This game was freaking EPIC! Nothing compares to the fun I had playing this game.

I found this weird tactic that consists of producing massive amounts of cattle and then sending it them off as gifts to your enemies hundreds at a time. Eventually, all their fields become saturated with cows and become barren and then they either have to starve to death or put laborers on the fields. Either way it limits the amount of peasants available for the army.

Intro is still amazing. Still amazing after close to 20 years.

Still playing this game 23 years after it came out! It's so much fun.

I played this game religiously when I was a kid in the late 90s to early 2000s. I loved it even though I sucked at playing it lol. I've been searching for this game for literal years now and always came up short because I couldn't remember the name of it. You have no idea the satisfaction I feel now that I know the name of this game. Even hearing the music takes me back to my 10-13 year old self playing this game. I can't wait to buy this game on Steam later today and play it. You have earned a sub from me simply for bringing back my sense of nostalgia.

The people are wretched my lord

I loved this game when I was in school. I remember always beating the first map by rushing and buying knights armor from the starting merchant and marching to the first castle. If you battered down the gate you could beat the defenders to the flag with knights for the easy win

I want to see the game played like you're supposed to, not a speed run. It's kinda boring just watching you min/max, skipping all the notifications and battles.

This game was the first strategy game I ever played (on an ancient gateway pc) and it was released the year I was born. It’s clunky and outdated but brings back so much nostalgia watching you play esp. hearing that soundtrack. Thanks for making this video

The intro cinematic is so much better than the roughly contemporary one in Age of Empires. Also probably the first time I heard that commonly used scream sound effect (the "eyaah! eyaaauuh!"). The game was too complicated for my little kid brain, but I spent many hours trying back in the day. I remember randomly finding this game at Target one day.

such an underrated classic. the best combination of rts and turn-based 4x

I realize this is an older video, but this LITERALLY hit me over the head with a bag of brick-shaped nostalgia. I played this game as a child and now seeing any sort of Empire/Kingdom-style management game coming out is making me miss it SO BADLY.

best strategy game ever made period

"This is what is the problem with this game!" I beg to disagree strongly. It makes watching this hilarious xD

Oh god, this music is going to be stuck in my head for a while!!

I remember buying this game at Toys r Us when I was 10. I read the entire manual.

Recently rediscovered this game on steam! I used to play when I was 10 or so. Came for some sweet tips. Thanks!

the micromanagement is the cool part of this game. each turn you have extra workers to use, and you can always get a +1 or more by using them carefully

I remember playing this in high school (I’m 42) and thinking I beat it. Then it said, “Time to fight the Crusades!” And the map doubled in size again. That’s when I quit. Still fun, though! My trick was to attack castles with a bunch of mounted knights.

“Castle building off. Castle building on.”

Nostalgia hits the fan

I remember my father playing this in 2005-2008 when I was like 6 and this game brings so much nostalgic menories

I remember the expansion introduced the concept of terror to the AI. If you beat their attempts at conquest by destroying their main army (which they would build every half dozen to 10 seasons) then they would make an army of 50 peasants and just burn all of your fields. Meant you needed to keep a defence or picket army of peasant crushers, something cheap like macemen or pikemen with archers to mop up those terror attacks. Not too hard on small maps with small borders that funnel entry to one or two entrances; but when you have big maps, wide borders and several AI opponents always trying to poke; one group would always get through every so often. It would set you back YEARS having to plow 2 or 3 fields... especially if they got you JUST before harvest and you lost all of your grain.

This was a great game, was harder as a child but playing thru it now, in my mid 30's with my wife, I fare much better. We finally figured out how to reliably use cows as the main source of food for all cities (requires turn by turn adjusting the number eaten,birthed, sold etc) and were happily playing thru the campaign. We actually were able to consistently get extremely high population in our counties and had many massive armies running around the countryside in some maps. The last map we played, we 'long played' it so long, that we ended up crashing the game due to too many units, and we kinda stopped playing after that point. I am sure we will revisit it again someday in a couple more years. GOD I loved this game (my little brother did too, he still asks me about it to this day), and I love my wife who sits with me for hours on end, playing these old PC games I grew up with... (We are currently 36 hours into a Civilization 1 match were playing, someday I'll stop being lazy and record some of our gaming sessions for upload!)

