Gone are the traveling merchants, the resources, the peasants, replaced by vassals. The only thing you have to worry about in province management is what kind of a leader you want to assign to each piece of the province. Whoever controls the central piece controls the whole province, but enemy troops can attack the individual pieces and weaken your province. A province is now composed of several smaller pieces. The province system has been dumbed down considerably. Itâ€™s an odd approach that presents some tough choices. If you fight multiple battles simultaneously, youâ€™ll have to either pick which one to manage, or hop back and forth between them. This means the entire game runs at one speed on all levels, whether youâ€™re waiting for a castle to be built or charging archers with your cavalry. But itâ€™s also worth noting that Lords of the Realm III took a much more simplified approach that made it, in the end, less appealing and less innovative than the Total War series.ĭeveloper Impressions has thrown out the turn-based strategy in favor of real-time, even at the strategic level. When the original Shogun was but a twinkle in developer Creative Assemblyâ€™s eye, Lords of the Realm was already doing the hybrid of turn-based strategy and real time battles.

Although Lords of the Realm III might invite comparison to the Total War series of games, perhaps itâ€™s worth noting who was there first.

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