In practice, they do try and work in support of one another, but are mostly overwhelmed by the circumstances they find themselves. And, abstractly, all try and work in support of one another. So, for example, you could have a unit with spearmen in front, archers behind and a couple of healers at the back. While recruited in units, you're able to dictate each group's composition in detail, selecting the main body, the side-ranks and the support troops. It's less successful in stopping the formation of giant rucks. This gives a real edge to defenders and simultaneously, especially with an experience system on troops, encourages a defender to retreat and heal up rather than press on to the point of annihilation. As long as they're in the vicinity, any unit of troops will have their injured healed and the empty spots in their ranks replenished. However, this also curtails against rush-play by any settlement having a zone of aid to friendly troops around them and built-in militia to act as a basic defence.

Since the shiny yellow metal is the master one in the system, using it up unnecessarily hugely impacts on the player's power). Maps are dotted with places to make new ones, encouraging you to head out and claim them, with further expansionist urges excited by its detailed economy which demands a level of resources (A shortfall of one is made up automatically in Gold. It does this by setting in action a far more stringent unit-limit than the majority of RTS, with units of troops rather than individuals being recruited, and the unit-limit only inching upwards by expanding your cities and - more noticeably - creating new settlements. Kohan II, positioned somewhere on the axis between Warcraft and Age of Empires, is most interesting when it tries to push the RTS away from rewarding over-defensive hedgehog-style players, while simultaneously slapping the wrists of those who go for the simple rush, stopping off along the way to create a greater sense of order to the scrum-like RTS play field. Having played it considerably before Rome and Dawn of War, I return to find myself relatively underwhelmed and fully aware that I'm unlikely to tarry in its pseudo-Tolkeinesque realm once I've finished this review, preferring to scuttle back to either the epic grandeur of grinding mother-Rome beneath my sandal or the dumb-kicks of raising a Bloodthirster and looking for trouble on the wrong side of the streets in a gothic far future. And it's not even as if it doesn't innovate - Kohan II's designers have approached the problems the RTS faces and methodically worked out elegant, and mostly successful, solutions.Д«ut still, as much as it's a serious and worthwhile game, Kohan II lacks. It has a sense of intricate design that places it in the gaming school that stretches back to where Civ was first injected into the genre in Age of Empires - that is, showing the maths behind the conflict very clearly, which tends to make the better players the sort of people who can resolve an equation most efficiently. If you can see past the PC-standard meaningless subtitle and extraneous punctuation, Kohan II: Kings of War is a real-time strategy player's real-time strategy game. It's no great change - in its previous iterations Kohan received strategy game of the year awards a plenty over there while over here it got. So while Kohan II's imminent arrival has been causing outbreaks of disco-boogie in the colonies, in the heart of Empire we're very much still much playing wall-flower at this fantasy RTS party. When bobbing merrily along as a digital castaway on the gaming info-Sargasso it's possible to forget that flesh-space concerns as 'nationality' still exist, but it doesn't make them any less real. Now here's an interesting example of the cross-Atlantic divide.

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