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Although not quite so common as other total war games, Kingdoms Total War is an expansion pack for Medieval Total War. And it is something not known by many people. Say it Total War series cannot advertise enough, but i say they need no advertisement in their main games apart from expansion packs, it is only the expansion packs they would need advertisement. First, there have been Saxons invasion for medieval first total war, which i only saw it once or twice mentioned in some place. Then there came many expansion packs for rome total war, such as Alexander total war, Barbarian Invasion Total War, even i am sure i saw one, maybe a mod though, Napoleon total war. All these expansion packs and mods, even though they are almost as fun to play as original ones, did not receive the desired amount of popularity among gamers. Now we are going to inspect Kingdoms Total War which is an expansion pack of Medieval 2 Total War.

This, Kingdoms total war is an interesting expansion, which is in fact, a combination of different game mods, including Crusades, Americas, Britannia and Teutonic warfare. They all have different time spans, different maps and different nations who are present. Only thing in common is that they all pass in the medieval times. In Americas, there are native American tribes along with newcomer Spaniards. The map, as can be anticipated is on central America, combined with southern USA, It is about how Spaniards discovered the new world and the campaigns of them, when conquering the land. There is Teutonic Total War, which is about Teutonic Order of Germany, declaring war upon Pagan Polish people, and claiming that their lives are forfeit. So together Poland and Lithuania form an alliance to oppose the Teutonic order. There are also the Holy Roman Empire, Denmark, Russia and Norway that are present in the map and can be entered diplomatic or military relations with.

As one of two remaining mods of the expansion Medieval Two Kingdoms Total War, there we see Crusades Total War. This one has taken Anatolia and middle easy as its map including the factions which are present at the times of Crusades, which are Kingdom of Jerusalem, Egypt, Turks, Byzantine Empire, and later, Venetians. And also invasion of Mongols is not something to be ignored. During the game, other crusades are called and more reinforcements arrive for crusading factions. And last of the mods of the expansion is Britannia mod, which takes the British Islands as map only. It does not include northern France or anything. And all the nations that are present today there, are present there also but as independent nations, with addition of Norway. This, in my opinion is the most historically expanding mod of this expansion as England aims to conquer all the British islands while others trying to defend themselves. Scotland stays ignorant until the time for them comes, and they start pushing back after a certain time. When looked at generally, it is the best mod of this expansion in my opinion.

Samantha White is developing strategy games for free games online since 2001.

In this section i am going to explain the tactics for all the nations in Britannia Total War, what should their strategy be, how should a leader of a particular faction should act, and so on. Let us start with England. Playing the Englishmen is extremely easy, given the fact that you do hold twenty one settlement at start of the game, you are the supreme power on the map. However, holding this much settlements make you neighbours to all other factions, therefore, keeping calm politics with Scotland and Kingdom of Norway could be useful. Scotland, having good use of pikes and spears, also possessing some big settlements, can be a tough enemy when you are already fighting with Wales and Irish at the same time, which is given to you at start of the game. Even that in history, England behaved this way, they did not attack Scotland before they conquered the territories of their other enemies. Your borders with Wales is in most critical position, as from there, they can Launch an attack to your most precious cities. So you must push on them and not let them build a large army. For that, use your forts on the borders. Dealing with the Irish is quite easy, just defend your settlements in Ireland, and when they sally forth to attack, launch a simultaneous attack on all of their settlements, and try conquering them in one year, and you have advantage of turns in that. Also be careful that after some time, your city, York starts a rebellion, rebellion of Barons that are interested in taking control of the country because they are not respected enough. This uprising is not so easy to deal with but if you already dealt with Wales, this should not be a problem, so keep your hands hurry about Wales.

As starting with one Wales, you have not much options but to defend yourself until you can find proper allies, or until somehow England makes mistake of making enemies that they might not want. Such as the rebellion of the Barons. You can send a diplomat to them directly and offer to cooperate, attacking England. Even they will not prove much use, they can at least lessen the pressure on your lands so you may build an army. From time to time, England may leave some of his border settlements empty, chose those times to strike, use your forts well and fight in a guerilla style with your archers. Irish is in quite same situation too. They are already invaded by Englishmen, and must defend what they currently have first. Then follow the exact same tactics with Wales, befriending other nations that are at war with Englishmen, and capturing their settlements.

