Settle and Battle: New Empires

Settle and Battle: New Empires is a real-time strategy game, realized in a form reminiscent of classics of the genre like the Age of Empires series. The production was developed by the independent, one-man Attic Games Studio from Germany, which has in its portfolio, among other genre-related projects, Mars: Colonization.

Gameplay

In Settle and Battle: New Empires we view the action from a bird's eye view. During the game we take control of one of the tribes, which have been diversified in terms of buildings and special units. The game takes place on maps covered with a grid of hexagonal p?les. On them we can find raw materials, which are necessary for the development of our tribe, or at worst - empty space waiting to be filled.

In addition to food to feed our subjects, the primary resources here are wood and clay, which are used to construct buildings. The list of the latter includes buildings related to agriculture (and thus food production), settlements and the needs of the residents (providing them with a roof over their heads and fulfilling their whims, we increase the number of subjects and the population limit), the extraction of raw materials (coal, copper, iron and gold) and the production of goods based on them (including weapons and armor), and finally the military (from barracks, where we recruit units, to defense towers).

Such a set of buildings allows us to create production chains and prepare for warfare. At the same time, it is worth remembering that objects can be erected within single p?l; in addition, many of them can only be placed on fields of a certain type, such as those containing a particular raw material.

Like the rest of the gameplay, clashes take place in real time. The pace of play can be paused or sped up; the latter is useful, for example, when waiting for workers to finish building.

Game modes

The main game mode in Settle and Battle: New Empires is the story campaign. In addition, the title gives us access to procedurally generated maps, on which we can play individual battles.

Graphics

The graphic design of Settle and Battle: New Empires is made in low poly technique (and therefore based on a relatively small number of clearly visible polygons). The characters were kept in an "angular" style reminiscent of Minecraft.