Thanks for sharing. Have you played games in the Civ series? If so your description makes them sound similar, would you agree? I’ve been poking around other “4X” games, but don’t have the best laptop so while I’d love to play more recent games they don’t all pan out. Civ V works but Civ VI won’t, for example. I’m also using steam on Ubuntu so I’d guess that might contribute to the issues.
Lords Of The Realm 2 is substantially different from the Civ games. In Lords Of The Realm 2 there is no tech tree and no eras to unlock, there are no alternative options for victory aside from military success, the player and AI do not create their villages but the village locations are preset on the map, there is no building of logistical infrastructure such as roads or mining quarries- instead each county has predetermined resources and the player only decides how many workers to assign to them, battles happen inside their own distinct level of play rather than happening on the world map.
The Civ games are 4x games where long term research and policy decisions are needed to build a faction. Lords Of The Realm 2 is set strictly in the medieval setting and is only concerned with the immediate local squabble.
I only had the demo as a child but replayed that endlessly. I miss the solid demos of the 90s. Like Age of Empires one had a whole campaign as a demo. Fucking glorious Hittites.
For $1.29 you can buy a pack with Lords of The Realm 1,2,3 and Lords Of Magic on Steam right now. (This is not an ad, just saying, the game is still very accessible).
And I miss big thick paper manuals, especially ones with background info and art.
Gog.com sells 1+2 for 2€ right now as well. So not as cheap, Lords of magic was another great game. Edit: confused Lords of magic with masters of magic, the latter is great, I don’t actually know the former.
Paper manuals were great, some games had other cool stuff like cloth maps or metal figurines. Todays cheap always available games are cool as well though.
I’ve tried playing Lords Of Magic and have bounced off of it. The real time combat feels more like a real time tactics game than a strategy game, and I’m pretty bad at real time tactics games. It also makes use of heroic characters and faction specific abilities and magic. It’s something I haven’t fully wrapped around.
I’m developing a game that’s in this genre in between Total War and this (from my childhood memory) and Conquest of Elysium. This review inspired me to play it again.
Same here, one of my childhood habits that I had never beat and forget existed but played a lot… I’ve gone back and beat a lot, seems like this might be the next.
Thanks. I’m trying to put that content everybody keeps asking for on lemmy. I’m mentally toying with the idea of videos if I become confident enough to script and edit.
I never played 3. Back in the day my computer couldn’t run it, and I never got around to trying it out. I own it as part of the Steam pack I bought 2 with, but my next review will be a mystery game that I had to order a physical copy of.
This is in my top 10 favorite games of my childhood. Loved this game so much! It blew my mind as a kid that you could maneuver your units around while sieging a castle. Even more so, was the fact that there were many different castle/fort maps to battle on. I was expecting it to be an automated battle when sieging. This game shined in its gameplay mechanics.
I put hundreds of hours in to this game as a kid, absolutely loved it. Never could keep a supply of cattle sustained though. Eventually my whole population was milk maids until the eventual collapse.
I always go full vegetarian. Sell all the cows and use the money to buy a bunch of grain, preferably in winter. Plant everything, and you’re good. Once grain starts making surpluses you have enough to feed everyone and sell the excess back to the carts for the rest of the game.
In spring, summer, and winter grain needs fewer workers. Only in fall will it need reallocation.
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