Campaigns always start with historically accurate maps and borders, but as you can probably expect, once the AI kicks in, that doesn’t last long. In Knights of Honor you can play in one of three different eras, starting in 1110, 1224, or 1360, and take on the challenge of any nation across Europe and the edges of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Juggle all these balls well and, while you won’t conquer the world, you will end up as the dominant superpower of the era. And then, almost on the side, you’ll also be waging war, brokering peace deals, and trying to prevent nations in hostile “defence pacts” from all simultaneously rising and invading you. If the opinion drops too far, you’re looking at rebellions, corruption, and even assassinations. Each has their own priorities and will adjust their opinion of you based on your actions. You need to manage a suite of competing interests across your empire – mercantile, religious, peasantry, diplomacy, and military. You need to carefully cultivate alliances and enemies, slowly build up your empire by investing in buildings and recruit a council of advisors to take on various roles across the empire. You need to manage a dynasty by making sure that each generation’s king has offspring and alliances in place to handle the end-of-life transition. Knights of Honor II has all the basic features of something like Crusader Kings. These people often find Crusader Kings interesting but impossibly overwhelming. I know a lot of people that love Civilization and RoTK, or Total War or Nobunaga’s Ambition. There has never really been a pathway from one to the other. And then you’ve got the true grand strategy titles, like Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis, that are exclusively concerned with the depth of their systems, accessibility be damned. These titles streamline a lot of the strategy in order to be accessible to the widest possible audience. On the one hand, you’ve got the highly accessible 4X strategy titles, like Civilization or Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Knights of Honor II: Sovereign fills a really useful niche that has been largely overlooked over the years.
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