Right, so we are here to assist Chauncey in fighting the EVIL HORDE! and making the kingdom grow in various places around the world.
It's hard to say what Horde is specifically but it's something of an economic strategy combined with an action game, you'll see for yourself anyway.
Prepare for an EPIC adventure!
Each mission starts with something similar to a briefing, telling you where you are going
The Chancellor is an arsehole that will do anything to see us phail miserably, but he's a well-done cliche Vizier type of guy. His voice acting is also good for the role.
So, here we are, the Shimto Plains.
Not a real damn lot to start with, but it'll have to do for now.
We'll begin by planting a few trees, it takes only 1 gold piece for a sapling, and when they grow you can cut them down for 5 gold. Not that much of a spectacular income, but it helps
After that, a few traps.
And since we don't really have anything other to do right now, we end the season and call THE HORDE!
A simple task - kill off 5 hordlings before they destroy all buildings, eat all your crops and townspeople or kill you.
The first hordlings (of which I forgot to take a screen here) are relatively easy - they die in one hit and are stupid enough to walk into traps or drown if they stay underwater for too long.
Victory! And without any losses too. So far so good.
Spring's behind, time for summer. The 'save 20 crowns' objective is vital, 'cause if you don't pay taxes after an end of a year, you lose. Plain and simple.
Our town got a little bigger, but it's still a shithole. Cut down a few trees, planted a few new ones. Nothing left to do - call in the horde!
See the busted building in the upper right corner, and a hordling standing in the centre of the ruin massaging his belly with delight? Yup, that means we've just lost a farmer, because Chauncey is a fat cock and didn't get there in time to save him.
Four crops and one guy. Well, that's not bad either, we still get steady income, so it doesn't matter really.
Sometimes between seasons you get these random messages. They seem like just a random comic relief, but in reality they give you information about stuff that might happen. In this case, a drought, which means we'll be getting a lot of patches with rocks in the future and less crops, which is not good.
Anyway, back to base
Cows indeed are a good investment, each one produces 20-25 (forgot the exact amount) gold at an end of a seaon, but they also cost 100 gold, which is more than we can currently spend.
And here we have the dreaded rock patches. Crops can't grow on them, trees can't grow on them, cows can't forage on them and you can't plant any traps/fences/hirelings on them, and they are a bitch to remove (some need only one hit with the shovel (10 gold), but some won't go off even after 5 hits).
We should save some cash for a cow, so I didn't buy anything this round
This went well alright. Two of the stupid hordlings drowned in the nearby river. Idiots.
Captain Obvious Tip to the rescue
Here's another shot of the map for our humble village. Bigger than in spring, eh?
Btw spring, notice the snowflake next to the 'inventory' screen - it means the year is at an end and we'll have to pay the greedy jews their friggin taxes, so we'll better save 20 gold, right?
Fuck that! Let's buy a cow and go bankrupt!
Aaaaaand, the last horde attack this year
MAN DOWN. But only one, fortunately
Great...
Oh yeah? I see those sidelocks you're hiding under the balding toupee, faggot
After that we're sent to The Shoppe where we can buy additional equipment or sell it for half the price if we are not happy about it and save the game.
Here's our current equipment:
We're so out of cash that I can't even buy the cheapest thing which costs 50 gold...
Oh well,
Stay tuned for another blood-boiling, collar grabbing episode of THE HORDE AT THE SHIMTO PLAINS D: ! D: !!!!!!!!!
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