Strategos

Strategos is a real-time wargame in which you command armies from nearly a thousand years of classical antiquity. You can recreate real or speculative historical battles between major and minor powers of the ancient Mediterranean, with thousands of men on screen.

Battles and command

The game simulates large-scale formation movement, disorder, unordered charges, pursuit, evasion, routing and morale shocks. Fog of war, terrain effects, flanking, and command and control also shape battles.

Its command system makes the positioning and use of generals important. You decide when to commit them, balancing the need to give orders, send couriers, support morale and fight directly.

Armies and factions

Strategos contains over 250 unique units and nearly 120 unique factions. Its armies span the period from the Hoplites and Immortals of the Persian Wars to the Sasanian Empire’s wars against Imperial Rome. Factions include Hellenic Empires, the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Rome and Carthage across different eras, as well as Gallic, Germanic and Iberian tribes, Umbrians, Samnites, other native Italians, and the major city-states of ancient Greece.

The available factions are:

• 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
• Brythonic
• Campanian
• Carthaginian (Early/Late)
• Commagene
• Caucasian
• Cypriot and Phoenician
• Dacian
• Etruscan (Early/Late)
• Galatian (Early/Late)
• Gallic (Early/Middle/Late)
• 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
• Indian (Classical/Mountain/Republican)
• 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

Custom battles

Custom battle settings let you choose army lists, allies, units, army sizes, era, map, deployment distance and sides, difficulty, and AI type and aggression. You can also turn off the AI for hotseat play. Army lists can be randomized, with filters for era, importance and whether armies are steppe armies.

Campaigns and battles

Historical battles include Issos, Trebia, Ilipa, Magnesia, Zama, Adamclisi, Bibracte, Carrhae, Marathon and Raphia. Text-based campaigns cover the battles of Alexander and Hannibal, the Wars of the Diadochi, the Roman Civil Wars, Early Rome and the Peloponnesian War.

Map-based campaigns cover the First Punic War, the Greco-Punic War, the Pyrrhic War, the Second Macedonian War and the Greco-Persian War.