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My field of vision is entirely made up of a game menu. It's not me playing the game, it's more like I'm inside the game. The only thing I notice is that I have enough points for an upgrade, so I go into that section. There are some submenu's but the only one I remember is the one I clicked on; Fire [as in the element]. In that were four upgrades to choose from, and the only one I remember is again the one I chose; Units.

After that, I begin playing a level. I have a birds eye view of the whole map, and can see my units. I'm given the opportunity to give them orders and place them where I want, but I completely skip that and go straight into the game. My view suddenly descends and change angle, and now I have an fps view and can run and fight. Running forwards down a grassy hill, I notice a river with some guard towers at the bottom, and instantly know I'm supposed to take the towers to win.

The only sort of power that I have is to make enemy soldiers forget what's going on, making them drop their weapons / fall off ladders in confusion. I use this to get to the base of a guard tower and climb a ladder up to its top. As is look over the railing, I get stabbed in the face and die. Game over screen.

I'm back at the very beginning, so I repeat the original pre-game process of selecting Fire/Units. This time I use the opportunity to organise troops at the beginning and move all of them as close to the river as possible. I realise that the Fire/Units selection must have all been siege units, becasue I have five times as many of them as normal soldiers, most of them catapults.

WHen I go into the match itself, before I even get the chance to move I see a barrage of flaming balls fly through the sky and begin to demolish the towers. The ,atch is over in a matter of seconds. Victory screen. End dream.