Battle Craft

Battle Craft is an online real-time strategy game in which each player develops a town, trains heroes and raids other players’ settlements. You gather gold and mana, build defenses and recruit heroes such as barbarians, elves and dragons. As you progress, the game moves through increasingly modern and technological eras.

Towns and raids

You position defensive structures around your settlement and send heroes on raids against other players. Successful raids earn resources and hero experience, and raise your ranking. The game includes ranking points, a leaderboard and player leagues.

Heroes and combat

Heroes gain experience through battles. The game tracks each hero’s hits to different body parts, total damage, enemies killed, critical hits and decapitations. You can train heroes in combat skills, and each hero’s abilities affect how they fight.

Heroes with ranged weapons also carry melee weapons. They usually attack from a distance, but switch to melee weapons when enemies approach. After winning a melee fight, they return to ranged combat if no other enemies are nearby.

Defending your settlement

You can set two to five patrol points for each hero assigned to guard your settlement. Heroes walk between the points, keeping watch; if they spot an enemy during an attack, they raise the alarm and all heroes attack. Heroes stationed at towers, crossbows or cannons do not patrol. If you infiltrate an enemy settlement without being noticed, you can make a silent kill and continue the raid.

Archery towers are battlefield buildings where you can station a ranged hero. A hero sent to a tower takes position there, increasing their shooting range and visibility area by 10%.

Cannons do not fire by themselves: you must assign a character with the artilleryman ability, which can be trained at the training camp. Its level affects cannon accuracy and reloading. To fire, the character loads a projectile, lights the fuse, aims and shoots, accounting for the target’s movement speed. If an enemy approaches, the character leaves the cannon to fight with a melee weapon, then returns to the cannon if no other enemies are nearby. When firing at ranged heroes, the character stays at the cannon rather than switching to melee combat.

Mounts and skills

Heroes can learn riding at a riding camp, where they train to ride different mounts. A hero training there cannot train combat skills at the same time. All mounts need a rider to be used in combat or defense. If a mount dies while its rider survives, the hero dismounts and continues fighting. Enemies can attack both rider and mount; while mounted, the mount makes lunges rather than engaging in melee combat.

Maiming is a trainable skill for melee heroes with suitable weapons, such as two-handed swords and katanas. It has 10 levels, with each level increasing the chance of triggering in battle. Heroes with daggers cannot train it. When the skill triggers, a hero can sever an opponent’s hand, leg or head, or split them in half with one strike. An opponent who loses their head or is split in half dies instantly.