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"Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf" is the expansion pack of the real-time strategy computer game Battle Realms by Liquid Entertainment. The story revolves around the wild Wolf clan and its leader "Grayback" in their struggle for freedom from the grip of the cold-hearted Lotus clan.
Winter of the wolf just like the first Battle Realms, follows the basic formula for many real-time strategy games. All of its factions have similar buildings, with similar uses, and workers. However, the workers in Battle Realms, unlike in most other real-time strategy games, are able to transform themselves into military units. Thus, buildings are not used for "making" units, but for "transforming" units. The most important units in Battle Realms: peasants; farming, building, and training into military units.
The basic worker units are called peasants in Battle Realms. Peasants gather the two resources in the game: rice and water. They also round up horses, which can be used by most other units in the game and can provide additional payload for peasants. Peasants can build all of the buildings in the games.
Peasants are the only units the player can produce outright. Most of the buildings available are schools where peasants are trained into a variety of other units. For example: sending a Wolf peasant to a Combat Pit will train it into a Brawler; a Ballistic Grounds will train it into a hurler; a Quarry to train it into a Mauler. These can be trained further into advanced units by sending them into the remaining schools. For example, sending a Brawler to a Quarry or a Ballistic Grounds will produce a Sledger or Ballistaman, respectively. Peasants can have a maximum of three levels of learning; two clans have four.
Another difference in unit generation is that peasants are produced automatically without any cost. However, the rate at which new peasants are produced slows down as your population grows.
Certain buildings can teach special techniques (called Battle Gears or special abilities) for a price, giving new abilities to aid units. They can also allow units to defeat higher tier units they normally would have a problem (or be killed) from.
Another key element in Battle Realms is Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang are only obtained in battle. Yang points are for the Dragon and the Wolf clan(light clans) while the Yin points are for the Serpent and the Lotus clan(dark clans). They are used to summon Zen Masters, upgrade units, and strengthen attack damage of heroes. Some clans can use these Yang/Yin to power a powerful nuke or give units Battle Gears. The farther units are from their base, the faster Yin or Yang can be harvested. Wikipedia |
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