For Scotland, you should either try not to engage in war with kingdom of Norway, but in hard or very hard game options, the war with them is inevitable, so you must declare war upon them first, befriending the English meanwhile, and put an end to Norwegian existence in British islands. Then you can focus on your army and settlements once more. If you are done with Norway before England conquer Wales or Ireland, try befriending them before attacking England.

Samantha White is developing strategy games for games online since 2001.

This is another mod of the expansion pack of Medieval 2 Total War called Kingdoms Total War. It is about the political issues and warfare in Britannia, between the dates 1217 and 1335. This is, generally about Scotland being conquered by the Englishmen, also Ireland and Wales, and after that, them, getting their freedom by war. You might have heard of William Wallace either from history books or the movie called Brave Heart. It comes to pass in exactly these dates, where Scotland is being conquered and a hero rises from the common folk to save Scotland. Although he fails when he lives, after him, Robert The Bruce rallies Scotland and drives the English to ruin. But that is another story.

It starts with Englishmen, in possession of England and some of Ireland only. Wales, in Wales, and Scottish in Scotland only. However, Wales do start as in war with the Englishmen, and if we look at the odds, where the English possess twenty one settlement, and Welsh does only three, it is most likely that Wales, going to be conquered by the English real soon. It is weird that Wales can be also a faction that you can choose at start of the game. But that makes it exciting for the professional total war gamers. English, is also at war with the Irish, who have scattered around Ireland as in settlements and such. However, Scotland is free of these all, holed up to north and in some way isolated from English. I do not know why but i have never seen Englishmen attacking Scotland before they completely conquer Wales and Ireland. Maybe it is that total war staff wanted to make the game really parallel with the history itself, which England does not attack Scotland before having in possession of other nations. There is also kingdom of Norway, which i at first thought to be irrelevant, however later decided to be probable upon checking history books. Kingdom of Norway is scattered in almost all the little British islands around, and have a powerful navy. Also, some time after the game start, the king of Norway embarks on the English island, and attacks Scotland. Therefore, England itself, fights with Wales and Ireland on two fronts, and Scotland fights with kingdom of Norway.

The setting of the game is in some ways unlike Medieval Total War, although it is an expansion. There are forts all around the map, which are made to indicate the little towns. But you can also use these forts as a base with defence, and only so, you cannot build anything in those forts and use them for economic purposes. Only economic bonus it may bring is depending on the town level of the province of the Fort, the fort offers free upkeep to limited number of units in it. This somehow increases the free upkeep units a province can handle. However, because of this fort system, nobles cannot build forts around the map as they wish. Good luck with the game!

Samantha White is developing download strategy games for games since 2001.

Here i am going to explain the ideal national tactic for each faction in Crusades Total War. Let us assume at first you have selected Egypt Nation. It is fairly easy, since you have only one side to be attacked possibly, means you have only side that you need to push. Rally all your men into the borders with Kingdom of Jerusalem, and set all other settlement’s growth base as cultural or financial growth except keeping Gaza as a castle to provide replenishment for the frontiers and act as a bulwark against upcoming Templar hordes. If you want to play historically, get every city of Kingdom of Jerusalem, apart from Jerusalem itself. Then Help the Turks handle the principality of Antioch, then you may take Jerusalem before, if possible, the third crusade. You may let Richard to get Acre when he arrives but i doubt he will be arriving when kingdom of Jerusalem have been captured already. Furthermore, as playing Kingdom of Jerusalem, you should maintain good relations with Principality of Antioch to secure your northern borders. You already do start with nice relations with them, both trade rights, military access given, so try not to break those with any attempts of assassination or such. Help them defend themselves against Turks if they seem to have problem. And most of the time, keep your armies at south border of Egypt to fend of their assault. You can advance through their territories if you can, or maybe hinterlands as there are only rebels to be found there, but try not to share borders with Turks for they may attack you if they happen to make peace with Principality of Antioch.

