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January 30, 2002 

KIS garners Strategy Game of the Year from GamesDomain!

Strategy First's Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns delivered an invigorating twist to the RTS genre and an addictive game that should be in all strategy gamer's collection.

(posted 5:00pm Eastern Time)
 

Game Score gives KIS a perfect 5 stars!

Kohan Immortal Sovereigns is an enhanced, more refined version of all those that have come before it, taking what made the preceding hit Real Time Strategy games great and intensifying and improving upon them. The game has taken the conventional user friendly interface and has refined it to perfection.

(posted 5:00pm Eastern Time)
 

New KAG 256x256 map from Laz Toth called Enclaves:

The map 256x256, it is set up as 1 player and ally, versus the rest.  The map is called Enclaves, in fact there are 8 enclaves, but 4 factions.  The basic premise is that the Long Winter is Coming and the Great Council is dissolved, only you and your ally agree that all must be united in order to survive.

(posted 7:00am Eastern Time)
 

Archer, Infantry, Support, and Mages & Priests have been updated to reflect KAG 1.3.2
(posted 7:00am Eastern Time)
 
January 29, 2002 

The HC Clan are hosting a 1v1 Tournament, if you are interested in signing up send an email to Tevin--HC.  Details of the tournament can be found on the official forums.  You can follow the tournament here.  They already have at least 33 people signed up, so why not add your name to the list?
(posted 7:10am Eastern Time)
 
January 28, 2002 

Three great new KAG Custom AI's by fenwe: Gore, Jezabel, and Miles.
(posted 8:00am Eastern Time)
 

A whole slew of new KAG films:
DRG vs. DZ
DRG vs. IN
Out post war

Plus, Kalisari's response to bin's 20/20 challenge:
7 min3sec 20 comps 700 gold start
500 gold 20 comps 6min54sec
See bin's post on the official boards for more info.
(posted 8:00am Eastern Time)
 
January 25, 2002 

Hot on the heels of "Best Game Ever" and, if by title only, proving that wrong ;) , Barbar gives us the KAG film destined for Sundance: no wait this is better
(posted 6:00am Eastern Time)
 

According to a post on Slashdot, it looks like LokiGames, maker of the Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns Linux port is closing shop on January 31.
(posted 6:00am Eastern Time)
 
January 22, 2002 

A new KAG 1.3.2 film by Barbar: Best Game Ever  Spotlight on the maelstrom engine.  Sorry, no download mirror from the Annex yet...Tripod is being somewhat...slow.
(posted 6:00am Eastern Time)
 

Strategy First has released the Disciples 2 Demo, weighing in at about 137MB.  It is also available from Fileplanet.
(posted 6:00am Eastern Time)
 
January 18, 2002 

KAG Patch 1.3.2 has been released:

Tweaks some aspects of gameplay - adds a small pause before captains
and heroes run into combat, improves route point selection, and changes
companies in pressed/column movement to be low priority engagement
targets

* Adds a "cancel AI tell" command to cancel specific commands
* Reduces the upgrade cost of Citadels and Nationalist City
* Improves the Disciple, Grenadier, Elite Guard, Wraith and Lich
* Tweaks the Elite Bowman, Ranger and Pathfinder
* Adds a rule to KOTH where new outposts cannot be constructed within the ZOP of a flag

Snag it here.  See Release notes for more details.

(posted 6:00pm Eastern Time)
 

GameVortex names KIS as PC Game of the Year!
(posted 6:00pm Eastern Time)
 
January 17, 2002 

Computer Games Online has announced its finalists for "The Year's Best" and Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns is a contender for RTS of the year against Commandos 2 and Cossacks: European Wars.
(posted 10:20pm Eastern Time)
 

Not Kohan related, but Strategy First has announced that the turn-based strategy game, Disciples 2, has gone gold and is scheduled to be released on the 24th of January.
(posted 10:20pm Eastern Time)
 
January 15, 2002 

I have added some info on Attack Rates to the Strategy Section (originally posted by TG_Design on the official forums.

Also added info on Area Effect spells and Morale (also posted by TG_Design) as well as WyldRage's Tactics: Engagement
(posted 7:00am Eastern Time)
 

January 14, 2002 

Not much in the Kohan news department...GameRankings.com's voter poll is still running and KAG is having one heck of a battle with Civ III and Capitalism II...head on over and vote.  KIS is making a bit of a run up the charts too.

Interested in helping compile a Kohan "uber FAQ"?  Stroll over to The Awakening's Forums and post a question/answer.

Or how about seeing how fast you can get 20 companies commissioned?  Bin has "thrown down the gauntlet" on the Official Forums.
(posted 6:45am Eastern Time)
 

January 11, 2002 

GameRankings.com has a voter poll for Game of the Year.  Head on over and vote for KIS and KAG (you can vote for more than one game each day...but only once per game...)
(posted 5:45pm Eastern Time)
 

January 10, 2002 

A new KAG film, submitted by Barbar...named, coincidentally, Feel Barbar's Power!
(posted 7:00am Eastern Time)
 

January 6, 2002 

The following KIS pages have been updated to include data regarding morale, mana, and mana regeneration:
Units: Infantry, Archers, Cavalry, Specialty, Support, Mages & Priests
Heroes: Ceyah, Council, Nationalist, Royalist
Also, Shamael's description has been corrected.

Included on the Units and Heroes pages is a new legend for interpreting the various statistics and their placement.  So, if you have no idea what AV, DV, and Mana Regeneration mean, head there first.
(posted 6:15pm Eastern Time)
 

The following KAG pages have also been updated to include morale, mana, and mana regeneration:
Units: Ceyah, Council, Nationalist, Royalist, Independents, Denizens, Tech Units
Heroes: Ceyah, Council, Nationalist, Royalist
Heroes Added:
Ceyah: Lord Sar Lashkar, Lord Shohn Maht, Mistress Javidan, Mistress Vashti
Royalist: Lord Javidan

A legend is provided on the respective KAG pages as well: Units & Heroes.
(posted 6:15pm Eastern Time)
 

Two new KIS 1.3.1 films submitted by [EC]DarkAngel:
2v2 160x160 & 3v3 big map nice game

(posted 6:15pm Eastern Time)
 

XGR.COM has reviewed Kohan: Ahriman's Gift and gives it a solid 93%
(posted 6:15pm Eastern Time)
 
January 2, 2002 

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns starts off the new year with a bang, winning GamePen's Real-Time Strategy Game of 2001 award!  KIS was also nominated for Best PC Game of 2001, but lost out to Operation Flashpoint.

Head on over to GamePen and check out the nominees and winners for all the categories, from Action to RPG.
(posted 5:45am Eastern Time)
 

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns also made a showing in GameSpot's The Best and Worst of 2001 as a nominee for:
Best Artificial Intelligence (winner: Black & White)
Most Innovative Game (winner: Shattered Galaxy)
Best Single-Player Strategy Game (winner: Civilization III)
Best Multiplayer Strategy Game (winner: Shattered Galaxy)
Not satisfied with those results?  Head on over and fill out the reader ballot and let your voice be heard.
(posted 5:50am Eastern Time)
 

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