Total War & Paradox KILLER? Knights of Honor 2 Review & Guide

It's actually INSANE that this is real! Knights of Honor 2: Sovereign is FINALLY here, and goes straight for the jugular, casting the die for that coveted title of best strategy game of 2022. But is it? Is the combined grand strategy campaign map gameplay, deep mechanics, and real-time battles enough to set it above the giants of Total War Warhammer 3 and Victoria 3? Stick around and find out, as this massive review of Knights of Honor II Sovereign also serves as something of an introduction, guide and tutorial of the game as well! Let me know what YOU think of the game and the video in the comments! :)
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[@AndysTake]

Is this the NEXT Paradox game? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXuxmoOugamYq6c

[@somebodyontheinternet1090]

It's interesting, I bought the first game on steam sale a couple week ago b4 this game hit all over KZbin ,this game isn't a killer just a beautiful edition to grand strategy

[@Shooterman650]

Paid Review? This game is like 10 years late coming out. Its fine but its not CK its not TW, as dose no of it well.

[@parcirecords]

alot of hype for this game.. but we already had our total wars and empire earths and our age of empire's , i have been playing bannerlord for a week now and it seems the real pretender of A total war game , but with you as the commander and leader of your own faction until you pledge to another kingdom. this game "knights of honor " is just a recap of what already has been! it looks cool but that is all it does look cool! ;) paradox made cool games , and alot of game companies want to recreate it . to me it looks like a paradox game in it's first seconds but it becomes a ageofempire/empireearth clone if look at the battle! Some want to call it a total war game but total war has changed and not for the better so many times so i will not call it a total war game! because mount and blade to me is the real total war killer .

[@amirhb7531]

Ok is 8 the max number of knights? If yes then how am i gonna conquer more than a few provinces i will run out of armies to fight more

[@BOBONOPOLIopoliBOBONOPOLI]

not even close , more like babbies first paradox and total war.

[@witalian1]

The actual Total War killer is called Creative Assembly.

[@Shooterman650]

True

[@johnd3901]

You meant to say Sega

[@dancooper-z]

👏 👍 👏

[@superhans85]

hahaha savage and true

[@DuskoSTV]

@@johnd3901 Nah, Sega's not to blame here, CA just doesn't listen. We can only thank Sega that Total war is even still a thing.

[@gapper3]

I absolutely agree with your camera criticism. I also find that you can neither zoom in close enough, nor far back enough. In general, I find camera control mediocre. Not enough zoom or circle options.

[@AndysTake]

Definitely!

[@ЯворХаризанов]

Thank you for this great review, Andy! The best review so far! :)

[@AndysTake]

Thank you so much, my friend! :)

[@rorschach1985ify]

@@AndysTake I do hope the Developers sell well enough to add more to the base game to make it better like an actual timeline and age for characters along with more events to change things up in the campaign and easier information to process. Adding more skins and unique units would also help along with toning down the capture points.

[@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719]

One little pet peeve of mine is when strattegy games cut off central/northern scandinavia. As a nordic person myself, it's always fun to play in the region I am from, but doing this makes me not have to ever really look too much at the region, and the experience will always be so far off from the actual historical experience. It's like, a similar thing to just having a country called "barbarians" or " the sultans" or "the druids" or something like that. It feels very hollow, usually. But also, I want to be able to play in nborthern scandinavia, as the sami people, or other factions that may be there. One example of what I am talking about, when it comes to the warping of the feel of the gameplay is how in koh2 the entirety of finnland is just a small littel section called "the finns", and they are completly cut off from any land border with anyone, making htem in effect, a maritime nation. Like, wow, meritime finnland. How accurate.

[@velvet3784]

Yes, I am not even nordic but I am also annoyed by that. It is just so lame. As a fan of the first Knights of honor I have always wished it had Iceland and more of Scandinavia and finally Faroe as province... And then Knights of honor 2 repeats that same weird design choice... Disappointing! I mean no one does that anymore! It is just a odd thing to do. It just looks wrong and so weird. Also Paganism as just one religion...again. Not even Judaism or Coptic Christianity were added even tho they considered it! It needs more depth, not less! Especially if it has a sandbox feel to it

[@l.s.9095]

Men, people need to stop to think of new strategy games by small developers as "XYZ KILLER", because they never are. For reasons that should be clear to see for anyone. Building up this idea, that a game could "kill" (what does that even mean) another game is ridicilous and its a bad point to argue from.