The Byzantine Empire is kind of complicated, since if you can manage to get rid of the Turks early in the game, before they dominate all of Anatolia, you can handle the rest easily. Your aim should be to capture their lands, not even rebel lands in Anatolia, and then, prepare yourself in times of peace with the Catholics at holy lands, and strike when you are ready. Also keep a large army for the Venetian invasion, so you may fend them off, otherwise you would be flanking. It might be a good idea to wait for the Catholic nations to break their alliance first, before striking them.

The Turks, are by far the hardest nation to play on the map since they start in two separate locations, some land in Anatolia and some land in Mesopotamia. Ergo, you need to mess with both the Byzantine Empire and Principality of Antioch. Try defending yourself against the Byzantines while attempting to capture the rebel settlements in Anatolia, eastern Anatolia especially, to unite the two parts of your lands into one. Then you can push on Principality of Antioch once you have secured your position in Anatolia with open ways of reinforcements from Mesopotamia. When the Venetians arrive to attack Constantinople, take this opportunity to strike at Byzantine Empire, and most likely you will succeed if you make alliance with the Venetians.

Samantha White is developing download strategy games for free online games since 2001.

Crusades Total war, as can be understood from the name, has the time period of religious Christian crusades, after second crusade to the last, it has a time span which a player can play through. Western edge of the map is, the line from a bit west of Constantinople through the Greek islands on the Aegean sea. Eastern edge is the last capital of the Seljuk empire, east of Baghdad, through the Mesopotamian oasis. Northern edge, the black sea and southern edge is just below Thebes.

Of course, according to these edges of the map, there are not many different factions that players can chose. However, it is enough as they are, since it is such a fun to feel the crusading spirit. Of course, we can be the Egyptians, under command of Salah-al-Din There is Kingdom of Jerusalem, which holds all the coast from Gaza to Antioch including Jerusalem. Another option is Principality of Antioch, which, of course has Antioch as capital in possession. There is also Turks, and Byzantine empire selectable. The game mechanic actually makes Kingdom of Jerusalem to meddle with Egypt, and Salah-al-Din. And Turkish lands at start is so divided that they have possession of them the inner parts of Anatolia with Byzantine empire surrounding their lands, And also another part in the oasis of Mesopotamia, exactly in a position to be able to fight with Principality of Antioch.

During the game, the pope calls for several other crusades, which starts with call of Third crusade. Therefore, King Richard the Lionheart arrives the holy land, and joins the Kingdom of Jerusalem as army, and King Philip the Chivalrous arrives to join the armies of Principality of Antioch. They come with not gigantic armies however with decent units who have quite many experience ranks on them. Also their commanders, the kings, have real good qualities on their screen, also special abilities for the field of battle. So it is a good strategy to ready an army for their use before they come, and give the army to their command, which in most occasions, make their enemies rue the day they were born. After that, the pope calls for another crusade which is the fourth, with that, the Venetians arrive, however, due to being excommunicated following the sack of Zara, they feel no allegiance against the Pope, so they attack Byzantine Empire, to Constantinople, and set their base as it. There rise a new nation on the map which you are to get in political agreements with. Although they are in most occasions, only interested in things about Byzantine empire, trading with them can bring wealth. However, as in military alliances, they do not prove to be good helping allies, since their navy is of little use where most of the things happen on the sea, and their land position starts so isolated from the Holy Lands. Only Turks, may actually use their help as a distraction for the Byzantine empire that is. And also they should make sure that Venice does not conquer the Byzantines but only distract them. A strong Venetian nation would be against their desires.

Samantha White is developing download strategy games for online games since 2001.

The second game of the exhilirating total war series, Rome Total War, took its place on stores, well yes quite long time ago. But i recently realised that it isn’t that old fashioned. And the way it is, makes a perfect duo with what it is about, which is old fashioned warfare, oldest time period of the whole total war games. It is, as the name indicates, in times of roman empire, with initial date taken right after death of Alexander The Great, consequently seperation of soveinrighty of his kingdoms, partially. Quite various selection of factions it offers us in this game, such as Carthage, Greeks, Germania, Brittania, Gaul, Parthia, Egypt, Seleucid Empire, Macedon etc. As it looks, we are able to play either with mediterennean culture factions, desert, or barbarian culture.

