Martial Kingdoms

Martial Kingdoms is a single-player Wuxia strategy video game developed by Taiwan's T-Time Technology Co., Ltd. The game was released in 2003. It has a sequel, Martial Kingdoms 2, which was released in 2007.

Gameplay
The player chooses one from 13 martial arts sects to play as, and must conquer the other sects to rule the Wulin (martial arts world) and win the game. At the start of the game, each sect controls at least one duo (or base), out of about 20, all located on a map of China. A sect is considered conquered when it has lost all of its bases to the attacking sect. To achieve the ultimate goal, the sect needs to become more powerful first and ways to increase its strength include: recruiting and training new members; collecting more natural resources (such as gold, iron ore and wood) by conquering other sects' bases; upgrading its factories to produce weapons, equipment and medicine of better quality; discovering and learning more powerful skills through studying and gaining experience from battles; forming alliances with other sects. The player can manage the sect's members and arrange their daily schedules, determining how much time the member spends on each task (collecting resources, training, producing items etc.) and what skill the member will be learning.

Plot
The game is set in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. The emperor is deceived by the treacherous chancellor Yan Song, and he fears that the Wulin (martial arts community) may pose a threat to his rule over China. He sends the Jinyi Wei (secret police) to stir up conflict among the various sects, hoping that they will destroy each other.

There are four story lines that the player can choose from. In each story line, the number of bases occupied by each sect at the beginning is different and certain sects only appear in certain story lines. In addition, the player has the option of creating a new sect if he/she does not wish to play as any of the 12 default sects.

The 12 default sects featured in the game are: