Warlords 2 Original Version 1993
Strategic Studies Group released Warlords 2 for IBM PC MS-DOS 3.0 in 1993. Warlords 2 was designed by Steve Fawkner and programmed by Steve Fawkner and Roger Keating.
Warlords 2 is the sequel to Warlords of 1989.
Warlords 2 displays 16-color square-pixel SVGA 640x480.
Warlords 2 requires 580K of free conventional RAM, 2 megs of EMS/XMS RAM and 1024K of vRAM. Warlords 2 can run up to 200% faster via EMM386 memory manager and 2 megs of XMS.
Warlords 2 music supports AdLib, AdLib Gold, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro I (Yamaha), II (OPL), Sound Blaster 16, Pro Audio Spectrum/16, Roland Sound Canvas and Roland MT-32 & MPU-401. Warlords 2 sound supports Internal Speaker, AdLib Gold, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro/16 and Pro Audio Spectrum/16. Warlords 2 employs digitized speech.
Warlords 2 was distributed on 2x 3.5" 1.44 MB HD diskette and extracts and installs via Strategic Studies Group Warlords 2 Installation Program. The install size for v1.02 is 5.4 megs (421 files).
The Warlords 2 Scenario Builder was released in 1994. Expanding and upgrading the original Warlords 2 installation, Warlords 2 Scenario Builder was distributed on 3x 3.5" 1.44 MB HD diskette and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Strategic Studies Group Warlords 2 Scenario Builder Installation Program. The Warlords 2 install size becomes 14.4 megs (1,179 files).
Warlords 2 Deluxe of 1995 was distributed on 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Warlords 2 Deluxe installer. The install size of v2.2 is 41 megs and consists of 2,495 files. Warlords 2 Deluxe includes 60 scenarios as well as the Scenario Builder, Terrain Editor, Geomorph Editor (for dungeon-creation) and Librarian Utility.
More importantly, Warlords 2 Deluxe greatly increases screen-draw speed, mouse-cursor smoothness and map generation speed.
Warlords 2 Feature List (v1.02)
- 5x campaign scenarios: Dragon Realms, Isles of Sorcery, Erythea, Hadesha, Isladia
- Random map generation with 4x variables: water, hills, city, forest
- 3x difficulty levels with 6x tailorable variables
- Tile-rigged playing field (360x360px drawspace)
- 224x312px map drawspace
- 8x12px terrain-tiles
- Tile-increment screen-scrolling
- Icon-driven and dropdown menu-driven user interface with hotkey support
- Hardware mouse cursor
- Fog-of-war
- 8-player alternating or network-play
Warlords 2 kingdoms:
- Sirians
- Stone Giants
- White Dwarves
- Kingdoms
- Horse Tribes
- Dark Elves
- Ussyrian Orcs
- Lich King
- Warlords 2 Manual: 128 pages.
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