Ka-pi96 said:
How was 9? I don't think it even released here in Europe, hence why I've not played it. But I'm still curious. I loved 8 & 11, was disappointed by 10 and haven't really played any others (except 4 which was alright but incredibly dated). |
Well as a 7 and 8 fan I really hated it at first as it was ruler only. But after multiple attempts at trying to like the game a bit more it grew on me. The worst mechanic of the game was barbarians, if you bordered them you lose 3 cities automatically because they start with 300k troops and destory cities in an instant through BSery vs you with 20k or so at the start. However to circumvent this I beat the game and destroyed them as well, so I unlocked them for play. Then I choose all them, which nerfs them into 100k troops and pretty much a regular force. Then I usually make them surrender to whoever they deserve to be with. Finally with them taken care of we can play the regular ROTK9 game lol. The game has some really good strategy imo and some decent balancing between the 3 kingdoms.
8 was easy once you learned a good strategy and played a decent officer, while 9 is always hard. Agression wasn't annoying like in XIII, and superstar officers can still make the difference. But you can still accomplish a lot with bad officers.
And yeah I rate 10 at the lowest.
