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Produced by: SSG
Distributor: SSG
Year: 1994
System: MS-DOS and Macintosh
Type: Strategy game
Distribution: Commercial
Availability: Commercially available for Macintosh,
out of print for MS-DOS
Warlords II is a fantasy strategy game where up to eight players (human or computer) fight for domination of a world. It is not based on Tolkien per se, but several Tolkien scenarios have been created for it. Those scenarios that are listed here unfortunately only seem to work with the MS-DOS version, except Silmarillion, which only works with Mac..
The following scenarios are described on this page.
Personal evaluation: A very good game, although perhaps something of a beginner's game. The Tolkien scenarios often become somewhat absurd since every other nation is a potential enemy and everyone usually ends up making war on everyone else (more or less). It also feels very strange to start with only one city and have to conquer all the neighbouring ones.
Two screen-shots from the scenarios War of the Ring and Middle Earth (by Paul R. Ames).
Author: Fabio Musciatelli
Year: 1996
System: MS-DOS
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords II
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
The same author also wrote a scenario titled War of the Ring for Heroes of Might and Magic II.
Personal evaluation: A slightly less-than-perfect map makes an otherwise very playable scenario lose some of its appeal. On the other hand, much effort has been paid to making interesting armies and correct names of heroes.
Author: Jan Kohl
Year: 1995
System: MS-DOS
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords
II
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
Personal evaluation: Certainly not one of the better Warlords II scenarios. Most of the army units are far too strong and the map looks weird.
Author: Harry Gostling
Year: 1995
System: MS-DOS
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords
II
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
Personal evaluation: The map looks partly strange, many names of towns are extremely strange and in general it seems unfinished, but apart from that it plays well if you are looking for a four-player scenario with only 35 cities.
Author: Paul R. Ames
Year: 1995
System: MS-DOS
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords
II
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
Note that this is one of two different Warlords II scenarios with the same title.
Personal evaluation: This scenario is characterized by an extremely crude map and absolutely awful graphics.
Author: Mathias Boalt
Year: 1996
System: MS-DOS
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords
II
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
Note that this is one of two different Warlords II scenarios with the same title.
Personal evaluation: This scenario has a rather nice map and plays well but its playability is reduced by many grammatical and spelling errors, generally boring descriptions and the same ugly shield set you find in Paul R. Ames' scenario with the same title.
Author: Jonathan Foster
Year: 1998
Version: 2.0
System: Macintosh
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords
II
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
Author: Steve Strayer
Year: 1995
System: MS-DOS
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords
II and Warlords
II Deluxe
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
Personal evaluation: This is by far the best Warlords II Middle Earth scenario I have come across. It has a very good map, nice graphics and is generally consistent with Tolkien's writings.
Year: 1995
System: MS-DOS
Type: Scenario for strategy game Warlords
II
Distribution: Freeware
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No
Please contact me if you know the name of the author of this scenario.
Personal evaluation: With a title like that, you'd expect something rather horrible, but the scenario is actually quite nice.