Knights Province - (Knights & Merchants inspired Kingdom Builder) [Free Game]

Real-Time Strategy game focused around town-building and resource management
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[@Kromster80]

Thank you so much for the review. I've followed the whole playthrough and took a lot of notes on improvements and fixes. Really liked the emergent moments you had with AI (2nd mission) where you tried to rush the AI and then made the towers and walls, but eventually succumbed to hunger. Counter-attack window was indeed an unexpected but pleasant option. I also want to add a couple of comments for other players consideration: - unlike some other games, KP is indeed expecting player to build a lot, like 4 woodcutters is a minimum and 6 farms is a healthy average. Big successful town needs like 60 houses (AI does it about right) - AI plays fair and does not rely on high APM, most of his successes can be attributed to the "demand/production" management - hunger hits hard indeed .. it is a heavy price that players have to pay if they build too fast and hire too many units without taking care of all the food they will need - the game can be relaxing if played on x1, when player has more time to evaluate their progress and plan ahead - one can also play in alliance with AI and lookup its progress and build plans in real time - I will add a weak AI, which builds his town and sits in defence, so players can dedicate more time to playing at their pace // grateful game author

[@singularityraptor4022]

Best of luck with the project good sir. Hopefully as the game matures you send copies to many other youtubers such as Wanderbot, OrbitalPotato, Splattercat gaming among others to maximize the game reach/popularity. Cheers :)

[@AmarothEng]

If you are wondering about either of these, some answers/clarifications: First game: - A wooden fence can be passed by civilians. A stone one cannot - it's really meant for use as fortification, not as pasture divider. - A farm should have 16 fields to operate optimally. - Most buildings don't match 1-1 in chains. For example, 4 farms feed 3 mills fully and these feed 2 bakeries fully, 2 woodcutters feed 1 sawmill fully etc. You really needed more farms, it takes 4 to feed 1 stable fully for example. - More early wood + more early builders and serfs = faster building. That's the main thing you need to survive the early game harassment. For a little bit later into the game, 1 sheep farm won't suffice, you'll need 3-4 to really do something noteworthy. Or you can just ignore T2 troops and go for iron production, and hammer out some good metal-clad troops. Depends on the amount of iron available. - Mines can be placed only next to a part of mountain that is straight and high enough right on its edge. - Watchtowers have an exception, you don't have to have road going to them. You just need to place them close-enough to currently finished buildings. Same goes to fences. - Man the towers with bowmen. - Woodcutters should be really set to Plant&Fell, the Plant only and Fell only options have little use, since you can clear unwanted trees by "deleting" them with builders. - You had really low food, just 1 fisherman and 1-1-1 farm-mill-bakery cannot feed much. Your food reserve was at 0 fairly early on and stayed there. - You can check the amount of civilians and buildings, and whether they match, in the mechanical calculator icon on the top. - If you click on "infinite" in weapon/armor production, it really just sets the counter to 1000 (though it's not visible). They will keep making 1 of each in sequence, if they have resources available. - A mistake AI made here is they built a ton of fishermen at one tiny pond. A waste. These small ones cannot even fully supply 1 fisherman. Second game: - Troops have morale mechanics. Especially the weaker troops are substantially stronger when defending their own city. This is a good defense against early rushes, but it goes both ways against your enemy. - Keep the fields in front of the farm's door if you want to max the production. - Each cottage adds 20 to the limit of your serfs+builders. It also adds 20 people you need to feed. Specialized workers need a free peasant, but that peasant replenishes after the training (same goes for troops). So build only as many cottages as you need at the moment, or you will starve fast. - Pastures should be 20 fields big each. - You can use the "delete" button to send builders to cut down trees and other minor obstacles. You could have used this to clear the forest and build more food production in its place. That is something you needed more than that Chinese wall. - More farms again! Far more! Most grain-consuming buildings need more than 1 farm for each to be fully supplied. - Too many fishermen. Fish replenish slowly, more often than not, fishermen should not overlap in the area they fish in, or they just clear it immedietaly and then sit, doing nothing. - Right-clicking troop/civilian training or armor/weapon production increases/decreases the count by 10 instead of 1. - Later in the game, you were quite low on serfs, given the amount of buildings that needed to be supplied and amount of builders active. - Central roads should be, at least some of them, 2-fields-wide. Makes for less traffic jams. Cheers!

