Diplomacy Is Not An Option

Your archers and siege engines will need clear trajectories to hit their targets, so good placement of your towers and defences is vital. Finding which style grants you the most success is up to you. You must put down the rebellions, flush out its leaders, and restore stability. Between builders and farmers and fighters?The Laws of MagicFickle and treacherous, most shun the use of magic in the lands. Go heavy on walls early, build large armies of cannon-fodder, or pursue the macro game of greedy growth and costly investments. As in real life, stupidity and greed lie behind most problems, but here it is far too late to talk it through. It seems that Diplomacy Is Not an Option! Experience warfare on an entirely new scale as over 10 THOUSAND enemy units assault your castle walls. The Endless Mode grants you full access to the tech tree and there are no limitations on how you approach the challenges that the procedurally generated maps provide. Whilst waging foreign wars and conquests, the lands at home have been neglected; infrastructure is decaying, and the people are slowly starving. At this stage: Diplomacy Is Not an Option! Rumours abound of vast treasures in distant lands, exactly what the King needs to feed the people and fund more beer and war. Trade, via the impressive merchant dirigible, offers a lifeline to besieged cities, bringing emergency supplies of food to feed the men, or stone to rebuild the walls. The enemy will not cede their lands willingly, and unprotected civilian expansions will fall prey to hostile incursion. Those who dare tamper with the occult are viewed with suspicion and fear, and with good reason. Surely the native peoples will offer no resistance to your pilfering. Homes must be protected, diseases managed, and corpses hauled away and buried with respect. Do you have what it takes to save the kingdom? The only thing he loves more than drinking is fighting, and he’s done a lot of it. Providing your units with elevated firing positions will greatly increase their effectiveness. If you do not care for your people you may soon find yourself overrun with a most unpleasant plague, or with battlements guarded only by the wasting bones of your malnourished soldiers.Economic LawsA functional army requires a functional economy to support and feed it. Boxed in a by a quarrelsome king, duplicitous advisors, and enemies on all sides, there is no recourse to resolve this peacefully. You alone must don the helm of battle and defend your lands from the murderous peasants. A proper burial for your slain is not just a tradition, it is a necessity. Consider your gates, your lines of advancement and retreat. It might help just enough to tip the scales. What could go wrong?The Physical LawsDiplomacy Is Not an Option takes the laws of physics very seriously: there are no hit-scan crossbows to be found here! Food can become scarce, and your soldiers can starve on the battlefield. The ground is fertile for the seeds of rebellion! Thousands of enemy soldiers will advance on your walls and archers positioned behind them must fire up and over; dramatically reducing their range and accuracy. You will need to take an active role in combat to get the best from your men.The Laws of a Functional SocietyThe world of Diplomacy Is Not an Option is not a kind one. Misled by feckless advisors the King cares not for the bureaucracy of statecraft, so when the masses rise up there is little warning or aide to be found. But victory will grant you scarce relief as you are the only one proven capable of protecting the kingdom. Few are worthy of your allegiance and even fewer will trust it. You have no recourse to resolve this peacefully. Gather resources, choose your storage locations, plan your expansions and upgrades with care. So enjoy that too.The Fundamental Laws of LifeThe game has been designed with freedom as a core concept. Is the kingdom even worth saving?The Law Of WarYour King is a mighty, and bold leader. On the lighter side: it can also be used to call down really very big fireballs onto your enemies. Likewise, a ballista or catapult-thrown boulder will do no good if they crash into a cliff mid-flight. There is a dark history of tainted power that stirs the dead and traps wayward souls. Step into the well-worn shoes of our Hero: a long-suffering minor Lord, who is forced by circumstances to engage in battle with vastly superior enemy forces. Will you do as your sovereign bids and set sail to replenish the palace coffers? Can you strike the balance between greedy expansion and security? Create kill-zones and fall-back positions. Food, Wood, Stone, Iron, and Gold are the foundations of your city’s economy, and you will need to watch your supplies carefully if you are to meet the advancing foe in a timely manner. The campaign will offer you challenges of combat and morality: it is a grim and unpleasant world.

Diplomacy Is Not An Option