Mini Fortress writes:
"Swords and Soldiers HD is a simplified real-time strategy (RTS) game that is presented with a side-scrolling perspective. Players control a team of soldiers based on one of three ethnic groups – Vikings, Aztecs, and Chinese – and must summon troops to carry out battle with the opposing team. While many RTS features appear in Swords and Soldiers HD – mining for gold, summoning troops, and building towers – they are presented with a simplified approach that makes Swords and Soldiers HD easy to learn and play for RTS newbies."
Switch is quickly becoming the go-to home for indie titles, but it's also receiving a fair amount of remasters of titles from yesteryear. The latest is Swords & Soldiers, an RTS/tower defence from a decade ago. It's not Swords & Soldiers's first foray into the world of Nintendo, with the original appearing on Wii U, back in 2014, followed by a sequel a year later thanks to Kickstarter. Now the original is getting a surprise release on Nintendo hybrid platform.
Today we are going to break out the poison darts and throwing axes for a bit of friendly skull-splitting with Swords & Soldiers for the Nintendo Switch a side-scrolling Real-time strategy game from Two Tribes’ and Ronimo Games. Let's see how this stacks up against the classic ideas of an RTS.
Two Tribes and Ronimo Games have announced that Swords & Soldiers is out now on Nintendo Switch and Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon on March 1, 2019.
I like this little game, RTS is my favorite genre. Wish there were more games like this on consoles. My only complaint is that is not a very deep RTS experience, my inner RTS OCD requires multiple resources, units, buildings and large upgrade tree to be fully satisfied.
But that's not what this game is, it's a little RTS game you can pick up learn quickly and play through in a couple hours. Local battle mode is awesome fun with family and friends. For a couple bucks it's a nice little pick-up for the WiiU.
Wii U would be a great console for developers to create RTS games on. This one, as you said, does lack depth, but it's still a satisfying experience.