Kingdom Wars 4

This Game is very Slow and "Bulky" in all it's aspects...! It is NOT Total War and it is NOT Crusader Kings, it is something else entirely. It is very chunky and when you want to do fast moves with the mouse, the game doesn't pick up fast the choices you make. I wouldn't recommend to gamers that like to click and give orders fast in the Campaign Map or the Battle Map. It is like, it was made for 80year old gamers whose brain start to become slow with years, which I WOULD recommend this game to those!!!

I've got this game via discount, and this is right price for it. The concept is great. The bugs from KW3 are still here yet there are no critical ones and you can learn how to ignore them. Here are a few tips or surprises: 1) building in real-time sometimes costs no resources; enter a city, press pause, build or upgrade a few buildings, then exit; reload if resources are spent and try another city; 2) building in real-time or any battle reset month timer; thus you pay zero maintenance; therefore you may ignore resource-producing buildings or cattle; the happiness still changes; 3) hamlets upgrade into... hamlets increasing max pop; 4) early game lvl 5 archers + 1 melee unit win any siege (maybe except one, I have not tried this in this version); there is no late game with zero time trick; 4.1) targeting different individual enemy models increase archer's rate of fire; for melee units just set the stance to aggressive, they will target enemies by themselves; 4.2) you don't need rams; melee units break any gate if you target a circle on the ground near the gate; 5) you can build the town and accumulate resources in a battle; build some lumber yards, a barn or a mill, some silver mines; 6) any diseased pops can be expelled for free; thus you actually don't need to fight any zombies if you don't want to; 7) an allied army builds units without spending resources; you can disband them into pops; you have additional building spots when allied army is present - use them to generate extra resources; 8) you can build one lvl 5 archery range, disband most of units in this city and convert them into archers; 9) building an archery range in real-time is not quite feasible because you generally need an army when the battle starts; 10) manson upgrades do not generate any resources, warehouse upgrades do not increase warehouse capacity, the barn upgrades do not decrease cattle cost (you don't need cattle with zero time trick); you may skip most upgrades in real-time battle (or you can upgrade resource generators in the city, they stay after battle, though it is useless with zero time trick) 11) a barn generates food despite of its description, it feeds at least one army; 12) temporary placing carts into a hamlet allows spending 400+ resources in real-time, not 200 (not sure if this can be free); 13) load using main menu; otherwise army positions are not reset (actually you can use it to your advantage - relocate the army where you need it, load the game and get infinite army repositioning speed); 14) if you recruit a new army, reloading (even via main menu) does not always remove it; 15) mixing battle sounds has problems, some sounds are of a different volume which breaks immersion; 16) some geography is questionable, e. g. IRL Kazan latitude is mostly the same as the one of Moscow; 17) you probably should stop playing after conquering three neighbors, the game becomes repetitive at this point. The game does not try to be balanced, and discovering these things is fun by itself. Yet is is a special fun, not for everyone.