With rare exceptions, you have no real control over a unit's movement-most of the game’s controls center on buying soldiers, not commanding them. Whenever you send out a combat unit from your base (whether it’s a slow but strong melee unit, an agile ranged unit, or something else entirely), that unit travels in a straight line toward the enemy's base until it encounters resistance. Imagine Age of Empires, flatten it against a cave wall, cut the time of most matches down to 10 minutes or less, and sprinkle in an array of character names that double as puns.Įvery battle in Swords & Soldiers II is a duel between two armies-one on the left side of the map and one on the right. Swords & Soldiers II does away with most of that unit management, boiling the RTS formula down to some of its barest essentials and leaving you with a deceptively simple side-scrolling strategy game. There is always a lot of politics involved, of course, but on a more primal level, there are concerns like unit formation and attack direction to command your attention-elements that most real-time strategy games try to emulate in one way or another when they depict war.
Military skirmishes are never two-dimensional affairs.
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