stays stationary until a unit adjacently passes it. In a few seconds it will transform into a hulk of limping, animated rubble. Rubble Fiends are slow but strong and persistent. Gas Clouds: Giant clouds that wander seemingly aimlessly across the land, speculated by different races to be either a byproduct of destructive Tha' Roon experimentation and bioengineering, vengeful spirits wanting to enact retribution against those who have wronged them, or extensions of a larger, more powerful, invisible being that is feasting on the earth of Yavaun. Ruin Smoke: An acidic, reddish-brown smog that causes destruction exclusively to structures, like vehicles, buildings, and walls. Retch Cloud: A poisonous, noxious, sickly green gas that deteriorates living and organic tissue that it passes through. Slinck Weed: Slinck weeds are slow, dark-green, headless lizard-like monsters. Slinck Weeds use their three tongues and tail to attack and can inflict serious damage, especially to unsuspecting workers gathering resources by themselves, since slinck weeds are easily disguised as normal trees and attack in small groups when simply approached. Some Eaggra units, known as weeds, have tamed these hostile beasts and use them as slow-moving mounts. Snipethorn: Snipethorns are small, white anteater-like creatures with long-range firing capabilities. Snipethorns are very commonly in packs and tend to attack completely unprovoked, shooting quills from their long snouts. Alone, snipethorns pose little threat, but when under attack, all snipethorns in the immediate vicinity will come to each other's aid and can prove devastating to an unprepared group. Reception The game was a finalist for Computer Gaming Worlds and CNET Gamecenter's 1996 "Strategy Game of the Year" awards, both of which ultimately went to Civilization II. Gamecenter's editors called it the deepest real-time game at that time. References Notes References External links 1996 video games Real-time strategy video games Strategic Simulations games Video games about extraterrestrial life Video games developed in the United States Video games set on fictional planets Windows games Windows-only freeware games Windows-only games DreamForge Intertainment games Multiplayer and single-player video games