Jonric: When you create a Warlord, what are your preferred major and minor abilities and favored race, and how do you like to build him or her up through the campaign?

Steve Fawkner
Lead Designer
Although I usually tend to play the Knights in most games, in Warlords IV, I've been having a lot of fun playing the Undead and the Dark Elves. My favorite Warlord has been created to be sympathetic to both these sides. I have majored in Necromancy with my secondary skill in Summoning - this makes me a Ghoul, an appellation with which most of the development team might unfortunately agree.

I am basically very fond of the Arcane Necromancy spells (the highest level Necromancy spells in the game - only available to a Warlord who majors in Necromancy), and my Warlord is now high enough level that I can often pick up some quite quickly at the beginning of a battle. Blood Ritual, which allows all heroes to become vampiric, is my favorite, closely followed by Altar of Night, which makes all of my troops cause Terror in their opponents. The Summoning spells also come in handy, allowing me to call forth a variety of Daemons, which is particularly useful when playing the Dark Elves, because their individual troops have good special abilities but poor combat stats.