"Hegemony - Philip of Macedon" Game

[Jolt]

Hegemony- Philip of Macedon site

I just learned about this new game, centered on the Philippean rise to power and unification of the Greek States under the League of Corinth. This game was developed by a very small team over the last 6 years and has just been released. It has no DRM and a demo is available to see if it suits your tastes. I must say I've only tried the demo, and found it refreshingly similar to Rome: Total War (Albeit understandably, its Battle System is nowhere as complex as RTW). The graphics are pretty good and the strategy aspect behind the game is pretty awesome as well. You can only play as Macedon but as you conquer Greek-States you can recruit their units to form part of your army.

It costs 29,99 $ and there still aren't hardcase copies as this has just been released, but the team said that in a couple of months hardcase copies would begin to be made.

Though not exactly of the EB period, I decided to post here the game to publicitize it with an audience that is very fond of the classical period (& for the Philmacedonians like myself :P), as well as to showcase it to the EB team where someone might pick it up (Even the demo at least), and get a few ideas from the game to be implemented on the mod. The publicitation of the game is rather important as this is a small indie company which happened to produce a good game and it would be rather sad to see it fail due to lack of information and knowledge.

A review on the game.


Release trailer:


Some screenshots:

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Siege of Athens:

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Random battle between Hoplites and Macedonian auxiliaries:

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Peltast skirmish:

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Overview of the strategy map centered on the Peleponese:

I hope you guys try the demo and if you enjoy it, tell your buddies about it! :D Other people can weigh in their opinions on the game as well.