So, i am a newb, i can give a little overview:
While the above post was helpful, don't forget to address the questions in the OP!
Also,
1. What are troops used for?
2. If you attack another player and defeat them, do you get their gold? Do they lose their troops?
3. If you attack another player, is there a battle? Is it automatically resolved? Do you have to fight like a duel? What if the other player is AFK?
THANKS!
1. The troops are used as a respawn tickets for the battles. So if you have 650 armymen, you can spawn 650 soldiers in the match (your team has 650 "lifes")
2. Not sure about gold, but yeah, they lose some part of the troops, depending how well they did in the battle. Also, if you are about to win a battle in strat, loot anything valuable you see on the ground, as on the end of round those items are added to the inventory of the attacker/defender who won.
3. The battle should be automatically resolved only if the attacker has less than 1/3+1 army than the defender. Other than that, when you attack someone/something, there is 24hours preparation time, in which you can see the battle on your char page under the Battles button. The guys involved in the battle have 5 hours AFTER the initiation of the battle to gather the troops/resources they can, as after 5 hours the stats are locked and you cannot accept any more army/gold/items. Mercenaries sign for both sides of the struggle, the guys who started the fight decide whom they accept and such.
Hello,
I would just like to encourage all you vets out there to be friendly to new players with questions, because there are a LOT of people who have never played strat, or who have barely heard of it. Lets be inclusive so all can enjoy it! That being said, I have some questions..
1. Is there like a beginners guide or something? Anyone want to make one?
2. Do I get to use my heirlooms in strat battles?
3. What do I do besides get gold and get troops? Can I attack settlements and such, or is that only for clans?
4. The equipment I buy...is it only for my own use or do my troops use it? Do I have to buy a weapon for each troop?
5. Is there upkeep/xp in strat battles? Do they translate to my normal CRPG char?
6. What do I start doing?
1. Was looking for some myself, as this is brand new.
2. As in now, you do not get to use your loomed items in strategus battles. Tho, in the future strat, it should be possible to craft loomed items to use.
3. You can attack settlements, but you need good money and have some good mercenaries hired.
4. Equipment: if you have army of 500, you want to have 500armors, 500gloves, 500boots and stuff, so every single ticket you have can be equipped. Same goes for weapons. Dunno how the item management works other than i can buy them, transfer them and sell them. But in the battles i been in, the guys got some gear you could choose from, they told us who can use what and we just kept spawning in it.
5. The battles take place on EU3, and there is no upkeep and/or xp gain there as far as i know. I might be wrong.
6. the best is get into fief and start recruiting soldiers, try to join a clan if ur not in one, as its much more fun while organized. And join some battles to see how it works and get the feel for yourself. If you apply for the defender NPC, make sure you are active on servers or website like 1 hour prior to battle, so you have better chances to be accepted.
also: most of guys i played with quit waiting for this shit, and the old version which is up now is lots of fun so far, hoep the new one will be even better !
