You can build your armies with up to 1500 men with only one set of mercenaries. You can send supplies between your lands, you can also destroy enemy supplies, but they can also destroy yours. You will want to build up your new lands. Just remember it must be next to yours or it will be too far to govern. If you have wood and ore, look for one that has stone. You are now ready to go conquer new lands. You can also hire mercenaries when they show up at your town.

As your population grows you can build an army. You can also build up a castle and garrison with troops to make it much harder to capture your town. There will also be events after each turn that might effect them such as getting the black death. In order to have enough townsfolk you must make them happy. Then you have your blacksmith, where you make your weapons. Your town will have from 0 to 2 of these resources-wood, stone, and ore. Then you have to think about your resources. Do you feed them cows or grain? How many people do you need to mind the fields? You will lose fields through bad weather and enemy armies trampling on them, and it takes more of your townsfolk to restore them. Although it sounds simple enough-conquer thy neighbors-there are many challenges ahead of you. It also added a skirmish map editor where you can create your own battle maps to play. It also fixes several glitches and improved the computer player to make the game more challenging. The expansion adds a new campaign and several maps.

Lords of the realm expansion siege pack is a great turn based game.

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