What i mentioned about old fashioned graphics and style suits well with old fashioned warfare is something most probably not intended but incidently occured so. There is huge balance issues between units on the field. As thousands of men of a certain unit can actually run away from sight of one unit, and i don’t mean elephants. Especially, in early periods of the game, the general’s units are the ultimate power over the battlefield. Wherever the general fights, he and his comrades win the day, while all other lines collapse before enemy. However, this gives us just the atmosphere of those old fashioned battles, where men are actually get the morales off their generals in great deal, and turn themselves into enraged red bull horde, from sacrifical sheeps. So it is in fact, a great idea in this game, unlike others, to throw your general in the middle of the battle, to the heart of danger or right on the line that looks as if going to fail. However, there is something else apart from unit strenght that causes your army to rout. This is a proper flanked charge of equal, or any better class unit. The rout banner spreads like wildfire so be careful not to get flanked. Using this is also an effective tactic, on which you need to form a light long line and put cavalry to the sides, and with contagion, start routing them from either sides, keep your general at center to be sure your main line does not rout. Keep rally special ability on all the time, otherwise thin lines can’t hold against anything else than light breeze. Sometimes, they do make strange formations front of you, such as chariots at sides, cavalry behind phalanx in the middle and skirmishers behind the chariots. Well against these, you of course need to spread around because there is no way you can kill a phalanx unit without flanking it. And with chariots guarding sides, your soldiers can in fact get harvested. Send your heavy cavalry on the chariots, and put light infantry against phalanx, and kite them. But they need to hold the aggro until your cavalry are done with the chariots and come to flank them.

As for economic guide, it is quite different than most total war games, well in fact all total war games. Here, letting the settlements grow faster than they should cause intense problems of squalor and public order. So tax them as heavily as they can bear. It pays to be downright cruel to get things done here. Also, spread recruitment to all cities so some of them wont thrive while some other strive. Army upkeep isn’t much of a thing, keep your armies close to th borders and use them in any sort of fight to get rid of them soon enough, because you need to get rid of your extra population, which means some soldiers do need to die. You can still make a army-of-glory if you need, when you are able to recruit the best units avalible for your faction. Also keep in mind that for romans, after you build an imperial place, a new drill of infantry become established and instead of using Hastati, Tiiarii, Principies, you start using Legionary Cohorts. So do not ever try to make that army of glory out of Hastati and stuff.

These are the basic tips to be sucsessful in an Imperial campaign of Rome Total war. Other quick tip articles are for sure on their way, there are many other awesome total war games out there that players need guidance with!

Samantha White is developing download strategy games for free games since 2001.

You! You there! Yes, you get in front of your computer every day, click on the icon of your favorite game and play it. But ever thought how was it made? What sort of godlike imagination required for it to create a new story, new characters and new environment, from NOTHING? Ever saw a computer game as codes? It is nothing but endless logical functions and possibility equations, true, false, and such.

