Pyramids





Pyramids, also known with a complete name Pyramids I - The battle of Kadesh is a strategy game sited in the Ancient Egypt. It basically narrates the events of the Kadesh battle, with 4 factions: Egypt, Anatholy (Hittites of Hatti), Nubia and Lybia. Projected exclusively for the PC platform system, it is developed by Haemimont Games and Empire Entertainment and published by FX Interactive.

Main menu

 * Training
 * Campaign
 * Egyptian Campaign (only 1 part, until the Kadesh battle)
 * Hittit Campaign (2 parts: the first until the Kadesh battle, the second after the alternative victory)
 * African Campaign (all-alternative campaign. 2 parts: the first until the Kadesh battle, intromising on it, the second during the invasion of Egypt and Hittitens)
 * Battle
 * Multiplayer
 * LAN
 * Gamespy

Campaign Mode
The game has 3 campaigns: the canonical egyptian, the alternative hittit and the alternative lybian-nubian (African):


 * Egyptian Campaign: it is the canonical campaign, and has only one part, during the preparation to war against the Hittitens, until the battle of Kadesh. Ramses, thanks to his courage and the help to Amon, will lead his less numerous army to victory. Horever, after the victory, Muvattali will ask a pace trait to Ramses itself.
 * Hittit Campaign: it is the alternative campaign, with two parts: the first one is the invasion of the Egyptians borderlines, in Syria and Lybanus, until the battle of Kadesh. After the alternative victory, Ramses will be (apparently) killed in battle despite his courage, and the Hittitens prepare to conquest Egypt once for all. But once there, a bad surprise awaits Muvattali...
 * African Campaign: Lybia and Nubia prepare to rebel against Egypt, but not only against it, because their thirst of power won't stop at nothing. Intromising the battle of Kadesh against the two factions of Egypt and Hatti, these two factions will prepare a war against the two super-states, which will ally each other in order to contrast them...

Gameplay
The are 3 campaigns in the menu: Egyptian, Hittite and African, each one with 9 scenarios. The Battle mode allows up to 8 players, choosing between the 4 factions of the game. The is also a starting learning campaign that sets about Ramses II training his troops of all grades with 5 scenarios, ending with a final scenario simulating a real battle.

There are 4 type of resources: food, and gold The player's fortress is already been built, so there's no need to build it from zero. The fortress includes: a base, a temple, a barracks, a market, a blacksmith and a tavern. During battles, the player's fortress can be upgraded to certain levels, that can give access new orders, units and upgrades to the players.

The population of the players is different in every fortress and village. The fortress can have a maximum predefinied of 50, 100 or 150 inhabitants, while a village's max can be 50, 75 or 100. Just like in the Imperivm series, when the limit is surpassed, the population gets low again, until it gets back to the max. Fortress population produce gold, iron and stone, while village population procude food. Village population can be transported to Training Keeps to morph them into mercenaries.

Each unit can carry up to 25 food units - but all the elephants carry up to 100 of them; once it gets to 0, the unit starts to lose health. Also, each unit has 10 energy points and a proper special skill.

The are many ways to gain experience points or XP: battle, hunt, accomplishing many orders (obviously relative to each faction in the game) and taking objects.

Objects

 * Golden Ankh:
 * Seth talismain:
 * Isis talismain:
 * Ptah talismain:
 * Ra talismain:
 * Medicinal herbs:
 * Curative water:
 * Belt of the king:
 * Firestone:
 * Golden ring:

Game options

 * Random map:
 * Highlands
 * Continental
 * Small islands
 * Big islands
 * Island
 * Desert
 * Game type:
 * Normal: just a normal play.
 * Deathmatch: no mercy, no limits, no rules!
 * Regicide: kill the ruler of the enemy land to gain more points. Everytime a ruler is killed another one will take his place appearing in a random and safe point of the map.
 * Victory condition:
 * Elimination
 * Point limit (from 3000 points to 15'000 points)
 * Time limit (from 30 minutes to 3 hours)
 * Population:
 * Low
 * Normal
 * High
 * Starting resources:
 * Very low
 * Low
 * Normal
 * High
 * Very high

Playable factions

 * Egypt
 * Hatti
 * Libya
 * Nubia

Other titles

 * Italian: Pyramids: La Battaglia di Qadesh
 * Spanish: Pyramids: La Battalla de Kadesh
 * Japanese:
 * Pyramids: カデシュの戦い (kanji)
 * Pyramids: Kadeshu no tatakai / Pyramids: Kadesh no taisen (romanji)
 * Pyramids: The Battle of Kadesh (translation)