Oh the nostalgia, I only played.Lotr 2. I played in multiplayer too. This games was fun.

I used to play this game when I was like 8-9 years old on my grandmas computer. Was awesome.

The strategy for this map is hilarious to me - ham on wood/bows, then when you can't feed them anymore, conscript the entire population and jack up taxes to infinity to add insult to injury. The concept is so silly I can't stop chuckling.

This game was such an addiction! Too epic for its time

I enjoyed this game alot. I tended to stay away from peasants in the army as they died way too fast in battle. I remember one battle where I funnelled an enemy army through a choke point and wiped it out with just archers. Never lost a single man in that one.

Amazing game. U gotta always turn on advanced farming and grow wheat.....cows need too many peasants.

This is another one of those games I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT until I happened to see it when searching for something else! I used to absolutely love this game, logged many an hour having tons of fun.

Actually this game has a lot of depth because it is mostly balanced and there's a lot of different ways you have to play with different kinds of armies and resources. I just got back into it and am doing the expansion campaign and what I find is how differently I have to manage things being spawned in an area without forests and there being nothing to easily conquer around me. I had to rely on mercenaries and merchants to get the wood I needed. Because I had iron I built tons of units I typically don't like to build like swords and knights. This game is also one you can play slowly or play fast because there's a benefit to econ and just letting the other nobles fight each other while you get your castles built and your tax base up. Yes it's a lot to micromanage and the automatic management doesn't do a great job, but it's also kind of fun because you have to prioritize.

Played this a bunch from the PC gamer demo disc - sometime in 1996 I believe Couldn’t afford to buy it but I enjoyed it a lot PC gaming got really exciting in the 90s - lots of interesting games coming out and the graphics were so much better than consoles

So happy I found this. Thanks!!

I still play this game, I wish I had my original copy that worked in it's entirety.

The trick: Sell off all your cows and other resources and buy max wheat from merchant, convert as many fields to wheat and gradually serf broken fields. Max out wood production and mass archers and then utilize macemen. Also purchase mercenaries when they come. You can eventually abuse taxes when your happiness gets 100 by feeding them extra and buying ale from the merchant.

This game was ahead of it's time for sure. Extremely difficult as well

Your such a game snob.... Why cant you just enjoy that classic as it was. I remember spending hours days years playing this one game. And i loved every bit of it. Not once wished for auto play anything.

I waited for the market guy every trip. Lol

Love this game to death. I usually have a more laid-back approach: I like to calmly conquer all. I don't know if my strategy works on expert, as I don't think I ever played that difficulty: I usually go full wheat as well, but then I invest entirely on iron+wood for a full knight army, and stone for a castle fully filled with archers. This allows me to never do the battles manually, since I'm not a big fan of them**. 1500 knight army and 600 archer castle are almost unbeatable by the AIs. Then I just conquer, build new castle, repeat. :) **(I find the battles cool, actually, but the AI has some problems that annoy me.)

"skip skip skip autobattle autobattle autobattle"

Most let's players try to have such energetic intro videos, but you keep it very simple and to the point. It's nice. Thank you for not being like J2; we don't need to know what your name is EVERY video.

YES! The game I've actually been waiting for....

wow old vid series but loving it. will watch the newer stuff when im done with this series. glad to see you still post vids.

My first game :) how fast time flies

Ah Crhis. Ever thought of doing a Lords of Magic let's play? I think that would be pretty cool. Your vids are cool, btw. I always learn a lot from it.

Best Thanksgiving gift ever...thanks man :D

The battle music is really powerful.

I found out a trick by accident. I had like 9 counties or so, and I would put the taxes to the maximum to all of them. One turn, the heart was going to 0 for everyone, the next turn, boom, up to 100! I was getting tons of money with it!

Because I'm colorblind I can't see red at all so I always go with the middle shield (grey)

"Slaughter these villagers, My Lord??" 👍 👎

Apart from the gameplay, the music on this one is done so right

46:27 - the same people you whose earth you scorched by conscripting all available men to suicide against a fort, then taxed into oblivion, forcing a revolution, beg you to come rule them.

I remember I always knew the places on sieges where I could hit them and not be hit:P

Man, stop playing the games that I used to play!!!:D

Wow you really treat your peasants like shit sometimes LOL! I always tried to avoid my counties revolting away from me.

