War of the Mages

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War of the Mages is a text-mode turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. You start the game by choosing the number of players, and setting a bunch of options that will determine how the game plays. Turns progress through a series of menus where you direct your troops, conquer cities, and perform other actions to gain control of enough cities to win the game. The included documentation (WM32.DOC) seems to be required reading in order to know how the game should be played, so it will take some commitment if you want to try this one, hope you enjoy navigating menus. One unique aspect is that it seems to allow you to specify an unlimited number of players (I tried 99 at it let me do it) so if you happen to have 98 friends around who want to play a DOS strategy game from 1989 ...

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