Strategos

Description

Simulate Historical Battles Simulate large scale warfare with the armies of antiquity in Strategos . With thousands of men on screen, you can recreate real or speculative historical battles between the major and minor powers of the ancient Mediterranean. Manage Complex Mechanics Strategos is an ancients wargame with large scale formation movements and disorder, unordered charges, pursuing, evading, routing and morale shocks, fog of war, terrain effects, flanking and command and control simulations that bring a hardcore tabletop feel to digital, real-time wargaming. Command the Armies of Classical Antiquity The armies of Strategos span nearly a thousand years of the classical period, from the Hoplites and Immortals of the Persian Wars, to the rise of the Sasanian Empire against Imperial Rome. Master Advanced Command and Control An advanced command and control simulation encourages the player to think about the positioning and use of their generals, and when to commit them in order to balance giving orders, sending couriers, providing morale support, and fighting in direct combat. Select From a Huge Number of Units and Factions The game contains over 250 unique units and nearly 120 unique factions, including the various Hellenic Empires, The Achaemenid Persian Empire, Rome and Carthage across different eras, Gallic, Germanic and Iberian tribes, Umbrians, Samnites and other native Italians, the major city states of ancient Greece, the Thracians, and more. Customize Battles Custom battle options include selection of army lists, allies, units, army sizes, era, map, deployment distance and sides, difficulty, AI type/aggression, whether to use AI at all (alternative is hotseat), and optional randomization of army lists with options to filter random armies by era, importance, and whether they are steppe armies. Historical Campaigns and Reenactments Current historical battles include Issos, Trebia, Ilipa, Magnesia, Zama, Adamclisi, Bibracte, Carrhae, and Raphia, with more to come. The text-based campaigns currently include the battles of Alexander, Hannibal, the Wars of the Diadochi, and the battles of Early Rome and the Peloponnesian War, with more to come as well. Factions: Abyssinian/Aksumite Early (Persian Wars) and Later (Alexander) Achaemenid Empire Aitolian Antigonid Alan Apulian Arab (Urban) Armenian (Tigranes and non-Tigranes) Athenian Atropatene (Early/Late) Bithynian Black Sea Greeks Blemmye/Nobades Bosporan Campanian Carthaginian (Early/Late) Commagene Caucasian Dacian Etruscan (Early/Late) Galatian (Early/Late) Gallic Georgian Germanic Germanic (Later) Horse/Foot Tribes Graeco-Bactrian Graeco-Indian Early Hoplite Greek Later Hoplite Greek (Major Later Hoplite Greek armies are also distinguished by city state) Greek Mercenary Expeditions Hellenistic Greek Hasmonean Jewish Illyrian (Early/Late Indo-Parthian Indo-Skythian Italian Tribes Judaean Kappadokian Kushan (Early/Late) Kyrenean Greek (Early/Late) Latin Libyan Ligurian Lucanian Lydian Lykian Lysimachid Maccabean Jewish Macedonian (Early, Alexander, Late Alexander) Massalian Meroitic Kushite Moorish Nabataean Numidian (Early/Late) Paionian Palmyran Parthian Pergamene (Early/Late) Phokian Pontic (Mithridates Early/Late, and Pre-Mithridates) Ptolemaic (Early, Mid-Early, Mid-Late, Late) Pyrrhic (Early/Late) Rhoxolani Roman (Tullian, Camillan, Polybian, Marian, Early Imperial, and Mid Imperial) Saka Samnite Sarmatian Sassanid (Early) Seleucid (Early, Mid-Early, Mid-Late, Late) Skythian Slave Revolt Spanish (Iberian, Celtiberian, Lusitanian, and Sertorius) Spartan Spartan (Hellenistic) Early Successor (Asiatic) Early Successor (Macedonian) Syracusan Tarantine Theban Thessalian Thracian (Early, Gallic, Hellenized, and Roman Client) Umbrian