Dave Burrows – Tech / iPhone Blog – Technical Evangelist

Battle for Queen and Country – Queen Mynera rules a lovely land threatened by despicable foes. You of course are her only hope.

Castle Warriors is a tensely fought, tightly paced RTS game set in a landscape that gently tweaks all those fantasy tropes from the games of yore. Lead armies of warriors, veterans, warlords, heroes and even giants, against goblins, orcs, ogres, trolls and demons.

You must take and defend castles, use superior strategy and tactical timing to gain advantage before claiming victory.

You must Creep on the Borderlands, defend Waterseep, and find the Temple of Elemental Good. And what possible trouble could a few missing magic items be?

Features include:-

• Simple touch controls
• 12 battlefields linked in a campaign
• Castles that upgrade during the battle, with new capabilities and defenses
• Difficulty modes to suit your style of play

With 3 levels of difficulty—easy, normal and hard—you’ll do battle through 12 maps in a single-player campaign. The maps themselves look amazing, and each has physical geographic features that can both hinder and help depending on how wise you are.

On each map, a series of castles exist with the base of operations for each side located on opposing sides. Castles in your control bear a blue flag while those of the enemy have a red one. Each flag shows the number of troops stationed there. Empty castles do not have flags and are usually ripe for the picking. A mini-map in the upper left corner shows the location of castles and is color-coded accordingly. Attacking an enemy tower is as simple as sending troops to that tower. Battles take place automatically with the outcome determined algorithmically.

This is a pretty good game, reminds me of a number of games back from the old Atari ST.

Castle Warriors is available on the iTunes App Store for £1.19 / $1.99.