Looking for an RTS, Wow-like, Old Game

A game I played during my childhood I can't seem to find anymore. I looked everywhere including the list of EVERY single real time strategy games, and squacknet's all games from 2000 - 2005

So the game has a very prominent title screen. It is just a slow zoom in in a really long pathways in a light forest-y, castle-y environment. If you stay in the main menu screen long enough, they reveal that you are slowing walking/zooming into a castle door. But for the most part its just the zoom in bit.

The game itself is a lot like World of Warcraft 3. It is an RTS I want to say and you play a group of bald humans and you get these people to cut trees and collect resources to power up you castle (?) and get more recruits like archers. You can fight the enemy and attack their structures. You can build walls around your area but you can't close them off because there's no gate system. You usually can play against enemies that have basically the same thing as you, but they are most likely hidden in the fog of war. There's also like campaigns I think where you kinda follow objectives and try to win(??). I remember in those areas it isn't winter and there are boats you can control and put units into.

The graphic is 3D, very janky much like Wow (although I also forgot a lot about the game). It is not isometric though, I think its 3D. You have the bottom right corner for the actions and upgrades for the units and structures, that I remember. The closest thing visually I can find to it is a game called Glest. Looks just like it maybe little less colorful. It's also very very similar to Armies of Exigo.

There are some random stuff I remember as well like the game had goldmines where you can send your workers to mine, there are 1x1 grey brick walls you can build, there are wizards (?) units you can deploy, there are building upgrades you can get. There are units that has mace. There's a building upgrade that is called bloodbath and the icon is of a bathtub with blood. I think there are some units with magic like warlock or something. The goldmine could be finished, where it has a counter ticking down whenever you take from it and then it closes down. Your worker units need to physically bring the resources to your castle, so they'll have their back with gold or wood then they walk around. They also bleed I think.

I am a little sad about a breakup recently and I've been spending all my time researching this but I can't seem to find any trace of this. I thought I could use your help to finally find this old game my memory won't let go of. Thank you for reading all the way through!

Posted Jun 1, 2023, 2:20 AM UTC

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