This very rarely happens in an all-out war. Once on the battlefield, your task is to bring about the conditions for a victory. Instead of a single storyline or campaign throughout the game, AAoW gives you a list of battles to choose from. Your task is to assume the position of a battlefield commander and secure the route to victory. Each opponent has a different fighting style of combat and strategy.įorget about shoot-'em-up games, The Ancient Art of War is pure strategy. The difficulty setting is based on real-historical characters, (with the exception of possibly) Crazy Ivan as the easiest and Sun Tzu as the hardest opponent.
A squad consisting a maximum of 14 soldiers will fight according to their set battle formation and will act only on the player's real-time battle commands (e.g. The second is the combat screen where one group of soldiers fight another group of the enemy. Time may be set to pause, faster or slower to make battle plans easier Here the player can coordinate, position, reinforce troops, and also command them to attack, defend or ambush enemy troops in a real-time setting. The first is the tactical/political map, which visualizes geographical and terrain elements from a top-down perspective. Gameplay is represented in two major areas: Some settings may be subject to change by the player. The game consists of different scenarios to choose from, each with a different geographical setting, difficulty setting, visibility setting, and victory condition setting. A fourth non-combatant unit type is also available: "Spies", which is only available under certain campaign rule settings. The game is set in ancient battle-style times before the use of gun powder, consisting of the three basic unit types of that period: the light armored but fast "Barbarians", the heavily armored but slow "Knights", and the ranged "Archers". The Ancient Art of War is a real-time strategy game based on the very basic elements of war: unit types, formation, and strength.
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