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Barbecue? I Hardly Knew her! Swords and Soldiers. $2.50 on Steam! 12/29

HunteraHuntera Rude BoyRegistered User regular
edited December 2010 in Social Entropy++
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Now you might be asking yourself;
What the fuck is this shit?
It's pretty simple, actually, from steam;
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods!
Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities. Demolish your enemy’s castle at the end of these two-dimensional battlefields and lead your troops to victory!

Oh, so it's a strategy game?

Yes! And a fun one at that! With 3 races, each with their own nuances and play-style, the game can get pretty complex, even if it eventually might come down to who can make more units the fastest.

Now, races:

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The Vikings are pretty straight forward, with overall good unit health, and being a little on the slower moving side, they make up for it with some of the best magic spells in the game, the majority of their mana regeneration comes from bought upgrades

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The Chinese are a somewhat in-between race, they have some odd units, like a monkey who throws bombs at people then teleports behind them or a wizard who floats people into the air for about 5 seconds, killing them, and some very useful spells, the majority of their mana regeneration comes from buddha towers that you can place, which while faster at regeneration than the other two teams, means you have no defensive structures to place.

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The Aztecs, the oddest race, they almost never have much health, or do an especially large amount of damage, but they are the fastest moving race in the game, with the exception of their Sun giants. They have an emphasis on poisoning people to do damage over time, and with a necromancer who can summon weak skeleton units out of corpses, you could rarely have to actually make troops at all, the majority of their mana regeneration comes from sacrificing troops, and you get mana back depending on the units level of health.



Game is steam play, it's $5 right now, it's super fun, you won't regret buying it, I promise you.
There's multiplayer between two people, and when you do the single player campaigns, you unlock mini-games that each have leaderboards.

And thanks to Druhim for pointing this game out in the steam thread and asking people to give it a shot.

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    people actually need to play this game

    all three races are really balanced in that one can trump another but IS trumped by another, and yet you can still win if you're playing rock and they're playing paper

    it feels like simply sidescrolling starcraft and it's great

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    okay I'mma play this

    Wow me, T4CT

    YaYa on
  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    this game is very enjoyable

    <3 dru for getting it for me

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Huntera and I played a lot of it last night

    and just probably did 3 or 4 rounds of back and forth

    very much a good time

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Aztecs get annoying as shit later into the game.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So is this multiplayer or what?

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It is, let me edit the OP a bit...

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm so glad there's a thread about this game. I've been trying to tell people about it in the steam thread and it deserves more attention.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    If I buy this and it sucks, I will kill myself and haunt you Dru.

    Hunter on
  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Alright, getting this.

    Wiet on
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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    My friend says that it has up to FOUR player multiplayer, should I deride his ignorance or should I buy the game so I can play with him and his brother.

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It might, me and T4CT have only done 2 player.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    going through the Viking campaign now

    fuck the Aztecs

    Chinese are tough too but they also blow up real good from lightning

    YaYa on
  • pyromaniac221pyromaniac221 this just might be an interestin YTRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Got this during the last steam sale it had.

    beat the campaign. short but fun.

    people on multiplayer seem to either suck horribly or kick my ass with a minimal amount of effort.

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    anyone want to play against me?

    I bet someone does

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    hey! this game!

    it's fun!

    let's play!

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  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    This game is so much fun.

    I AM CAT MAN

    Wiet on
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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    oh dip T4CT, i saw you haven't opened the swords and soldiers i gifted ya, would you wanna regift it to someone else?

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    i totally opened it

    or

    i opened SOMEONE'S gift because I'm playing it

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    hmm, in the manage gifts thingie, it says sent, not redeemed. i'll just leave it

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  • OmegaTofuNinjaOmegaTofuNinja Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    gettin' dis as we speak

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Koshian wrote: »
    Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods!

    man I'm not alone in thinkin this is vaguely racist am I

    I could see the vikings, but I never really considered the aztecs devious or the chinese crafty.

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Koshian wrote: »
    Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods!

    man I'm not alone in thinkin this is vaguely racist am I

    I could see the vikings, but I never really considered the aztecs devious or the chinese crafty.

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  • RaekiRaeki Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    whenever I click purchase for myself I feel like a dick now.

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  • ioloiolo iolo Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Swords and Soldiers is on Steam's one day sale today: $2.50

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    everyone buy it

    then we can play it

    FACT

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  • iamthepiemaniamthepieman Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    This game looks great. is it great? Tell me it's terrible.

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    it's fucking fantastic buy it

    i want to get a bunch of people playing it

    and then league it

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  • ioloiolo iolo Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    T4CT wrote: »
    it's fucking fantastic buy it

    i want to get a bunch of people playing it

    and then league it

    Put the sale price in the thread title.

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    for once this actually isn't my thread

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    man

    i just wrecked a bunch of randoms online

    and feel fucking great

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  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Aztecs are unstoppable once you get your momentum going. Yay necromancers!

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    the aztec campaign is a lot less forgiving than the viking

    i should have expected this!

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I fucked up someone's day yesterday by fast-tech'ing to wizards and just pumping those out

    he was vikings




    i also got my shit WRECKED by another viking who pumped out all his runes of mana early on and would send one guy so he had sight on my gold line and just lightning'd my workers all to death

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  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I got wrecked by an aztec who sent dartblowers at my jaguars and then fast teched to a necromancer. It's hard to counter a skeleton horde as aztec.

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    giants and statues

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  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Yeah, the giant is great for it, but requires some preparation. Atleast I now know for next time!

    Wiet on
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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I am so awful at this game. I also cannot tell if it is really stylized or really racist.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    can't it be both?

    and so what if they're totally stereotyping?

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