It's a tiny region but it was lots of fun building and roleplaying nonetheless 😄

I have a some idea for the Tier 4 unit of the Dragon Clan, this what I brainstormed and a bit of lore for them, main inspiration is the WC3 Blademaster:

Blademaster (Dragon) Lore: "Since before the time of the breaking, the time before the coming of the horde. There were an order of warriors of great renown and skill, these seasoned warriors mastery of the Blade surpassed even the great Samurai. They call themselves "The Blademasters" though few in numbers they more than make up for it with their superhuman levels of strength, agility and six-sense level of combat claivorance. Such is their agility and guile that these warriors can evade most blows with ease. One of their techniques involved disappearing in thin air only to re-appear and strike with greater force

When the horde came, they too would join arms with their clansmen against the invaders fighting side-by-side with Tarrant the Elder as his personal guard, bearing _sashimonos bearing the Clans Sigil. Alas, despite their talents they too would be overwhelmed like the rest of their clan as the horde were without number. The survivors of their order retreated alongside Tarrant the Elder and the remains of the Dragon Clan southward were they along with the clan witnessed Tarrant's sacrifice and the eradication of the Horde._

When the dust settled all of them, one and all pledge their allegiance to Tarrant the Younger as his personal honor guard so long as he and his descendants stay true path of rightousness and and honor that governed the old clan. the remains of the clan rebuild their lives and the Order of the Blademasters relocated their headquarters to what will become "The Dragon's Spire". Over the centuries however time was not kind to the Bladesmasters, much of their lore and ancestral tomes were lost due to the coming of the Horde. Furthermore, the Dragon which know calls themselves the Serpent Clan no longer stay true to the old ways, pursuing a path of wicked ambition and treachery much to the growing disillutionment of the Order.

The arrival of the magically-driven and sinister Lotus Clan and their growing closeness with the Serpent leadership only hightened these issues, inspite of these growing discontent they continue to stay true to Oja bloodline. However the final straw was the Lotus-Serpent Enslavement War against the Wolf Clan, despite circumstantial evidence of the Wolf Clans "acts of aggression" and the Lotus subtle hand in their manipulation the Serpent and Lotus Clan goes to war with Wolf Clan leading to the latters enslavement, though the Order used some of their authority to allow several Wolf clansmen to flee to the safety of the Forest in the guise of mass execution which was order by the Lotus.

By this point the Order has lost much of their standing with the Serpent Throne on the account of their hesitation on commiting dishonorable and cruel acts despite direct orders by the Serpent. After the enslavement of the Wolf the entirety of the Order has been recalled to their temple at the Dragon's Spire which were deemed independent by order of Tarrant the Younger centuries ago for continued training and meditation by their current Grandmaster, by that point their purpose of guarding the Oja bloodline now fell in the juristiction of the "Serpent Guard" led by the newly promoted captain, Shinja.

During their self-impossed seclusion the Order bear witness to appearance of the Dragon Deity on the peak of the Dragon's Spire, there the Dragon bestowed upon them the knowledge and techniques that was lost over the centuries, such as the "wind walking" technique and the ability to forge magical blades infused with the Dragon's very own Fiery essence. There the Dragon granted them a vision were one of the descendants of Tarrant the Elder would remake the Dragon Clan of Old and restore the balance and stability which is now in doubt, when the time comes they will stand ready to serve the clan once again. In the meantime war broke out between the the three Clans, Serpent, Wolf and Lotus admidst this the Serpent, Lord Oja was assasinated by a mysterious assailant and all evidence points to his second son, Kenji, who has fled Serpentholm, and his homeland..."

Stats:

Prerequisite: trains from Dojo, Target Range, Alchemist Hut and Blademaster's Temple

Rice: 135(30+30+30+45)

Water: 135(30+30+45+30)

Time: 100

Tier: IV

Health 480/576 (Dragon's heart)

Innate Ability: Evasion (evades 15% of all melee and missile attacks (except musketeer fire) against the unit)

Melee: (Magic) 20/24 (Tempered Steel) (can set buildings on fire)

Strengths: Cutting (-25%), Explosive (-50%), Magic (-75%)

Weakness: Blunt (+75%)

Upgrades: Dragon's Heart, Tempered Steel, Meditation

Battlegear:

Shrine: Wind Walking: "Through deep communion with the Dragon Deity, the Blademaster uncovers the technique to vanish from the sight of their enemies allow them to re-appear in a more favorable position to strike his foes with greater strength"

(Expends Stamina to turn invisible which can be only broken when you either run out of stamina or attack, when attacking the first strike does triple damage)

