Unlike most role-playing games, Spellforce 2 doesn't limit your hero's advancement with a class system. So you can explore both the combat and magic skill trees as you wish -- hybrid characters are entirely feasible. You'll acquire plenty of new items for your heroes on every map, and can equip them with a standard RPG paper-doll inventory view. Although the system is nowhere near as deep as, say, Diablo's, it is considerably more complex than most other RTS games can boast, even the superficially similar Warlords Battlecry series.