[@l.s.9095]

@@thegotterdammerung Yes, getting more clicks is certainly the intention behind this - which is nothing I want to judge in principal, chasing the algorythm is a hard job - but this specigic case annoyed me s lot.

[@darkmattergamesofficial]

This looks awesome. I had no idea this game even existed! I should pick this up soon. Might give me some inspiration for Warlord ;)

[@AndysTake]

Oh damn, awesome ;) You should definitely take a look!

[@hatac]

Historically capturing a key point on the map often did win wars particularly if its a pass or the baggage camp. Its a simple fix to add an off switch for that in settings and they may do that.

[@Fran5Malan]

Putting this on my Wishlist now, looks great.

[@TheBimjo]

I have been waiting soo long for the sequel. It looks amazing!!!

[@duweitdasdunixweit6701]

Well not many changes compared to the first part but I will buy it for sure. I loved the community mod where you can play in the age of the end of the Roman empire until the year 700

[@FlourEater]

absolutely loved the first one! conquered the whole map only once. It was beatiful, the soundtrack, numerous kingdoms...truly a hidden gem!

[@AndysTake]

I hope you liked this one too! :D

[@valentintapata2268]

@@AndysTake There is not much of a diference.

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

Despite all the flaws you exposed... Idk, this game inspires me🤔, it gives me the feeling there was love behind it

[@AndysTake]

Exactly!

[@cptN3m0]

So glad to see this total war really needs competition.

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

Sadly doesn't look like much of a competitor, the battles work like Age of Empires, it's just not the same thing as Total War. Not that that the game's concept is bad, it's just not a Total War.

[@professionalnoob7900]

Played Knights of honor may be 14-15 years ago.. Used to love it. Looks like mostly like 1st game with better graphics. Which is alright I guess

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

I wish you talked about siege battles, it seems it's all we do in strategy games. In Total War, it's the most common type of battle and the reason why cavalry is completely useless. It contributes to the worst aspect of the Total War franchise by far, the fact that range combat is completely overpowered, especially on harder difficulties. Sieges are Total War's existential enemy, I wish another company would make a game with good sieges so Creative Assembly can learn how to make their own better. Bombarding an enemy to death with 0 casualties may be fun the first time, but it gets old real quick.

[@catinashoe]

Haven't played this yet, but for field battles the capture points are probably there so the player doesnt corner camp the map or anything. I think they should have the capture points but you shouldn't instantly lose from it. Maybe you just get a significant morale decrease or something

[@hey.3249]

When mods come pouring in this will be a top notch grand strategy game

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

Depends on your playstyle, I love paradox because the battle is automated, and I can focus on economy/administrative side of the gameplay. I loathe Total War because it’s mostly about wars and conflicts and battles and not about building a flourishing nation through diplomacy and trade.

[@SFDPSFDP]

Well, diplomacy does not achieve anything without a strong army as the deterrent and trade has to be protected. If you look at history until WWII, there was never any flourishing nation through diplomacy and trade without a military force waging wars to back it up.

[@Kiiranov]

I really like this game. Realtime battle and world map. about the crusade, from what I observe from my games is if you are a Christian kingdom and going for Jerusalem or the Teutonic Knights regions for a crusade. the kingdom of Jerusalem or Teutonic Knights always holds the captured lands but if your playing the Teutonic Knights or kingdom of Jerusalem and u accept the crusade all the lands you captured is yours. that is what I observe. and if you don't want your king to be chosen to lead the crusade. just make your king a merchant, spymaster, cleric and diplomat. Diplomat is also good for your king if you don't want your king in danger. order him maintain good relation to its subjects. (nobles, army, merchants, cleric and peasants.) they give good passive buffs, and make your knights do the heavy works. Clerics are good if your playing big in conquests and or any of the two kingdom (Jerusalem or Teutonic Knights) to maintain order to your new lands that are in deferent religions.

[@Tanuvein]

Oooh I'll be picking this up when I have time to start a new game.

[@accidentian]

4:42 there should be a lot more lakes in Scotland rather than mountain ranges.

[@parcirecords]

the town system is also a bit like mount & blade .. cool!

[@Mars_junior]

I don't think a mobile game and your clickbait title are going to kill 2 of the biggest franchises.

[@Warpstoner]

The entire Total War Community: Oh no, anyway...

