Posted on: November 7, 2012

bside

Игр: 188 Отзывов: 3

Great RTS game, with some major flaws

Back in the end of 90's, Knights & Merchants used to be one of the most fantastic strategy games of glorious RTS era. The typical "build your economy and then - army" system works there fantastic. Watching how the merry workers carry wood and bricks, work on a field or inside their houses, is extemely enjoyable. The variety of buildings isn't that great, but it's always fun to observe how the city grows. The military part of a game is even better. We manually order certain amount of swords, axes, shield, bows and crossbows and then recruit soldiers: footknights, distant fighter and cavalry. A possibility of forming lines, using "rush" mode and pros and cons of each unit type, gave us an advanced form of fighting, in comparison to other RTS games of that time. Also the graphics and music are better than in Settlers III, and the campaign gave us a good, medieval story. So where are those major flaws? Well, the German developer never supported the game with and adequate patch, so you would see how your workers get stuck and don't build a structure, they're supposed to. It's really annoying. And double-annoying is a fact, that Peasent Rebellion as a second version of a game and it lacks this patch too. The second thing is a difficulty level. Your enemies are always a big-army badasses and on the levels 7+ there are is no space for mistakes. What's more - building a city that's able to create weapons for lots of soldiers and feed them take hours. Sometimes 1 mission could ate even 10h! And last, but not least, it's fine that you got 2 campaigns and some scenarios, but it's simply isn't enought. Nevertheless - if you're a fan of RTS games and classic economy/military strategy games, you can't miss it. But brace yourself it wouldn't be a sunday walk!

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Posted on: January 29, 2022

Superunknown1337

Владелец игры

Игр: 17 Отзывов: 5

Good, old RTS

First thing, game works on W10, no major issues and show stoppers. However from time to time there's a 'freeze' and you have to restart the game (very rare) - 2 times within like 7 missions. Is ok. If you haven't played it as a kid - you won't probably enjoy so not sure if to recommend unless you like classic games. Why? Because unit control is not perfect and gameplay isn't fast. But if you enjoy classic games - try it out, this is not about get more units than your enemy, you have to plan the attack and have certain units to counter. Game gives chill when it comes to building your city, making supplies and planning the area. Hint: F8 speeds up the time. I cannot image playing without it : ) For some people it's difficult, there are solutions over the internet (at least on Polish sites, just use translate) - type "Knights and merchants solucja". Good luck friend

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Posted on: January 28, 2011

trumbleezie

Владелец игры

Игр: 114 Отзывов: 1

Unique RTS

This is one of my old-time favorites: beautiful graphics, well-developed economic structure, intricate detail, and a decent selection of music. I became hooked on this game because I marveled at it's economic structure and began to try to develop new economic strategies; all of which eventually fell back to the same basic structure that the game requires for survival. This was slightly annoying, but made it more challenging to get up to speed as quickly as possible before trying anything tricky. There are some improvements over the original K&M game, such as speeding up time, new units, etc. but I still find some faults. 1) Retarded AI - In the original game, the AI was set to attack at certain time intervals to make the game a constant rush for advancement and added greatly to the strategy. In the Peasant's Rebellion it may begin a scenario where you are being attacked, but that's about as intelligent as the AI gets. If you ever attack it forces the AI to become retarded and randomly send a line of troops into your base that kill peasants, stand still for minutes, leave, and then return. This continues for the rest of the game. Many times it happens by accident when the enemy army gets too big and a stray soldier attacks some random unit, which triggers the enemy to empty their base of all military units in an all out war to destroy you. 2) You can't control your units - This is a blessing and a curse. I came to enjoy the fact that your non-military units did their own thing, and there is still some control over what they do in modifying their priorities (distribution of wares, etc.). However, the military units are very difficult to control. You may tell your military to perform an action, but one unit starts walking off randomly in a direction until your army comes to a halt. If one unit touches an enemy unit you lose control of your units and they begin attacking until they all die or until the enemy army dies. You can't call them off. It's too late: you lost your army, and now the AI acts as I explained above. This problem forces you to NEVER attack until you are certain you can maintain enough troops to keep the enemy out of your base until the end of the level, or win the level right then and there. 3) You can't capture an enemy storehouse and take its wares. - It made me sad, but I got over it. 4) Random bugs - Buildings and their workers becoming idle, even after resetting the build que for that building. 1 or 2 military units don't get fed when you feed the army. A unit doesn't get triggered to enter a building of his type and just stands around aimlessly until the end of the level. I still enjoyed the game, and give it 4 stars despite these discrepancies. I enjoyed the first of the series slightly more for its AI, but I also enjoyed having the new unit types of The Peasant's Rebellion. Overall, it's worth a try. You may love or hate how different it plays from your typical RTS.

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Posted on: December 28, 2014

kocsis1david

Игр: 22 Отзывов: 1

My favorite game

It's always possible to get better in this game, even after years. There is no levelling up or something, but you can still improve. The city building system is detailed and requires a good understanding of the game to manage a city well. The game is a little similar to Settlers, but I find it too simple compared to KaM. Most people think this game slow. If you know how to play it, it is actually fast even in x1 speed. It's really hard to get the city working well, and it can go wrong very easily. You need to recognize the problem and correct it to get better. Don't just wait for the resources and speed up the game. TPR has many bugs, so I would recommend to download KaM Remake. It's free and almost the same game and it requires TPR to run.

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Posted on: July 17, 2011

amano

Владелец игры

Игр: 72 Отзывов: 3

Keeps me playing from time to time

I bought this and start playing this about two years ago. And then I still haven't finished this and still in mission 12. But bear in mind that I am not really a gamer, I play game may be even less than one time a week. But when I play it, I can put quite some time on it each time. Some games when you stop playing for some time, I will lost interest of it and stop playing it forever. But this game doesn't, I will continue the game may be two weeks or months later. Some claim the game is slow, but there is F8 to speed up the game speed. On my side, I didn't use it because I find that I often don't have time to build or control my army. However, I do agree that the AI such that each troop after eating won't fall back to their original formation and direction is really annoying (even the cutie machine troop). And when the fisherman caught all fishes in the pond, they will still go on fishing without generating any food, and the fact that you can't kill your people means at the end those fisherman are just burden that eating up your food only. But overall, I very admire and enjoy the game, as there is no other game makes food so important and you can really execute a real starving strategy. It is also a beauty to see how all the economic chain goes, lumberman not only cut the trees, but also plant the trees. Each person NEED to eat. You need serf to deliver food to your army. The enemy will attach you from time to time, so you have to prepare your army for defense while you are building your city. And missions are also challenging which makes me must make saves frequently with roll back and play in order to finish missions.

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