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509:-type building strategy and wargame campaign." He said the game's strongest point is how it expands from a city-building simulation into nation-building and wargames, but also highly praised the graphics and simple, easy-to-grasp interface. He scored the game 4 out of 5 stars.
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as the best strategy game of 1995, although it lost to
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534:(tie). The editors wrote that
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1505:Video games set in antiquity
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650:Computer Games Strategy Plus
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183:is a 1995 video game of the
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1222:Lords of the Realm
850:on April 16, 2018.
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275:Publication
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1190:Caesar III
1040:Caesar III
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822:Top 100".
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587:References
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1480:DOS games
1309:Air Bucks
1183:Caesar II
1072:A New Era
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725:June 20,
655:Archived
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