[@kalifzerich7187]

Not sure.. i have 3 towns and cant build army.. but AI with one town can build 2 armies? In same time? I play 1st game a lot.. i know how to play this

[@CultOfSol777]

Make sure you have enough trades going on for the income. I kinda managed to build 3 armies now but also with help of another faction fighting the rebels. I also got a war declared, focused my army on defense where the enemy would come from, crushed the army and then the enemy wanted peace again because the loss was to colossal for him, which was funny to me. Then I would probably first go to peace again and when the troops get strong enough, try to attack maybe. In times of peace build stuff up and look for trades you can make.

[@casianni]

I was waiting for this since i played the 1rst one. I remember talking with a friend that made this game known to me and we were hoping for a sequel. Last year when i first heard about it i was in shock. It's like THQ heard my thoughts :)).

[@alexsala1416]

This actually looks amazing. Is the original still worth playing?

[@AndysTake]

I've only played the original a little and it's damn cumbersome and outdated in comparison. This is the way to go if you wanna get into the series!

[@mikedixon7390]

Without the additional information could be challenging. But it can be good bcs it let me think and I feel free to always trying to figure out what is the outcome which is enjoyable for me. I mean why not? (I'm not native in English)

[@TelperionMt]

The review was good, but throughout all if it I couldn’t help but feel like this isn’t the game for me. I have never been a fan of real-time tactics in strategy games, which is why I don’t play Total War games. The parts that needed the most development are the ones I enjoy the most in CK 3: diplomacy and roleplaying. This can be a great game in the future, but right now it obviously needs more time in development before it’s worth playing. Assuming the real-time combat can be auto-resolved (something I didn’t notice in the video) I would be interested in this game in the future.

[@karentiger5117]

I want total war mongol

[@mitasrb]

2:36 Hey! I live in Nis 😁

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Reminds me of "Knights & Merchants".

[@niedersacksen]

I played KOH 1 if it is only 10% of the fun I will buy it

[@interestinglife934]

8 percent for me

[@fableflows33]

May be my present

[@ICEMAN-]

I just hope they don’t end having loads of dlc

[@simonak9699]

Naming this video "Total War & Paradox KILLER" (especially in caps) is a cheap, clickbait tactics to get more views. You know full well this indie title is not "killing" Total War, nor Paradox... You can definitely create interesting reviews without resorting to these fallacious arguments.

[@perafilozof]

Good showcase of the game Andy. But it isn't a guide or a review... no reason to hunt SEO, you already have a great way with scripts, editing and footage that your viewers will carry the video to other viewers front pages.

[@trumps_on_epsteins_airplane]

It's the best medieval game around right now full stop

[@tabbaa6159]

Even it’s not total war and paradox killer I hope it’s get big enough to become their competitor because I think both CA and paradox really need some competitors

[@AndysTake]

Me too!

[@shabushabu5319]

Competition breeds innovation, as they say

[@Robin-sf3gk]

Yea there are so many smaller medieval games right now. Hope it puts enough pressure on the big publishers that they bring a AAA historic game.

[@tonyhsloanejr]

So true TW is a pale shadow of what it was. The love and dedication to detail and historical accuracy is just gone. Now it's a cash grab arcadey mess.

[@Soulbtwxd]

(spoilers, the game died)

[@sandsiren4840]

Seems like a great mix between two of my favourite games!

[@AndysTake]

Haha I know right!

[@oscarandreas1431]

a good mid point of sorts like if you want a bit of TW and a bit of paradox

[@dimo9463]

I remeber playing KoH such a fun and great game. Even tough its feels more like a arcade game then EU, its really great. It had a amazing soundtrack that i used to play CK3 with. My Favorite strategy was going and looting all of the villages and mines and going down the Pillager Skill tree. It also had different winning Conditions similar to Civ Games. Also it had Nation Formation similar to EU, i rember starting as Turnovo and being able to form Bulgaria. Really exicted for this game!

[@LittleRifflemanX]

Serbian neighbour here .. game starts, bulgaria declares war on me :D Every. Single. Time

[@stefankatsarov5806]

@@LittleRifflemanX Balkan negotiations as usual.

