Lords of the Realm 2

Lords of the Realm 2 is a medieval strategy game published by Sierra and developed by Impressions Games where you have to carefully balance your gold, food supplies, armies, and weapons. The goal of the game is to vanquish all of the other players by building up armies and invading their castles. The reason why I like this game so much is because it's a little bit different than other RTS games.

The economy side works like this, each territory has a set number of fields that can be used to either grow wheat or raise cattle. Cattle are prone to disease while wheat can only be harvested once a year. Your population will grow as long as you have the food to sustain them and their happiness isn't too low. If it is they will emigrate to another county. You also have the option to tax your people. A low tax will raise happiness but not produce a lot of gold for weapons, supplies, army wages, etc. A high tax will make your people hate you and call you bad names and hurt your feelings (jk), but they will hate you.



In order to raise an army you must have either manufactured or bought enough weapons (because lets face it, peasants with pitchforks won't do much damage against a well armed army) and also have enough people to conscript into the army. You'll need armies to both defend your counties and also to invade enemy territories. When invading a castle you have the option to build siege weapons to make your enemies' castles crumble before you. Building these however increases your wait time as it takes turns to build them which leaves you open for enemy attacks. The battle mode can either be simulated or done manually. If done manually, you are transported onto a battle field where you now have to general your troops around.

Needless to say I love this game and have spent a lot of my teens playing this. (I know, what a nerd) Obviously I'm giving this a Gamegasm and Buy Now.