You'll delegate your authority through a royal court, which can include merchants, clerics, marshals, and spies you'll inspire your people and keep the morale of your kingdom high, quelling rebellion should it rear its treacherous head and you lead your soldiers on the field of battle, siege castles and plunder towns.Ī pausable, plausible real-time sim, Knights of Honor gives you the choice of playing a quick battle, in which you control squads of soldiers in a fairly standard real-time strategy setting, or the campaign, which is infinitely more satisfying.
In your quest to become the supreme ruler of the Old World, you have to take on diplomatic relations with other kingdoms, create and maintain a healthy economy with the ever-looming possibility of inflation, train and command a strong army to protect your lands, and, if you wish, to conquer others. Knights of Honor wows you with its scale. Challenging you to conquer Europe in one of three time periods during the Age of Chivalry, it leaps from a grand strategy simulator to a tactical-combat game and back, and it does so with the polish of a big studio production and the attention to detail of a wargaming startup. Once players have learned to rule a computer-controlled medieval Europe, they can compete against up to five other human opponents, over a local network or the Internet.īlack Sea Studio's Knights of Honor is a sweeping epic of a medieval strategy game that's busy sweeping the floor with other titles that simulate the Dark Ages. In any of these eras, Knights of Honor features three large geographical regions to conquer, with over 150 individual provinces to claim. Games are set in one of three medieval periods - "Early" (circa 1000 A.D.), "Middle" (1200 A.D.), or "Late" (1350 A.D.) - each with its own distinct challenges based on the historical politics and technologies of the time. Each offers different bonuses and restrictions.
There are six different types of knights: Marshal, Spy, Merchant, Landlord, Builder, and Cleric. Since hands-on management would be far too great a task for any single person, the monarch must employ knight characters, who will carry out various orders across the continent. Players are placed in the role of a monarch, who must oversee every major aspect of the growing empire. Billed as the first "Empire-Conquering Simulation in Real-Time," Knights of Honor is a real-time strategy game that combines the historical context of Age of Empires with the empire-building elements of Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns or Medieval: Total War. In this first North American release from Bulgarian developer Black Sea Studios, players set out to conquer all of Europe in a seamless, real-time flow of development, destruction, and diplomacy.
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