Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages

Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages aims to deliver a sweeping medieval strategy experience built around turn-based conquest, faction management, and board-game-style decision-making. Developed and published by HeroLabs, the game drops players into an alternate version of the medieval world where historical armies and anachronistic units coexist—Vikings face Mongol cavalry, crusader knights clash with musketeers, and war elephants march beside early European infantry. This imaginative mixture adds a playful “what-if” quality to the campaign, and the game’s large provincial maps encourage players to think in terms of long-term planning rather than moment-to-moment micromanagement. Each scenario places you in control of a struggling faction, requiring you to rebuild your forces, secure income, and push outward through contested terrain. A notable strength of the game lies in how it frames strategy on a broad scale. You manage provinces rather than individual battlefields, and every decision—recruiting troops, positioning generals, fortifying borders, securing supply—contributes to a wider web of consequences. Terrain types such as rivers, bogs, and forested regions meaningfully slow movem…

Too simple, too primitive, too repetative. It is not bad game by itself, problem is that it is mobile game. I don't know where I get it, most likely, from another bundle. I think I will finish all scenarios, but I'm not sure. I'd give a positive review, but desctription of the game is a blatant lie. All generals are similar, rather, there are maybe 7-8, max 10 different perks, they just improve on level ups. Like "give +5 atk, but remove -4 def". After level up it will be "give +6 atk, but remove -3 def" etc. Landscape and weather make a little impact: unit can have 30-100 atk, and bonus/malus usually is +/-3. It just does not matter in most cases, moreover so, because battle, say, in town gives bonuses to all participants. Generals again... Some can lead only 7 units, others 8, best 9. It is fixed. Why take general with 7 slots, if you can skip a turn and next one may have 8 or 9 slots?.. Fomations add very little: some units are good in front row, some in second, also second row gives defense bonus. Yes, it matters, but it's obvious, that if some unit will get 100 atk instead of 80, it should be placed into the front row, it is basic logic, not tactics. Of course, should be menti…

Crashing and freezing, this game does not work anymore. My rating 0/10, not recommended.

First was 0/10, that have 1/10

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Update: I enjoyed this actually once I figured out the crashing quirks. it's very buggy, but figured out what causes crashes for the most part. The progression with glory points is nice, some scenarios are too hard to get all the optional objectives until you level up some. Dust and Powder is good for farming glory points, can get all optional objectives by turn ~35-45. Mobility is key, the light cav having 3x movement range is a lifesaver on scenarios you can swing it. Some maps crash every 3-5 turns, no rhyme or reason, some can go 40+ turns without crashing. Just sacrifice your turn and reload, doesn't take that long. Is less frustrating once you're used to it. Do not: Use resolutions higher than 1920x1080. Use more than 2 monitors, do not tab between monitors, the game will crash. If you crash due to resolution, be careful switching settings, you can only swap between windowed and full screen once before crashing. Reloading will refresh this 1x opportunity. When you have multiple generals in a town, don't select Recruit troops when cycling between generals that have already recruited troops, will cause crash. However, if you switch troops between a general that has moved, …