カエサル並みの戦術と勝利を求められるゲーム
カエサル並みの戦術と勝利を求められるゲーム！

至高のＲＴＳの一つ。

画面を埋め尽くす程の数百の軍勢に、どう勝つのか？

ストアページの画像がほんわかしているからって勘違いしてはいけません
エイジオブエンパイアが、おままごとに思えるほどです。
戦闘はトータルウォーシリーズの元祖って感じです

正面を向いている弓兵隊は、後ろの攻撃には無防備なので、背後から敵が迫ってきたら隊列を回して背後の敵に対処しなければなりません。
すると正面が貧弱になり、怒涛のごとく押し寄せる敵軍を抑えきれなくなります。
背後の敵を排除した頃には前衛は崩れ去っており、弓兵隊は決死の覚悟で戦うも全滅。
町へでは斥候が市民を殺戮し、騎兵隊が奇襲をしかけてきて町を暴れまわります。
貴重な貴重な有限な資源と人的資源を、いかに守り抜くか。
死んだから補充しようってわけにはいきません、軍隊こそ生き残る力です。
軍隊こそが何倍もの大軍に打ち勝つ希望です。

逆に騎兵で敵の町を背後から奇襲し暴れまわったり、弓兵で火を放っては逃げるなどのゲリラ戦術でおびき寄せるなど、戦い方は無限。

思い通りに動かない兵士たちや、隊列を乱して敵軍に突っ込む兵士たち、戦闘が始めればもうしっちゃかめっちゃか、隊列も組むのにも一苦労、戦闘中の隊列組みなおすなど至難の業、一気に戦線が崩壊しかねません。軍勢を集めている時に起こった散発的な小競り合いが思いもよらず全面戦争に発展したり、大軍に囲まれる恐怖、隊列を整える前に戦闘が始まってしまうなど、歴史の指揮官たちの苦労をまざまざと感じるゲームです。
攻めたい時に攻めれたり会戦時期をプレイヤーが決めれる、そんなおままごとのゲームじゃありません。
意図的かどうかはわかりませんが、大変リアリティのあるゲームになってます。

ゲーム自体は、スカイリムや、Gothic、Risen等のような、
各地の集落の領主となり、上から眺めながら地域を支配・強化・発展させ、いずれは全地域を制服するゲームです。


スカイリムのように、他の地域にも領主たちが割拠しており、軍事力や支配体制を着々と強化していきます。
好戦的ではありませんが、戦争になったりします。

木を削ったり、ぞろぞろと運搬作業をしていたり、まさにスカイリムやGothis、Risenのような世界です。

傭兵は楽に簡単に手に入りますが、めちゃくちゃ高いし非効率です。
農民兵などいろいろ。

文字は読めなくても、プレイできます。


カスタムゲームは、ごくたまにＡＩの発展が止まるバグがあります。
というか、バグってくれないと勝てませんけど。
地図を進んでストーリーを追っていくメインゲームが素晴らしい傑作になっています。
最初のステージは自分は巨大な城、外では敵の大軍に町が焼かれているところから始まります。
めっちゃくちゃ難しいです。
キャラクターには、それぞれ非公開の訓練度や仕事効率の向上要素があるのかもしれません。
ＨＤバージョンもあるようですが、私がプレイしているのは、デフォルトの方。

箱庭的ゲーム
ゲームシステムてきにいえば
セトラーズに近いと思いますが、
一癖二癖あります

むずかしさと戦略
そして描写の細かさが飽きさせてくれません。

ブドウをつぶしてぐっちゃぐっちゃぐっちゃとワインつくっていたり、
豚肉からウィンナーをビヨンビヨンとブッチャーが作る様子や
農夫のざぁあーざっぁああと小麦を蒔く姿、
ぶびぶびとなく豚を様子をみていると飽きません

気が付けばプレイしていないのに脳内で
ワイン造りの音が離れなくなります（笑）

最初はチュートリアルからプレイしたほうがお勧め
（注：鉄、金、石炭の取り方はキャンペーンやらないと教えてくれません）

このゲームは「道ゲー」です
最初からある倉庫から道を伸ばしていき
建物を増やしていきます。
道が途切れているところは建築ができず
橋の向こう側は建築できない、運搬ができません

建物を建築するさいに気を付けなければいけないこと

●建築予定の建物出入り口は道につなげましょう●

大工が地ならししたあと石畳のようなところが建物の出入り口になるところ
道が前に来るように配置しないといけません
真横ではなく下に道が来るようにします
そうしないと農奴が建築材料を一向に運ばず建物が完成しません

チュートリアルをプレイすればわかりますが、
働き者たちに食堂をつくらないと絶叫しながら餓死します
倉庫にパンがあっても食堂がないとたべてくれません
（兵士は農奴が倉庫から運んた食料を食べます）

