Reign of Swords by US/Asian game developer Punch Entertainment is a complex turn-based strategy battle game with multiplayer functionality. Reign of Swords is similar to a tabletop war game with its extensive rules and figures. The context is a medieval civil war with European-looking backgrounds, in which the player is an imperial loyalist fighting rebel nobles. The different boards have different terrains of fields, forests, rivers, castles etc., allowing for refined strategies for offense and defense. The design of the different levels or missions is exceptional, creating increasing difficulty as the player’s experience builds.
While the online multiplayer functionality is great in the first place, the game here is very different. Each player sets up their army and deploys units into battle groups with basic orders. Then the multiplayer takes over, making it possible to deal with dropped connections. This is fun to play as well but the tactical aspect of the game gets lost in comparison to the single-player version.
The only real drawback to Reign of Swords is its performance on the iPhone. The touch screen does not work too well when navigating around maps and repeated touches are often needed. Still Reign of Swords is a great game and anyone who likes strategy games or military simulations will enjoy Reign of Swords immensely.
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October 1st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Can you go wrong with this game? In a word – No! This game has the best graphics, the most engaging and deep game play of any game on the iPhone. Get it today!
October 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Great Game. Recommend it
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
An online game you play over the phone? Isn’t that incredibly expensive? Doesn’t it suck up talk minutes like a black hole gobbling up dark nebulas? I can see why a service provider would want people to play such, but why would the people want to play? I’m curious, as I have not gotten my iphone yet, but will soon.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Erin: It doesn’t actually suck up your minutes, it uses the internet which is part of the unlimited data plan. So users playing this game would only have to purchase the game itself.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Thank God for that plan otherwise it would be pretty costly!
October 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Very addictive game. Purely combat, no resource management. Wide variety of unit types, and upgrades. Point based deployment in online battles allows wide variety of strategies. AI controls battle in online 2 player combat with general strategies being created before-hand. Overhead view. Very happy I bought it, would have paid more. Been playing RPGs since Wizardry around 1985 so I’ve seen many, and this is one of the really good ones. Highly recommended if you like turn based RPGs.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
i just recently got this game, and erin, your quite stupid if you think applications take up minutes on a phone, its an add on, i play reign of swords on my ipod touch, how would it suck minutes then?
and besides. reign of swords is one application i play almost every day, i have wireless at home, so if im home i just check my online battles. also if anyone has strat to beat the 3rd lvl on aguilleon id appreciate it. i cant beat it lol.
the name on reign is Asperatis aquitani add me for battles
March 6th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I just beat the last level at aguilleon, but i can’t tell if there’s anything beyond that – maybe the game hasn’t updated itself. anyway, my strategy for beating it was as many charging units as you can get (griffin best, but need hero for protection). i also bought a cannon and two trebuchets cuz the carrone legion blows (they don’t shoot more than once at the cannons/musketeers/other ranged attacks). 2 priests to heal the griffins cycling over the east/west to kill the ranged attackers. don’t get tempted to put griffins into the houses on the sides – footmen and ranged attacks will slaughter them. clear the back to allow for the 16 swordsmen over the first two turns, and if you still have points, get some horsebowmen. took me about 5 tries. Don’t waste your swordsmen on the great swordsmen and pikemen in the middle. at that point, your griffins should have done enough damage on the side ranged attackers that you can line up and charge with your griffins and hero. use some of the swordsmen just to keep them in line though and as protection for the chargers.
March 15th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
It’s better if you have about three Heros in the front to charge and damage the pikeman and hero near the castle gate, and have about 2 priests to protect from cannon and musketeers,2 shamans to enerzize them and few lots of rangers and other troops. Make sure you raid the castle first killing anyone and shoot the ones near the gate. Your Heros will die and troops as well but entering the castle will make it easier to sweep those musketeers and cannon easier and get major victory. Yes is there any territory after this? Should be according to map but can’t get into other territory or we need boat
April 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I’m stuck on the first level of aguilleon. I’ve tried it at least 20 times using all sorts of different varieties of troops but I just can’t seem to beat it. With swords and knights I managed to kill everything except for a few griffens, but I’m finding that by the time I get rid of the cannons I’m almost dead or am dead. (I’ve also tried druids and griffens to avoid the cannons and almost won, but nothing is working completely.)
May 15th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Yeah, ive tried the first level at least over four thousand times, using EVERY stragedy known to man,b ut I cant beat it.
Ive looked up walkthroughs, but here is none. Please help!
May 15th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
hey i beat it a while ago… use 2 or 3 priests, as many cannons as you can, then pikes and halberds – pike walls will weaken griffens and halberds will finish them. constantly use the priests to heal your cannons and others if the are at full health. stuck on the 2nd level now haha
May 24th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
for the first aguilleonlevel just spend all your money on infantry, make them all swordsmen and halberdiers and then one priest. after that surround the carrone legion and protect it until almost all of the guardians inside the gate are destroyed and the griffons stop coming. use your priest to do the retribution prayer the whole time. it should be easy after that.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:30 am
I found it impossible to go through the last level at aguilleon. Every time I charged to the main gate, those greatswords man stuck in front of the gate while those ranged units on both sides slaughtered me. Any one have any idea about this?(I’ve tried druids before, no use).
June 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
the best way to beat aguillen lvl 3 is to fill the back two rows with druids, and take out flank half of them left and the other half right, and then the rest doesnt really matter… so easy to beat with druids…
July 13th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Hunewold 2 is destroying me. I try using wizards shamans preists and militiamen and foot soldiers all together and maybe a Druid. I have tried tons of times. I can’t get it to work. Heeeeeeeeeelp!
August 4th, 2009 at 10:30 am
dudess the first lvl is sooo easy i have dun all but todays norway and the finland or sumin like that but i is stuck on number 1 norway so pls heeeeeeeelppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 6th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
on hunewold 2 use archers and muskets then put malitia men and swords on the wall defend the fortress until u have killed there shamans and druids then circle around there troops and kill the rest of there soldiers
August 12th, 2009 at 9:10 am
On aguillion 3 I was so close until my Druids died. I used 4 Druids
August 18th, 2009 at 10:00 am
please could someone tell me how to get onto the the other countries after aguillion have completed the game so far but the other countries arent there. do they exist? and if they do how do i get on to them? or do you have to have a bigger army or something. please could someone help me
thanks alot
James
b.t.w
everybody seems to be getting stuck on aguillion i admit it is quite hard but the way to do it is to have 4 drudis and 4 griffin riders and 1 hero (well thats how i did it) and if it doesnt work just make small changes in your army dont do any really big changes or your back to square 1
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 am
hey dude stuck on norway im n norway now looooooooooooooooool anyways to beat the third lvl on norway use grtswordsmen and swrdsmn on east and north. use archers aswell aybe a wizard if u got enough points i got down to 10 rangers from tham and four gtswordsmen plus an archer for me i then stuck on houses till health high then attacked and came back etc my archer ended up killin 4 he was good there!!!!!!
add me if u wanna fight my name is above
(empress g barrius)
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
oh and dude the countries u want are in an update
October 18th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Anyone done hunewold lvl 2 ive tried like a gazillion times but thers just to many of them and their rangers keep pickin at u. Useful info or strategy wud be appreciated (: