I like the lack of grinding necessary, but the mid grade ship (first ship with 3 slots) with the mid grade weapon (sonic boom thing) has no problem beating the game? A little silly I suppose.
If you're stuck at the red guy and little girl, try a different strategy. Note that the red guy gets super powerful after you kill the girl. If you can absorb a lot of damage, this may be ok. If not, you'll have to leave the girl alive. Party spells that don't kill her are great as she'll spend her time healing herself instead of sleeping your guys or casting speed up. It's a long battle (and the hardest in the game), but it's definitely manageable. Also make sure you have max pots before starting. Hopefully you have a party with offset stats (like one who is good at dmg and one who is a tank) - I did just fine with this strategy wil a mage and a paladin.
Nice concept, but yuck! Terrible controls, lack of save is awful, upgrades are too simplistic, not clear when your mouse is not on the game, not clear which junk/enemies you can pick up. 1/5.
This game is fun, but easy. If you never attack persia, but constantly upgrade your money making abilities (west trading first, since you'll have few provinces to start with), each time they attack (or rather, each time you attack them when a general is next door - see advisers for when that is), just focus on killing their units, not winning the battle. When you lose, you have a turns worth of income to buy new units, and they have the same amount on units they had after your last battle (fight the war of attrition!). And the super horses, archers, and pelts aren't worth it. Just use hyp's and scout calvary as your only units and you do alright!
Changed to 1/5 due to the game missing memory management. I was in the (probably) last level on the 2nd to last wave and the lag finally became too much. The lag is a problem.... FIX IT!
Excellent game. The setup of experience and heroes reduces the chances of the impossible level - if you hit something very hard, you can grind a bit to make it slightly easier. Grinding's no substitution for good strategy, but it definitely beats getting frustrated on one particular level and then just fleeing for a walkthrough. Excellent game!