Avalon Hill's first release after long absence is a severely underrated and undersold game.
Kingmaker is a wonderful PC conversion of an AH board game. Choose to be either Lancaster or York in the famed "War of the Roses" in medieval England. The goal: have your faction secure a royal heir, get him (or her) crowned King (Queen Regent), and then keep him (her) alive whilst you exterminate all the other royal pretenders.
Solid AI, original premise (you can "assign" lots of titles to your vassals, and abduct several heirs apparent), and excellent music despite simplistic battle interface.
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Got it running fine but the manual says arrow keys could be used to scroll the tactical map but it doesnt seem to work?
Works but don´t understand anything in the game
I actually just found this existed when looking up something on Pathfinder: Kingmaker, and from what I read on Wikipedia about the board game itself, and learning this was made based on the board game, I definitely have to try it. Avalon Hill did some amazing computer takes on pretty sophisticated board games I never did get a chance to play.
likes to lock up. https://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2007/06/solutions-to-kingmaker-leadership-test.html for castle pics.
too bad the castle pictures in the manual are worthless. cant play without them.
Cant get past the copy protect
The browser link seems to be down. If that's what you're after, you can play it in a browser over on Internet Archive.
Highly enjoyable. The graphics aren't the best but the game play is fun. I love the random events that happen, making for a different game everytime you play.
Create your game folder
move contents of disc 1 to game folder
move espeech.lzh from disc 2 to game folder
move evoice.lzh from disc 3 to game folder
move contents of king-crk disc to game folder
overwrite any files it asks to
at dos prompt type command 'lha e king' to extract files
then in game folder dos prompt type 'lha e espeech' to extract
then in game folder dos prompt type 'lha e evoice' to extract
then in game folder dos prompt type 'crack.com' to crack
then to run game use command 'king'
want on cd only, no more of this download stuff that isnt there later
it is saying need disk1 help
it is not working with boxer here
It is starting and importing but i cannot play.
it always goes back to the exe
I think this is one of the great underrated board games of all time; comprising as it does of treachery, compromise and the ability to always come back from the almost dead.
looking forward to meeting an old lost friend
Thanks to this game i knew what "The War Of The Roses" was about. not from the game of course, but it made me to search through the books ;-) Nice Game
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