Knights and Merchants

KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard. A conspiracy against the king catapults the captain into a situation where he finds himself responsible for the defence of the last royal province. This is all that remains of the shattered kingdom, which has been split into numerous small principalities and fiefdoms. And now even the king himself, ensconced in his capital, is threatened by enemy armies. This is the starting point of your Middle Ages adventure. Now you must win back all those provinces which once belonged to your king.

THE SHATTERED KINGDOM:

After many battles, a former kingdom has been divided into many small principalities and earldoms. The kingís troops were pushed back into one last royal province, and the rulers of the other provinces waged terrible, destructive wars against one another. The whole land fell into a state of chaos and now the former royal capital itself is under
siege by the armies of the rebel lords. You belong to the last remaining group of loyal kingís men, and have been commanded to go to the king in view of the imminent
attack.

THE PEASANTS REBELLION:

Build a prosperous settlement with a complete economy. Arm your troops and meet the enemy on the battle field! Master these tasks and the King’s subjects will be able to live in peace and freedom again.

GAME FEATURES:

  • Middle ages simulation and Real-time strategy
  • 2 campaigns "The Shattered Kingdom" and "The Peasants Rebellion" with a total of 34 missions
  • Skirmish Mode and 10 Multiplayer-Maps
  • About 25 different types of buildings
  • More than a dozen different types of characters
  • Over 10 different troop types, including archers, scouts, knights, bowman and barbarians
  • Multiplayer battles with up to 6 players in LAN or through the Internet
  • New Musical Score
Minimum Requirements
OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
Processor: Intel or AMD Singlecore CPU
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with DirectX 9.0c support
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible Stereo Soundcard
Additional Notes: Keyboard, Mouse
Recommended Specifications
OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
Processor: Intel or AMD Singlecore CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with DirectX 9.0c support
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible Stereo Soundcard
Additional Notes: Keyboard, Mouse
Minimum Requirements
OS: Mac OS X 10.7 or higher
Processor: Intel Mac Single Core CPU
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with 128 MB RAM
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: required
Additional Notes: Keyboard, Mouse
Recommended Specifications
OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher
Processor: Intel Mac Single Core CPU 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with 128 MB RAM
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: required
Additional Notes: Keyboard, Mouse
Minimum Requirements
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or SteamOS
Processor: Intel or AMD Singlecore CPU
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with OpenGL support
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: required
Additional Notes: Keyboard, Mouse
Recommended Specifications
OS: Ubuntu 15.10 or SteamOS
Processor: Intel or AMD Singlecore CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with OpenGL support
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: required
Additional Notes: Keyboard, Mouse
  • Imnotaddicted 21 Jul 2015

    I still replay this every couple of years, that's how good it is. Keep in mind that this is a 1998 game, but the AI is great. Build your town, set up your goods distribution and fight for your kingdom!

  • savvym 28 Feb 2018

    Take a look at old-school RTS game which plays so simple, while it's beauty is in micromanagement and complexity of resources. Knights & Merchants offers story of Anglo-Saxons around 1200 A.D who will fight their enemies right from the start of campaign.

    There are 20 missions in total, starting with the easiest, teaching you how to build town and army, combat focused skirmishes without building management, evolving into intriguing strategy where you will use your accumulated knowledge against incoming enemy attacks.

    It received Remake which allows multi-player and more polished controls. Despite it being old, it has still active community and developers of Remake are working on total remake as anyone can even create his own map and play it with his friends.

    You will often fight with tens and hundreds of units while maintaining your base and defense. You can not forget about limited resources and feeding your people, otherwise they'll die of starvation or upon aggressive foe.

    Game goes into details of building up houses from base and you will see putting every plank and stone into the shape as it simulates real building. Maintain resources well to not hit the dead end. Your warehouse is very important, you lose without it.

    Your workers will constantly do look for a job or at least eat out your food from the inn. They get stuck on the narrow passages and they can go around, if there's nothing in it's way back, so plan carefully before constructing buildings and leave space for walkers.

    Knights & Merchants has nice music and only day time. It has nice balance between playing it peacefully from behind your watchtowers and being aggressive nomad as you will have to find new resources after depleting them and even weapons can not be made endlessly.

    You can also set your game faster and thus multi-player does not need to be sluggish strategy as it is intended but rather fast paced arms race. Your army is fully depended upon your command and without you, it will not do much to enemies' numbers.

    I also come back to it after years just to test myself, mostly for online experience. It eats all of my free time, it grew on me while I was addicted. It made me strategy fan, despite not being hardcore. There is absolutely nothing bad despite it's new buggy controls in HD Version. That's why I have Remake.

Knights and Merchants
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Title: Knights and Merchants
Genre: Simulation, Strategy
Released: 14 October 2013
Developer: Topware Interactive
Publisher: Topware Interactive
  • Single-player
  • Multi-player
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Retro XP
UI Audio Subs
Spanish - Spain
Czech
Polish
Hungarian
Dutch
English
Russian
French
German
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