[@MatisCCCC]

start as zeta, become serbia, become OP, attack the crusader army just cause

[@gentlesirpancakebottoms6692]

I initially missed out on the original game when it came out because of bangers like Rome Total War which came out the same year and stole all the attention. (Imperial Glory is another one that suffered a similar fate which comes to mind). Some years later I bought Knights of Honor to have something to play on my laptop which didn't handle Rome very well. And I fell in love. Just like with Rome and M2TW, Knights of Honor was something special. The atmosphere, soundtrack and stunning 2D artstyle and visuals of the game grasped me right away. There are a few things about KOH which I hope they fix or improve for the sequel though. Its an amazing game, but I do hope that KOH 2 will dip its toe in CK territory and add a little more depth to the family tree, heritage and internal politics. Trade was too easy and OP and the cursed borders and snowballing of kingdoms was a bit too weird. Also titles should be earned and revoked based on certain criterias I feel. The Empire of Germany (or HRE) could end up being a single province in Northern Africa, but it was still called Germany and had the title of Empire/Emperor. All those minor details and nitpick aside this was and still is an amazing game whith so much heart and soul put into it. On a second or third playtrough the craks begin to show and unfortunatley despite being somewhat of a different game it falls a little bit short compared to games like Rome and Medieval 2 TW in many departments except from diplomacy. The foundation is solid though and I've enjoyed the game for probably 100 hours. But I do hope that KOH 2 will do a little bit more than being a reskin of the original game, with more modern graphics. By the looks of it they are luckily doing just that. -The supply system is a new feature which will makes sieges harder and probably prevent rediculous snowballing over the map. - The Manpower modifier to units makes the armies themselves bigger and stronger so you don't rely too much on, and conquer the map with only two overpowered marshals in the late game. And the various smaller upgrades to buildings is another new addtition. This looks great and I'm remaining very positive:D

[@AndysTake]

Glad to hear it, Gentlesir, and thank you for sharing your memories! :) I REALLY want this game to succeed, as the bones here are fantastic, but it does lack a certain “umph!” to make it a true masterpiece, and I’m talking about those grand decisions, events, more personal character interaction etc etc. it’s relatively simple as of now or non-existent, but it’s still fun to play. So I hope the game receives the support it deserves and becomes even better over time!

[@sean4929]

This really reminds me of Hegemony: Wars of Ancient Greece. With the realtime map and the ability to zoom all the way in to your units and all the way out to the whole map. It also had farms, mines and roads that you had to connect with your cities to keep your troops fed and cities connected. This seems like a modern upgrade of that concept and i'm super excited, as I played hegemony for soo long.

[@AndysTake]

that sounds awesome!

[@sean4929]

@@AndysTake It's obviously really outdated now, but the concept of a real time movement strategy game was so cool at the time. Especially when they updated the town building for the caesar in gaul game

[@knutruckelshauss]

It seems you've never met with Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients, released in 2015? :-) But I agree, if the dev studio was still around it could have made a Hegemony 4 or 5 which might have looked similar to KoH2.

[@knutruckelshauss]

@@AndysTake It actually is and it even has two sequels 🙂

[@AndysTake]

@@knutruckelshauss I just might have to check this out. Do you recommend Hegemony 3 then?

[@decoybackatitagain6576]

How come the genre of strategy game has pretty much stagnated if not regressed in the last 15 years? Rome total war 1 is how many years old? Games releasing today look worse. Most of them MOBA like, or just remastered versions. Where is the innovation? Where is the new technology? Fresh ideas and a new scale of gaming? Anyone remember rise and fall? That's 20 years old, had such a good idea and a new concept of strategy, combining both third person combat and strategy. Why is nobody picking up anything new? Where is a game of thrones / lord of the ring total war? Where are entirely fresh and new and GOOD quality strategy games? 20 years later no progress worth mentioning.

[@CALLE92JOHANSSON]

Manor Lords?

[@chocolaterain5097]

It's become more niche because the average person is, no offence to anyone, very simple and ignorant. Many don't want to learn, they don't know of history, and they don't want to think. It's actually sad because this problem applies to many things in our world today, not just gaming. I love Call of Duty but I also like using my brain and being immersed in these strategy games.

[@CALLE92JOHANSSON]

@@user-dx6bv2pe1s Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord is a nice strategy mix genre game as well

[@AndysTake]

So what exactly are you saying here, my friend? How do you feel about KOH2 in this regard?

[@decoybackatitagain6576]

@@AndysTake comment is kinda misplaced, it's not angled towards this game specifically, just verbalizing my general frustration towards this genre and its evolution. Channels like yours and others are one of the few reasons people still find joy in this genre, since we have to microwave heat up these old titles over and over again and mod the living **** out of them to make them work. Thank you for that

[@Punggles]

Love the review! This honestly sounds like a game I’ve been wanting for a while, CK3 like with more tactical real time battles. Will definitely check this title out!

