{"id":269,"date":"2005-10-22T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2006-08-18T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T20:43:08","slug":"legion-arena-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/22\/legion-arena-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion Arena Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slitherine&#8217;s latest ancient warfare game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackbeangames.com\/?act=games&amp;game=legion&amp;ope=demo\">now has a demo<\/a>. 240 megabytes of spear-chucking goodness.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good. The campaign battles have the typical Slitherine &#8220;hands-off&#8221; approach to command except now you can give a few orders if your command bar is full. The battle set-up screen seems little different from the one in <i>Spartan<\/i>. It remains to be seen if the battle-after-battle campaign will have any of the pull that the strategy game of its immediate cousin <i>Rome: Total War<\/i> does. (Slitherine&#8217;s serious conquer-the-world campaign is being saved for the next <i>Legion<\/i> game.)<\/p>\n<p>Simple enough game. The battles are over much more quickly than the battles in <i>Rome<\/i>, but that might change with the full version and there are more troops on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slitherine&#8217;s latest ancient warfare game now has a demo. 240 megabytes of spear-chucking goodness. So far so good. The campaign battles have the typical Slitherine &#8220;hands-off&#8221; approach to command except now you can give a few orders if your command bar is full. The battle set-up screen seems little different from the one in Spartan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-4l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}