![]() ![]() Many multi-player games feature methods of grouping players together into larger, same-focussed groups. So it's a game about balance as well as strategy, and there is a lot of assistance available to help you through the first few confusing days while you wade through the enormous list of choices the game offers you.įirstly, there's the alliance set-up which you can enjoy as soon as you have built an embassy. ![]() And if you spend too much time and money on building your troops, then your resources will suffer, your town will go undefended or, worse, you'll just go broke. You can't learn to mine your iron more effectively until you are managing enormous forges and workshops. For example, there is a research ladder that prevents you from learning how to build a ballista before your people have refined their metal casting skills. But what's really cool is the web that links everything together. In fact, it seems plausible that the game could even borrow heavily from Roman techonology. Historically (and I'm no buff) it seems that the game is based in the mid-medieval period (European) - there is no gunpowder or machinery besides what can be built using levers and wood. And then there's the player-vs-player aspect. But scratch the surface and you'll discover a game of satisfying complexity and historical accuracy. On the face of it, it seems like a fairly straight-forward "Kingdom"-style game. And you have to research better technologies in your academy. You have to defend your city by building walls and barracks and then training your troops. You have to build your resources (food, iron, stone and wood), and attract the people you'll need to work them. ![]() It's a game where you take a plot of land and develop it in a number of ways. It slips into a market already filled with such names as Shadowmere and Travian and yet, in spite of it's recent advent, seems to be gaining ground. Now, I know, we're typically used to more meaningful fare here in my LJ, but, just for now, I want to spend a little time on my current favourite waste of time: is, on first appearance, very much like all the other build-and-attack games available online. ![]()
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