Mentalepsy: So, since King Arthur is cheap this week at GG, has anyone played it?
Jim at RPS seemed to like it, but mentioned a lot of irritating flaws with combat that put me off. I'm wondering if those issues have been addressed by now.
I have. What Jim did not like about it was the Strategic Locations in combat - capture all of them and you win the battle - and overpowered archers.
With the overpowered archers, that is a common problem in Neocore games, I beat Kings Crusade in no small part because of my archers. You can, however, weaken them through the menu in King Arthur.
As for the victory locations, I do not really have a problem with them. I never really use them. Typically, being the strategy game turtle that I am, I will capture the most defendable of the locations my army can get to and park there, let the enemy capture the rest and advance on me. I do not really see them as a detriment, since they are normally strategically useful locations in any case.
At the price it is on GG, get it. It's the battles from Total War with some nice RPG-lite elements and medieval fantasy stuff thrown in.