Is the gameplay roughly like King's bounty?

[Quineloe]

Explore the free roam world, do quests, get into hexfield based battles?

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

Yeah, it's like King's Bounty except with more practical Armour.

[Hugo]

I have been searching for a game that plays out like the KB-serie for some time now.
This is the closest I have come so far.

Gameplay is actually very similar to KB.

You move on an adventure map which you are free to roam.
There are both main quests and side quests.
When entering battle, you enter a hex-grid battlefield, and take turns just like in KB.

Obviously, you do not hire creatures, learn spells or search for crystals or runes in this game and your horse do not learn how to fly either.


Instead, you have a party of "somewhat common people" with different talents and theese folks are improved over time by using gained experience.
Your party is not set in stone and so members will join, leave or die over time. How this plays out, is up to you.

Graphics is not gorgeous compared to KB, nor is the game engine as smooth as in KB.
I would have preferred to be able to zoom out more and for someone beeing used to the colorful world of KB, this game is ... green. All over.

The world map might feel dull at first for someone with a KB background.


The extra aspect in this game compared to KB is the "Camping"-concept. When you are out of moves, you will camp, and when doing so you will typically asign tasks to your party members. The optimal choices depends on your needs, terrain type, the health/morale of your party members, what stocks is needed and so on. You can even create objects and learn new techology while camping.

This makes for some interesting moments during the game.
For instance, you might suddenly find yourself dangerously low on food suplies, but your best hunter is injured and leaving him/her non-treated might make the wound worse or even kill the wounded, if in critical state.


The time concept is closer to HoMM-series than the KB-series here with days that repeat. There is no clock like in KB. During the night, you will simply camp.
Nontheless, you will encounter both daytime fights and night-fights.

If you can accept the fact that the world of this game is a real-life 1500 A.D -colonial world and not a KB fantasy-world, then you certainly should give it a try.

[Quineloe]

KB graphics are actually inferior. It's like WoW. Ugh.

Combat here is pretty straining, though. I wish I could just generally skip it.

[Nova]

You can; Just press the white flag next to the end turn button to retreat from the battle.

[Quineloe]

Won't this penalize me?

While I'm here, is there a hotkey to cycle between your dudes during the battle?

[Tom]

Not sure about the hotkey. Battles early on can be a bear but keep at it and make sure you have a healer in the back with an archer. I leveled up one doctor to where he can give two types of healing and pick up/rez a guy from when he gets knocked out. Very fun game with nice music and a great story.

[Nova]

Originally posted by Loncaros:

Won't this penalize me?

While I'm here, is there a hotkey to cycle between your dudes during the battle?

It'll randomly injure some of your followers (That you picked to go into battle), and the dialogue will assume you lost.

IIRC, F1-F6 cycles between your followers.

[Quineloe]

So that's not really an option. I wonder how your game will go if you keep losing. Probably not that well.

I don't consider the fight difficulty as the issue (even though the fight against the rebel at the mine was absolutely insane on normal difficulty), just that the combat is very tedious and the UI could be better.

[Iso Koala]

Hmm? I just started the game and have enjoyed it a lot, so out of curiosity; whats wrong with the UI?

I find the first turn of the battles a little boring, since the guns really dont shoot far so you will mostly have 6+8 characters running closer to each other in the beginning of the battle... but after that it gets interesting.

Scholar does seem kind of useless class in combat though... yet usefull in the tactical map. I kinda regret picking so many soldiers to my team, when I am alwayss using only 2.

[Hugo]

Iso Koala,

You should really try out king's bounty for comparsion.
In KB your hero is moving around very smoothly and zoom and rotation of camera etc is smoother. You can also zoom out more.

Don't get me wrong. : "Expeditions: Conquistador" get's the job done.
It just that if you have lived in the KB-universe for several years and jumps into this game, the difference in smootness is instantly noticable.

[Quineloe]

King's bounty universe story however is pants on head r* and feels like it's a game by 10 year olds for 10 year olds.

I also don't approve of hidden Nazi references whenever the "good-bad" guys of Dark Side are mentioned.