Ok guys hello I'm new here. So this is the game I was thinking about. It was a semi 3D rts game very similar to warcraft 3 but I remember i used to make fun of the graphics as it looked like it was made in paint. The soldiers had the same attack animation like raising their sword and lowering it and that was basically it. Cool thing about it was that as their health lowered you would see blood splatters on their bodies and it became increasingly red as they came near death. You had one building with upgrades and after a certain era evolution (kinda like age of empires) you could create pits or cursed monasteries or something like that and you could summon powerful undead creatures. I don't think they were factions since all soldiers builders etc looked the same the only difference was the color so they were all humans. The perspective was from the top. I think, emphasize on think, the name had something with "dark", "lords", "reign", "times", "age". I could be mistaken i don't really remember the name.
I used to make fun of this game untill I gave it a shot and it was quite decent although it seemed like a home made amateur game. I was playing this in 2002 or 2004 or somewhere around there.
It's a long shot but if anybody played or remembers this game it would be great. Thanks!