About the Game
Become the King and wrestle over control of Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy.
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign includes all the depth players desire while being the gate-way game to the grand strategy genre, presenting the world as a living, breathing miniature, alive and ripe for the taking. Choose your royal court carefully and determine the destiny of your people, be it riches, conquest, intrigue, trade, or defeat! Raise armies to defend your lands or take war to the enemy - even jump into battle directly in action-packed RTS combat. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people.
Choose out of over 100 different military units ranging from English longbowman over fierce Nordic warriors to powerful siege engines and assemble great armies to defend your borders and bring the fight to your enemies.
You or your friends want a fresh new challenge from the normal game experience? No problem: Choose one of several victory conditions like Peasant Rush, War for Goods or First Blood and more! Plus, if you have a limited amount of time, you can control the duration of the match by either time or generations of Sovereigns as well.
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign includes all the depth players desire while being the gate-way game to the grand strategy genre, presenting the world as a living, breathing miniature, alive and ripe for the taking. Choose your royal court carefully and determine the destiny of your people, be it riches, conquest, intrigue, trade, or defeat! Raise armies to defend your lands or take war to the enemy - even jump into battle directly in action-packed RTS combat. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people.
Features
- Accessible Grand Strategy - All the depth of religion, diplomacy, city development, and more, with none of the confusion
- Choose Your Kingdom – Select from over 200 kingdoms across Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia
- Real-Time Gameplay – The Medieval world comes alive, no turns needed
- Royal Court - Appoint Marshalls, Clerics, Merchants, Diplomats, and Spies to exert your will across the land
- RTS Battles - Lead your armies directly in riveting RTS engagements
- Robust Multiplayer - Join with multiple friends to take on new challenges across the medieval world
ASSEMBLE THE ROYAL COURT
In Knights of Honor II: Sovereign, your Royal Court is one of the most important tools at your disposal. Your choice of Knights greatly influences your capabilities and sets the tone for your style of gameplay.- Marshals lead your armies into battles to conquer your enemies and defend your lands
- Diplomats are capable of turning even your greatest enemies into trustworthy friends. Use them to create strong defensive and offensive pacts, negotiate marriages, and make sure that your friends have your back in times of need
- Merchants can not only increase your income by trading with your neighbors, but also import needed goods to bolster your economy or go on a voyage in search for new riches
- Clerics take care of all your kingdom’s spiritual needs and play a vital role when it comes to the population’s education, happiness and culture
- Spies are great If you like a more subtle approach to world domination. The spies offer you plenty of options: bribe enemy knights, instigate rebellions, or provoke war between your neighbors to achieve your goals
FIGHT FOR CONTROL OVER THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Start your campaign with one of 200+ historical kingdoms and expand your territory over 300+ provinces. Build up your economy and produce valuable goods while making sure your lands can support your military.Choose out of over 100 different military units ranging from English longbowman over fierce Nordic warriors to powerful siege engines and assemble great armies to defend your borders and bring the fight to your enemies.
LEAD YOUR ARMIES INTO BATTLE
You don’t trust someone else to make the right tactical decisions? Then lead your men into battle yourself! Knights of Honor II: Sovereign offers exciting real-time strategy field battles and sieges with up to four armies.FIGHT YOUR FRIENDS IN MULTIPLAYER
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign supports multiplayer with up to 6 players and various game modes: Conquer the medieval world together in co-op or fight each other in teams or free-for-all games.You or your friends want a fresh new challenge from the normal game experience? No problem: Choose one of several victory conditions like Peasant Rush, War for Goods or First Blood and more! Plus, if you have a limited amount of time, you can control the duration of the match by either time or generations of Sovereigns as well.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Build 13155444
Jan 16, 2024
Update Overview
This is the sixth major update since the release of Knights of Honor II: Sovereign. This time we focused on rebellions and added new features to allow players to better handle rebellions and unrest.
As always, thank you to everyone who tried this version during our beta and provided us with feedback.
Changes to Rebellions
Even the wisest of rulers sometimes cannot prevent a revolt against their rule. Until now, a rebel army could only be defeated in battle. With this update, we are also giving players the opportunity to give in to the rebels’ demands and restore order quickly.
• New Feature: “Pay off rebellion”
Players can now choose to pay off a rebellion to quickly restore order. Paying off a rebellion costs gold and all conquered provinces are ceded to the rebels. Special rebels like loyalists can also demand additional provinces.
• Imminent rebellions are now indicated by a new icon in the city selection UI together with additional information.
