OK, desperately trying to remember the name of this
You controlled a number of characters like knights, magicians, etc
The sprites were all massive - they took up half the screen
It was like a basic RPG
It might have been called knight something or night something - I cant remember and its doing my nut in!
3D Panormaic view or top down?
COuld be Nightlore or Nightshade but if top down view also sounds a bit like Gauntlet...
Its side on - not isometric or top down
the characters were half the height of the screen, and you issued orders to them individually - you had a team of maybe 6
dark sceptre - thats the one