The original SpellForce was notable for two reasons. First, The Order Of Dawn (the first of the 'trilogy') and its two expansions were positively massive. Second, and here's the important one, it rather cleverly managed to marry the principles of the RTS and RPG genres without landing firmly on its arse. Its only real drawback is that it would have taken someone with a beard of Bellamy-sized proportions and a silver-gilded Campaign for Real Ale card to get even marginally through its triple-figured hours of plotting.