• In some cases, the game now warns players earlier about the risk of rebellions.
Quality of Life Improvements
• Multiplayer: Player kingdoms are now indicated on the map by a special icon in the multiplayer lobby.
• Multiplayer: Banners of allied or enemy human players are now outlined with green/red borders in certain cases like city selection and audience windows.
• It is now possible to reorder units in the city garrison by drag and drop.
• It is now possible to merge units in the city garrison by drag and drop.
• Replaced the previous 0.5 per unit-in-garrison local happiness bonus with an army-presence bonus of 1/level for each unit, including visiting armies.
• Changed the shade of red text to make it more readable.
Balancing
• Reduced the maximum stability penalty for religious differences from 30 to 25.
• Reduced the maximum stability penalty for cultural differences from 15 to 10.
• Reduced the global stability bonus for defeating a rebellion from 15 to 10, but it can now be applied up to 4 times (instead of 3).
• Added a 15 local stability bonus that fades over time after defeating rebels.
Network
• Updated the game’s online library files - fixing a rare multiplayer bug where players could potentially lose some information on their multiplayer campaigns.
Bugfixes
• Removed vassal actions for the Pope.
• Fixed several unification quests.
• Fixed some text issues.
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Build 12650581
Nov 14, 2023
Update Overview
This is the fifth major update since the release of Knights of Honor II: Sovereign. With this update, we added more depth and features to the game’s Vassalage mechanics, allowing players to choose if their vassals should contribute to their war efforts, economy or books and faith income.
This version also adds more modifiers to the Army Supply system, making it even more important for players to keep an eye on their armies’ situation. Running out of supplies now has a serious impact on your soldiers’ performance and can easily turn the tide in battle.
Special thanks to everyone who tried this version during our public beta. Your feedback was invaluable, and we will certainly continue the public beta with the next version. Keep your eyes open for the next couple of weeks for our beta-announcement on Steam and Discord!
Changes to Vassalage
We added three special types of vassalage: Scutage, March and Sacred Land. Players can change the vassal type with a special option available to their king.
Scutage:
• Vassal is protected by its sovereign; the sovereign must aid it in all defensive wars
• Sovereign receives +100% gold tribute
• Vassal generates +100% gold from population
• Vassal generates +3 gold in every village
• Vassal has 10% cheaper building and upgrade cost
March:
• The vassal is sworn to aid the sovereign in all wars
• Vassal pays no gold tribute
• Vassal has +3% squad manpower for each keep (up to 10 keeps)
Sacred Land:
• Vassal pays no gold tribute
• Vassal pays 20% book income
• Vassal pays 20% piety income
• Vassal develops skills and traditions 20% cheaper
• Vassal generates +2 books in each Monastery/Mosque/Shrine
• Vassal generates +2 piety in each Monastery/Mosque/Shrine
The following changes affect all vassal types:
• Vassals now ask their sovereign to support them whenever they are attacked. Refusing to help a vassal negatively impacts crown authority and opinions.
• Newly created vassals now inherit their sovereign’s relations with other kingdoms
• Players can now convert their vassals’ provinces to their own religion
• AI is now more hesitant to attack vassals of a powerful sovereign
• Increased gold produced by workers from 0.2 to 0.5
• Increased gold produced by rebels from 0.1 to 0.2
• Updated Books income tooltip
• Updated Piety income tooltip
• Decreased commerce upkeep by 50% when trading with a vassal
• Reduced merchant character level bonus to base trade from 1 to 0.5 per level
Changes to Army Supply System and Morale
• Army movement speed decreased by -30% (was 15%) when the army runs out of supplies
• Armies that run out of supplies now have a -75% penalty to archer salvos
• Armies that run out of supplies now have a -50% penalty to cavalry attack
• Increased out-of-supplies morale penalty from -5 to -12 for armies in foreign lands
• Increased leadership morale bonus from 1/2/3 to 2/4/6
• Increased bonus defense granted by high morale from 25% to 50%
• Increased morale threshold that gives no bonus from 10 to 15
• Added a defense penalty for armies with morale below 15. Max. penalty is 50%.
• Increased the maximum flat defense bonus given by morale from 3 to 15
• Added a siege weapon to mercenary armies including the necessary UI
Misc
• “Influence” now has a bigger impact on diplomatic decisions
• Increased the max. influence modifier of diplomats from 20% to 30%
• Changed criteria for AI to accept offered land from the province’s loyalty to its culture and increased the chance of the AI to accept the offer
• Changed the Bug Report Window text to remove "Reports are automatically sent" (this was causing issues with players thinking they automatically sent the report)
• Fixed a bug with knight actions causing 100% success chance if negative modifiers stacked too high
• Fixed Papal States being able to form Italy
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Build 12304379
Version 1.5.0
Sep 28, 2023
The following hotfix is currently being delivered to your kingdoms:
Note: Issues with save games could carry over to new games when the new game started after a player loaded an affected save game.
