Battle
Realms follows the basic formula for many real-time strategy games.
All of its factions have similar buildings with similar uses and
workers. However, unlike in most real-time strategy games, the peasant
worker unit is not just used for resource gathering and construction,
but also for training into military units. Thus, military buildings in
Battle Realms are not used for making units, but for transforming and
upgrading them. Peasants gather the two resources in the game: rice and
water. They also round up horses, which can be used to enhance
military units in the game and can be outfitted as pack horses for
peasants. Only one type of builder unit is required.Peasants are
the only units the player can produce outright. Most of the buildings
available are training structures where peasants are trained into
numerous other units. All the factions start off with 3 basic central
training structures, which produce units along different paths of
warfare, such as melee or ranged combat. In most cases, units can be
trained at up to 3 structures to produce higher tiers of infantry.
Another
difference in unit generation is that peasants are produced
automatically, at no cost. However, the rate at which new peasants are
produced is inversely proportional to the current population of the
player's army.Certain buildings can teach special techniques, or Battle
Gears (commonly abbreviated to BGs), to units to improve their combat
ability for a certain resource cost. This can allow units to defeat
higher tier units they would normally struggle with or be defeated by.
BGs also allow the player to further define the role a unit will play
in a combat situation, such as damage absorption, building destruction,
or reconnaissance.One of the key elements of Battle Realms is the
Yin/Yang system. Each army obtains points of Yin or Yang when in
combat, depending on their moral alliance to the forces of light or
darkness. The Battle Realms hero units, or Zen Masters, require
Yin/Yang to be summoned and to improve their damage. Yin and Yang are
also used at structures in the faction's base for military upgrades.
The rate of Yin/Yang growth depends on the military strength and flair
of the army and how far they are from the main base.There are four
available clans in Battle Realms, and each have a different philosophy
towards life and combat. The Dragon clan favours honourable and
valourous combat, while its offshoot, the Serpent clan, uses stealth,
trickery and brutality to further its goals. The Lotus clan is an
ancient group of sorcerers that delves deeply into the corrupting
aspects of magic. The Wolf clan is a race of formerly enslaved miners.
Their clan members live basic, healthy lives.Unlike in most strategy
games, all units in Battle Realms have a melee attack. However, missile
units typically have drastically weaker melee attacks. Units are very
detailed and have distinct fighting animations. Units can dodge
projectiles if they run fast enough, and projectiles have different
speeds and fire at certain angles.A unit's attack has a property -
either cutting, piercing, blunt, explosive, magic, or fire, as well as a
bonus damage against buildings. The property of a unit's missile
attack may also differ from its melee attack. Most units have
resistances to particular properties, and weaknesses to others. For
example, the Dragon Samurai has excellent resistance against cutting
attacks, but a poor resistance to explosive and magic damage.In
singleplayer, the plot mainly revolves around Kenji, last heir to the
Serpent's Throne. When he returns from exile, Kenji comes across
bandits raiding a peasant village. He can choose to either kill the
bandits and save the peasants, or, he can side with the bandits and
kill the peasants. If he chooses to save the peasants, he will follow
the path of the Dragon clan. If he aids the bandits, he will follow the
path of the Serpent clan.In
Kenji's Journey, the player may choose which territories he or she
wishes to attack first. Kenji returns from Malcomson. He must decide
whether to rebirth the Dragon Clan and save the peasants honor with
righteousness or take up reigns in his brother and his father, Lord
Oja's footsteps and lead the Serpent Clan. Taking specific territories
might give benefits, and other Zen Masters may join Kenji. Later on,
the player can summon these Zen Masters from the Keep. The Story
focuses on an artifact Called Tarrant's Orb/Orb of the Serpent which
Kenji and the NPC Clans, The Wolf and Lotus Clans are seeking out.
Kenji must get it before them.
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