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Game Saturday: Knights of War

I think it was Defender of the Crown that got me interested into turn based strategy computer games. It quickly became a passion with releases of excellent games such as Shining Force, Panzer General, Warlords or Heroes of Might and Magic. Knights of War is a free turn based strategy game that combines the premise of Defender of the Crown with the turn based battle system of Heroes of Might and Magic. You start out as an English lord in command of a single English region and a measly Axe Men unit. Your task, become king of course. To do that, you need to get commerce flowing, build structures, armies and do research.

For every region you own, you got one building, recruiting or research action. With only one to start, you are quickly realizing that you cannot do both. You cannot recruit an army, improve your production and income, and at the same time do research for better weapons and technologies. Technologies are researched per region, which means that you may need to research them multiple times if you want them to become available in multiple regions.

It is up to you to make the right decisions. Will you buy a barracks or archery range to recruit better units to conquer surrounding regions as fast as possible? Or will you concentrate on commerce and research, to improve the resources per turn that you get out of your kingdom? It pays to take a region’s bonus into consideration. Some regions can recruit better units while others give advantages to resource generation.

The benefit of having multiple regions is noticeable. You can build additional buildings, divide research among regions and recruit more armies. In addition, you get more income automatically as well. The game makes use of the five resources food, wood, stone, iron and gold. You usually need at least two different resources, most buildings require stone and wood, whereas units require food and gold, and sometimes a third resource.

You can move troops around and attack adjacent regions. It is possible to let the computer compute the outcome of the battle, or move your army manually. You place your troops on the map at the beginning of the battle. Each unit has distinct attack and defense values, movement rates and a range of attack. Depending on the unit type, you can move, move and attack or pass in a turn.

Archers are extremely powerful in the beginning of the game. Once you command many units, that advantage fades, especially with the rise of cavalry units.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials 2 for 64 & 32 Bit Windows ...

Microsoft Security Essentials 2 build 2.0.657 has just been released. It’s second version of Microsoft’s free antivirus tool. You can download Microsoft Security Essentials 2 64 Bit and 32 Bit from the official Microsoft website.

Microsoft Security Essentials was originally a combination of Windows Defender and Windows Live One Care. Windows Defender is the only security program that is included and enabled by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows Live One Care was a Microsoft’s failed attempt at a free/paid all-in-one security program made under the Windows Live platform. Both have since been discontinued, but Windows Defender still does its job pretty well.

These two programs paved the way for the original Microsoft Security Essentials which was announced in late 2008 and released in 2009. Microsoft decided to go with a completely free antivirus program, and it has been one of the best free security programs ever.

If you already have the original MSE installed, check your system try or update tab for the new upgrade.  MSE 2.0 is available for Windows XP SP2+, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

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