Kohan 2: Kings of War

Pugsley

I got the demo of this game yesturday (get it [EMAIL=http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/145846.shtml]here[/EMAIL] ), and just had to get the full game, and what a game it has turned out to be. Havent got time to play much of it yet, but so far so good. The AI seems generally pretty good in skirmish (which is what I have mainly been playing), they do give a pretty good challenge. The squad system, and reinforcements were implimented superbly aswell, and the scale of it, meep, so many troops, more than you can shake a stick at the scale would be even larger than AoE2.

Any of the rest of you played this yet? thoughts?

BadCharlie

How much did it cost ya ?
I never heard of this game. But then again i dont buy mags any more. Might go down to the shops today and c if i can find me a copy.

What do you do in it ?
I like these kind of games as you would know from other posts.

Pugsley

I got it from amazon, http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002ZO2XO/qid=1096047668/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_26_1/202-2356770-5628624

I had never heard of it either, until I was looking on fileplanet for the 'Full SPectrum Warrior' demo (which didnt work), and I just sayed 'sure how bad can it be' pretty much, and then went and got the game, grab the demo and it gives a good oevrview of the game, and theres 3 armies in the LAN games of it which you can play, and the AI is good in it too, good challenge, and some massively epic wars in it, even in 1v1's (which I usually play atm) you can get scraps over well over 100 men, in excess of 200 aswell. So far in the few games I have played the largest fight consisted of about 250 men in a 1v1, it was the computer players last stand defending his last town, and he made me fight for that town too.

Khalim

i was at henry street there just this evening around 5. GAME Henry Street didn't have it, but surprise surprise Virgin Megastores is selling it for around 40 euros.

would have bought it but already ordered warhammer 40k: dawn of war from play.

i've downloaded the demo from fileplanet and i find the gameplay challenging but fair.

there should be a few reviews up already on the net, i looked it up at metacritic.com

in a nutshell, i'd say its a rts with a dash of turn based style strategy gaming.

Pugsley

I wouldnt say a dash of Turn based strategy in it. It sort of mixes the 'total war' series stye battles (in which is mostly about getting the companies in the right place's and flanking etc instead of micro managing battles). The resource system is very good in it too, theres Gold, wood, iron, stone, and gems, but you can only accumulate gold, the rest is upkeep for your force's, ie: most heavy infantry have a support cost of 1 iron, you can build iron mines in towns, or on Iron points, an iron mine in a town generates +6 iron, which can be upgraded to a total of +11 usually, while having positive income of iron does nothing for you, having a negative will have a major effect on your gold income (the only truely important resource), so you have to balance your economy so you done have +25 wood and -15 or so iron, as having negative resource's seriously reduces the gold income (1 iron is worth 4 or 5 gold I think, so if you have -15, thats a LOT of gold income your losing). Buts its the sort of game you have to play yourself to understand, hard to describe, it has a very origional feel it to IMO.

Khalim

i'd have to agree with your assessment of the game. it is indeed very original. what i was trying to say was, its not like a typical real time strategy game, when i played the game, it felt like a very fast moving heroes of might and magic game with all the recruiting of companies and a leader for each group - and not having had the privilege of playing any of the total war series i can't really compare the experience to that game.

the resources model: being a bit slow on the uptake, i had to get three tries before really understanding the balancing of building up my economy or building up an army. the first time i tried skirmish i was just building up my resources aka gold reserves and only two companies while all of a sudden a mad rush of enemy units swarmed my town. needless to say i lost. but had fun doing it.

all things considered i will buy this game later next month while my finances have recovered from purchasing warhammer 40k: dawn of war. (another excellent game from what i've seen as well)

Pugsley

Khalim wrote:

all things considered i will buy this game later next month while my finances have recovered from purchasing warhammer 40k: dawn of war. (another excellent game from what i've seen as well)

Indeed, has been a good month for RTSs, with Dawn of War, Kohan2, and Rome:Total War all out in the same month, 3 superb games there, all worth a purchase.