Knight Wars
Crest of the Kingdom of Arkland
Basic info
Developer	Kuju Entertainment
Publisher	Nintendo
System	Nintendo Wii
Ratings
North America:	N/A
Europe:	N/A
Australia:	N/A
Japan:	N/A
Release Dates
North America:	Unreleased
Europe:	Unreleased
Australia:	Unreleased
Japan:	Unreleased
Knight Wars Guide on StrategyWiki

Knight Wars, also known internally asCastle Wars, is a cancelled real-time tactics game that was under development byKuju Entertainment for the Nintendo Wii.^[1] The game was intended to be a spin-off of theBattalion Wars series with a high fantasy setting inspired by Medieval England and Arthurian legends.^[2] Players would have the option to control and lead units such as knights, archers, mages, and siege weapons.^[3]

Setting

Knight Wars would have been set in the sameworld asBattalion Wars, albeit its story occurring in the distant past long before theLightning Wars. The game would have featured the following factions:

• The Kingdom of Arkland, which inhabited the area to the west of what is nowXylvania and were intended to be the benevolent protagonists of the story.^[4]
• The Reusman Vikings, who had an orcish appearance and were the ancestors of the people of theTundran Territories.
• The Empire of Malbett, which settled in the Xylvanian hinterlands and served as the antagonists of the story.^[4]
• The Khorak, who were in conflict with the Empire of Malbett.

Development

	Knight Wars was meant to be a medieval version of Battalion Wars with a more in-depth story but although Nintendo paid for some development they hated the writing. The art however was brilliant, The textures were done to look painted, a for runner of Aragorns Quest, The first demo was breathtakingly lovely. It was just the models and textures and no lighting. The programmers added lighting and effects and it looked worse, The first demo was one of the most beautiful games I'd ever seen. It didn't help that BW didn't sell so it got canned.
— Dave Swan-

Development ofKnight Wars started alongside that ofBattalion Wars 2 under the titleCastle Wars, with some of the development paid byNintendo. While the art style in its first internal build demo was praised, the publisher disliked the writing. The project was then canned following the poor sales ofBattalion Wars 2.^[5][6]

Some of the assets were reworked into a prototype dubbedParagon, which was pitched to Warner Bros. for aThe Lord of the Rings game and led to the development ofThe Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest.^[7]

Bits of code and assets remain in the internal files ofBattalion Wars 2 andAragorn's Quest.^[8][6]

Gallery

Concept art

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  Arkland Knight hero

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  Arkland peasant

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  Arkland spearman

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  Arkland units

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  Arkland units render

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  Boss unit

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  Knight unit

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  Trebuchet unit

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  Ancient Empire bridge

Reusmen Vikings

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  Fortified settlement

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  Ditto

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  Ditto

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  Ditto

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  Viking palace

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  Viking palace

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  Viking huts

Locations

Storyboards

Videos

References

• Games
• Knight Wars
• Cancelled games