In addition to this, if a unit is wiped out in battle then it isn’t coming back! This again means you have to be really careful throughout the game in looking after your units – this places in to tactics within a battle that I’ll come too later.
You only start off with two units, cavalry and infantry, and you add to this very slowly across the game. One of the most (and frustrating) elements of the game is the careful management of your resources.
Added to a bestiary that gets added to as you go along, this adds a lot of warhammer immersion to the game. I’m a sucker for a good map but one of my favourite elements of the game is the old world map that is constantly in the background and tracking where you are. Some of these are unfortunately dead ends but others give you access to new units or make life significantly easier for you in the long run. For fans of the Warhammer world, perhaps most importantly, you get to fight or fight alongside, all the major races, including Orcs, Skaven, Dwarfs and Elves.įor the most part the game is linear but sometimes you do have to make choices, such as whether to take certain missions or what direction to go in. You start off taking jobs purely for gold but you quickly get drawn in a surprisingly gripping story that ultimately means saving the world. In SOTHR you take on the role of Morgan Bernhardt, a mercenary captain that is now trying his luck in the Border Princes, a kind-of lawless area just beyond civilization. There is also an element of resource management between battles as you decide what you spend your hard-earned gold on. SOTHR is a real-time strategy game where the vast majority of the time, you control a number of units in set-piece battles. So when Shadow of the Horned Rat (SOTHR) came out in late 1995, I was one of the first to own a copy. I’ve always been a PC gamer and from an early age, I was also hooked on Warhammer.
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