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A Good Balance of Strategy, Tactics, and Economics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: October 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of computer wargames and have not yet experienced Lord of the Realms II, then you have missed a real treat.

Players in this game assume the role of medieval lords, each the ruler of a county. Throughout the game, lords must divide the labor of their peasants between agriculture (herding cattle and growing wheat) and industry (mining iron, quarrying stone, cutting wood, and manufacturing weapons), decide how to tax their people, and adjust food distribution. When necessary, they can upgrade their fortifications, raise troops, hire mercenaries, and buy needed goods from merchants. The ultimate goal of the game is to conquer enemy counties and become king over the entire country.

Troop types include peasants, macemen, archers, crossbowmen, pikemen, swordsmen, and knights. Castles begin as simple, un- garrisoned palisades and can be upgraded, resources available, to a motte-and-bailey, Norman keep, stone castle, or royal castle (a big stone castle with a moat).

Sieges are the high point of this game. Attackers can assault fortifications with troops supported by catapults, siege towers, and battering rams, and defenders can man the walls with their soldiers and pour boiling oil on the besiegers.

Lords of the Realm II has improved upon the deficiencies of its predecessor, Lords of the Realm, and provides a good balance of strategy and tactics, economic management and battle.

A classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lords of the Realm 2 was the first strategy game I played. A friend brought it over in 7th grade, and in the past 7 years it's been the one game I've gone back to repeatedly. I have yet to grow tired of this game.

First, I love the game's soundtrack. I've actually put all the music WAV files in a playlist...and while I'm on the subject of the audio, if you haven't listened to setup2.wav, DO IT!

As for gameplay, it isn't exactly the most complicated of strategy games, but I think that's part of what makes it fun. If you're going to create an army, wait for one of the merchants to come through so you can buy ale. It's much easier to feed people on grain than cows, and it doesn't hurt happiness. The Knight is a spoiled brat. It is music to my ears to hear "The county is yours, my lord..." After countless hours playing this game, things like these are what you will discover. Oh, and defending your first siege without losing a guy (and no auto-calc either)...now there's a feeling of intense pride.

If you can manage to get the (now flaky) multiplayer system to work anymore (it sure as heck wasn't designed for XP!), you're in for quite a treat. The Siege Pack adds in a new gameplay form, the Skirmish. This is the real-time battles of the game played separate from the game itself. These are great for when you don't have time to sit through the typical hours for an RTS, but have a taste for medieval battle.

Simple mathematics give you a winner

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Although i have this game already for over 5 years, i still enjoy playing it. Sound, graphics and gameplay are great, considering the age of the game. The only sad thing perhaps is that you can perfectly calculate what to do in order to win the game: 1 cow feeds 10 people, next season i will have exactly produced 124 bows etc... The only random factors, which you can't influence at all, are events like the plague. If calculated well, you can defend one county against an invasion of all other counties together. So don't set the difficulty too easy. For the rest it is a recommender although its age.

Good and getting better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just found and played LOTRII 2 weeks ago for the first time in 3 years. I am a sucker for this time period and started with Defender of the Crown back in the Tandy days. I was still surprised how challenging and good LOTRII was after all this time!

This is a challenging game, especially when the difficulty level is set to anything over 'normal'.

The control over economy, farming resource management, castle building and military design is wonderful. The graphics are good for a game of its age as do the sounds.

Military battles are reminiscant of Warcraft controls.

It has run very successfully on my Windows XP box and sounds beter than ever through Audigy.

I give 4 out of 5 as AI diplomacy could use an upgrade. I can't wait for Lords Of The Realm III to come out. Until then enjoy this, its still worth the purchase!

James

Good concept but the game is HARD

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: May 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is good. It is turn based but is also real time. This is a good game but my kingdoms always seem to go south. All my food is gone, or my population goes from 1,000 to 100.

You use blacksmiths to create weapons and then raise an army from your town. You can build castles and fortify them.

I would recommend that you by this game if you are up to the challenge.

Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun stratagy game although is an older game. Sometimes when playing the game you swere the other opponits are real players. AI is real good. I had fun.

good game but no surprise

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a good turn-based strategy game. All the different kinds of units to command are quite fun. But, there is no surprise in this game and you get bored by the routine of the events, feed the people-build army-fight. The diplomacy is poor and easely foreseeable. Maybe it's just the medieval life that is not very varied.

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the most interesting and challenging games i have ever played. I first discovered it while watching my dad on the computer. I asked what it was and he said it was a mid-evil game. I sat down and watched and it was even fun to do that! I watched for about two weeks and then I started playing. I couldnt believe how interesting this game was! If you dont get this game atleast try the demo.

great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, allows you to play in a lot of settings, manage food and resources, to keep your people fed, or starved, great combat.
Unfortunately, the oponents have huge advantages over you.

lords2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: May 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

it not working on lords play....and the cd is broken?

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