Solium Infernum

[Munch]

Anyone tried this turn-based political strategy board-game-'em-up? I played the demo and thought it had potential, so bought it for myself tonight as an impulse. The premise is that Satan has disappeared leaving you and some other pretenders to the Throne of Hell to deceive, steal and kill your way to the title. It has a pretty steep learning curve, lots of die rolls and card playing and is full of involved messages like "The Sceptre of Regent of the Infernal Throne has passed to Murmur this turn".

There's an interesting AAR going on at Rock Paper Shotgun, which is pretty much the thing that piqued my interest in the first place.

A couple of screenshots from my game, just started:

Spoiler :

The Infernal Bazaar, where bids are made on recruitable legions (basic armies), praetors (generals) and so on:

After two turns of moving my original legion, The Chosen of Fuu (red, lower left), Asteroth (black, lower left) beat me to conquer The Summit of Mount Erebus, a place of power which grants constant flow of prestige (victory points):

 

[MrPopov]

I am interested however I've heard the AI is terrible and I am not one to play strategy games with people I don't know. And the people I do know have no interest in this game

 

[Munch]

I am interested however I've heard the AI is terrible and I am not one to play strategy games with people I don't know. And the people I do know have no interest in this game

The game's main focus is multiplayer, and with that said it is only PBEM. There is a steam group set up by the RPS people which is a good place to get games going.

The AI is rather passive, that is true. But that is being updated with patches, for what it's worth.