Armies of Death
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| The Fighting Fantasy series |
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 The original cover of Armies of Death illustrated by Chris Achilleos |
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 The Wizard cover of Armies of Death illustrated by Martin McKenna |
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| Outline | |
| Location: | Allansia, Titan |
| References: | 400 |
| Publication details | |
| Author(s): | Ian Livingstone |
| Illustrator: | Nik Williams |
| Puffin | |
| Cover illustrator: | Chris Achilleos |
| Year of release: | 1988 |
| Number | 36 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0140324860 |
| Wizard | |
| Cover illustrator: | Martin McKenna |
| Year of release: | 2003 |
| Number | 14 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 1-84046-436-4 |
| List of FF books | |
Armies Of Death is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Ian Livingstone, illustrated by Nik Williams and originally published in 1988. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 36th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0140324860) and 14th in the modern Wizard series (ISBN 1-84046-436-4).
It is the third part of a loose trilogy of gamebooks written by Ian Livingstone. The preceding books are Deathtrap Dungeon and Trial of Champions, although Armies of Death is not set in Deathtrap Dungeon and bears little resemblance to the two other books. The adventurer in this gamebook is the same character that won the book Trial of Champions. This book contains rules for mass-battle combat.
[edit] Story
The kingdom of Allansia is under threat. Agglax the evil Zombie-Lord is amassing an army of undead warriors in easter Allansia, beyond the Forest of Fiends. His army increases in size with every attack it makes on the local villages and every day its ranks are swelled with slaughtered victims under Agglax’s evil spell. Unless they are stopped now, the undead will take over the entire kingdom.
YOU are Allansia’s only hope. Your mission is to raise an army which will defeat the terrifying undead troops... but how can you conquer an army which grows in numbers with every battle it fights?
The reader assumes the role of the winner of the Trial Of Champions, who has a newly won purse of 20,000 Gold Pieces. The reader must defeat an evil Shadow Demon, Agglax and his undead army and stop them from taking over the region of Allansia using an army bought with the coins.
[edit] Reprint
By the time Wizard came round to reprinting this gamebook they had run out of silver embossing. This meant that there was no Special Limited Edition of Armies of Death. For the next few books after Armies of Death, Wizard were forced to use the gold embossing from the Sorcery! series for the Special Limited Editions.
