BATTLEMODE Plays Multiplayer! Shadow Empire | Ring of Rust | Episode 001

Shadow Empire is one of the most innovative 4X games ever and amongst its many accolades, it boasts both an excellent single player experience while also being a fantastic multiplayer game too. The map asymmetry and drastically variable environmental conditions ensures diplomacy is critical, and the end-game doomsday weapons ensure players are pushed to achieve victory sooner rather than later.

This is a multiplayer game featuring a crew of friends I regularly play Dominions and other games with: I am the desperate warlord leading the Ring of Rust, Richard Yorke (regular Slitherine contributor) plays the Empire of Dick, Cael Immortalis is the commander of the Phoenix Legion, and finally Hyde77 heads up the Tribes of Man.

I want to give you all fair warning: this is a long game, with a long, slow build up. I think it's interesting right the way through and have endeavoured to enlighten the slower moments with introspection and reflection on Shadow Empire itself, with the obligatory bitching about the infuriatingly opaque Pull logistics system kept to a minimum :) But there's no warfare between players for many, many episodes and I want you all to know that before you jump in.

Go buy the game at www.matrixgames.com and help support the developer.