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Wars of the Roses - Rosenkönig

The Wars of the Roses for the crown of England have started again: The strategy game classic is available for iPhone and iPad!
Category Price Seller Device
Games $2.99 United Soft Media Verlag GmbH iPhone, iPad, iPod

England, in the 15th century: The house of York, bearing the white rose in their coat of arms, and the house of Lancaster with the red rose struggle for the kingship. Only the best strategists will emerge victorious from the Wars of the Roses…

Play your might cards deliberately to gain control over large, connected areas. The cunning use of your heroes will foil your opponent’s plans and bring the crown within your reach!

Wars of the Roses’ rules are simple; a comprehensive guide will get both beginners and board game veterans into the game quickly. The game is exciting at any time, because even the last moves of the game can make the difference between victory and defeat.

Wars of the Roses can be played against computer-controlled opponents, or with friends via hot seat multiplayer, or via Bluetooth or on the internet via Game Center.

Compete with other players through online leaderboards and achievements via Game Center, or replay historic battles in the challenging campaign mode for one player!

Features:

• The classic strategy game with high resolution graphics in an atmospheric presentation

• Universal app for both iPhone and iPad

• Challenging AI opponents in 3 difficulty settings; campaign with a variety of scenarios

• Various multiplayer modes: hot seat, Bluetooth, or online via Game Center

• Comprehensive introduction to the rules

• Leaderboards and achievements accessible via Game Center

(Online multiplayer, leaderboards and achievements require to access the Apple Game Center and therefore will not be available on older devices. If you would like to use these features, please make sure your device and iOS version support Game Center. However, the game is also playable without them, of course.)

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Reviews

Crashing!
shartypants

It won the first two games, then the next game I was winning and it crashed!! Same for the one after that, crashed! Why doesn't it remember where we left off? It doesn't make me want to play when it always crashes as I am about to win!


Well done
typo_kign

I'm a fan of the original board game and am glad to see it on ios. I've only played vs easy AI and it works well. The graphics, sounds, and music are all nicely thematic without being annoying. Haven't tried multiplayer yet. Only room for improvement I see at this time is that the print/font for the rules is kinda small and hard to read. But I do love that the rules are presented top-down (ie explain scoring *before* how to play a turn. Bravo!). All game rules should be explained that way.


Great but...
HagbardMcSweeny

Yes this is fine except that when the ai is facing unfavorable strategic calls it gives up and stops playing. When working, this is a good game.


Boring! Don't buy!!!
Bruce Andreu

This game is boring. It is nice to look at, but it is not very fun. It is basically checkers with cards that dictate your moves. A game that charges as much as this one does should be one that I do not want to put down. Unfortunately after playing the game a handful of times, I'm ready to delete it.


Very poor UI
Django_Z

I think there might be a good game here, but a very confusing interface has made me give up after half an hour. Terrible menu system, difficult to understand hot spots. Can't tell what is scoring and what isn't. Some images swipe but not fully. This is an amateurish production. Too bad, I get the feeling the board game was good and this could be fun on the iPad. Maybe they will revamp the interface and menu system in a future version. How could anyone think this was ready for sale and at $4 n less?!


Needs tutorial
RogerD323

There is about 4 to 8 hours of game play in the campaign. I have not seen any players online for automatch, maybe the game is still too new. When I first started playing the game, I could not figure out what I was supposed to do, which is a cardinal sin in an app. I finally worked out that you click on the card once to preview a move and a second time to play that card, and that the battle/knight resources are spent automatically when your move is onto the other side's pieces. The draw deck is hard to find as well, since the card backs have dark backgrounds and are drawn on top of a dark background. The key mechanic of this game is that you see both players cards, so you can maneuver in such a way that your opponent cannot move, which is advantageous. One thing that would help would be to get help text when you click on various sections of the game. Another thing that would help would be if the campaign mode's first scenario had a tutorial built into it. Once you get past the confusing user interface, there is a decent board game here, but nothing special. I think if you liked the board game, you will like this game.


Not just Othello with cards.
Lord Gek

I held off for the longest time as it looked like a game of Othello with cards thrown in some weird way...but having played it is too cool and not really directly Othello related. Your opponent and you take turns moving the king via cards with the king depositing a token of that player's color. Each card lists a direction and a roman numeral from 1-3. Normally you can only move onto blank spaces, but if willing to use one of your 4 knights, you also have an option to flip an opponent's token over to your side. The key tactic is to try to clump as many of your tokens together so that they are connected to one another in an up-down or right-left manner (i.e. diagonally adjacent doesn't count). Your knights are your aces in the hole! While you usually only start the game with 4, using them strategically to extend overturn an opponent that has placed themselves in the midst of one of your huge continuous territories or just to jump in the middle of one of your opponent's biggest territories to break stuff up, can make all of the difference. It's best to save them into as late of the game as possible although this runs the risk of forcing you to use them in less than optimal ways if their use is the only legal move you have at the moment.


Nice App!
HunterHarp

After reading the introduction it's easy to play and not that difficult as it seems at the beginning. The different difficulty settings keep the game challenging. Quite addicitve. Like it!


Good fun!
Stocker1980

Normally i'm not a fan of strategy games, but the rules are simple. Also the layout is easy to navigate. Good game!


Good game but keeps crashing!
Lympbot

The game itself is very fun, however my game keeps crashing in the first level of the campaign when both players have no moves. I don't think it knows what to do so it just ends program. If this problem were fixed it would definitely deserve 5 stars for awesome game play and visual presentation.