These are what all of computer games do have, but their quality measures how good the game is. Compare it with normal games as we have in life. Football? Basketball? Handball? Pinball? Pool? Until now, people seem not very creative as these are all about doing things with a ball. Shooting it to a gate, throwing it through a circle, hitting it to get it in a pin. It varies a bit more yes, dart, swim fun, tag, roadrunner. But are these enough to entertain a person in 21th century? All with this technology? Sometimes so, yes. But what about computer games? An innocent programmer, sitting in front of his personal computer. Writing none sense, very fast, with his fingers. Then another programmer joins him, then another, and another programmer. An art designer comes in and starts to draw things for the programmers. An author comes in and starts writing for the programmers. A musician comes in and starts writing songs for the programmers. But are these really for programmers? For whom do those programmers work for, with all this cast? Of course, the answer is simple, you. The art designer, musician, author, hands in their work to the programmers. And those men, write them all as functions, inscribe into one small disk, with help of many other cast, such as creative members and effect makers, sounders. They add movement to what the artist draw. They add visual for what author tells. They add the life, to what musician sings. They do their best to add every single reflections and effects as graphics, try to make the story a paradox. Then comes the advertisement officers, they tell the world that what game is created. They tell you about the world. Then comes deliveries and you reach the game. That disk you hold in your hand contains hardworking of a cast at least 10 man, of their months. They have to offer the players something that will really enjoy them, something that would worth their money. Could you do that yo It is easy complaining about bugs and ridicule in games when sitting in front of your computer at your happy place and playing the game. But when writing them you have to check that billion possibility which might create a bug. If you want to help a certain game that you would like it to be bug-free, just go and try their beta. That is what game producers offer for players to improve the game before releasing it. Which is actually also a good way to try out the game before you buy it so it is highly recommended in most communities. And with invention of internet almost all big-scale computer game producers started to create customer / player forums for advices, recommendations or reports of bugs and such. And, now even that they started to recruit programmers that actually been playing lots of computer games in their youth. Since that they are way into this job they can do better in gaming imagination and creativity. just think of those poor first programmers that wrote the very first games. They haven’t played any computer game themselves that they can take after, they had no idea what kind of things it would be and they had no idea what would a player actually look for, in a computer game. But since that nowadays it is an improved industry, it is possible to recruit experienced gamers into the ranks of programmers.

To summarise, writing a computer game is a new world of your own and therefore must be respected first before gaying about the mistakes of it.

Samantha White is developing download free games for flash games since 2001.

Why and why on earth people get addicted to online games, it is so ridiculous! Don’t you think that they actually are all egoists that take pleasure as they beat up others in the games? What happens when you kill someone in somewhere imaginary?! Does it sate your urge of violence? If so, one should go to a psychologist instead of trying to satisfy themselves through these. There are even people who do PAY for these online game madness. They work and earn money in life, they get strained, they get bored and tired. They want to relax and pay what they earned to these games.

Why do you work for if you are going to waste all your money on games which do naught but – and even that is a sad dam – relax you and rip you of strain. This way or the other, they are addictive and our children must be kept away from online games. It is a complete waste of time, waste of will and waste of effort and it doesn’t entertain at all! Have you not seen any children on TV that go mad because of these games? Because, when they fail they actually get troubled and depressed and they want to win? And unlike single player games, the fact that they cannot cheat in online games because there are other players playing it, they are bound to loose, and as they loose they feel worse and worse until a point that this damages their personality? They become humans which do not trust themselves, which isn’t socialized, which doesn’t have a place in society nor aware of that they are going to get role in economy and be mature someday. It is so horrific to see one youngster go into this and loose himself. I myself haven’t seen anybody that played an online game, left, and claim it was good times. All the people thank god that they could make it, and quitting the game was one of the best decisions in life. Doesn’t it seem a lot like some psychological problem we already know? Addiction. Like drug addiction, smoking, money and maybe power, this is a serious addiction too and certainly must be avoided. It is true that you do meet people all around the world and get to know them quite a bit, but it is rather slower than you might do it already in real life by real experiences and also less teaching. A person can go out, join clubs and crowds, talking with people, learning what they are about, and he can help the universe when it is needed, help the people around him, help his city, help his country, help the world. What if you are playing an online game? Well what you will do is quite simple but it is hard if you are past the addiction line. Cancel your subscription, stop paying and wasting your money, get out, go to a pub, get a drink, go sit near someone and start a conversation, and meet them, learn how they live, learn what other people apart from yourself do, what kind of place it is, out there, on your city.

If you are so into this adventure stuff, there are other possibilities. Go jogging, off road could be nice option too, go rafting, surfing. Or if you are into action, there is bungee jumping, being a golf ball stationer. You can invent it yourself, and these are always fun when you do with your friends. Just quit, and see the beautiful world that god has created for us, see it and use it as we are supposed to.

Samantha White is developing shooting games for games online since 2001.

