King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame

It is a very nice game with some unique elements, but it is only enjoyable for 20 or 30 play throughs. There is not enough variety to keep my interest after that. Modding tools would help provide more variety. There is a lot that could be done with the game. The whole of England and even into Scotland and Ireland could provide more opportunities for variety. Also, Viking (Danish) raids as well as Irish raids. The Picts in Scotland were very fierce and have a mystical aura about them; this could be exploited to add more variety and excitement.

England could be completely conquered by the Danes and the ancestors of Arthur and the old knights (or the spirit of Arthur and the old knights) or the Saxons could reorganized the round table and create their own legacy of chivalry to drive out the Danes. Similarly, the Normand conquest could be handled in much the same vein originating in Wales with changing alliances with the displaced Anglo-Saxon peerage.

As time moves on, magic starts to die out to be replaced by diplomacy, intrigue, alliances and betrayals. Quests, creatures, spirit would could still be incorporated into the more modern political arena. A world without magic and the unknown would indeed be boring.

Completely unplayable in current version on Steam without extensive troubleshooting that Steam provides absolutely no support or guides for. I spent over an hour trying to get this running and could not get it to work.
I absolutely cannot recommend purchasing this from Steam given how absurdly little they seem to care about supporting older releases. They'll sure take your money for it though!

Shame to give this game a negative review, as its otherwise a solid 8/10. But frequent, basically unfixable, crashing on modern systems has left this older title basically unplayable. Supposedly the GOG version is more stable, but that has sadly never come over to Steam. Valve ought to make it a priority to either fix or remove from the store games that don't work.

What this game is, though, is Warhammer: Total War-Bretonnia edition. You play as King Arthur in a Total War style campaign pitting you against your fellow Englishmen, Romans, and a whole host of monsters and baddies from English lore. Like in any classic Total War game you manage settlements and armies on the main strategy map, as well as event & decision chains which is where the 'roleplaying' aspect comes in. In battles, you control your force, wield powerful magics, try not to get blasted by the games very powerful archers, and fight your way to victory. The game nails the feel of a TW campaign, and the inclusion of both strong story elements, powerful monsters & characters, plus magic gave the game a very unique feel vs. Medieval or Napoleon, which were contemporaries of this game. One wonders if when WH1 was in development if CA took a hard look at this game, because I see a lot of that game's DNA in this.

Beyond technical issues, though, the game always sort of lacked something. Battles were small, units are often below 50 entities. Archers are OP, so much so that there is an option in the menu to nerf them! And magics seemed to either be nukes, or do nothing, and so also never quite felt right. And of course, the whole game lacked the polish that WH1 and sequels have. It was good-but-not-great looking even at the time, and a lot has aged badly since then. But past that, this game was a winner back in the day and could be again today. IF you can get it running. I have had to give this a thumbs down simply because in my most recent play attempts I crashed repeatedly crossing the ford in the tutorial. Apparently a common problem area. The 4gb patch and the alternate launcher and EXE all have failed to resolve my troubles, so here we are. Another classic game on Steam, still up for sale, no longer working on modern systems.

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Very Beautiful Game

Think purchasing this I was expecting something like heroes of might and magic but its more like crusader kings I think.

Honestly all a bit dry and bloated.

Does work on steam deck though "cutscenes" are completely broken. Skip them and you can play fine.

Deece

In the age before Total War Warhammer, the gamers yearning for a Total War like game but Fantasy.

Their cry had been answered by... King Arthur - The Role-Playing Wargame. Despite all the Janks that one could expected from a European game. It did a good job of what it set out to do.

Amazing game that needs a remaster. Impossible to play on modern systems

I haven't bought any DLCs because I get alot of Runtime error crashes during battles. The battle portion part of the game is what attracted me to this title. This game isn't playable in it's current state.

I only paid $4 or $5. I'll sit on it and see how it goes. Apparently the GoG version runs fine (Steam interface code?) Anyway What I did see of the game I loved. This is a shame and bad for the people!

You get what you pay for... This was dirt cheap.

Edit: Bought both this, Incl. all DLC and #2 + Dead Legions on another provider for $12 and change.. It runs fine for me. Huge price Discrepancy.

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No idea how good this game is as it crashed after the first battle with the C++ runtime error that can't be fixed on the steam version as steam refuses to fix the issue.
Another issue was the screen resolution. To get it to work I had to change my system resolution to 1280x720 for the game screen to show correctly.

DO NOT BUY. The game's unplayable on modern hardware and Windows 10/11. During the tutorial battle it hangs for me, I have an AMD GPU, that apparently also causes problems. This is criminal and the developers should be forced to either patch the game or remove it from Steam entirely, possibly refunding anyone who was only able to play the game for 5 minutes like I did before it hanged and then hanged again on further tries.