![]() On the upside the combat part of the game is much improved however, with the ability to position and move your troops much more fluidly, so you can try to outflank the enemy, or bottleneck the enemy in defensive terrain (ideally with melee troops defending a bridge while your archers and crossbows rain death on them). ![]() Even worse the lack of weather (except as special events) and fertility/crop rotation means that in practise you just always switch over to pure grain production as soon as you can as it frees up the most workers to your military industrial complex, as the risks of the previous title in specializing like this just aren't there. ![]() Unlike the original there are a number of different maps to conquer, rather than just the single England and Wales map, although the gameplay doesn't really change all that much between each map (you don't grow different crops or find different resources or build different military units).Īs noted the economy is much simplified - for agriculture you only have two options, grain and cows/dairy. The general idea of the game remains the same - build up an economy, raise troops, go out and conquer more neutral counties/countries to build even more armies so you can defeat the active AI opponents that are doing the same. The only downside is the much simplified economy, which is far less interesting and challenging than the original. Classic game that I spent hundreds of hours playing back in the day - in a lot of ways a big improvement over its predecessor, the graphics and interface are much more friendly, the combat is much improved (although a certain amount of cheesiness of tactics is opened up in terms of using your archers range advantage to create one sided results in many battles if you have the patience).
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