An old 80s Apple II game.

[Retracting Head Ter Ter]

I was hoping that one of you guys would remember this.

Its an old Apple II (not sure if it made it to DOS, I played it on an Apple II+ or 2c).

You start off with a small band of men and you can move around a few towns. Each town has a local chief/leader and you have 4 spies/messengers who you can send on errands to find out about the leader and give them messages asking for more men or guns. I remember that if the town leader is mad with you, the messenger comes back with his head on a plate (and you only have 4 messengers for the whole game).

There are some random encounters with the troops of the main bad guy in between the towns where you can capture guns if you defeat them.

The whole purpose of the game is to gather enough guns and men before heading to the fort of the main bad guy and having it out with his army. The final battle is an overhead view where the troops are represented by squares and circles for each side respectively.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Apollo Leader]

When I first glanced through this I thought this sounded like Seven Cities of Gold which I played quite abit back during 1987-88.