Free Fantasy Strategy Game
Kok.sepic.org
King of Kings is a completely computer moderated play-by-email game set in an ancient or
medieval world. Each player is in control of a tribe or nation in this world, governing all
decisions and leading it to either victory or defeat.
The game map is tiled into square provinces. Provinces provide tax income. You may invest
in their infrastructure and they are conquered and defended by troops. During a game turn, a
player may gain victory points for collecting the most wealth, showing great valour in battle
or maintaining the greatest army. The game ends whenever a player's fame points exceed the
fame point limit set for the game, or at the end of a pre-set game turn. The victor is the player
with the most victory points awarded.
Currently King of Kings is played through our host server http://www.spodcentral.org/~jontom/ . It offers full auto processing via email (for sending orders in and results
out).
The newest rules version 4.8 is now available in English, a somewhat older version 4.0 is
available in German. Since years now the number of German players have been too low to
start new game in German. If this changes we will reintroduce German as a language.
Amount of time and effort needed to play:
Rules and regulations for email submission: 1-2 hours
early turns: 10 minutes
late turns: 30 minutes
http://kok.sepic.org
http://www.spod-central.org/~jontom/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/King_of_Kings/
TurnViewer
Since the 2001 server version the game offers a continually improved TurnViewer, that is a
graphical user interface (GUI) to view game data, maps and turn results for the King of Kings
play-by-email strategy game.
Main Window with Player Selection Window
Features
The program window contains three bars on the top, a map area and scrollbars to the right and
bottom. It is sizeable. Primarily you will operate on the map, where Context Menus are
available. When clicking a menu entry to activate a command, a command window may pop
up somewhere on the screen, as e.g. the player selection window seen in the previous section.
On the menu bar (the second bar from the top of the window) you find the menus for Game,
View and Zoom.
Several views can be displayed in the View Window. These are Map, Battle Report, Error
Report, Victory Report and Orders. All except the map are text reports. The view can also be
changed by clicking on the appropriate button in the tool bar (third bar from above).
The map can be displayed at three zoom levels: 25%, 50% and 100%. Click on the command
entry in the menu to change the map zoom factor. The default setting is 25%.
Game Menu
View Menu
Changing the zoom factor to 50% …
Context Menus
Context Menus provide quick navigation through the gameturn information. By right-clicking
in a province, the Context Menu is invoked, from which you can access information about the
province, the terrain of that province and the owner of that province. For each selection, a
window displaying the information is popped up. These windows are hypertext capable, so
you can navigate from there to access further information. In addition you can left-click in a
province to update the details displayed to match the province clicked.
Context Menu in a province
Detail Windows for Province, Terrain and Player
The Province Details Window displays the name, coordinates, terrain, owner, mode of
defence and troops currently present. Through hyperlinks (indicated blue and underlined) you
can access detailed information about the terrain, the owner and the deployed troops.
Province Details Window
The Terrain Details Window displays the picture, type (Land or Sea), Movement Cost, To-Hit
Limit, Gold, Food and Wood Production and Build Chance of the selected terrain. Through
hyperlinks you can access detailed information about the terrain that is changed to after a
successful build.
Terrain Details Window
The Troop Details Window displays the troop icon (image) and all its various combat values
and attributes.
Troop Details Window
The Player Details Window displays the king name and picture, the tribe (nation) colour, the
player name and email address, the fame points and the available national resources (Gold,
Wood and Food, and the new Generals to place). Through a hyperlink you can access detailed
statistics about this nation. The player image and colour used in the map display can be
changed here. You can use your own bitmaps for your nation.
Player Details Window
The Player Statistics Window displays the statistics of the player selected, including
production, overall troop numbers, and alliance status. Through hyperlinks you can access
detailed information about troop types or allied players.
Player Statistics Window
Text Report Views
Battle Report View
Error Report View
Game Features: Troops and Terrain
Troop table
Units
Foot Soldiers
Bowmen
Horsemen
Castle
General
Ship
Symbol
F
B
H
C
G
S
To Hit
35
45
50
45
50
50
Armour
15
15
15
Movement
2
2
3
0
3
10
Costs
6 Gold
6 Gold
12 Gold
12 Gold
10 Wood
Province Table
Terrain
Cultivated
Plains
Grassland
Desert
Steppes
Forest
Hills
Mountains
Marsh
Swamps
Town
City
Metropolis
Food
3
2
2
0
1
1
2
1
2
1
3
4
5
Gold
3
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
10
15
20
Wood
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
Mov.Pts
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
2
3
1
1
1
To Hit*
25
20
15
25
20
20
20
20
How to sign up
For ORK players we reserve a special game that will be created in cooperation with the ORK
gamemaster. Please contact SUN-E if you want to play.
For other players send an email to mailto:[email protected] with the following information:
-------------------------------------------------Player Name :
Player Email:
Kingdom Name:
King Name :
Colours
:
Crest/image : (attachment)
[ ] I like to play in a Fantasy Scenario
[ ] I like to play in a Historical Scenario
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