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It can also sense the approach of Morkin and redirects more and more Ice Fear at him to try and stop him reaching it not realising he's immune. Conversely if the player is doing well in battles and capturing forts and citadels himself, the Ice Fear lessens in power.

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If Doomdark's armies are capturing Free keeps and citadels, defeating Free armies and generally winning the Ice Fear it generates gets colder sapping the Free's strength and morale even further.

Empathic Weapon: The Ice Crown is an evil version of this.Shareth starts with six icelords already loyal to her giving her a slight advantage, but with luck and the right recruitment attempts you can quickly catch up. The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Downplayed in the second game.Brainwashed and Crazy: Morkin, courtesy of Shareth, in the second game.

Big Bad: Doomdark in the first game, Shareth in the second and Boroth the Wolfheart in the third.

In the second game if Luxor dies, it's all over.

Bad Ending: In the first game if Luxor and Morkin are killed or the Free's capital Xajorkith is conquered and Morkin is killed, you lose the game.

It blankets the land in "Ice Fear", sapping the strength and morale of the Free armies and commanders.

Artifact of Doom: The Ice Crown in the first game.

The Icelords would be harder but you'd still be able to recruit all forty-six lords by recruiting just six key lords. Without this limitation, you could gain control of the entire Fey (nineteen lords total) and Giant (twenty-two lords total) factions by recruiting a single lord from each one and the entire Barbarian (sixteen lords total) and Dwarf (twenty lords total) factions with just two lords from each. Otherwise the game would be a race to recruit certain key lords, gaining the loyalty of their vassals and consolidating them into groups so no lord could be recruited away from you. To avoid making the game too easy or too hard, if you or Shareth recruit a lord with vassals neither of you gain those vassals as loyal lords as well - you still have to recruit them individually (though it's nearly always automatically possible to recruit a lord's former vassals using him).

Acceptable Breaks from Reality: In feudal systems if someone swears loyalty to you, you automatically also gain the loyalty of their vassals - so if a Duke swears loyalty to you, you (in theory at least) gain the loyalty of all of the Counts, Barons and Knights loyal to him.

MIDNIGHT VIDEO GAME 1990 SERIES

The series provides examples of the following tropes: Lots of useful information on the series can be found at Icemark - The Home of Midnight and The Midnight Chronicles where you can also buy updated versions of the first two games for modern devices.īoth Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge are free on GOG.com. Starting with just four characters - Luxor the Moonprince, his son Morkin the Free, Corleth the Fey and Rorthron the Wise you attempt to recruit sufficient forces to stop his armies and go on the offensive, capture and destroy his Artifact of Doom the Ice Crown and finally raze his home citadel to the ground. Set in the realm of Midnight, the game revolves around "The War of the Solstice" - the Big Bad Doomdark, Witchking of Midnight, unleashes his armies on day of the Winter Solstice, the coldest and darkest day of the year attempting to crush the Free once and for all.

It would later be ported to modern OS's and platforms. It was highly praised for its innovative combination of a strategic war game and a heroic quest and allowing the player to play either option or both simultaneously. The original game, The Lords of Midnight was released in 1984 on the ZX Spectrum and ported to the Commodore64 and Amstrad CPC. Interestingly the descriptions of the climate and seasons in the first game bear a passing resemblance to those in A Song of Ice and Fire. A fourth game was in development twice before the project was curtailed by Singleton's death. The first two games were released in the mid 1980s with the third in 1995. The Lords of Midnight is a series of two seminal and one mediocre Strategy Games by Mike Singleton.