Knights of Honor

**Mailman653** · 02-09-2009, 08:01

Anyone play this game? I found it recently on Steam, less than $20 I think, reminds me a bit of cross between Lords of the Realm and MTW.

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/knights-of-honor/570741p1.html

**Husar** · 02-09-2009, 09:14

Yes, it's a few years old, pretty neat but when I tried to pick it up again I noticed it only runs in 1024*768 or so which is like, very, very not so satisfying, especially when you have a widescreen.
Well, it's still neat but nothing more IMO.

**frogbeastegg** · 02-09-2009, 12:09

I knew we had threads on it already so I did a search.

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I played it when it was more current. It's good verging onto quite good. The battles were too hard to control compared to TW's to capture me, and it's a fairly easy game. It's got some good features and I don't know of anything else quite like it. I did find it to be a better game than CK before the 'deus volt!' expansion, and haven't played enough of CK since to decide if the expansion has boosted it ahead of KoH. It's finally recieved a patch to boost the AI and difficulty, and fix some problems. I haven't played it with the patch; too many other games to go back to this one.

The steam sale has prompted a thread on another forum I read as well.

**Mailman653** · 02-09-2009, 18:07

Didn't realize the game has been around that long.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 03-22-2009, 15:28

Long time ago I had it's demo. Back then I was not that impressed by it but now I think I'll go and find if this game is available somewhere. It looks different and simpler than TW games. Something I actually need nowadays.

**gollum** · 03-22-2009, 19:32

Quite good campaign part, in many ways better than TW - but awful battles - i always did the autoresolve thing.

**Vlad Dracul** · 08-21-2013, 19:37

I started to play this game in autumn 2010, many years after its release.
Didn't had too much information about it, apparently almost nobody ever heard of it (the only exception, a romanian gaming magazine called Level), but I did discover while playing that is surprisingly good and so much fun.

Easy to learn and not too hard to master (although it's not a quite simple game), intuitive, balanced, sometimes challenging, in rare occasions frustrating. Very atmospheric music, too.
Some hilarious speeches also.

Diplomacy could of been a little more elaborate (but it's far better than M2TW), the presence of some minor bugs, multiplayer limited only to battles - those are the things that should of been better.

Best part is the strategical component of the game, worst part the tactical component (the battles which are far inferior to Medieval II ones).

But, all in one, I'd recommend KoH to anyone who likes a good medieval strategy, it's a game that definitely worth the time spent while playing, I still enjoy it every now and then.

Too bad the bulgarians from Black Sea Studio didn't release a Knights of Honor II...