War of the Lance

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Description

Command armies, heroes, and special units against the evil Highlord Dragonarmies. Have your heroes quest for magic to help in your battles, use diplomats to gather nations to your side, and send armies out to the field to do battle or hunt down enemy heroes. Play against a human opponent, or against the computer controlled Highlord Dragonarmies.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting: Dragonlance
• Dungeons & Dragons (D&D / AD&D) licensees
• Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
• Games with manual lookup copy protection

User Reviews

The first mass-combat AD&D war game. This is history boys & girls.	DOS	Indra was here (20902)
A comprehensive fantasy war game that captures the struggle of good and evil.	DOS	Zen Gamer (78)
It's one of the Great Classics of the Past	DOS	willie sanderson (2)

Critic Reviews

The Games Machine (UK)	Commodore 64	May, 1990	84 out of 100	84
Zzap!	Commodore 64	May, 1990	80 out of 100	80
Dragon	Commodore 64	Jun, 1990		80
Micro News	Commodore 64	May, 1990		75
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Apr, 1990	7.2 out of 12	60

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Trivia

The game box's cover features a painting by artist Jeff Easley, earlier used as the front cover to Douglas Niles and Tracy Hickman's 1985 RPG module "Dragons of Glory".

Related Web Sites

• War of the Lance (Wikipedia entry on the war in the DragonLance setting.)