[@AndysTake]

Awesome! It's not as deep as CK3, but it's better in certain ways, like I said, I think it's a great mix. Hoping it gets more fleshed out in the next few months!

[@proshot619]

@@AndysTakehow’s the diplomacy feel ?

[@Tennis932000]

A game of thrones mod would fit this so well

[@wm2922]

Definitely :)

[@ThePerfectPod72]

Done

[@FilAnd01]

I’m probably not going to get this game, but I’m happy that it seems to be good! Always fun to see a small indie studio from some unexpected place make a game which can at least somewhat stand up there with AAA studios. The game’s from Bulgaria, and I think that’s lovely, even if I have a patriotic duty to rep paradox, being Swedish and all.

[@deusvult8251]

THQ isnt indie... they are the big boys been in the game for decades

[@brightestlight9462]

you're allowed to play molre than one game you know?

[@bcvetkov8534]

I feel like the modding community will give this game a lot of potential. It's crazy.

[@CultOfSol777]

Yea, imagine a Timeline in the Viking age or Dark ages. That would be epic!

[@siluda9255]

Lord of the ring mod when

[@MarcosAlexandre-no3qx]

ww2 mod when?

[@KarolK.01F]

star wars mod when?

[@velvet3784]

Still the map is impossible to be modded, and there are not many mods

[@xacmst3r706]

Sky and earth give signs that we need Medieval 3

[@AndysTake]

Hahaha! True

[@argon65]

To be honest, it has the potential to become a real competitor to Paradox. For example, they could introduce different government types that give different types of mechanics, knights and buildings. But yeah, right now it's not even close to being a "TW - PDX killer". Actually, it's kinda sus that other strategy channels are presenting it as such. Almost as if they were paid promotions without mentioning they're basically ads.

[@easytargetYT]

No, it doesn't and you know it doesn't.

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

Paradox's complex gameplay, Total War's complicated tactical battle and Age of Empire's aesthetic mix into one... look pretty nice so far, i might try it...

[@PeterPranker1]

Trust me bro it's nowhere near as complex as Paradox games. I played EU4 for 2000 hours and I still find out new stuff about the game. After 10 hours of this game (KoH2) I figured out most of it and I'm disappointed. It's basically Age of History 2 + Age of Empires 1. Don't go with high expectations.

[@brukujinbrokujin7802]

@@PeterPranker1 tbh. Paradox games is too complex that they forget core mechanics. Bloated feature makes the game "forget" what part is fun and what part is tedious.

[@raptorhacker599]

@@PeterPranker1 PDX games have meaningless complexity that doesn't add anything to the experience.

[@mickethegoblin7167]

@@raptorhacker599 disagree

[@mickethegoblin7167]

This game has very little complexity compared to Paradox and the battles barely compare to TW...

[@gregc6535]

The first one was fun but once you figured out how to counter the AI it became repetitive. I wonder if the same will happen with this sequel. It looks great!

[@AndysTake]

How did you counter the AI in the first one?

[@gregc6535]

@@AndysTake Hard to explain, but I knew when it would attack certain holdings based on where my armies were and how it would attack. So I would start marching an army when I knew it was time for the AI to attack again.

[@gentlesirpancakebottoms6692]

Another way the game was easy to manipulate once you got the hold of things was the unbalanced trade. 2, or 3 marshals if your empire was large was enough to conquer the world after the mid game point because of the OP leveling and marshal skills like the defend ability. Also they couldn't die. The only one in your court that coud die was the king. So all you needed was 2-3 marshals and fill the rest of the court with merchants. In KOH2 this is remedied my making trade more balanced and addind the commerce "mana points" which based on the gameplay I've seen on KZbin works pretty well. The devs have also said in previous devblogs and interviews that they intend to make all the classes more viable and balanced this time around

[@stefankatsarov5806]

As someone who has many hours in KOH i can say that for the moment it looks the same. The early game is slower and the AI gets better troops fast, but afther you get 5-10 provinces you can bild everyting more or less and then snow ball everyone whit 4 armies. Just send 2 armies at a town or you can even do it whit 1 army. The battle AI is very bad and it aways goes for the flank and then b-lines to you capture points. It also loves to attack your siege even to the point of suicide. They also rush in the marshal alot compared to the old game. It needs to be mentioned also that you have ekstra armies now because of the mehanic where you can buy a full mercenary camp to become a temporary army till the end of the war. I had like 10+ armies at one point and just whent from war to war whit them. You need to be careful tho since taking over a province afther you conquer them takes alot more time now. Also the fact that an upgrade of a building in one town upgrades all of thouse buildings in you other towns, curent and future means you dont have much to do in the late game in terms of building. Also it looks like Spies have less things to do. ( Unless i have been unlucky and they didnt get a chance to become a knight in the enemy kingdom). All in all it is a better version than the original but the main problem of mid and late game repetitiveness is there.

