Buy Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages PC key

Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages is a turn-based strategy game set in a violent alternate Middle Ages. You take the throne of a small kingdom divided by feuds and threatened by militant neighbors, and try to survive as rival armies clash. Its battles pit forces such as Vikings against war elephants, musketeers against Mongol cavalry, and ancient phalanx legions against crusaders.

Factions and armies

You can command six factions, each with its own generals and squads: the nimble nomads of the Horde, the disciplined, well-armored Imperial soldiers, the fur-clad Normanna, the League’s gunpowder-wielding guilds, the Order’s proud knights and the exotic cults of the Mesopotamia. More than 50 squad types are based on real historical troops.

Commanders and veterans

Generals lead your squads, and their skills and abilities can change the outcome of a battle. Each game generates generals with distinct appearances, personalities, character traits and abilities, so you might find a brave but simple knight, a talented but greedy tactical genius or a bloodthirsty barbarian who frightens both allies and enemies. You can preserve your greatest leaders in a pantheon of chosen generals and reuse them in later campaigns, or hire legendary historical figures such as Joan of Arc and Genghis Khan.

Squads gain experience and develop their skills by surviving battles, making seasoned troops more capable than fresh recruits. You can also upgrade soldiers’ weapons and armor at the royal forge.

Battles and scenarios

Positioning and formations are central to battle. You can use tactical tricks, feints and ambushes, and seek victory through quality rather than quantity. Terrain and weather affect the fight: you might lure enemy cavalry into a bog and under your arrows, while rain and fog can make your archers useless.

Scenarios offer different challenges, including winning a civil war, fighting off nomads, dealing with pirates raiding the coast, saving a kingdom ravaged by plague and crushing a peasant uprising.