Strategos Review: Does This Ancient Wargame Conquer or Collapse?
Strategos delivers massive ancient battles with tabletop-depth tactics, 120+ factions, and realistic command systems. Explore gameplay, features,
Strategos Review: Does This Ancient Wargame Conquer or Collapse?
Strategos immerses players in grand-scale ancient warfare from 578 BC to 284 AD, commanding thousands of troops in real-time battles inspired by tabletop wargames. Features over 120 factions like Macedon, Persia, Rome, Carthage, and tribal forces, each with 250+ unique units exhibiting era-specific strengths. Battles last 10-25 minutes, focusing on historical simulations with custom, campaign, or reenactment modes. Core Battle Mechanics Units move in large formations, disrupted by terrain, flanking, or morale shocks, leading to disordered, fragmented, or routed states. Combat resolves via dice rolls influenced by matchups (e.g., javelins ignore armor, impact infantry crushes spears), rock-paper-scissors dynamics, and points of advantage—no instant wins like simpler RTS games. Key interactions include: Unordered behaviors: Charges, pursuits, evasions, or routs interrupt commands, simulating chaos. Fog of war: Hides enemies; forests conceal routing units. Morale system: Chain reactions fr…
