Handy Games offer first glimpse of Townsmen 4

HandyGames' Townsmen strategy series has accounted for many a happy hour in the Pocket Gamer offices, with the most recent title deservedly scooping one of our silver awards for its troubles.

We were therefore heartened to discover this week that its German publisher is planning a fourth extension in the series. Indeed, as these first shots illustrate, construction on Townsmen 4 is well and truly underway.

Though set in 'dark medieval times', this latest outing has a religious overtone, as you swap the lordly robes of previous games for the monastic cloth and take control of a monastery.

Subtitled The Brotherhood, the game will apparently offer a host of new features such as 'proselytising, or the mixing of brew-mixtures in your monastery's own brewery'.

Hopefully we'll have figured out what the former means by the time the game is released on March 20th!