Castle Strike announced

Data Becker has announced plans to publish Related Design's Castle Strike later this year. In development at the studio behind America and No Man's Land, the game promises to be an intricately detailed 3D re-creation of castle construction and sieges. Set in an authentic rendition of continental Europe during the Hundred Years War, the game will involve players in a fictional tale filled with battles, ambushes, and betrayal and have them assaulting enemy strongholds, seeking out bandit camps, and building up their own fortifications.

Castle Strike will feature three playable nations--England, France, and Germany--and each nation will have 18 different units. Each side's army will include units such as mounted knights; melee fighters with swords, axes, or spears; ranged units with bows, crossbows, or early guns; and bomb-toting saboteurs and sappers. Additionally, the siege armory can build the heavy weapons required for sieges: towers, rams, catapults, mortars, trebuchets, and cannons.

Once players accumulate sufficient resources, it will be possible to build large castles. There's a pattern interface that lets players plan each phase of a castle's construction by drawing various types of walls, towers, and gates on the ground. Each nation has more than 25 economic and military buildings to build at the heart of a stronghold. When it comes time to build, the civilian workforce can be automatically organized and divided into a group of builders and a group of resource gatherers.

Castle Strike is scheduled for release at the end of this year.