Good evening you are listening to ThruMov Head, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.

Join me today, we have 3MA founder, Troy Goodfellow. It has been a very long time since I've been on the show, so I'm much sure if you guys hate me or not, but I'm happy to be back. You've been on vacation, Troy. You don't get to pull that card. There was a month before that that I posted on the show. You guys are just leaving me aside. No, it's been a brother of really, really good shows. So you don't need me at all. But I'm really glad to be here. I'm really glad to be able to talk about a very light and odd game. Yeah, a very, a perfect summer game. Before we get to that, we also welcome back our friend, freelance writer, Fraser Brown. Hello. So, yeah,

today as Troy foreshadowed, we're discussing kingdoms and castles, which is a very lighthearted

city and castle-building game from Lion Shield. And, you know, Troy, when I was telling,

when I was describing this game to one of my friends,

he immediately said, oh, that totally sounds like one of those old Tilted Mill games.

And it got me wondering about sort of the lineages that this game fits into.

And I was wondering, like, can you take us through a little bit of, like, what kingdoms and

castles is and what influences you think it's drawing from?

Kings and Castles is a city builder. It's a traditional city builder with a kind of a tower defense type aspect in that you build a city and in two of the three modes,

your city will be under attack from Vikings or from

ogres or from dragons or whatever. So your city must always have, you know, defense going.

This isn't a game that at its best, I mean, you can play just sandbox with nobody attacking,

but at best, this is a game that is about building a city and defending it. It's a city builder

that uses zones of control.

It doesn't have walkers, really.

It does walkers to an extent.

People have to pick up supplies and drop them in places and locations.

But for the most part, it's a zone of control, especially for the happiness buildings.

They have areas of effect.

There are a few major resources.

There is wood and there's stone and there's iron.

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