had reached 8,608 units, which drew revenues of $332,662. Writing for CNET Gamecenter, Asher reported in September 2000 that the game's sales in the U.S. The game was commercially unsuccessful in the U.S., and journalists Mark Asher and Tom Chick noted that it 'didn't even hit PC Data's charts'. Jim Preston of NextGen said of the game, 'Players who look underneath the ordinary surface will find a highly entertaining mix of strategy and role-playing.' The game received 'favorable' reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In the path of darkness, the Hero turns on Guardia and seeks to take Lucifus before Navarre and ultimately, take revenge. In the path of light in which the Hero continues to follow orders from his general while resolving to recover Navarre. At a pivotal moment, the campaign will branch out into two paths.

The game also featured a campaign, which follows a Human Hero from Guardia as he seeks to recover the two tears of dawn. Each profession has at least three specialties, which give access to different skills and spheres of magic. There are four professions, Warrior, Wizard, Rogue, and Priest. The Elvish/Magical races: High Elf, Wood Elf and Dark Elf.The Primitive races: Barbarians, Orcs and Minotaurs.The Civilized races: Human, Dwarf and Undead.There are nine races organized in sets of three: This makes the series the first to be called 'roleplaying strategy', a term coined by its creator, Steve Fawkner. The game introduced a hero-building system, combining real time strategy elements with roleplaying elements (hero development, stats and skills). It was the first of new series of RTS games set in Steve Fawkner's Warlords franchise. Warlords Battlecry, sometimes mislabeled as Warlords 3: Battlecry, is a real-time strategy video game released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows.

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