Hello! I'm begging for help naming a game I played probably 8 years back or so.

It had a chesslike setup, and you controlled an army of fantasy characters. Each could move a set field, much like chess, and then interacted using their abilities when near enemy characters.

Everything was fully animated and very beautiful.

Characters included: sorcerers, ghosts, wizards, that kind of thing. There were a lot of different characters.

Any help would be so appreciated!

Thanks! Sabashii

i no what game your talkin about, ill look about 4 u and give u the name.......sorry

Sounds too recent to be the old "Archon" game. Probably Dark Reign by Silicon Knights.

Sounds a bit like Battle Chess:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess

Or the new Chess Crusade:
http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Crusade-for-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B0017UFWLY

Or Majestic Chess:
http://www.netjak.com/review.php/483

Ill bet my hat it was one of the Heroes of Might and Magic games. From your timeline, probably HOMM2.

The battles were set up on a field which was divided into hexes and youd move your units (lots of fantasy creatures too) across the board to attack the other guys units.

Got one called 'Dragon Dice' that was turn based with fantasy character and involved moving characters in a chess like manner.