If there's any snag with Nemesis, it's with the production values. You can set up a battle similarly to that of an Age of Empires game in that you can choose the races, maps, and all of the ground rules. The games have a great flow to them and work without a hitch. Supported via GameSpy Arcade for 2-8 players, it's a very solid multiplayer game because of the focus on the military. The smoldering ruins of an Iberian village But if solo play isn't your cup of tea, the multiplayer support is first rate.
On the tougher levels, it's a real bear that is sure to give veteran real-time strategy gamers a tough test. On the easy mode, it's a breeze and presents very little challenge. What makes Nemesis of the Roman Empire truly stand out, however, is the artificial intelligence. It's just another example of the game's elegant design. Your units are represented as colored dots and it looks like a mini-wargame in this regard. The maps are very large, and you can issue orders from the overview map, which keeps the game manageable.
The game is played in real-time, and there's no way to pause and give orders, but you can slow the pace of the game to almost a crawl so there's no haphazard frantic feel you find in some real-time titles. For example, the Iberians are all about defense while the Gauls are more about brute force. The good news is that each faction is unique and focuses on a specific style of play. The new factions bring the total to a whopping four (Carthaginians, Iberians, Gauls, and Romans). It's a great way to keep things organized. When the hero moves, all the archers follow. So you can have a hero control 50 archers, for instance. A very handy design feature is that you can assign units to a hero's banner. Heroes lead your armies into battle and provide bonuses as their level increases. It adds a lot of strategy to the game and forces you to plan attacks rather than just sending a mob of units across the continent. If you send an army across a huge map without any food or on a path that has no friendly villages along the way to support them - they're dead meat. This puts a premium on conquering these neutral sites early in the game to keep a supply chain of sorts. On each map there are villages, forts, and other camps that house food supplies (as well as units) and you may send food to them via a supply mule. On paper, this sounds like a major hassle, but in practice it works rather well. A starving army is a dead army, and you need to keep your units supplied or they'll slowly lose hit points. Food (the only resource in the game aside from gold) is vital in greasing the wheels or your military machine. The siege is on! That said - you need to do more than just upgrade your units and recruit them en masse.
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