employs the help of the Dwarves, the Elves of Loren Forest and the Emperor Karl Franz himself. But soon he becomes a part of a bigger picture, as one of the powerful Skaven mages, grey seer Tuhanquol gives one of the Orc warbosses a powerful axe and uses him and his huge greenskin horde as a distraction to further his plans, namely – conquering the Empire. PlotĪn experienced commander of a small mercenary force, conisting of a cavalry and infantry unit, Morgan Berhardt is at first doing his usual job – eliminating small time bandits and goblin warbands in the region of Border Princess and getting a tiny bit of gold for it. It was one of the first games with full, 360 degrees rotation of the battlefield and had a fine (for it’s day) mix of 2D unit sprites on a 3D landscape. Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat is a real-time tactics strategy game published by Games Workshop (in conjunction with Mindscape) in 1995.
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