The Falling Sword (Clash of Empires)

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However, in this book I didn't really develop any feelings for the Roman characters - particularly Flamininus - until the last few chapters at which point I finally got the "he's a bit alright" feeling about him. These were places that I had longed to visit as a child, and my imagination ran riot as I stood on the craggy ridges looking north, and wondering what the Italian legionaries first posted here must have thought. Ben Kane is the author of nine consecutiveSunday Timestop ten bestsellers, with over million copies of his books sold around the world.

Launches the Crusader into the heavens and comes crashing down on enemies, dealing 1700% damage as Physical to everything within 14 yards of where they land. The impact point can be anywhere within 75 yards, and the Crusader will bypass enemies and most obstacles (even some of the impassable terrain and solid walls).

But, on opposite sides, legionary Felix and Phalanx soldier Demetrios have more pressing concerns: staying alive long enough to taste glory…. Get ready for the climax of the Roman invasion of Greece in Sunday Times bestseller Ben Kane’s latest historical adventure. This would pay homage to other platforming games where jumping onto your opponent was a great way to attack them.

In keeping with the books’ decision to use different POV characters to tell different aspects of the story, Philip gets all the military strategy and Flamininus all the politics.I also have a problem with Flamininus being so easily blackmailed: these sort of shenanigans happened all the time in Republican Rome. The result of this change is to give us the utterly unsatisfying ending of having evil triumph over “good”. Again there are great characters on both sides of the conflict and we get involved in their daily lives as they struggle. It was during this prolonged time abroad that I first had thoughts of writing military historical fiction – sparked first I think by wondering what I could do apart from being a veterinarian.

With the focus shifting from the common soldiers (who could naturally be expected to view everything through their army experience) to the political and military leaders, the absence of anything but a military viewpoint seems a little odd. Huge thanks to Tracy Fenton for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Virginia from Orion books for my copy of this book. Set: Every use of Blessed Hammer that hits an enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Sword and Provoke by 1 second. TWO HEROES PREPARED TO DIE Fighting on opposing sides, Felix and Demetrios think they have survived the worst of the campaign.

The story is centred around Felix and a small number of other Roman soldiers, and Demetrios and a small number of other phalangists. The story continues to follow the lives of Felix whose loyalties lie with Titus Quinctius Flamininus and Demetrios who fights for King Philip. Launch yourself into the heavens and come crashing down on your enemies, dealing 1700% weapon damage to everything within 14 yards of where you land. Now Brennus the Gaul, Tarquinius the Etruscan soothsayer and Romulus, bastard son of a Roman nobleman, are prisoners of Parthia. Lesser enemies (non- elites) are also forcibly moved around (essentially knocked back within the area every 0.

There is a ‘calm before the storm’ ahead of the following spring where hostilities are due to begin again and we catch up with the characters we got to know in the first novel. The second in Ben Kane's 'Clash of Empires' series takes the excellent start he made with the first book and dials everything up another notch. The ground you fall on becomes superheated for 6 seconds, dealing 310% weapon damage as Fire per second to all enemies who pass over it.What started as a hobby soon became an obsession, and about four years later The Forgotten Legion emerged into the light. All in all a very good read and you’ll thoroughly enjoy if you have read the authors other series about the Punic wars or the ambush of Varus’ legions in Germany! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.