Choose your fate and those you protect
As a small Garrison Commander in ancient China you are entrusted to protect an out lying area of Emperor Qin Shi Huang lands that border the nomadic Chanyu rulers of inner Asia. Use your wits and experience to stay alive and keep betrayal and the Chanyu raider at bay.
Odyssey in Ancient China
Your area of jurisdiction covers an open world of 50 sq km of farmlands and rice fields to lush forests, swamps and mountains bordering the areas of the Chanyu.
Stamp your Authority
Enforce your rule to maintain order and productivity whilst responding to village needs, conflicts or raids from the Chanyu. Lead or order raiding parties on the Chanyu to inflict revenge or steal resources. Your decisions affect how your enemy and peasants respond.
Memories and Interactions
With hundreds of peasants and warriors, every character has their own identity with specific memories and experiences that shapes their skill, attitude and behaviour. Morale, loyalty and obedience is not guaranteed, beware of treachery.
Create Custom Games
Create and release customised gameplay through character interactions, conversations, responses and event consequences.
Player Skills
Skills are not limited to fighting, movement or objects, build memories and create confidantes to help identify those who'll betray and undermine your authority.
Take Command of Your Garrison and Jurisdiction
Manage the specialized resources of your garrison as you customise squads of warriors and peasants as they enforce your will, go on patrol or into battle.
Villages and Peasants
The peasants all have skills related to the type of produce of their home village (e.g. cart driver, livestock tendering, crops, cloth etc) and work collectively to produce output for their village and the emperor. Take control of your jurisdiction and manage it's production output, food and resources reserves.
Resources can be moved between villages or stolen from the Chanyu clans of the Xiongnu. Peasants can be captured from the Chanyu and used to bolster your work force.
Use the Resources of the World
Use the resources of the world to boost morale and reward your peasants. Heavy resources require an ox and cart for transport. Use them wisely to ensure availability so perishable resources such as hunted deer don't go to waste
Gameplay
- Third person and first person when armed with a crossbow
- Play in real time across a whole year
- Ensure villages in your jurisdiction meet production quotas
- Manage and use the resources inside your jurisdiction
- Protect your jurisdiction from raiding Chanyu
- Attack the Chanyu and capture peasants and resources
- Treat peasants harshly or with kindness to ensure quotas are met
- Command any warriors and peasants
- Create squads and embark on any mission or stay at base and await news as missions unfold
- Consider how news is received from peasants and warriors as you move around the world
- Seek help and learn new skills
- Advance time
Peasants:- Hundreds of peasants each with their own identity, skill, attitude and memories
- Attitudes of peasants vary based on their experiences; treatment, food levels, resources of home village and attacks from raiders
- Attitudes and skill affect village produce output
- Disenchanted peasants who are treacherous and deceitful
- Find peasants who'll inform on the disloyal
Warriors:- Warriors are skilled with sword or crossbow. Fast messenger warriors take orders around the world
- Build squads to action your commands
- Give orders to individual warriors or to squads
- Warriors improve skills through experience
- Beware of disloyalty from those seeking to take over your command