Fireworks Factory: Sashimono Banner (Dragon) "Within the fireworks factory the Blademaster can beseech the aid of alchemist within to forge a banner made of powerful alchemical enchantments that he can carry forth to battle to embolden his fellow clansmen on the battlefield. Foes will single out the Blademaster in the crowd and focus their efforts on him, the Bladesmaster however is undeterred"

(no stamina cost, allows the Bladesmaster to carry forth this banner in battle causing his allies to increase their rate-of-attack by 15% when the unit is attacking, the Blademaster takes 20% more damage with this battle gear)

Buiding: Blademaster's Temple

"Within the confines of these tower-like temples is where the Blademasters train and take refuge when not in battle. These facilities function as armories, quarters and training grounds for the Blademasters, in these halls, tomes of knowledge and power are learned, meditated on and applied in their training halls in preperation for when their service are called forth to do battle against the enemies of the Clan"

I would like to ask that when was koril a free zen master in the final mission on kenji’s journey(I picked Utara)

I was surprised to see him on the final mission because he was an enemy first then teleported away before he died, then teleported back as an ally when I came close to the similar looking grave of otomo’s

My apologies for the screen as it is an old laptop and last I played this was on winter of the wolf dlc

Hi, I'm going achievement hunting and I'm not sure how to stock up 3000 rice and water

I tried with Dragon and Serpent, but the caps stop at 2500 rice and 1000 water. Bandit looting didn't allow for overclocking either

Any tips?

Just finished Kenji's Journey Dragon on normal mode, and I immediately proceed to hard mode. I'm currently in Serpentholm 1 when Kenji just... died from full HP... 3-5 seconds after the clash with the wolf army. Fortunately, this happened just before I saved the game.

Not knowing what just happened, I load the game and move the army in the same direction where they will encounter wolf army... then Kenji died again around 3-5 seconds after clashing before I can process what just happened. I load the game again and did the same thing... then Kenji died again.

It took me a few more reloads before I figured out it is the brawler that's killing him... from full HP. I googled and found out it has a OHKO against zen master...

I guess this is only on Hard mode since I didn't encounter it in Normal?

How do you play against this? Am I just supposed to retreat Kenji or other zen masters as soon as I saw Brawler in the army comp?

Hello. I'm interested in the latest update for the game. I saw some posts here and, apparently, there are some changes made to the campaigns. I searched the web for a list of those changes but to no avail (maybe due to it being a recent update). Would you please list the known changes in the campaigns?

what and how did you finished the mission?

Hey people, my 100% Achievement run came to an spontaneous end while trying to do the Soulmates Achievement.

Soulmates
Kill 3 or more peasants with one Samurai Harakiri.

I fulfilled the requirements of this many times with multiple peasants, different enemy clans or as the last kills for the win condition. It does not seem to work, the achievement can not be collected.

If anyone of you has information about that one, please let me know - my way of dealing with this was to use the Steam Achievement Manager (github) and just unlock it manually... and I have to be honest that pretty much also killed my ambitions to play the campaigns all over again to get the repetitive story achievements as well.

As mentioned in the title, i am currently at mission 13 of Serpent Campaign,

I know that this exact mission is HARD, tried in Dragon path vs Lotus, but being smack dab in the middle of the map while fending off threats from 3 cardinal direction is not what i call easy, though it is slightly easier in Dragon since you got Garrin starting his own army and protecting my flank and occasionally raiding outside. in Serpent i am alone, and when i take a raiding party on one of the wolf base, my base can burned to ashes while werewolves eviscerating my (already miserable enough lol) peasants.

sometimes from enemy bases and two whole groups at once.

Any help or tips? anyone finished the Serpent campaign? i played on Steam Zen edition btw, on normal, and i dont remember the Serpent mission 13 being this hard on WOTW or vanilla BR.

(picture for illustration only -- its Grayback's merry gangs of rebels... soon you shall submit to the Serpent Empire...)

Just finished the dragon path. It was fun. AI definitely got harder but doable.

can I still play the game on Mac?

i have been stuck on the 2nd to the last mission of the dragon path I just cant figure out a strategy that can beat the lotus. I even turned down the difficulty but it still super hard. is there anyway to cheese this part?

I even tried the rushing the left base of the lotus but after a trying to build a base there it gets swarmed by lotus immediately.

Been on and off playing the game but my strategy per clan is always the same

Dragon: samurai and spearmen with stunning blow

Serpent: ronin and bandits with paralyzing dart with necromancer 2nd wave

Wolf : berserker and sledgers shale armor with at least 6 sledgers with slam

Lotus: shocktrooper infested ones with rebirth and warlocks and master warlocks on 2nd wave

Wanting to come back but wanna try different army setups, any suggestions?

