Empires and Tribes

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

About The Game

In Empires and Tribes you will find the classic game principles of a real-time strategy game combined with the possibilities of a role-playing game in first person perspective. In addition to city planning and economic decisions, you can expect political power struggles in the city council, an indecisive priest, a strike-hungry population, bandits, begging monks, thieves and four hostile principalities in the immediate vicinity.

Key Features

• 3 population levels -peasants, craftsmen and townsmen- with different needs
• Complex economic cycle with over 20 different goods and 35 different buildings, most of them upgradeable one to three levels
• Large battles and sieges with more than one hundred units involved
• 6 different combat unit types such as swordsmen, archers, knights or trebuchets
• Individual design and layout of castles and defensive fortifications with a variety of extension buildings
• AI, which develops its city depending on the given conditions and attacks the player if necessary
• Simulated daily routine of the NPC's and 19 different professions for the city population
• Simulated day-night cycle and variable weather
• Disasters such as fires and lightning and events such as bandits, sale of indulgences or mendicant monks
• Crafting of tools, weapons and all resources and trade goods used in the game
• Skills system, equipment and inventory for the player
• Interaction and communication with the NPC's