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Knights of Honor is a bit too easy, as I suspected. Look at how I have expanded Lithuania, and it hasn't taken that much effort actually, only time. And I think I'm playing on the 'hard' difficulty (or perhaps 'normal', don't remember). I could have won the game a long time ago -- was voted to become uber-emperor of europe but declined the offer. I chose to keep playing and my mission is to convert ALL of Europe into Paganism. That was my intial religion and when I conquer the provinces, they will convert to my religion in a short time. I have tolerated Suzdal and Kazan (in the upper right) from the beginning of the game as allies despite their different religion -- in the beginning it meant that I was not attacked from all sides at once and as my empire grew and I also conquered their enemies' territories, I've cut them off from many potential wars and they have prospered economically, being able to support my war efforts with quick cash if I need some. But there aren't really any difficult challenges. In the beginning, you just have to make trade agreements with the largest nations, hire lots of merchant knights and soon you will be the richest kingdom. Then you can support your militaries well and can start expanding. Sure, I have made some small mistakes and loaded a saved game from time to time, but not so much because it's difficult but because I don't want to spend time getting back something I lost in a stupid decision. One time a spy caused all my 4-5 Marshals (who had loads of experience) to revolt. And because I had no counter-spy, the spy didn't get caught yet and managed to kill my king shortly afterwards. It didn't even take very long to recover from that (but made things a bit more difficult as my new marshals had zero experience). All my towns are almost fully fortified and I don't even need marshals in any of them to survive sieges. Not once have I taken control of the battles; I've relied on strategy only, not tactics. I think I suck at tactics, but probably a good tactic could win battles I would lose when letting them take place automatically. And when I see that I'm losing a battle, I retreat and modify my strategy. ETC This game is certainly very good, but it could be so much better. And more difficult. And I haven't used some options that would probably make the game even easier.

I'm 90% sure you can. I think mine is 8x and in a 4x slot.

I kind of liked the Salammbo demo. But not enough to try to find the full game.

Will Kerry be any better than Bush, though? Well, at least he seems more intelligent. I doubt the Bin Laden rumor/conspiracy theory.

Poland is a myth. It doesn't exist.

http://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/EUR/hist2001.html There you can see the history of USD/EUR (or another currency)

Don't make me choose.

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I've read and watched everything GameSpot has about this game (besides Idle T, it's about the only gaming site I visit nowadays). I might be confusing it with some other game, but I think there was some talk about a PC version too... Oh yeah...

I wonder if it would be fun to do a similar progress report for San Andreas. I already arranged that I'll borrow a PS2 from a friend when the game gets released this month... Can't wait.

www.purepwnage.com Check it out. Episodes 2 and 4 are pretty funny.

Yeah, it kind of sucks on some level, but the guy with the camera seems to know what he's doing and some bits were funny (like the Star Wars parody? in epsiode 4 besides the others mentioned).

ok, I promise

The European price is a bit lower... but when I try to order it, it shows me the price in $. how did you see the prices in euros?

I'll join your blackout, but I'll still watch any videos they might release, as a neutral bystander (I hope).

I've only seen the first 3 movies on TV. And that's enough for me.

Possibly. It worked for me some time ago (but doesn't any more), but in the mean time I installed WinXP SP2 which updated the security of IE as well. I haven't tried changing any of that stuff.

Thanx. I've lived a quarter of a century now, but nothing feels different. Except the sound -- I got 5.1 Headphones. And installed Doom 3 again to test them. The bass in the menu screen is damn good.

The medieval setting has been done to death in games, but this strategy game just got me interested. It seems to be a mix of Civilisation and Total War. I was never good at either of those and only played them a little, but I hope I'll like this one more. Especially as it also reminds me of Seven Kingdoms a bit, which is probably my favourite RTS games ever. Somewhy I really want to get back to playing strategy games. Haven't played any for years practically, except demos or so. In Knights of Honor your goal will be to conquer all of medieval Europe and you'll do so from a high level, but can also take command of armies if you want to, similar to the Total War games. Here's a Gamespot preview and the game's official website (beware of high pitched intro sound! ) Oh, and the game just went gold a few days ago!

Adrenaline Valut has reviewed Knights of Honor and gave it 4 stars out of 5. Based on the demo, I agree with the score, but the nuances mentioned in the review seem to suggest that in the full game the small flaws are less noticable or not present as the demo has quite a few options disabled. Also, the game has apparently hit the stores a few days ago. I can't wait to get the full game already (hmm... maybe it's already in the local stores, have to check tomorrow). I haven't been so absorbed by a strategy game since the original Heroes of Might and Magic. PS. I ********** Evil Genius to see what was different from the demo, but so far I'm not too impressed. It seemed overly confusing/complicated for me at first, and I can't see myself playing it if I could play Knights of Honor instead. I think I'll re-evaluate it after I've played KoH for a few months.

Yufster, yeah I guessed as much. Was talking to the others... umm.. who complained about ... something. Don't remember. But I think Trep's idea is pretty good.

Did I watch a different trailer than some people? I thought it was awesome, and this from a guy who's not even a Psychonauts or Double Fine fan The trailer didn't really tell me much about gameplay -- I'll give you that --, but how many trailers do?

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2sfpz/manny.html A hint:

Umm... there's some confusion here. It's not mine. I saw a link to it in another forum. But I actually did have a pretty similar mask when I was a kid But it was round and had moustache, and looked nothing like Mr. Calavera.

Meh?