Bormac's Age of Wonders 1
And now its time to start...after choosing to go with the good side first, we make our leader we are dropped into the game, with a bit of story. Apparently things just plain old aren't going well for the elves. We are given the halflings as our first race. This is automatic and we don't get a choice like we will with later races.
And now some brief explanation of the mechanics, or at least some of them, will do more as I think of it... and we spot our enemy as well. The fiendish Goblins!