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Game Overview

Lords of Conquest is one of those old-school MS-DOS strategy games that somehow manages to feel both simple and deep at the same time. You start by carving up the map with up to six other players (or AI opponents—some aggressive, some passive), then fight over territories to build cities and dominate the land. The whole thing runs on this weirdly satisfying resource system where gold, timber, and horses actually matter in battle, not just as abstract numbers.

First few turns are all about scrambling to grab the best territories before your rivals do. You’ll dump your stockpile somewhere defensible, trade iron for boats when you’re desperate, and pray the production phase doesn’t randomly skip (because yeah, that can happen). Combat’s all about odds—if you’ve got three territories surrounding an enemy’s lone outpost, you’ve got a 3-to-1 advantage… unless they’ve got a city or a sneaky boat boosting their defense.

What I love is how everything ties together. Horses let you move faster, weapons turn the tide in battles, and cities? Cities are the real prize—they double your resource output and basically make a territory untouchable. But they’re expensive as hell to build, so you’re always weighing whether to save up or spend on immediate firepower. The AI isn’t genius-level, but it’s just unpredictable enough to keep you on your toes, especially when defensive players suddenly gang up on you.

It’s the kind of game where you’ll lose an hour without realizing it, trying to outmaneuver that one passive opponent who somehow ends up with all the gold mines. If you’re into classic turn-based conquest with a little more going on than just moving armies, this one’s worth digging up.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".