{"id":89,"date":"2005-04-11T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2007-12-11T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:38:15","slug":"origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/04\/11\/origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it funny how things get started in the strategy game world? Before <i>Age of Empires II<\/i> came along, could your average gamer tell you what a trebuchet was? Or what it looked like? Or how it worked?<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that every strategy game set in the Middle Ages (or that has a Middle Age moment) has a trebuchet in there somewhere. Ensemble Studios found something cool and now everyone has one. In fact, I am hard pressed to think of a single Medieval strategy game in the last five years that <i>doesn&#8217;t<\/i> have a trebuchet in it.<\/p>\n<p>And so, one hit game from 1999 has now cemented the place of an obscure siege engine into the hearts of gamers.<\/p>\n<p>I note this because <i>Knights of Honor<\/i> (review forthcoming) seems to borrow a lot of terms and unit names from other, more famous games. Not that the more famous game invented the name or term, but when I say hobilar or ghulam cavalry, chances are you have a creatively assembled game in mind, if you catch my drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it funny how things get started in the strategy game world? Before Age of Empires II came along, could your average gamer tell you what a trebuchet was? Or what it looked like? Or how it worked? Now it seems that every strategy game set in the Middle Ages (or that has a Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5GFeQ-origins","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}