Most of us surely already have realized that online games are generally what gets people addicted way more often than classical single player games, no matter how cool their story or graphics or playability are. People tend not to play single player games for endless hours, since after some time, artificial intelligence possibilities run out and start repeating themselves, apropous, it eventually results boredom. Or even, in most single player games, there is an aim that you need to do in order to finish the game. You succeed in that endeavor and you finish the game.

Although single player games have started to contain different endings depending on how you reach that goal or which goal you reach, still, as time recedes, and the player keeps playing it, discovering every opportunity every possibility and every course of action, it runs out. Anybody who have played an online game probably have savied that their aim is to depend each player’s goal onto another player so as long as there are different players playing the game people would have different goals. Furthermore, as people that are playing the game changes or increases in quantity, the goals of players, depending on the players that are present also changes and varies endlessly. And what these ever changing goals of players that depend on other players might be? Of course, in general it is to best one another in any part of the game, giving it some appetite as life itself but in way more entertaining scale and environment and events. This, some people considers to be a loser’s job, as they want to win in something imaginary as they loose in something that is real, also known as life itself. But why take this in such discriminative way? People might just be adoring the environment or conditions that the life designed in game offers, maybe they are dreamers, maybe adventurers maybe explorers? We all know that these kind of exotic passions of humanity is at brink of extinction. All the world is explored, shared, a government and law system established so there left little means for people with that kind of ambitions. So, they prefer playing those online games and feeling inside their characters, and it is actually way more effective to do so for online games because there are actually human players around that you usually interact with, which means not artificial intelligence but natural intelligence, right what we see in real world. So, one can try chasing adventures in the game, doing quests, even creating their own quests and doing that all together with also socialisation going on, which deprives them of any boredom, grants relax. So, in online games there are people who count on you to be there when they need something in the game because in most cases, points in it are made to be reached with multiple players rather than one. So, it can be a reason for you to feel obligated to the game because you have in-game friends which count on you. Or maybe, you want to satisfy your ego through besting other players in the game, that can make you feel better from time to time. Or maybe it is easier for you to socialize through the game instead of in real life because of the anonymousity, freedom. Or maybe it can be something that is way different than these but at the end Online games are addictive because they are like real life itself with different concept. And you may love a change, you may love thinking of something else than government taxes or homework or office actions, something that’d relax your mind and make you feel free, feel better.

Therefore, there are over a hundred million people online, that play online games as their weekly routine. Maybe that is supposed to prove that online games are actually addictive in some cases or some people.

Samantha White is developing puzzle games for free games online since 2001.

Most of us play flash games in our free time as something to pass time easily but did any of you really think that this does any good for us or not? Some claim that they are actually nothing more than waste of time which, over time, harms our eyes and numbs our minds. But there are not only disadvantages of these so-called time wasting games!

Since 99 percent of the online flash games are about going and clicking on somewhere in the screen when some certain reflection, sounds, events and such happens, scientific investigations have proved that these actually help us improve our alertness and reflexes along with eye-hand coordination which surely helps you in many things more than just working your hand while watching porn. Something pops up and you have to do your best to click on it to win. Or lets see the other way, a sound comes and you have to act quick to win, which gives reflexes as instance, and an object on the screen is flying hastily from one side towards another and you need to click on it which would surely increase your eye and hand coordination. Although, these are, apart from being quite a fun from time to time are all of the pluses of flash games. It is more advised by psychologists to make your children, if you have any, to play complex and paradox solving games. As they surely would increase more than just these what we counted as benefits of flash games, such as ability to think complex and enlarge short side memory, also ideal calculation rates and maybe languages or even world knowledge.

You may consider these a hard way to earn the benefits however this is more because that you are of course older than your child and in many cases tired way quicker of thinking about things cause you have so a lot more in your mind to think and take care of already, but your child would certainly love them! And this would actually be learning from hobbies and improving your mental skills, also expanding imagination. As it is said, horns must be past the ear, your child must be ahead of you for this civilization of humankind to keep improving.

Samantha White is developing racing games for online games since 2001.