Affected save games should be fixed with the new version and can be resumed as usual.
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- Fixed several texts missing in the German version
- Fixed issues with exiled prisoners happening with save games created prior to version 1.5.0
- Fixed performance issues with campaigns that were created with a version prior to 1.5.0
Note: Issues with save games could carry over to new games when the new game started after a player loaded an affected save game.
Affected save games should be fixed with the new version and can be resumed as usual.
Build 12188365
Sep 19, 2023
Update Overview
This is the fourth major update since the release of Knights of Honor II: Sovereign. This version adds new unification quests for many kingdoms along with an improved UI to show the quest’s status. A new setting allows players to place up to 18 buildings in a single province, which not only increases the importance of smaller kingdoms with few provinces, but also introduces more gameplay styles and tactics.
The game’s AI also got a makeover, especially the economic decisions, army recruitment and kingdom stability have been improved, making the challenge more interesting and fun.
General
• Almost all kingdoms now have a unification quest
• Added new icons to show rebellion risk for provinces
• Changed rebellion triggers to be more predictable
• Rebellious population now depends on the population size of a province
• Buildings can now be reorganized via drag and drop
• The maximum amount of buildings slots in a province can now be set at game start
• Added several indicators and messages for pause and game speed in multiplayer
AI
• AI in general is now more stable and makes it harder for the player to "snowball" in late game
• Improved AI decisions when choosing a governor for a province
• AI now focuses province development of governed provinces
• AI takes more things into consideration when developing a province, like the cost of upgrades, province specialization, realm's needs, and more
• AI now spends more of its budget surplus for armies
• AI kingdoms now hire more knights and always try to govern all their provinces
• AI now tries hard to keep their kingdom stable and chooses skills and traditions accordingly
• Increased AI’s focus on book production
Miscellaneous
• Decreased the chance for vassals to become “Emperor of the World”
• Added new UI elements to show unification quest progress
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Build 11647145
Jul 18, 2023
Update Overview
This update mainly tackles various issues related to the new actions introduced in patch 1.4.0, alongside other small fixes and improvements.
Improvements and Fixes
• Success chances for Arrange Peace Talks and Ask for Absolution Pope actions are now only visible when you hover on the exact target in the target picker, to avoid misleading tooltips when hovering in the main action icons, prior to selecting target.
• Fixed a bug for the Ask for Absolution action, causing the target kingdom wars with Catholics not to be taken into account in the breakdown of the success chance.
• Fixed a bug for the Ask for Absolution action where the message for the target was not triggered.
• Fixed a bug with the Arrange Peace Talks Pope Action, causing the message to the kingdom not being displayed and no change to relations happening.
• Changed Arrange Peace Talks Pope Action so that the target cannot be a player.
• Fixed Ruin Puppet Actions cancelled message not appearing when the event is cancelled due to the target diplomat being exiled while the plot is in progress.
• Fixed relation change messages (angry/pleased reactions) not being received by clients in multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug where the town visiting army political view icon would not show up during a siege.
• Fixed the Wiki not resetting properly after starting a new game.
• Kingdom types of certain kingdoms are now hidden in main areas in the UI, such as the kingdom selector in lobbies, in the main HUD and in audience. For example, Empire of Latin Empire is now displayed as Latin Empire.
• Updated Papal nobility to have proper knight and kingdom titles.
• Improvements to the way kingdoms grow in Shattered World scenarios (and not only), when Destroy Kingdom is set as a main objective.
• Fixed problems with spawning Trade centers in Shattered World scenarios, requiring a lot of time to start spawning properly.
• Fixed text reasons for Pausing not appearing in multiplayer.
• Multiple text fixes, mostly related to the notes above.
Current Release
Not available
System Requirements
OS
Windows 10/11
CPU
AMD FX-8350 or Intel Core i5-2500K
RAM
8 GB RAM
GPU
Radeon HD 7870 / GeForce GTX 750-Ti
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ISO file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Mount the ISO file (double-click or right-click → Mount)
4
Run setup.exe
5
Launch the game from desktop shortcut or Start Menu
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
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Size
4.3 GB
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