Spazzykid

I think it's fine as long as it isn't pathetically easy to just toss together a huge army and steamroll to the enemy wizard and focus fire him, thus ending the game. One of my biggest pet peeves with Age of Wonders was how your supposedly god-like wizard could be taken out by a couple of midget leprechauns in as little as two turns or by a single dragon attack. It made the best strategy rushing the enemy wizard all the time, everytime. Even stationing several stacks o

As long as they don't give you viable ingame bonuses like the achievements for Mass Effect on Xbox360 do. Otherwise I see great potential for whoever writes the excellent unintentional comedy bits at Stardock. The miniturization tech description talking about lawsuits on galciv2 had me laughing for several minutes straight. The Munchies: You've defeated an entire army with a single otherwordly creature.

The only games I could possibly see a justification for pirating are for games that use that russian made DRM that literally kills your hardware. No game is worth replacing a dvd/cd drive for.

Camp 1: Sounds both simple and fun. Honestly, given Stardock's fantastic use of UI - any 'complex' resource management would likely be a breeze. That, and the simplicity of Camp 2 sickens me.