建築の材料の確保と食料の確保、そして雇うお金の製造の確保が重要です
あと荷物運んでくれる農奴の数が少ないと運搬が思うようにいかず
餓死につながります

なにかとスルメゲームで、
戦闘の戦略に頭抱えますが面白い
（笑ってしまうのが戦闘のチュートリアルが相当むずかしい
　何回もプレイし、やっとクリアしました）

兵隊の向きをちゃんと敵方向に向けないと
攻撃してくれないので注意が必要です

弓兵お前なにやってんだよ！！そこじゃない
攻撃こっちだよ！！といいたくなるはず（笑）

兵隊をどう構成するかで勝利が決まります
（本当に編成によって勝敗が大きい）
またそこが面白い！
まさに戦略を練らないといくら兵が多くてもやられます

古いゲームなので仕方がないのか
労働者は攻撃をうけていても逃げてくれません
（防御モードというようなのはありません）
ただただその場につっ立って　
反撃もせず敵に黙って次々とやられていくのをプレイヤーが見守るだけです

HDバージョン
キーボードの+と-でゲームスピード調整ができます
f12がポーズなんですｗ
メニューは１→建築　２→配分　etcで選べる　
（3つほどキャンペーンを終えた後にしりました・・・
ホットキー知っている方がいらっしゃったら教えてくださいお願いします）

プレイしていくうちに音楽が耳から離れなくなること請け合いです

農奴（serf）ゲー

武器を武器屋から武器庫に運ぶのは農奴の仕事
食料を倉庫に持っていくのも農奴の仕事
食べ物を倉庫から宿屋に持っていくのも農奴の仕事
家を建てる為の資材を建設場に持っていくのも農奴の仕事
農場から小麦を倉庫に運んでその小麦を製粉所に運んで小麦粉にしてその小麦粉を倉庫に運んでその小麦粉をパン屋に運んでパンにしてそのパンを倉庫に運んでそのパンを宿屋に運んでその宿屋でパンを食べるのも農奴の仕事

ゲームを始めて３０分もしたら
倉庫の周りには無数もの農奴で埋め尽くされる

農奴(serf)のＡＩがもう少しマシだったらストロングホールド並に面白かったかも

A truly amazing game. It is one of those games that will hold your attention for years to come.

I remember walking into a very old Poundland type of shop when I was younger, about a year or so after it was released in the early 2000's, and there it was, lying in a discount basket. We bought it for our almighty Windows 95/98 machine. It was one of the best games I had ever played, although I was very young, 6/7 years old, and not very good at it, but it was epic and still is today.

Betrayed by one of your own, you must set out to defeat the enemies of your land with those still loyal. Building villages, towns and cities, to defeat your enemies. This is no easy game. It requires time, patience, knowledge and did I mention, time?

Strategy is extremely important. You cannot mass produce the same troops, not unless you want destroyed by archers and militia. Speaking of armies, it is important that you keep a steady flow of resources, as your serfs are the most important people you can create. They take raw resources to buildings so that food and weapons can be created, to then be transferred to your castle or storehouse. Every character you can create serves importance, resources are limited and sometimes time is as well, as the enemy A.I. will attack and will be ruthless towards you the further into the game you get.

I must mention KaMRemake.com here, not because I've been asked to, but because of the work they have put into the Remake. Coded from scratch, as the original code was never released, Krom and Lewin have recreated this masterpiece, fixed bugs, allowed speed up buttons, a pause button and some new maps and a totally new and improved multiplayer! With the Remake you also get 3 new campaigns created by players, for players, that are very challenging and not for the feint-hearted which include dynamic scripting and many improvements over the original campaigns in terms of difficulty.

Download the Remake, you will not be disappointed - the steam release of the game is very unfriendly and barely functional, not to mention that it doesn't even have the original soundtrack.

Update regarding the KaM Remake:
If you want the definitive vanilla experience, download the r6720 version which includes extra campaigns and multiplayer.

If you want to experience new changes and experimental features:
Download the latest beta versions which contain changes to units (such as weaker archers as they were originally overpowered), further AI improvements, troop changes, QoL additions and more maps and campaigns.

If you are into strategic fighting and building games, you NEED to get this now!

Things that caused that I liked this game:

- Real presentation of the manufacturing and transporting process of goods (farm need land of soil -> soil is watered and seeded -> crops grow -> crops are cut and then transported to the mill -> mill makes flour which is transported to the bakery -> bakery makes bread)

- Great building process . Every stone and plank added to any building is carefully built piece by piece, and best part is you can SEE that happens. Buildings DO NOT just pop up from the ground, but they are built categorically.

Even today, there is no game in the world that presents that kind of reality in building and micromanagement of goods.

Knights and Merchants, or KaM to those of us that have played the game on and off for decades, is a fantastic and fun game in which you build and fight in a variety of lands. Each 'mission' has it's own goals, however they do tend to blend together and every new map seems to have the same goal. Battle missions, where there is no building, are quick, and you will find yourself on the losing end if you're not paying attention. First time players will see themselves restarting a battle mission a time or two.

KaM is an old game indeed, and this release on Steam finds you with the original, "The Shattered Kingdom" and the next release "The Pesants Rebellion" (both known to the community as TSK and TPR respectively. The Steam version also includes an "HD Version" which modifies the graphics a bit and the game speed. It also opens up all buildings starting at mision 1 which is not what the orginal game does.

If you are into strategy build sims then KaM is a game you will want on your list!

