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"Soldiers, why did you retreat?!" "They were shouting mean names at us, sir!" "..." I had over half the enemy of the first battle surrender because I dropped their morale to the minimum with taunts. Were we that emotional back then?
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Someone please make a sequel, expansion, remake, etc. For the love of god! One of the best strategy games I've ever played, simple, entertaining, and the artwork, while simple, is surprisingly beautiful while still capturing the tone of the game. Channel 4, Preloaded London, please keep making games like this.
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The fact that this command can be given astounds me: "Alright men, shoot your arrows straight up in the air at about a 90 degree angle!" "But sir won't that-" "I AM YOUR KING DO AS I SAY!"
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Being a strategy-gamer, I had to rate this game highly for its superbly intricate strategy gameplay. Hell, even if you find Ancient History a bit drab, you can't help but find wonder in the "splatter-for-color" art themes and "hero" units. Best of all, it gives you a nice lesson about the Battle of Hastings in a historically accurate storyline (History buffs rejoice!). 5/5
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what I don't understand is... how am I winning the fight. virtually destroy 75 percent of the enemies army lost about 25 percent of mine. Yet because they kept taunting me my leader unit flees and I lose :( Taunts are way to overpowered in this game. I doubt someone yelling "low born orc" will make me lose more morale than someone completely demolishing the two units that charged into the fight with my unit
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Huscarls "They will fight to the death rather than admit defeat." True, fighting to the death, yes, but fighting to the taunt, now there's a entirely different story.
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"Hadadred laid dead with an arrow in his throat..." His force fled the battle after HIS archers shot his force on accident. I had no archers. O_O
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Almost 4,000 bloodthirsty Vikings fled from the battlefield in shame when the English called them "Pig Filth".....
Seems legit.
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This game NEEDS a follow up title. The graphics and gameplay meld together seemlessly. Maybe a few tweaks here and there, but otherwise, great game. I would rate it as one of my favourite games I've played recently on Kong.
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1500 English vs 6000 Vikings. 15 taunts later 1000 Vikings had fled and 5000 had surrendered. And I thought the Vikings were supposed to have the highest Courage...
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I agree that there should be a sequel. A great suggestion for the sequel would be to follow up on what happened after the conquest of England or any battle related to the events that had occurred. Other than that this game was beyond amazing. Extremely accurate standpoint of history, phenomenal narration, excellent battle fields that match up with the topography and great battle commands. Love this game. There should be more games that teach history like what you have done here. Because of it I remember more of what happened and it sticks.
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"Norman Knights lose 246 men, annihilating the rest of my 68 hurscals" "Norman Knights Flee" "You ripe-mouthed cur" The rest of the Normans retreat.
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There's so many different strategies that can be accomplished with this game, waiting for the enemy to attack first just to meet a wall of shields, charging the enemy without warning, or just withering their morale away and striking them when they're at their weakest. Very excellent strategy game, and for the fact that it allows different factions with different strengths and weaknesses, 5/5 unquestionably.
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I really wish taunt was less effective. I want to play hard mode for the strategic challenge without automatically losing due to the endless taunts.
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An excellent example of what a little imagination can do. It makes battle interesting, and makes it fun to play over and over again, each with different forces! I LOVE IT!
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I loved it! Brilliant thinking and excellent tactics/points reward system. My only complaint is that it is too short. LOVED IT!!!
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I, as I always have, believe that taunting is over-powered in this game. Imagine, if you will, this scenario: The end of the battle is nearing, the tactical advantage is mine, my units are only a few turns away from victory. No prisoners were going to be taken. When we were only a few sqaures away, a shout rolled over the hills; "Ill-born fen rat!". At that, all of my hardened viking units' eyes brimmed with tears, and they turned and ran away, crying for their mums. Battle Rank: Peasant. Anyway, 4.5/5, great game.
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dear channelfour developers, i love your game and would love to see and play a similar one with more missions and verieties of troops keep up the good work!
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Wait... so i surrendered because they called me mean names? please nerf the taunt to zero... sticks and stones make break my bones but mean names make me run away.
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The Huscarls are the best of the best, the bravest of the brave, they will fight to the death. They will never run away, they will never get the least bit frightened, they will never -
"YOU PIG FILTH!"
*Huscarls run away*
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Am I the only person who cannot join a game with my friends? Me and my friend tried random match to join each other after our invite code didn't work several times, but it seemed that when we were matched with each other one of us had our game terminated. Help?
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This is one of the few games on Kong that deserves a 5/5. This was not only fun, to play, but it was perfectly accurate from a historical stand point. A crusades version would be great, but keep on making these kinds of games.
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Archery Tips:
1) 45 degrees is about the maximum your archers can elevate their shots and still shoot further. Past that, their arrows will most likely fall short.
2) When the enemy is close (especially on flat terrain), it is better to shoot upwards in a parabolic/arching path. Trying to shoot with less power than the max is risky, although this is from my personal experience.
3) Practice shooting by setting up a large battle and lining up a bunch of archers. You'll be able to learn and remember the elevation and power needed to hit specific points.
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One of my favorite strategy games! I hope there will be a sequal, Or even another battle like the battle of Waterloo.
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The morale-system is strange in this game. My men took more morale-damage by the enemy's taunting - 10 rounds of "You pig filth!", shouted by 400 remaining men to my 2500 remaining men .. how .. intimidating.. - than from beeing shot to death by their own bowmen (which sounds like sirious "that's not our day, aye?"-stuff).
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You should make an 1864, Civil War era, with cannons instead of archers. That way you could have more than 3 battles xD
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very well place game its amazing with the time period and how the game kinda feels like chess very outstanding creation great work
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I give this a game 5/5. Its the BEST Strategic And Defense game ever created. I really like to thank the guy who created this game..Its graphic, narration, fighting and animation...Its all the best...Its really is A GREAT game. This is just one of the game that deserves a 5/5.
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If you make a game like 1066,but with a campaign where we get to choose the people we want to play as ,and conquer the world,then i think everybody would love it even more than 1066.Keep the battle mechanics as it is though.Couldnt ask for better :D.Anyone that thinks this idea is nice say so,so the developer can see it.
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I've found a very exploitable configuration: line up your archers, varangian/huscarl/men-at-arms, and the king. With this, the AI is tricked into lining up, allowing you to take easy shots at the enemy king and other troops with your archers. That being said, do not march the line forward; stay in one place, shoot, and fortify. I typically put the archers right behind a single unit of varangian/huscarl/men-at-arms and rotate that first rank whenever need be. Following up on my comment about archers, I've found that playing the Normans with this method is best; their overall balance allows them to make deadly shots at enemy archers and withstand some damage themselves. Obviously, take out the enemy archers first with this method. Using this "parade of death" method, I've been able to essentially break the game and achieve the "king" rank in nearly all battles.