Crush Your Enemies review - yes, just like Conan

Crush Your Enemies is a strategy game like no other. This bare-looking game combines accessibility and the moment-to-moment action that every mobile strategy game should aspire to.

In Crush Your Enemies you command hordes of barbarians, pillaging enemy territory and taking over towns and outposts, through which you can reinforce your army.

The core gameplay is simple – you have to send your army to fight the enemy's. If you have more soldiers than the enemy you will come out victorious. If you don't, your army will get annihilated.

How do you expand your army? Easy: you get some of your soldiers to rest in the towns. The more soldiers there are taking refuge in a village, the faster their numbers will go up.

Additionally, you can send your army to special camps and equip them with more powerful weapons, turning them from a mob of peasants to a horde of warriors. This'll tip the odds in your favour even when you have lower numbers.

Your army can only walk through territory you control, otherwise it will take some time capturing it first. This is precious time that you have to use wisely.

The enemy hordes work exactly the same, which means that your goal is to outsmart the enemy by timing your attacks and rests, conceding some minor battles at times, so you can later attack with a full army.

With a combination of special items, territory management and buildings, your goal is always to keep your enemy at bay while maintaining a constant and high influx of soldiers from the towns you control.

The more you send to fight, the slower the troops will fill up. Do the opposite, and you will see your territory being rapidly covered in enemy banners.

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What keeps this all together is a very high-paced action where you always have troops to command, outposts to capture, and enemy soldiers to oppose.

Both the campaign and multiplayer play out similarly – and every match, although rarely going longer than a couple of minutes, is packed with strategy, carnage, and quick thinking.

In the words of the Emperor of China from Mulan, 'a single grain of rice can tip the scale. One man may be the difference between victory and defeat'.