[@mirzaaljic]

The Knights of Honor were one of those hidden gems back in the day, but I distinctly remember it had one of the most beautiful soundtracks of that era. I still play that soundtrack from time to time.

[@stefankatsarov5806]

100%

[@Undertaker257]

Still love first one ove this, this looks just like a not even that good remaster

[@AA-bc8nr]

No way could this be a total war or paradox killer. This is far too arcady, getting tired of videos having those click bait titles

[@olegchernyak1741]

A great and in-depth review. Very anxious to lay my hands on this game. And it's only one day of waiiting.

[@AndysTake]

Thank you, Oleg! I hope you enjoy it, just remember it’s a complex game and might take some time! :)

[@olegchernyak1741]

@@AndysTake well... as someone who played the first Shogun TW and all the Paradox major titles... I think I can manage it )))

[@jaywerner8415]

"An overlay for who has children to royally marry off" the most important tab for every medieval enthusiast. CA waking up in horror "OH NO! We're OBSOLITE!" Paradox waking up at their DLC desk "Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle shall be legendary!"

[@AndysTake]

YOU KNOW IT

[@muzgash]

Watching this review after watching the Cody Bonds one, now I'm even more confused if this game's any good or not. Polar opposite takes.

[@albundy831king]

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[@HistoryTeacherSteve]

Haha right?! I literally just watched Cody's video. I'll wait for the Steam reviews

[@AndysTake]

Cody admitted he didn't even play it extensively... granted "because it wasn't fun", but these games take time to learn. I felt it was a big sluggish myself in the first hours, but then I really began loving it after about 10-20 hours - honestly the exact same thing goes for every PDX game I've ever played. So yeah, take that as you will.

[@Hugo-vz3eu]

@@HistoryTeacherSteve bro the steam reviews are baaaad, they are MIXED right now on the brink of being worst. The RTS battles are utterly broken right now with 0 balance. If you buy this for the RTS battles, dont even buy it.

[@deep-fried-zombie699]

Rome two is gold. Attila is gold. WH3 is really good. if you have the computer to run them. The mods coming out for all of them are sick!!

[@thyrampantpigeon]

I'm actually not seeing much in terms of new content in comparison to the original, it's like a nicer looking remake.

[@myyoutube4906]

It’s a shame they couldn’t put in the effort to make the nation borders realistic.

[@velvet3784]

Indeed. Some will say it is not really a huge issue. However it is a grand strategy for f sake of course borders are important!

[@fipeke]

The capture condition of winning a battle is absolutely horrible. As seens as recently as Warhammer 3 where you can simply sneak a few stalker units into a castle and win an otherwise epic battle. It's so cheap and just not for me. I will absolutely be playing the game though, this seems like a very fun game!

[@stefankatsarov5806]

The AI also seems to rush your capture points ignoring anyting else, which makes them very easy to kill.

[@streuselu9474]

Knights of Honor was such a childhood game for me, I was always so happy playing that

[@AlexC90]

Are the factions distinct enough? All global factions having knights and royalty for example wouldn't make sense. Factions need to be really unique to have my appeal

[@stefankatsarov5806]

Knights is just the name of you generals, clerics, merchants and so on, it was the same name in the first game. Also, all of the nations of the period had royalty, whit a few exceptions which was also mention in naming in the first one.

[@suoquainen]

Paradox Killer? How can that be, if the developers are the same team of Paradox members who made Knights Of Honor 1?

[@oilslick7010]

That team is now part of a different developer called Black Sea Games. And their publisher is THQ Nordic. So they're in direct competition with Paradox now, no matter how long they worked for them before

[@suoquainen]

@@oilslick7010 They are the exact same developers of the first game. You can put them in whatever company you want or give them any name you want. It's not "Paradox" who made the game, it's only a name.

[@lmaogottem5984]

this game looks amazing, my friends and i have always been thinking how cool it would be if TW battles had paradox campaigns

[@robertbartosik9412]

The big question is however - how is the AI and overall game difficulty ?

