Old school fun in a box for the TBS genre
The game for a first in the series is rather short on content, with each of the 4 campaigns spanning about 4-6 missions each. However, it offers nothing short of an additional map editor/campaign editor. That being said, none of the missions in the campaign are easy, unless you set the difficulty as such. Most missions are often semi challenging even on the moderate difficulty settings, and often, if you favor urgency, laced with time constraints given objectives that the enemy cannot complete for you.
The game's art portraits are completely hand drawn adding further to the beauty of some of the other still works you encounter. It also adds personality to some of the units who respectively have voices.
The units are controlled by you and have to be earned via battles. If a unit falls in battle in can be revived if you have constructed a temple in your main city. If the party falls, your not getting anything back from them. You need only construct specific buildings in your main city to access higher tier units. However they must all be reconstructed at the beginning of every mission, and in early missions are limited to simple upgrades, as opposed to the complex units later gained.
The music is mellow and often blends in to the background given it's either silent or overt nature. Cutscenes are pre-rendered, common in the 90's and serve as a nice passing by with every mission(though the narrator could somewhat improve.)
Overall Disciples Sacred lands, along side others such as jagged alliance are some of the better games Strategy first has put out and you should enjoy it given it's meager price of about 4 or so dollars(for the gold edition) on GOG.