Prepare your War Plans for Online Battle in ‘Reign of Swords’

Good strategy games have been few and far between, the most notable being Galcon, but if Galcon’s fast paced gameplay wasn’t appealing, you may be interested in Reign of Swords by Punch Entertainment.

Released just yesterday, Reign of Swords is the first in-depth turn based strategy game for the iPhone. The graphics are extremely simplistic, but don’t let this fool you, this is the most comprehensive strategy game on the iPhone to date.

There is a large selection of units to choose from and each unit is distinct by either attributes and/or skills. For example, besides a unit’s normal attack some units have special moves such as Calvary, which can easily charge through foot soldiers. But with all great attacks there should be a counter, and in fact there is. If you create a line formation of pikemen shoulder-to-shoulder you get an added bonus damage if Calvary charge into your pikemen.

The game also has online play, accessible once you’ve finished the tutorials, I haven’t had much time with the online play myself so I can’t really comment on how it works or how well it plays.

Just a warning, this game is definitely not for people that want a short and quick strategy game, if you want that go with Galcon. Reign of Swords is for strategy game fans that enjoy long drawn out battles with a wide variety of tactical options available to them.

Reign of Swords (App Store) is currently on sale for $7.99, once the sale ends the price will be $9.99.

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