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Call of the Warlords is a hybrid strategy roleplaying game set in the Empire of Khadoria, an ancient realm held together by the will and political cunning of its Emperor. When the Emperor is suddenly and brutally assassinated, the threads binding Khadoria together are severed, leaving everything – the economy, government and social order – in chaos. The goal of Call of the Warlords is to win the Imperial Throne and take control of the Empire. To accomplish this, each player controls a noble family of heroes and retainers. Players must rebuild the economy, and fund an army, by creating commerce in their towns, establishing trade routes and political alliances, building monopolies and collecting revenues from vassals. Other, more interesting, ways of financing the army are extorting taxes from the peasantry, raiding dungeons for gold and magic items, plundering enemy towns and using spies to steal gold from enemy treasuries.