
In contrast to the game’s predecessors focusing on multiplayer, Kingdom Wars 2: Battles puts a strong emphasis on the single player campaign. The tactical aspect allows you to use up to four special cards, which give you with bonuses during battles. The crafting system plays an important role – you can create +200 items and constantly develop technology, which gives you access to deadlier war machines and units, like dwarves, mages, and dragons. During the siege of the fortress, however, you can use a wide arsenal of battering rams, catapults, ballistae, ladders, and mobile shields for infantry. Defensive walls can be equipped with a variety of useful gadgets, like towers, covers for archers, containers with hot oil, and stones. The second element concerns real-time combat, which still features many tactical options and emphasizes fortifications and epic sieges (the inspiration drawn from the Stronghold series is noticeable). The first one is the economic aspect typical for the genre – you gather resources, like food, timber, stone, and gold, develop your base, train and send troops to fight. All of the races have individual development trees and a number of unique elements acquirable only through crafting.

During gameplay you are in control of one of the mentioned races – each of them is characterised by different fighting style, units, buildings, and economic system.

Mechanics in Kingdom Wars 2: Battles combine elements of classic real-time strategies with solutions unusual for the genre, like card games elements, survival aspects, and the extensive crafting system.

What is more, apart from the original content, you can download DLCs which add new single player episodes. The campaign in Kingdom Wars 2: Battles is divided into five episodes, each gradually introducing the player with the game’s rules, races, and locations.
