To my deep regret ... for some reason my Web [antivirus] flagged the game archive file for XP as malicious ... I never actually got around to playing it ... it feels kind of risky dealing with viruses :)

Do you really think I would publish a virus-infected file? That is simply impossible.

Dr.Web does indeed say that the file is infected :) but what it writes is called: "modification of APE.based", which in other words means it suspects it's a virus, while stating that the application has been modified. And when I published it, I said that the game was unofficial (Russian) — an official Russian Arcomage does not exist; therefore, to make a Russian version, whoever made it had to modify the game resources.

In fact, other antiviruses, including the respected Kaspersky with the latest databases, don't even consider suspecting this distribution for viruses, because there simply aren't any here :).