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Posted on: December 22, 2015

jacobg830

Games: 484 Reviews: 3

Great title despite problems

This RTS game is akin to the Age of Empires/Mythology series in that you collect resources and build a base in order to create a army capable of destroying your opponent. It is set in a fantasy-medievel world filled with both humans and demonic creatures. Rather than choosing a set people before the game begins, Warrior Kings allows you to choose your path as you play by building cultural building. For example, building a church and windmill will put you on a religious-renaissance path whereas a maypole would lead you down a pagan path. Each path has many unique units and buildings. The game also features a supply chain and food consumption system. Archers require arrows replenished by a nearby building or wagon and all soilders require food - without it they slowly die. This allows raids by the enemy to be effective in that you will run out of food/resources. Although the campagin story is lackluster compared to the orginial Warrior Kings game, in that can be very repetitive, it is a certainly a good way to learn to play the game. Once a level is completed in the campagin, it is unlocked for play in skirmish and multiplayer along with the AI general. Skirmish and multiplayer (if you can find anyone to play with) is more where the game shines. The higher level AI is quite smart considering the year the game was made and by such a small development team, it can maybe challenge even intermidiate RTS players. Although no official modding tools exist, the community has 'hacked' it's way in and released their own modding tools capable of changing the majority of the game. The game has it's share of bugs. To set it to a higher resolution you must modify your registry, glitches in the game allow for exploits in multiplayer and balance issues also exist. Sadly the game developer, Black Cactus, shutdown many years ago so all the money made goes to the publisher Strategy First whom allegedly only has (or had) the rights to sell the game in the US.

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Posted on: December 30, 2015

nitrogenfingers

Games: 330 Reviews: 48

Solid but not what it wants to be

Warrior King Battles has a lot of ambitions. Despite it's heavy fantasy RPG flavour, there is a sincere effort here to replicate the challenges of medieval logistics. This is perhaps what makes it so distinctive and interesting, so it's a shame these aspects are the ones that tend to fall flat. As in any RTS, the game charges you with constructing a base and destroying your opponent. There are three distinct tech trees, the pagan, imperial and renaissance trees to keep the game asychronous. These aren't chosen from the start but rather built into over the course of the game, and they can be mixed to a limited extent which makes the game quite flexible, though I found one tends to find a strategy that suits and play consistently to that. Not content to be distinct in this way alone, Warrior King Battles makes a real try at a more medieval castle builder, with a focus on logistics. You start with a fort, complete with walls and gatehouse that can be expanded with fort buildings, and a village which serves as a drop-off point for gathered resources. To represent food consumption, your army supply limit is measured in manned farms, and going over this limit causes your military units to slowly starve. In addition, goods do not travel for use automatically; they must be shipped from your villages by cart to the city. While there are some great ideas here they completely fail in practice. It's impossible to survive a siege with one fort as there are no other sources of food, and games are decided with battles almost all the time anyway. The AI doesn't even bother to close it's gates; if you're that close, all farms are unmanned and you've already won. Pulling a sun tzu and stealing a cart of your enemies grain sounds appealing but the effort and time makes it worth far less than 10 of your own. Warrior King Battles is full of interesting ideas that never quite make it. It's no competitor to Warcraft III but still a solid and interesting RTS that's worth your time.

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Posted on: February 2, 2024

WillHarris

Verified owner

Games: 268 Reviews: 1

Really Great RTS

Doesn't get enough love. It's got so many things in it that you wouldn't normally find in other traditional RTS games: 1) Send spies to your enemies and burn down their farms and castle walls 2) Send a succubus down to your enemy's town and distract the male villagers 3) Recruit a shaman that can turn trees, rocks or gold into huge golems 4) Kill the enemy carts carrying their resources and steal it with a villager and bring it back to your base 5) Build a faction on the fly. Unlike other RTS games where you choose your faction before the match, in this one your choose it by building certain buildings in order to align with a certain faction or religion. Those are just some of the fun things you can do in this game. The only negatives I can think of is that the naval combat is not very good (although it's not a big part of the game so it's not an issue) and the final mission in the campaign is so hilariously imbalanced it's almost impossible to do it without cheesing it (you can do it by spamming barbarians and burning down their townhalls).

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Posted on: September 14, 2025

maxdunn

Verified owner

Games: 32 Reviews: 2

Chunky but fun

Probably the first RTS I really ever played, def not the best, but is solid and has a place in my heart. Wanna eat trees and summon satan? How about having 50 merchants and a bunch of guns? What about getting REALLY into Faith™? This one has all that. Campaign is ok, no real story to speak of, just a bunch of fights where you unlock generals to fight against in skirmish. Difficulty is pretty much just "How far up the tech tree" the general can go. They all tend to fight similar. Still, it holds a happy place in my heart. If I ever talk to my cousin again, it's gonna be to ask him to get online so we can play this. Get clean Douggie Note: Turn the music off, turn on free look, and prepare for the whole thing to grind to a halt if there are more than about 800units --total-- on all sides, depending on the map.

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Posted on: April 23, 2025

GenChris

Verified owner

Games: 10 Reviews: 3

A unique real-time strategy game

Still a great game. It's a shame that WK Battles doesn't have a widescreen resolution, unlike WK.

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