Hello.
I am looking for some basic infos about Strategus gameplay, because all i can see in the "Strategus for noobs" threads is for players that are experienced and have played previous versions of Strategus.
So i made a hero, i am now near Reyvadin. What now? I looked at and read all the tabs in "Strategus". I see that i have 100 troops, but nothing in inventory, this mean naked army?
Then i "entered" Ulburban. What can i do now?
Then i decided to attack a random "100 troops" guy (I am Tanit), just to see that i am now locked for 24 hours.
So tomorrow at 1pm, what will happen? 200 naked guys fighting in the snow?
Thank you.
;)
Well, as there is no thread to explain you what the current strat is, I will tell you the really basic things you must know. I must have forgot some things, feel free to ask, and maybe I will be able to answer.
First of all, the currency is the silver, I don't remember well how you get it, but I believe you gotta wait, without the troop cap equal to 100. Then, you can buy goods, from a price varrying from 5 and 25 gold, the goods you buy can get you even more money if you sell them far from where you bought then. When you got something around 500k silver (after a lot of trading) , you gotta buy equipment. When you stand into a location, you can buy stuff, which can be bad or good (-2 to +3), depending of the locations (I advice you to go in towns to get good equipment with discount). Then, the battles are either siege, raid or regular battles. Raid = siege against army stationned into the village, if you win the raid, you win also the armors, weapons, horses, etc ... but not the gold/goods (as far I remember). Siege and battles are what they are in normal gamemodes, but the thing is the battle is more like a team deathmatch, where you do respawn either on flags (blue or red), and the siege is also a TDM, but that happens on a castle map. To win a battle, you have to kill everyone in front of you (tickets are seen as men), or take all the flags, with everyone dead on the opposite team. Another thing, the crime rate is the chance to lose a tick and gold per
minute, don't stay into a village with more than 10% crime rate, or you will regret it. If you really have to sell something, stay outside of the location, and sell it when you can actually control your dot directly, so, you won't lose troops/gold from crime.
And to answer your question, yes and no. As the attacker, you have to get some gear to attack a dot on the map, so, you will be naked. On another side, if the
defender is "unarmed", he will automatically get free peasant gear (low tier items). But if you want to win this battle, there is a posssibility to do that if there's no one on the defender side, so you can join, take all the flags, and win the battle. After that, you'll get damaged equipment you will have to sell, or repair (selling is far better), and the goods (I didn't mentionned you can see the selling bonus from distance below the good icon). The ennemy will keep the silver.
But really dude, if you wanted to play strat, you had to be a year back then. This strat is somehow completely dead when it comes to play as a "hero" (circulating on the map), the only way to get something from it is to fight as a mercenary, by applying into a roster when a good battle comes.