Orda: Severnyi Veter screenshots

Main menu screen.

Workers busy at chopping wood and mining gold, Warcraft style.

The opening crawl narrates the background story of the game.

A brief description of gameplay and objectives to get the player started.

Selecting your character for a single-player game.

As more territory is explored, new nations are encountered. Initially all factions are peaceful, but may change their minds later on.

The interface allows to queue up to five units for training, similar to StarCraft.

Windmills serve to speed up all production in a settlement. Several windmills and a stable income allows to field large armies very quickly.

A skirmish with Teimour's forces that have attacked the player's settlement.

The laboratory management screen. You can assign artisans and funds to research new technologies. The more there are, the faster new discoveries will be made.

About to subjugate a neutral Semirek tribe.

Unlike Warcraft, the player can build bridges across rivers, and also construct mines over gold and iron deposits.

The hermit wizard offers a quest to retrieve a crystal with magical properties for him. It's up to the player to decide if it's worth the effort.

The hermit wizard himself.

After some... persuasion the wizard agrees to present the player with an ancient scroll.

Attacking Teimour's forces near their camp.

Once you are in possession of the crystal it's up to you to decide whether to keep it or to deliver it to the wizard.

The diplomacy screen lists all present factions on the map, and their current diplomatic stance with the player is represented by the icon above the leader's portrait.

There are no missions in Horde - instead, the player character can move between adjacent maps and bring his army with him.

Some beautiful scenery.

This Semirek settlement is fortified, and their leader feels confident to declare war upon the player.

Hints like this message engraved in stone are scattered throughout the world of Horde, leaving it for the player to figure out the way to victory.

Fighting a powerful wizard. Ravens, enchanted trees and magical pit traps guard his territory, and he also teleports around.

The particularly nasty hermit on this map can summon phantoms right into the player's settlement. Their lightning attack sets buildings on fire, which is quite dangerous.