Impressions of the game. (Old World)

A brilliant turn-based strategy game made up of a swarm of deeply interconnected mechanics and a role-playing system that will give you the opportunity to write your own story. Framed by the indescribable atmosphere of antiquity, Old World is addictive like a drug. A rich soundtrack and a pleasant picture can be overshadowed only in places by weak optimization.
SpoilerFounding Carthage, successfully defining its borders at the crossroads of all trade routes of the Mediterranean, the newly-made Queen Dido laid the foundation for a new history of a great empire. After the signing of an official peace and an alliance with the Numidian tribe living in the surrounding deserts, in a very short time, cities were founded along the entire northern coast of Africa, fully establishing control of the Carthaginians of the southern Mediterranean Sea. The neighboring Egyptians, and so far only the Romans who were developing the Apennine Peninsula, now had to reckon with the new strength of the Mediterranean. The rapidly developing fleet of the Carthaginians, solid in number, was in no way inferior, and often surpassed its neighbors both in quality and in the art of navigation, and the light hired Numidian and Libyan cavalry, winging the dense ranks of the hoplites on the flanks,


Carthage prospered for twenty years until the queen was gone. The inexplicable sudden death of Dido was an unexpected blow, causing family and political strife between the potential heirs to the throne and the heads of the ruling families. Blood reprisals, betrayals, deception and expulsion of the legitimate heirs, led Pygmalion, Dido's brother, at the head of the table, already great at that time, the North African empire. But as time will show, if it was not the will of the gods and a blessing of fate, then at least a very fortunate coincidence. Expansion of borders and rapid expansion have replaced the discovery of new lands, acquaintance with other civilizations from the Sinai sands to the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf. New, strong trade and diplomatic relations were formed with Babylon, Persia, Greece and Assyria.


The exchange of technology and science led the peoples to mutual prosperity, enrichment and development. Time passed, the power of Pygmalion was strengthened, and the opinion of those in power and the common people towards the usurper king, changed from indignation and suspicion, to unconditional friendliness and reverence. Only one question remained unresolved. At the end of his life, the king did not have children from his wife and direct heirs to the throne, and he least wanted to repeat the times of turmoil that bestowed upon him the power. In the end, the fate of the empire was decided. And on his deathbed, before the people and the aristocracy of Carthage, the king inherited the throne in the hands of his daughter Imilka, a very young bastard girl, in whom her father doted and was fascinated by her abilities in teaching, science and philosophy. Disputes and public discontent, after the death of the king, soon subsided. Power was with the girl of the monarch only in words. In fact, Carthage was in the hands of the heads of the ruling families, influential generals and politicians. Until the young child turned into a wise, educated and talented queen, whose power no one could challenge. Since then, the mistress has directed the course of the empire in the footsteps of the ideas of her idol - Queen Dido. It was her achievements in expanding the boundaries of the empire's influence, rapid construction and development within the state that inspired Imilka like nothing else. And the founding alliance with Rome and the proposed assistance in solving problems with the supposedly common threat of the Germanic tribes gave the troops of Carthage a pretext to march the entire west of the Iberian Peninsula to the borders with Rome itself, completely erasing any centers of resistance and aggression. In this way, several more large cities were founded, and the sphere of influence of Carthage became greater than ever before.

Fifty years of the reign of Imilka the Great marked the brightest milestone in the existence of the empire. The mother's policy in the future will be continued by her eldest son Hannibal. A brilliant commander and fanatic of his cause, he will lead his troops through the desert, conquer Assyria and reach Babylon itself, establishing the unconditional, cultural, scientific and military domination of Carthage in the Mediterranean Old World.