I am very much enjoying getting reacquainted with Lords1, but I am remembering some old bugs/flaws that took some of the enjoyment from the game. Today, I ran into a problem that was new, but typical of how the game would glitch once in a while.

I had taken the last county from the BIshop and knocked down his last army to a paltry 30 men. He hid this small army directly behind a castle in Sussex, which I had just captured. When I went to move onto his army to wipe it out, my army went into the castle. How it did so I know not, as it was larger than the maximum possible garrison size. So there was my army, stuck in the castle. I could not march it out on later turns, nor could I force it out by trying to demolish the castle. I had an army of 950 men marooned in a castle that was supposed to only house a maximum of about 400.

Another bug I used to encounter, but so far have been lucky to avoid with the GOG version, is the vanishing army bug. I once had a large, elite and high morale army simply disappear from the map. It wasn't starving and wasting away as it was in my own county with a large food supply. Stuff like that breaks a game and the only thing to do is abandon a good game and restart.

Still, I am having a lot of fun playing this old classic game. I enjoy Lords2, but they took a lot of the good elements out of the first game. Lords1, dated graphics and all is still a better game in many ways.

Where do you feel Lord1 out shines L2? I had always thought of L2 as a great, if not the greatest, update to a game in my memory. I havent played L1 since the dawn of time however so I dont recall anything other than being pleased with the fixes in L2, nothing of what they left out.

Lords1 is more challenging against the computer than Lords2. I routinely play Lords2 on the highest difficulty settings and win 99% of the time. Lords2 did a great job of simplifying production, but much of the challenge has gone out of the game. I do appreciate how you can move your army several times in one turn, as long as you still have points left. This means you can go one spot at a time to do recon. In Lords1 it is all or nothing, and joining/splitting armies can be a pain. Still, overall I find Lords1 more challenging, but the time spent in management becomes inordinate as your counties accumulate. I like both games, but still prefer 1 over 2, warts and all.

Many games are like that! ;)

I haven't tried Lords of the Realm 1 yet, but I'd very much like to. I need to find an easy way to get into it. For someone of my age group, it's hard to get into some older games cause they can be so confusing to get into, not in a bad way, just hard to get adjusted to how it works. At least for me it can be, sometimes it's confusing.

I played some of Lords of the Realm 2, and it's a pretty good game. It's like a better version of the Total War games, in my opinion! Loved the music in it too, fantastic stuff.

Yeah, I have to try Lords of the Realm 1, I love a good challenge too! Good to hear it's tougher! Nowadays I like to be super duper challenged in games.

By the way, I actually like it when a game has a bug and some flaws. As long as it's not game breaking in a bad way, it gives them some character. That might be an odd thing to say to some, but that's how it is for me, I never saw the need to get upset over a bug in a game.