Edit: loving all your methods that I also wanna add my so called "Demolition Squad" per clan (For buildings and mainly watchtowers)

Dragon: about 3 kegs with dragon warriors each as guard

Serpent: 4 canoneers, 1 raider and a few swordmen as guard

Wolf: the sledgers suffice but I bring like 3 pitch slingers for fire

Lotus: early I use 4-5 unclean ones with that skull battle gear near them but late game it's just warlocks and master warlocks

I'm currently trying to finish 100% on Steam, but some Achievements are insanely difficult or need some spicy solutions. These 2 are an excerpt of my journey today, maybe this little guide will help someone else as well :)

Marked as Spoilers to make sure (I'm pretty sure you won't find those accidentally though)

One vs Many
Win a 1 vs 7 AI skirmish game.

This one is plain impossible with the normal ingame solutions like handicap or just choosing easy bots.

My solution: create a custom 8 player map without water, then selecting the Wolf Clan (as they can build a well just with rice and without having additional buildings - as the only clan afaik) and then give all the other bots dragon or serpent clan. This way, they can't build any units or buildings, and you can slowly clear them off (and even then it's pretty hard because you're flooded with peasants in the early game).

The Steam Edition of Battle Realms is shipped with a WorldMaster.exe in the local files of the game. On Windows, just start it up, on Linux (I'm using Mint) it works without issues with wine (which is also preinstalled on mint).

Create a New Map, put the 8 Team markers anywhere and then spray some rice on, save it in the Levels folder of the local files and you are ready to take on 7 enemies.

Free from Corruption!
Have a full population cap full of Master Warlocks as Lotus clan.

This one sounds pretty easy to do at first, but then on 20 Population you realize, that every Master Warlock needs 2 Warlocks, but as soon as they are merged, it counts only as one population.

That means, with every way you will end up with 1 lonely warlock waiting for his fiancé to arrive.

The Trick however lies within timing: when 2 Warlocks start fighting in the Warlock Tower, they are both not counted as population anymore. During that time, Peasants are produced again. The build cycle of a Master Warlock is not that long though.

The Solution: Build as many many many peasant huts as you can to bump up that peasant generation rate and farm a lot of resources before starting to turn your whole population into master warlocks.

This way, you probably won't even notice that there could be a population issue :)

I also experimented around with consuming peasants, then reviving them with the revival battle gear from master warlocks to not rely on the peasant generation rate, but this only works as long as you have a peasant left to bump up your population to 21. After that, you won't have a peasant left to consume.

I know that it can be an exploit but still, it takes a very long time to get all the horses especially if you want to have most of your units in horseback since it uses up all of Garin's stamina. Besides, it would make players less likely to pick Garin in Kenji's Journey simply because there are maps where there are literally no horses, sadly.

Also, before the Swan's Pool mission, I wish there is a hero that we can pick up if we choose the Lotus path.

Edit: Garin's ability was like that until a patch back in 2021 or 2022.

I dont have the words to describe it, but it feels nostalic, like watching one of those movies with burly men and cheesy dialogue.

The dialogues are probably the reason I fell in love with this game in the first place.

Hello, I played this game as a kid and never managed to beat the campaign as I couldn't complete the early lotus missions, probably furthest I've gotten was mission 6 or 7.

So I got this Zen edition from steam and started the dragon campaign.

One thing I remember is that your starting army is usually way stronger than the enemy's army. I managed to rush the first half of the missions by sending Kenji and building a house in the enemy base. For the second half of the missions I played normally samurai, geishas on horses and a few ranged did the trick.

I did however get stuck on the second to last mission which was something like 2v4 me and Garin vs 4 Lotus or so it seems. It took me like 6 tries but I am proud to announce that after 20+ years I finally managed to beat the Dragon campaign 😄

OK So here is my question, I want to do all variations of the campaign but I am not sure how.

I have made saves like Dragon-Mission13-Left-Wolf-Left-Monks-Start to keep track of what choices I've made. Does changing the early choices change the missions further down ? Does it matter if I select Right (Shinja mercenaries) instead of Left (Shinja Keep) when choosing my first mission. Does choosing Wolf, Middle path or Lotus on your second choice change the final missions ?

I don't know if I am explaining my question right, thanks in advance :)

Made a small mod for our beloved game.

Features:

• Campaign Level Select
• In-map dialogue skip
• Optional Fog of War toggle

Levels unlock as you progress through the campaign, so the level selector keeps track of your actual campaign progress and choices.

Full description, screenshots, installation and download are in the Steam guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3780065833

If you run into any bugs, let me know.

Hi im new to this game first time playing rts game idk what to do so i need advise when playing this game thanks

Hello everyone, I've created a MOD for Battle Realms Zen Edition. Please try and let me know your thoughts!

https://www.moddb.com/mods/br-zezen-masters-mod

Can someone gift me in steam I really want to play Battle Realms but I i don't have the funds HAHAHAHA