Lords of the Realms II

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-06-20 03:58pm

Fun game. Not as fun as Lords I, though. Combat interface is inferior to Lords I, I think.

Damn! I wish I could find Lords I. I'll never forgive myself for losing my copy.

Still, Lords II is a great game to play. Screw keeping the peasants happy. I think I'll just conscript them all. Use 1500+ peasants as cannonfodder while 100 knights slaughters everyone else. Fun times.

Still, Medieval is a better game. Lords offers a more complex interface and more management options, but only in Medieval will you see, in individually rendered detail, 6,000 knights, archers, and spearmen effortlessly crush the Turkish empire.

Setzer · Post by **Setzer** » 2003-06-20 04:49pm

I'll have to find that game. I have Lords of the Realm II, and I liked it.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-06-20 04:54pm

I still have it on the (dismantled) computer in my basement, but for some reason it doesn't transfer onto a disk probably.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-06-20 04:55pm

I wouldn't call a horde of pixelated sprites "individually rendered detail", but yeah Medieval is awesome. Lords II is pretty fun too.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-06-20 06:30pm

Hmmm Lords of the Realm 2

I love that game

I manage to keep my people happy, while still smiting my enemies...

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-06-20 06:32pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Hmmm Lords of the Realm 2

I love that game

I manage to keep my people happy, while still smiting my enemies...

A careful balance of kicking in your enemies and ciphening off spare peasants for the armies works well

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-06-20 07:05pm

My taxation was 5%, on extra rations. When I conscripted, i onscripted until happiness was 80%then let it, and the population, rise for a few turns, then conscripted again...repeat ad nauseum...

justifier · Post by **justifier** » 2003-06-22 12:40am

I love LotRII, infact, anyone up for a multiplayer game?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-06-23 11:12am

Although, there *are* two things that I wish were in Lords II.

1) Hordes of rampaging, rebellious peasants

2) Ability to custom-design castles

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-06-23 01:27pm

Yeah, I wanted to custom design castles as well...

How were seiges done in Lords 1 ?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-06-23 03:27pm

Hmm...been a while since I played. But, IIRC, catapults and such were turn-based, while the actual combat was real-time. Also, you could starve the defenders out, which seems to be lacking in Lord II.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-06-23 03:55pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Although, there *are* two things that I wish were in Lords II.

1) Hordes of rampaging, rebellious peasants

2) Ability to custom-design castles

You could migrate to 'Stronghold', which does the two latter very well, but you miss the strategic, turn-based empire building of Lords. Although, as I recall, there was a Lords II 'Siege Pack' that did something along those lines. Nothing as fun as designing and setting up impregnable fortresses of doom in Stronghold and then creating an army and trying to seige the place. I built fortresses in Stronghold that I could lob huge armies at in vain, and which could be successfully defended by two dozen archers and some seige engineers.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-06-23 10:28pm

Incidentally, my copy of Lords II is freeware, nabbed off The Underdogs abandonware site. Naturally, this precludes cinematics. Does anyone have the cinematics, who wouldn't mind sending them to me?

justifier · Post by **justifier** » 2003-06-24 04:47pm

Its a great system, but the AI bores me, I hunger for human blood! Anyone up for a game?