[@dimitardimitrov8281]

Absolutely dumb and hilarious on easy and brutal on very hard. I think that on normal to hard difficulty, the AI behaves its best.

[@stefankatsarov5806]

I played it on Hard and its easy. The battle AI is very dum and it tends to rush its marshal in the fight alot. The early game is hard since the AI gets good units really fast, but afther you get yours its becomes super easy, just get 2-3 spearmen and 1-2, cav in rach army and you will be fine.

[@mdfalse]

Yawn, another overly complicated and (reality is so much cooler than gaming) type of game. The mainstream appeal is taking what people THINK of when they imagine a time period and glorify an ideal world as a ruler not what it actually would be like. I'm kinda burned out on having to explain what a game is as opposed to a history class. Is. It. Fun? That's literally all that matters - I, personally, do not want to balance every aspect of an army just to play a siege and have to wait 400 turns to accomplish something worth while because of "mechanics". The game designers need to chill - I'm in my home country planning to invade so we purchase the proper number of bananas so we can eat, then a designer says "oh also wouldn't it be sweet if we had to cut down the trees in real time and buy the logs from market but that market also is shady so we have to pay off pirate groups and then only if someone else hasn't purchased all the logs then we can hire a transport company to get them from the forest to our city, well not that city since it doesn't have a tier 3 docking tech built, so it has to go to the other city further away and then we have to hire another transport company but we didn't pay those log pirates in that region so now it's in holding by the governor you just elected but didn't earn his trust when you guys played poker last weekend so he's super mad about it still so now you have to let him marry 3 of your daughters I hope you're prepared for that but finally after that the logs have arrived and now we can make them into planks, then get iron, and we can make a catapult - OH NO THE BANANAS ARE SPOILED!" I mean just let me attack a city - stop with this type of game, please I beg of you!

[@AndysTake]

HAHAHAHA 10/10 rant!

[@mdfalse]

@@AndysTake Haha, glad you enjoyed. Also, good video and breakdown of a game - just a bitter old man I suppose. Keep up the good content!

[@cuestatv9900]

Thanks but no.This looks like a mobile game. If that's what the strategy genre has to offer in 2022, I will just stick with older total war titles, which are better in every conceivable way. Even Rome 1 looks better than this and it's 18 years old.

[@zakohc]

Total War need competition, maybe Creative Assembly will stop taking a piss and start treating customers with respect. Hope Knights of Honor 2 will grow into successful franchise.

[@RYTG]

so weird, why would the area around jeruzalem be called palestine, wile the area was only called palestine very briefly by the ottomans afte they massacred all the non muslim citizens, about 90% of the population, in the 1500s, whever created this game is pretty biased

[@TheGreatJinx]

Why does every game of the same genre have to be a "[insert popular game] killer?" Like, what's wrong with these games coexisting?

[@ionicafardefrica]

I wanted to love this game. I was addicted to the first one, so I was obviously hyped for this one. But boy, is it bad. Like really bad. I don't know what kind of a sellout are you, but this is not a proper review

[@sezione]

oh yeah, big killer this... survive till you got 2 armies then bait enemies to siege your cities and snipe them, then go take their stuff. Really hard! Rinse and repeat until you paint the entire map. Very hard stuff!

[@GabiN64]

Total War still does real time battles better and Crusader Kings does the diplomacy and political intrigue better. The game kinda left me feeling like I would rather just play those two games for when i feel the itch for either one..

[@SimonAshworthWood]

I’m not a fan of games that show weirdly unrealistic arrow trails that look like arrows are trailing smoke behind them. I prefer the more realistic look of arrows in Rome Total War and Medieval 2 Total War.

[@antoniobrandao7139]

I never played the first one but this game seems very cool, specially the battle system but... I don't know... If the game goes to the 16th century, where's colonization? Just Europe seems a bit... limited. What keeps me returning to EU4 is the flavor and replayability, every country seems different and plays differently with unique objectives, ideas, mechanics and decisions and we have a whole world to chose from. I think that's one of the most important aspects a new game should focus not so much in cosmetics. I'll give a try, ofc.

[@AndysTake]

It doesn’t go to the 16th century - it begins in various years, but remains in that “year” forever. There are no years or ticks in this game, and it’s a very different sandbox from PDX and Total War games.

