Battle Realms + Winter of the Wolf

After playing this game, no other RTS game impressed me. It had everything! Projectile type ranged attacks for ranged units, burning splinters coming out of a burning building would set fire and damage other buildings it hits or just damage units, you could roll boulders off cliffs for instakilling units, higher ground really mattered, all units had unique fighting sounds and animations, ranged units would fight in melee when attacked by a melee unit (archers would fight hand to hand using fists and kicks), the resource management was very neat, rain would affect the growth of rice (the most important currency). Stacking max tier units was a bad strategy. It was way better to take advantage of the synergy between different units and their abilities. Really, I can go on with this list for hours. But the more I played it, the more I loved it. I am just really sad it got no sequel or no "remastered" version. I would have payed hard money for it.

i remember i was really stunned by the graphics when this game came out, and details of samurais, and animation of troops fighting, peasants taking rice from fields and much much more got strategy and tactics in it i remember this game was also in polish so comon gog add polish language too i will definitely buy it when you do, until then i wish list this game

Battle Realms is a real-time strategy game with a heavy feudal Japan theme. It plays similarly to Warcraft III, with four different clans, hero units and a relatively slow pace. It has a non-linear campaign and hectic yet soothing gameplay. Instead of spawning, units are trained from peasants to one of a large variety of warriors, all of who are useful and combine on a battlefield. Battle Realms is simple in its presentation, but with complex mechanics, making it easy to learn and really hard to master. But most of all, Battle Realms has spirit.

This was the true king of RTS of that time. I didn't like Warcraft 3, but liked this one a lot.

A game were one controls a bunch of warriors and peasants in an Arcadian-Eastern setting, very romantic presentation. It is apparently made by a Japanese company, which is good; I would not play it necessarily for the history lesson, but the story has a kind of scope like you would expect from a game set in the Far East, with lots of Eastern cultural tropes making a return from time to time, and yet it is not a ridiculous or overly fanciful story. Also, a variety of clans and heroes - which are similar to Warcraft III heroes in a way, but more simple (yet at least as interestingly presented) - make every game a little legendary Eastern legend of a legend, very nice. What sets it apart is the flow, that arises out of the peasant mechanic, very cool.. There is definitely something to like for everybody then, even if it is not perfect. Maybe, despite the richness of the presentation, it falls short in this regard: Either this game is a section of a partition to be understood partly itself as completely arbitrarily 'Orientalist' - for all intends and purposes - or it is authentically, and commercially, a matter of 'scheinen im selbst' as Hegel would say, so a kind of knowingly writing one's own history through a game in a sense; "solely according to analogy, inasmuch as God is essential being, whereas other things are beings by participation." For it is a strategy game; which is one of my favourite genres exactly for this reason, that stuff seems real and is still so controllably simulated, that it combines the best of both the arcade-action worlds of game-play basically and also the best of the simulated life-games even, like The Sims perhaps even. But even is this is true, I can heartily recommend it to anyone who likes the Far East, either by way of culture or by some heroic motivation of identity, or a need to identify, with something different than what one already knew as being his own Western guise that was for them the 'being self' of being a Western person...