Medieval Battle: Europe! – FREE Download Codes
THIS CODES GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
Don thy armor, take up thy sword and prepare for battle! HexWar Games, the company that has developed iPad and iPhone wargames from ancient battles to the Second World War has a new release: Medieval Battle: Europe! And ArmchairGeneral.com has free downloads for 10 lucky iOS gamers!
Medieval Battle: Europe! features 18 missions in three campaigns, plus a 7-mission tutorial, and all but the tutorial can be played from both sides. All are set in France. The HexWar Games website offers this description of the campaigns:
{default}Follow the treacherous scheming of Charles II of Navarre (known as Charles the Bad) as he attempts to gain more political power in France and for his Kingdom Navarre.
Flanders has a blood-soaked history with France, featuring many different wars, battle, revolts and rebellions. Join these two nations through the Franco-Flemish War (1297 to 1305).
Join the Crown of Aragon as they defend against the French through two different crusades before taking the fight to them during the conquest of France’s ally Navarre.
Okay, you say, so how do I get one of the free download codes and start knight-bashing? Simple—just leave a comment below telling us the title of your favorite game, book or movie involving warfare in medieval times. Only one entry per person. Contest closes at midnight on Sunday, March 22, 2015. We’ll randomly select 10 winners the next day.
Good knight, and good luck.
Does Monty Python and the Holy Grail count?
Favorite game: Legion (Slitherine)
Movie: Kingdom of Heaven
Game: Medieval 2 Total War
Book: Christopher Tyerman: God’s War: A New History of the Crusades
Movie: El Cid
Game: Medieval 2 Total War
Book: Insurrection, Robyn Young
Timeline – book and movie
Movie: 1965’s The War Lord
Game: Medieval 2 Total War
Book: The Crescent and the Hammer
Movie would have to be The Warlord with Charlton Heston.
Game is Medieval Total War II
Movie: Robin Hood
Game: Medieval 2 Total War
Book: Malleus maleficarum
My favourite games are Stronghold: Crusader and Crusader kings 1.
Movie: Kingdom of Heaven
Book: Richard and John
Game: Hammer of the Scots
“The Lion in Winter.” If Peter O’toole and Katharine Hepburn weren’t at war, no one ever was.
Not sure if this is considered a qualifying game or not, but I would select “Stronghold Crusader HD”.
Not sure if this is considered a qualifying movie or not, but I would select “The Princess Bride”. 🙂
“The Black Shield of Falworth”.
Great battles: Medieval
Field of glory: storm of arrows
Kingmaker by Avalon Hill was my favorite. They developed a PC game for it back in the 80s/90s. Sure wish some company would get the digital rights to a lot of those old titles and release them again.
Movie: Kingdom of Heaven
Book: The Templars by Barbara Frale
Game: Settlers of Catan
Movie: Kingdom of Heaven because of its superb battle scenes and the balanced way both sides to the conflict (Crusaders and Sarcens) are depicted.
Movie: Kingdom Heaven
Game: Infidels (GMT boardgame)
Movie: Battle of Waterloo
Game: Utimate General: Gettysburg
Defiantly favorite game- Medieval II Total War
Movie- Kingdom of Heaven
Do not have favorite medieval book.
“Robin of Sherwood”, original BBC series.
Book: A Distant Mirror
The two volume edition of “A History Of The Art Of War In The Middle Ages” by Sir Charles Oman.
Wargame: Empires of the Middle Ages (okay, I’m a masochist)
Movie: Branagh’s Henry V
A Distant Mirror.
Kingdom of Heaven (DC)
Cheers!
Book(s): Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Game: Crusader Kings II
Movie: Kingdom of Heaven (Can’t tell you how many times I have watched it.)
Movie: Braveheart
Game: Stronghold Crusader
Book: The Canterbury Tales
Fvourite Game: Men of Iron
Movie: Henry V
Game: Medieval Total War
Book: Medieval Warfare: The art of war in Middle Ages
My favorite game: defenitly Crusader Kings II. War is in my opinion not only fought on the battlefield, but also on the political field. Crusader Kings II is the pinnacle of that concept put in game format.
The best movie, as many others here said, is Kingdom of Heaven. Nice plot, good characters. It gives me the feeling I was there.
Movie: Braveheart
Game: War of the Roses
Book: God’s War by Christopher Tyreman. A huge book, but a great read.
Book: Game of Thrones
Game: medieval total war 2
Movie: Ironclad
Favorite book- Richard the Lionheart
Movie: Robin Hood (RusselCrowe) Version
Game: Medieval War
Count me in!
I have to go with Darlands as my fav; though it isn’t quite accurate, isn’t quite a wargame, and it takes place in the Dark Ages iirc.
It’s been too long.
Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943
movie: Braveheart
Game: Age of empires 2
My favourite game is Stronghold Crusader HD
My favourite bookabout Medieval is Ivanhoe
who are the winners?
Book: God’s Battalions
Movie: Kingdom of Heaven
Game: Medieval II: Total War – Gold Edition
The giveaway is now closed. We’ll randomly select 10 winners and notify them later today. Thanks for for all the game, book and movie recommendations!
Someone got the code?
Not me it seems,
Congratulations to our winners: Stanley Klem, Jim Millard, Nikolay, Paul R, Daniel Yun, Frank J. Knafelc, Alexander, David Gabriele, Michael, and Jon Wooldridge. You should all have received an email by now with your download code.
Thanks to all for the great suggestions on games, books and movies.