Winged Warlords is a ZX Spectrum game which was published by CDS Microsystems in 1983.
It was authored by Mike Lamb, who went on to write many Spectrum conversions of arcade games such as Arkanoid and Renegade.
Collision with a computer-controlled enemy results in one warlord being dismounted, depending on who had the altitudinal advantage.
If left unattended, the warlord eventually calls a new mount and re-enters the battle (coloured magenta instead of cyan).
CRASH magazine reviewed Winged Warlords in its third issue, awarding it 79%, while Sinclair User gave it 6/10,[3] generally receiving better critical success than other Spectrum Joust clones such as Softek's Ostron.