Mountain - is it a game, is it art?

[kandrathe]

Now, Archon was my favorite chess type game so far.

I used to play that on my Commodore 64. But since you controlled combat and I got so good with anything that wasn't a pawn it got way too easy. I mean I could kill anything with a manticore, at least when playing against the CPU. Pheonix vs Pheonix battles could go on forever in human vs human too.

I've been hoping this one gets a face lift actually. It was a game before it's time (graphics-wise). When battle chess came out for the Amiga, I thought finally that we'd see the great unit to unit combat phase from Archon combined with chess move strategy. Heroes of Might and Magic III for example, is sort of similar in the turned based (move phase, combat phase) although the "chess board" is a randomly generated complex map with multiple objectives. Still hoping someone resurrects it, or maybe it's old enough to be PD and I could built an open source free-ware version myself.