But Knights of Honor is not about the battles, where one could argue that that was entirely the point of Total War. Like the Total War series, the multiplayer game is a skirmish mode including historical battles. Knights of Honor moves at a glacial pace in single-player. Refuse to submit and you could be at war with your brother-in-law. That royal wedding you planned to cement a friendship with Croatia might not seem like such a good idea when they try to assert their rights to a border province. Likewise, any royal marriage has the potential to bring in rival claims to parts of your kingdom. In a bit borrowed from the Europa Universalis series, kingdoms have a stability rating that can be affected by investments and breaches of faith.īetray an ally and your stability will plummet, as will any tax revenue you have been taking in. Castles are strong enough to withstand a siege for a fair time, but you need quite a bit of cash ahead to build them strong. If you can’t meet an enemy in the field, burn his crops and prevent him from resupplying. This means that there are viable strategies for even a weak country, provided it can maintain its independence. Troops need food to keep morale, so you are encouraged to set up camp every now and then, and pillaging the countryside revives your troops and wounds your enemies. Combat ends with the death of your general, but since he is your most powerful warrior, it sometimes pays to put him in harm’s way. Combat is your basic real-time mess, with soldiers running into a clump—formations or not—but the variety of units is good. On the whole, Knights of Honor is a good, if slow, game.
If game designers want to personalize decision making, they should give the decision makers personality.
Similarly, the royal family lacks any of the dynamism that the leaders in Rome: Total War or Crusader Kings brought to the table. Your councilors gain experience with every success, but there is nothing to bring life to this board of directors. In this post, he can serve your ends as well as those of his putative master.īeyond that inspired approach to espionage and subterfuge, the council is little more than a bunch of portraits that can win you victories, earn you money, or rack up piety. If you appoint a spy, you can post him in a rival nation, whose king might choose your agent to serve on his council. If your king is unfortunate enough to die without an heir, the new king is chosen from this lot.
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Though the tutorial advises that you can mold this council to suit your play style, you usually find it full of marshals and rarely post a builder. Knights of Honor borrows heavily from Medieval: Total War and Lords of the Realm. As the ruler, you can appoint up to nine knights to help micromanage imperial matters. You wage war, develop your cities, and suck up to your powerful neighbors while smacking down your weaker ones. You are positioned as the ruler of a medieval kingdom. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. There is little truly original or innovative about it. The setting, the interface, the gameplay. Everything about Knights of Honor, a medieval empire-building strategy game, is familiar.
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