Ok, doing some advertising here
I don't think any of you ever heard of this game (unless you click the picture in my sig, or your name is Kraxis). But to easely explain what it is:
Aevum Obscurum can be compared with, say Risk with diplomacy. It started about 6-7 years ago on the internet (it's based on a boardgame (only played by the developer and his friends)) with these graphics:
http://blog.aevumobscurum.com/__onec...rface-main.gif
But the game had several problems, and most of all not enough players.
In march-april 2006 the game was restarted again with new graphics and far more players (some communities joined in and ensured loads of active games).
Officially AO was this:
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Aevum Obscurum - The Story
It's the beginning of the 14th century and there is only one thing on the minds of the Kings of Europe: Glory! Armies mass and navies gather, pitting general against general and steel against steel. Who will be victorious? Will the Ottoman Empire finally break the Christian armies arranged against it? Will England colonize lands much closer to home? Will the Papal States move from tending the kingdom of God to tending the kingdom of man? Or will Vikings turn out to be as good at conquest as they are at pillaging? The choice is yours.
Aevum Obscurum aka Das Tausenburgenspiel is a free online turn-based multiplayer strategy game, where you take the reigns of a budding empire and struggle against fellow players for control of Europe. In one game, up to 50+ players vie for supremacy, but only one can be victorious. Every game you win pushes up your score, until you don't just dominate Europe, but also your fellow players. Then all will be in your shadow and not just peasants, but even kings will worship you! All this can be yours, but only if you triumph.
So, will your place be in the history books or in the mud? Will you govern or will you grovel? Do you have what it takes to rule the known world? Join Aevum Obscurum and show us what you're made of!
Check the help for information regarding rules, diplomacy and online play. Aevum Obscurum features basic economy as well as population management to complement your military strategies.
But by now things changed. Chris Aschwanden (the games developer) is open to any kind of changes to the game (as long as it doesn't change the basics of it) and by now 23 new maps have been added, all made by the community.
You can play on in Europe, in Asia, in Middle-Earth, the Caribbean, Mars or some idiotic fictional map yours truly made in 5 minutes.
I just found out you can even play on this man:
http://www.latifm.com/artists/image/...man-figure.jpg
but this is one of the better looking maps:
http://blog.aevumobscurum.com/__onec...12/asiamap.jpg
You can play the game whenever you want, it's turn-based, so you can choose to have a quick game (6 hours per turn) and finish in 3 to 4 days or if you don't have the time, or am just more relaxed play with one turn a week. (Or you average it with one turn every day, every 16 hours, or whatever you want).
Anyway you can start the game by webstart (make sure you have Java installed)
http://www.aevumobscurum.com/origina...mObscurum.jnlp
or download it from the main site (webstart is easier)
http://www.aevumobscurum.com/original/index.html
or visit the forums for some info
http://www.squadra.ch/phpBB2/
You don't have to register to try the game, there's a little demo available, but that only allows you to play as Helvetia (Switzerland in medieval times) on the Europe map. Since registering is free just try it, but if you want to be able to do more (start clans and such) you need to pay for full membership (which is new, since it was impossible to keep the game running while it would be fully free)
And some ingame screens
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
