Capturing camps on the map allows you to replenish the health of your soldiers, or disband ailing squads and replace them. What follows is a campaign that sees Theoderich recruit loyal hedge knights and warriors to his banner, while slowly building an army strong enough to rid the land of Ulrich’s evil.Īction in The Valiant is presented from a top-down perspective, which gives you a vantage point over the whole battlefield from which to command your squads. Guided by the darkness of the relic, the former Crusader has become a tyrant and must be stopped. You play as Ulrich’s sworn brother Theoderich, who sees first hand that the relic is corrupting his old friend.Īfter returning home and attempting to live a quiet life, Theoderich is called upon to put an end to Ulrich’s new reign of terror. It begins at the tale end of the Crusades, when a knight names Ulrich betrays his vows to claim an ancient holy relic in Jerusalem. It’s a tale of Knights and warlords, built around the conflict between two former Crusaders. KITE Games’ have done an excellent job building a little slice of 13th Century Europe, and filling it with chivalrous heroes and nefarious villains. It’s small-scale medieval strategy with just a touch of fantasy about it, and it’s way more compelling than I expected it to be going in. It’s almost like playing the combat sections of something like Age of Empires, tracking closest to Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes in terms of mechanics. ![]() ![]() The Valiant feels almost like a callback, only I’m not sure as to what.
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