[@olgagaming5544]

@@AndysTake Ah, haha. pretty cool then I quess, you don't have to force the whole "technological progress" thing and try to balance it out and make the years progress so fast but just create on thematic game

[@AndysTake]

@@olgagaming5544 Yeah that's one kinda neat thing about the game, even though it definitely feels a bit different from those other games! :)

[@Latingunner1]

So what youre saying is, this is what would happen if ck2 and midieval 2 had a lovechild. Shut up and take my money.

[@wyteprvlge]

i played the first game for like 100 hours, multiple playthroughs and campaigns. im sooooo hype for this

[@GeFlixes]

I loved KoH 1. It's stone old, but playable still, especially with mods. This game looks like a nice reboot of the original, with new Ui and graphics, whilst the gameplay has stayed largely the same.

[@AndysTake]

Exactly. That’s why I feel like it’s old school, but still so good! Can’t wait for updates and expansions

[@waleed8153]

Damn almohads and Almoravides 😭🇲🇦 I'll start playing this gaameee tomorrow

[@NicholasSC]

Quick answer no it won't kill either game. The graphics are outdated and the mechanics feel ancient

[@Onezy05]

Hell yeah, I've always wanted a historical game with the map of Civ/Paradox games and the battles of Total War

[@KosmataBradva]

People say it's just a HD remaster of the first game. I say, can't wait to make 6 spies and turn medieval Europe into Mad Max world.

[@AndysTake]

Chad way to play

[@thewise3551]

Ironic if it did kill Paradox as they published knights of honor 1.

[@mr.butter1019]

BRO I DIDNT REALIZE KNIGHTS OF HONOR 2 WAS OUT! I loved the first game so much

[@AndysTake]

Hope you like it! :D

[@panpiper]

I was a huge fan of Knights of Honor 1. This looks VERY similar, and that is a good thing. It looks to me like they did not change the things that were not broken in the first edition.

[@velvet3784]

I think everything that was ok in the first game like country colours was changed (Bugaria is now almost the same colour as Byzantium, which just looks confusing, and vassal stripes are also worse) but the things they could have improved they did not improve enough. They added like 1 new religion, still no Judaism, Coptic Christianity etc. Borders are somehow worse than the first game.

[@knightesquire36]

The supply system is golden. Unlike in eu4 when you can march across a whole continent and siege a castle for 50 years without running out of supply.

[@greatgameplayswalkthroughs660]

Made by "Black Sea Games Address: Sofia, BULGARIA"

[@AndysTake]

LOL

[@emperoroak7331]

Really tired of Europe map , I hoped that some company will based on Asia in future

[@seraphx26]

Go play three kingdoms or something else then.

[@Zlatano86]

The game looks cool, especially the campaign map and its mechanics. And the whole medieval vibe is something I have missed since playing M2TW back in the day. There is just one thing. Real-time battles look kinda...bland, i guess. It doesn't come anywhere close to total war games.

[@stephenhancock1578]

Looks pretty cool, might check it out more down the road. Thank you for reviewing this and bringing it to my attention. This is the first video I've seen of yours, so I'll check out your other content because I feel like you did a great job breaking this down.

[@AndysTake]

Thank you so much, Stephen :)

[@321Leviathan]

nope, game sucks. Jack of all trades master of none

[@PurpleSixBeats]

Knights of Honor 1 was first map painting game that I played :)

[@aofg]

Looks exactly like Knights of Honor 1. They just rereleased the old game with minor changes.

[@bf2229]

I have that feeling as well

[@darkranger116]

its nice for a game to come out and to have access to all the content

[@cedo3333]

Where is the critics? seriously... When you talk about tactital battles, not sure that's a good thing, making everything half baked don't make it great. I have watched people playing but not myself so i talk without testing the game.

[@panagiotisalexandrosriniot3368]

totally im veteran strategy games player (hearts of iron, victoria, total war, theatre of war, making history, men of war and faces of war etc) and i think its deserves 10/10 i bought it in thursday and since then i've been playing 5-6 hours per day really love the concept of war (sieges, pillaging, peace talks while burning villages, mercenary armies) + merchants and good commerce overall can make you trully wealthy not like other rts games MUST BUY GAME

[@AndysTake]

Exactly, I love it too!

[@sasi5841]

From the video that ludi made, piety seems to be very important for Romans.

[@saito-toshimasa8608]

its a little bit unrealistic, that a game that changes nearly nothing in compare to its original could "kill" total war or paradox games!!!