Whats better?

[Dictator Tots]

Which game is better, KUF The Crusaders, or Heroes?

which should I get?

[Dr.Arxangel]

Both ( but i recommend Heroes)

[Siyona]

If you want to understand the story, you should start by playing The Crusaders.
However, Heroes is better : more units, more heroes, and more missions, that you can replay after the end of a campaign.

[Inkling Agent 420]

both. but i'll break it down.

The Crusaders: 4 main characters and you play the events that happen for easy and normal. Hard it's tells more as well more of a challenge as well.

Heroes: You play the side characters and see what they were doing during the crusaders events (the beginning, middle and end) as well as training mode, as well replay the missions too.

Overall: Get Heroes it have more

[Onoda]

I highly recommend buying both games.

The reason you'd get Crusaders instead would be if you're a big fan of Lucretia, Regnier, Kendal, Gerald, because of the story missions for those generals and the immersion factor.

I may have felt Crusaders was more dark and gritty, but that was probably nostalgia. Heroes has the skirmish mode where I can play Lucretia and every other character from both games, so Heroes has more replay.

[Dark_D_Shadow]

Originally posted by Drunken Fortune:

both. but i'll break it down.

The Crusaders: 4 main characters and you play the events that happen for easy and normal. Hard it's tells more as well more of a challenge as well.

Heroes: You play the side characters and see what they were doing during the crusaders events (the beginning, middle and end) as well as training mode, as well replay the missions too.

Overall: Get Heroes it have more

That training mode you mentioned does that mean Heroes allows for extra exp grinding ?

[Onoda]

@DarkShadowsBe

I just tried it out, but from what I remember you get a huge XP reserve to use how you like, make yourself and your enemies customised exactly the way you want, whether that's extremely difficult or easier to practice with, it's all up to you.

Whether they put up multiplayer servers later i have no idea, but back in the day each player got the same XP reserves to allocate to their troops, so it was fair.

I also remember some missions in campaign could be replayed to grind xp and gold, but not 100% on that. Crusaders definitely doesn't have that in campaign, though.

Correct me if I'm wrong anyone.

Give me a few mins I'll try it out and post back here.

[Dark_D_Shadow]

Originally posted by o n o d a:

@DarkShadowsBe

I just tried it out, but from what I remember you get a huge XP reserve to use how you like, make yourself and your enemies customised exactly the way you want, whether that's extremely difficult or easier to practice with, it's all up to you.

Whether they put up multiplayer servers later i have no idea, but back in the day each player got the same XP reserves to allocate to their troops, so it was fair.

I also remember some missions in campaign could be replayed to grind xp and gold, but not 100% on that. Crusaders definitely doesn't have that in campaign, though.

Correct me if I'm wrong anyone.

Give me a few mins I'll try it out and post back here.

Ah I thought you were talking about Story mode with training or something because Crusaders has a limit as to how much exp you can get because you can't replay missions.

TLDR: I thought you could grind now.

[Onoda]

@Dark

Confirmation that Heroes does allow grinding missions over and over.

12 year old thread

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/475761-kingdom-under-fire-the-crusaders/40319593

[J]

Get both

[Dark_D_Shadow]

Originally posted by o n o d a:

@Dark

Confirmation that Heroes does allow grinding missions over and over.

12 year old thread

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/475761-kingdom-under-fire-the-crusaders/40319593

Thank you I've found some info as well indeed you can replay missions although you need to complete that campaign first from what I've read :)

[Mr_pia]

get both because it open up the story to each faction an how and and learn how war began

[Woodyjr96]

story wise its split between the two games

So in Crusaders Gerald,Kendal,Regnier and Lucretia are the main chars you play as
Heroes adds one character Walter who appears as a NPC in dialog for Kendal and once Gerald
Now Walters story takes place a few days before Crusaders start mainly just before you start Geralds story.

Also one of Walters missions is literally just before one of Kendals missions towards the end so they cross over and meet

sadly Kendal's supporting officers Sir Duane and Thomas dont show up as playable but are mentioned early on by Walter and spoken too in a dialog section as Thomas is Walters son which you learn in Crusaders or in Heroes depends what you play first.


the rest of Heroes chars are all the supporting heroes from Crusaders for each the respective leaders

For Gerald you had Ellen and Rupert which in heroes Ellen's story takes place ages before Crusaders where shes with Ecclessia and follows her journey to joining Hironedien

Rupert's story literally takes places after a mission you play as Gerald in Crusaders so his is set in the same time as Crusaders and is from his viewpoint

For Lucretia you had Cirith and Morene whom both their stories in Heroes literally take place after Lucreatia's final mission in Crusaders so they both set in Crusaders time frame

For Regnier you had Leinhart and Urukubarr whom both their stories in Heroes are pre Crusaders explaining how they came to siding with Regnier

hopefully that explains the stories and their timelines between both games

[777eza]

if you had to pick one. I'd say Heroes, however I'd wait and get crusaders instead to see if you like the type of game. Reason being is Heroes has some pretty glaring bugs currently in the game that I'm sure they will fix soon, like they did for crusaders. Like skirmish mode is currently unplayable. You can't move left or right in the menu so you can't change map, troop size/level stuff like that.