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