The Best Defense for Castle is Pikeman and Archers and also for Conservative formation is to line a Phalanx with Pikeman behind have the archers, and have some Mace Men on Corners or to be your flank force to either make a final blow or capture or move faster than a Pikeman and also is cost effective. Cheap cost defense is Peasants lined up and have archers behind them.. Full Blitzkrieg offense is Knights and Macemen....The Swordmen are moderate in Speed and moderate Defense for a fortunate pricey Army, but costly Military budget.

Stil here in 2024❤

Awesome video bro, damn right 6 or 7 counties is a pain in the ass. Constant management.

27:05 you say there are no hotkeys. There are keybindings though, you can bind your units to the numbers 0-9

beautiful memories

'Oh my God, they walked through and violated Klkenny ! ' 'You B'stard's !' Ye Olde South Park

Ah man I still have this game at home, not played it in years as my last pc wouldn't install it properly. I've got Windows 10 now so may try again. Spent many many hours having fun with this game.

You're not playing with advanced farming on? So easy mode... Lame...

POV: You are watching this in 2023 for nostalgia

I played the game so long I finished in the year 1996.

Game of my children

I found your channel on Grimithr's sidebar. I'm glad I did. Thanks for the videos.

Question: if I have army foraging on and their starving in enemy territory, do they lose happiness? In other words, is their any way to smoke these guys out without attacking their castles?

I'd make a knight to shoot in there and grab the flag

I play this game sometimes for the nostalgia 😅

i played this with a friend once we built up all big and took out the other lords together then i took all my peasants and made huge peasant armies declared war on him and rushed him with a dozen stacked armies... he was so scared...then he realized it was just 20k peasants lol

35:00 "Munster...this must be in Germany" bruh that map is Ireland I'm dying rn

For the plague all you had to do was lower taxes to zero and food to triple for one turn, plague gone.

Doesn't even show what difficulty it's on. What's so expert about this, now?

a few knights can take down some castles easy. they run to the flag fast for 2 to no casualties. only need 1-2 units of knights.

Only person I know who calls the color Gold... Banana.

LOL... This game isn't Hard. This game is Time Consuming in certain cases. Someone playing, recording and uploading a game is complaining about Time. 7 hours of game play not to mention upload time.

I own it on disk from way back in 1996 when I got married. But just got it (december 2020) on steam as well. I like it a lot

WOW lol obviously nowhere NEAR expert, this was about how well I played when I 1st got the game.

Expert playthrough?

BTW if you ever looked at the leaderboard, my dads username was “The Black Knight” and he was in the top 3.

Red or ... m.... banana? Did you forget about the word yellow lol

This was the first game I ever played "online"! using modem call @ 33.6k lol!!!! Starcraft and Battlenet was #2

I was about to move the cursor to the side then I realized that it wasnt my mouse.

Good game!!!

4:00 - Question: Did you ever watch Battle Bots? I recognize that name "Vlad the Impaler" as one of the bots that actually really kicked serious butt in those competitions back in San Francisco, CA.

I was searching for an old strategy game where there were three ways to gain power: religion, economy and politics but I forgot the name and only remember very little. So I googled and the wikipedia article of this game came up. Even though I played the Lords of the Realm 3 I'm pretty sure that this isn't it. If anyone else knows what I'm talking about, let me know.

3rd map is impossible. Everyone just gangs up on you and you run out of people and / or resourses

your ppl are starving my lord. chris, with a casual tone, “yea... well, that happens.” lolololol 😂😂😂

The way you mismanaged the counties is driving me crazy.

Looks like spiritual grandfather of Total War :)

Malthusian crunch is the term u were searching for😅

I still play this, when i get sick of civ2, hearts of iron 3, dayz, triple A, fox hole and battlefield 1942 i usually play this through once then get back to the other games i mentioned

Wheat is OP if not playing with advanced farming on

the thing that got under my skin about this game is what you mentioned, the auto-battle system is wonky in that it seems to make archers op when you auto-battle. the knights are really good if you play the battles.

What a game this was!!!

I've been trying to record this with OBS but the mouse cursor is misaligned in the game while recording, did you experience this as well? Any idea how to fix it without your huge work around?

Ahhhh Lords of The realm, total war got nothing on you!

You can use a lot less food if you pick triple ration and move it towards dairy until it just barely allows normal.