Strategos

Simulate Historical Battles

Simulate large scale warfare with the armies of antiquity in Strategos. With thousands of men on screen, you can recreate real or speculative historical battles between the major and minor powers of the ancient Mediterranean.

Manage Complex Mechanics

Strategos is an ancients wargame with large scale formation movements and disorder, unordered charges, pursuing, evading, routing and morale shocks, fog of war, terrain effects, flanking and command and control simulations that bring a hardcore tabletop feel to digital, real-time wargaming.

Command the Armies of Classical Antiquity

The armies of Strategos span nearly a thousand years of the classical period, from the Hoplites and Immortals of the Persian Wars, to the rise of the Sasanian Empire against Imperial Rome.

Master Advanced Command and Control

An advanced command and control simulation encourages the player to think about the positioning and use of their generals, and when to commit them in order to balance giving orders, sending couriers, providing morale support, and fighting in direct combat.

Select From a Huge Number of Units and Factions

The game contains over 250 unique units and nearly 120 unique factions, including the various Hellenic Empires, The Achaemenid Persian Empire, Rome and Carthage across different eras, Gallic, Germanic and Iberian tribes, Umbrians, Samnites and other native Italians, the major city states of ancient Greece, the Thracians, and more.

Customize Battles

Custom battle options include selection of army lists, allies, units, army sizes, era, map, deployment distance and sides, difficulty, AI type/aggression, whether to use AI at all (alternative is hotseat), and optional randomization of army lists with options to filter random armies by era, importance, and whether they are steppe armies.

Historical Campaigns and Reenactments

Current historical battles include Issos, Trebia, Ilipa, Magnesia, Zama, Adamclisi, Bibracte, Carrhae, Marathon and Raphia. The text-based campaigns currently include the battles of Alexander, Hannibal, the Wars of the Diadochi, the Roman Civil Wars, and the battles of Early Rome and the Peloponnesian War. The map-based campaigns include the First Punic War, the Greco-Punic War, the Pyrrhic War, the Second Macedonian War and the Greco-Persian war, with more to come.

Factions:

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