Summary
An excellent, well balanced game with a very good concept
The Good
A very good game in terms of combat. Instead of real time fighting, and army has to engage another army in combat. Another good thing was how the castles were attacked, you had several terms to prepeare (the game went in terms, summer, fall, winter etc.) for the attack, and also build siege engines. How the army was made was also very realistic, it had to be drawn for the civilian population. The economy was also quite realistic. The graphics were quite good and the gameplay was excellent in my opinion. Random diseases, at random times also made the game more interesting.
The Bad
One thing that was overlooked in this game was that in combat, that the smaller the army, the smaller the units on the battlefield (2 people, 4 people etc. per unit). Sometimes the units were so small that a few archers could kill them all before they reached the enemy.
The Bottom Line
This is an excellent game with a well balanced military and a fairly good economic simulator. The point of the game is of course, war. But in order to win you also have to manage your resources and grow wheat and cattle. You must produce weapons for you army and generate enough food for both you civilian population and your military. Overall, a very good game with excellent graphics for when it was released.