That said, if you buy this game from Steam or from GOG, I would recommend you play TSK and TPR missions 1-3 only. That will give you the fundamentals of the game and how it works. You'll also see several issues with the game and you may encounter a bug or two. Even with the bugs in the original game, it is worth playing, and worth your time. Why only the first 3 missions you may ask. Well, that's because as awesome as the game is, it gets better with the KaM Remake.

Once you see the game in all its original glory, you simply MUST go get the KaM Remake from www.kamremake.com to enjoy the game with today's computer capabilities.

The good folks over at KaM Remake have rebuild this awesome game from scratch and added some enhancements, such as better AI, a map editor and the ability for you not only to create your own maps, but make your own missions or even entire campaigns. They have truly taken a great game, and made it better using all the original game pieces such as the units, environments, and animations, and recreated the game code to support today's computing power and screen sizes. My personal favorite, is the ability to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel.

While the KaM Remake has removed two building types for game balance, they added the Marketplace, which was part of the original game but never implemented. The Marketplace adds a new factor to the game, allowing you to trade one type of resource for another. This opens up a TON of options for map, mission, and campaign creators.

Additionally, the KaM Remake is FREE. Yep, you heard me, FREE. However you must own KaM in order for the Remake to install and work. Details can be found at www.kamremake.com

Buy this game. Get the remake. You'll be glad you did.

It's going to be difficult to explain why I've played this game for a while. I started it up the first time completely confused as heck wondering why no one was listening to my commands and quickly stopped. Decided to give it another shot and am quite happy I did... as I ended up playing for four hours straight.

The AI is interesting to note on this one. Rather than telling peasants (or serfs as their called) or builders (laborers) to do exactly what to do - you are a planner and the serfs and laborers do your bidding automatically. Yes, that means that serfs and what not micro manage themselves. It can be a bit of an issue as I've noticed building 3 or more buildings sometimes can halt production, none the less though once this is addressed there shouldn't be issues. Roads need to be built to interconnect the city as well as allow serfs to travel to the job site to drop off materials for the building to be built. Laborers and serfs work closely together to accomplish the building - serfs mostly look after distribution of resources. There are A LOT - of different resources which get stored at a supply house. Bows, swords, shields, flour, corn are just the beginning of what is stored.

There are different types of units military wise but the civilian crowd delivers stability to your village. Bakers can be trained, animal trainers, farmers, carpenters, wood cutters, miners etc... It can get quite crazy and overbearing at times early on in the campaign to see how much can be done with the diversity of the units.

Battling is interesting and is as cool as an old style RTS can get. What is neat though which I wish other games would follow is when holding down the right mouse button, you can actually choose 360 degrees which way your troops should face. When you select a band of your troops, you are able to link up units with other units (conjoin groups) and are able to unite a bunch of units under one banner. Be it under one banner or not, you are able to rotate and position in HOW MANY lines the troops are allowed to be in. This really helps keeping a long line of infantry while keeping a band of arrows behind the infantry line.

I got this game extremely cheap on sale and figured why not? Somehow for some reason, I like this game. Some of the in game perks as which way the soldier should face I found absolutely brilliant even though simple. I found myself mesmerized watching the AI serfs and laborers do my bidding and build.

Is this game for everyone? Not really - you may get sucked into it like I did or you may think this is some stupid old game that should stay buried. I will recommend it as someone who is consistently looking for action in games, found myself happy with the eventual build of my village.



RATING : 7.4/10







Soldiers need to be fed as you can see on the right (condition) while a button needs to exist to give peasants crap for standing around and pretending to not look busy

Knights and Merchants! So many childhood memories I have of this game. I remember playing this years ago and sucking horrible at it because I was too young to be any good in strategy games but now im older and somewhat better at strategy games, spent over a 100 hours in this game because its so addicting and time consuming :)

Upon purchasing and playing this game, the game kept crashing and crashing for me when using windows 7. Luckily fans made a HD remake mod for this game and I can play at without any problems, even though the remake version isnt 100% complete yet and it need some tweaking here and there. But thanks to that mod I had so much fun playing this game and the new custom maps that came with it.

I defenitely recommend this to play if you like strategy games and have ALOT of time at your hands :)

Back in 1998 I spent a lot of hours playing this marvelous game. The city-building part is fun and easy, but battles are even more fun and, despite game's simplistic looks, challenging (at least sometimes). It's hard to recommend this 15 years old game with something like "Settlers 7" released, but it still could deliver a lot of fun if you don't mind outdated graphics.

I bought this game for my father since he used to play back in the days.
He worked as a baker before he got unimployed. All he did was play Knights and Merchants.
Now he is unimployed and whenever I see him, he is still playing this...
I've tried making him play many other games, yet he always comes back to this... On the same day.
It has been many months since then, and he still plays it.
Nothing but Knights and Merchants.
He doesn't seem to know how to save a game. He always restarts and enjoys it alot.
I told him to play this on offline mode though, otherwise I can't play my games on steam.
However, it is not exaggerated if I say he played atleast 1000 hours. If not more.

My father is 55. Only plays Knights and Merchants.