Strategos Launches on January 20th Large-Scale Real-Time Warfare in the Ancient World Comes to PC

Strategos, the real-time tactics wargame focused on large-scale warfare in classical antiquity, will officially launch on January 20th.

Designed for players seeking historically grounded, mechanically deep battles, Strategos simulates warfare across nearly a thousand years of the ancient world. From the Hoplite armies of the Persian Wars to the legions of Imperial Rome and the rise of the Sasanian Empire, players can command thousands of troops on expansive battlefields shaped by terrain, morale, disorder, and command limitations.

Command Warfare at Scale
Strategos emphasizes realism and systemic depth over arcade-style action. Armies maneuver in formation, react to morale shocks, pursue or rout enemies, and suffer from fatigue, disorder, and fog of war. Success depends not only on troop quality, but on positioning, timing, leadership, and the effective use of generals to maintain command and control across the battlefield.

Players can recreate historical engagements or design speculative matchups using an extensive custom battle system, selecting factions, eras, army sizes, terrain, and AI behavior. Historical battles such as Issos, Trebia, Ilipa, Magnesia, Zama, Adamclisi, Bibracte, Carrhae, and Raphia are included at launch, with additional scenarios planned post-release.

Key Features

Real-Time Tactical Warfare in Classical Antiquity
- Simulate large-scale battles with thousands of soldiers on screen, featuring realistic formations, morale, and battlefield behavior.
Advanced Command & Control Simulation
- Manage generals, couriers, and command ranges to issue orders, provide morale support, and commit leaders directly to combat.
Deep Battlefield Mechanics
- Includes disorder, morale shocks, routing, pursuit, evasion, flanking, terrain effects, fog of war, and command limitations inspired by tabletop wargaming.
Over 250 Unique Units
- Infantry, cavalry, skirmishers, and specialist troops faithfully modeled across different cultures and eras.
Nearly 120 Playable Factions
- Command armies from across the ancient Mediterranean and beyond, including Greek city-states, Hellenistic kingdoms, Rome, Carthage, Persian empires, tribal confederations, and lesser-known regional powers.
Extensive Custom Battle Options
- Customize army lists, allies, eras, maps, deployment rules, AI behavior, difficulty, and optional randomization filters.
Historical and Hypothetical Scenarios
- Recreate famous engagements or explore alternate outcomes with fully configurable battle setups.
Hotseat and AI-Controlled Play
- Play against AI opponents or disable AI entirely for hotseat-style command.
Operational Campaign Mode (In Development)
- Command armies as a general in charge of a single theatre of operations in the map-based campaigns. These will begin with Sicily during the First Punic War at release, followed by more campaigns throughout Early Access. These campaigns involve operational level maneuvers (marching/sailing), maintaining supply lines, choosing what armies to attack or what settlements to besiege, and some limited unit recruitment and replenishment--providing historical context and strategic advantage for tactical battles.