[@bear24908]

Ah Ha !! this game will revive my childhood happiness like stronghold and Knight&Merchant :)) Hoorayy !!

[@pb7549]

will not bring back xD

[@alexs2195]

Some games do limit you zoom for performance reasons, others just limit it... But in a strategy game with massive building is commom to limit for performance reasons, games can become really laggy if you have too many things being rendered

[@Adrian-L3x4]

Finally in better shape. I played this like 4years ago like alpha something. Literally knights and merchants in 3D 👌🏻👌🏻 but of course nothing can beat K&M and soundtrack and beautifull graphics👌🏻👌🏻

[@elfstone8606]

Never heard of this game, will check it out! Thanks for the content 😊

[@leventekelemen2914]

Are you coming from the cave on the moon ? Knights & merchants is the best.

[@elfstone8606]

@@leventekelemen2914 but the moon is so chill \°^°/

[@Prkchps-N-Aplsaws]

Ive been hoping for a game like this for a long time... K&M is amazing... A new approach is a welcome addition to my steam library

[@bobjones4469]

His memory of Civ is much like my first memory of Civ, playing Civ 1 on an SNES emulator. I was finally able to travel the ocean and my knights discover a new world, only to be met by tanks. Spearman beats tank sure as heck did not exist back in those days, no matter how many times I load state.

[@wrongthinker843]

"Knights and merchants" is a name I hadn't heard in forever.

[@Kromster80]

Try out KaM Remake ;-)

[@sirnaznyoncelot1228]

Knights & merchant inspired huh? Now that's an old game and been awhile since last playing it

[@georgestain2803]

KaM Remake is really good multiplayer game nowadays.

[@danielgalvez7953]

I want a larger scope version of this game with higher fidelity graphics, I think that would be perfect for me.

[@billcox8870]

When this game is available on steam, I'm going to get a copy of it

[@sethduffey9538]

Excellent

[@frankbraker]

This looks cooler than I expected. Knights and Merchants was wierd to play - this might resurrect it for me.

[@Diegoddk]

knights and merchants was so good

[@cjazerjay]

How do you actually get the game? No link to install or add to library... Thanks!

[@Nookrium]

Sorry, I need to add that to the description. www.knightsprovince.com Scroll down a bit to the Alpha 12 installer

[@mrmarmellow555]

🎉KNIGHT❔⚔️⚔️

[@pershop4950]

Iiked the premise of the original but i would die off to hunger more than the enemy troops

[@EmanuelWecker]

PUT SOME ADS ON THAT GAME AND YOU'LL MAKE HISTORY ON RTS GAMES.

[@tot_kto_kusalsya]

Анимацию строительства надо доработать, где то нормально, а где то только загрузка текстурки

[@nicolaslaurido6009]

Como hago para jugarlo?

[@leespiderpod]

How do you create a militia?

[@Kromster80]

Militia is trained in the Camp out of Peasants and needs to be equipped with Clubs. Note that Peasants that get trained into Warriors leave their Cottages and overall population cap remains unchanged.

[@leespiderpod]

@@Kromster80 ah ok, thanks - I was trying by using the Fort and by making clubs in the weapons workshop. awesome game btw

[@endersblade]

Definitely need to do another X-COM run, I need to get eaten by a Chryssalid again lol

[@tot_kto_kusalsya]

Игрушка хорошая, но мне не понравилась анимация строительства. В первой части анимация была более проработанная, а тут просто прогрузка текстуры. Сделайте как раньше, когда от каждого стука молотком, появлялась балка дерева или кирпичи

[@Kromster80]

Движок это позволяет, но пока большинство домов не финальные. Появление по балкам сейчас сделано только для 2-3 штук.

[@obsession2686]

Knights and Merchants is way better. KaM remake try that please

[@pb7549]

okropna ta gra. Do K&M nie dorasta.

[@edtazrael]

I don't know what it is today but many indie titles seem to blend together. Ugly and bland UI. Ugly 3d assets that all look roughly the same. There is just more of this mediocre stuff all the time.

[@anewell41]

It’s getting easier to develop games as technology increases plus I feel we’ve learned not to focus to much on polishing (graphically) early access games when the gameplay may or may not attract an audience. Anytime we’re out of the EA post apocalyptic zombie game phase is a good day