There is support for much higher resolutions up to 4K and slightly improved textures/lighting in parts. In terms of the actual HD remaster, comparison screenshots between the original game and this remaster shows a noticeable crispness to the terrain and user interface. Source: Youtube user SergiuHellDragoonHQ – The tower was what I was supposed to destroy but I only realised this when the village had a skeric of health left and I destroyed it, thus failing the mission and I had to repeat it all over again. While I was waiting, my eyes wondered to the left of the village boundary where I saw a tower with an orange flag next to it. It was taking a while to whittle down it’s health. I saw a tent with an orange roof so started wailing on the building with my army. Tip #1 – In tutorial mission 2, when you approach the village of Talgatta and are asked to destroy the garrison, it tells you the garrison is the building with the orange flag.

It’s the finer details with unit management that caused me to fail the tutorial missions a couple of times, so I’ll give some helpful tips to avoid you doing the same. There are familiar things like double-clicking a unit to select all of that type, highlighting a group using the mouse, assigning units to numbered battle squads, and other such RTS methods. The tutorial is critical to learning the basics of gameplay and I highly recommend playing through them, even if you’re a seasoned RTS player. Praetorians – HD Remaster has 24 missions in total with 4 excellent tutorial missions and 20 campaign missions. They have cavalry and chariots that can be churned out quickly, though their general soldiers are quite weak. Egyptians are cheaper to recruit and regenerate stamina faster but are not as strong as the other factions. Gaul units are costly to recruit with Berserkers and Warriors as strong offensive units but they move in fairly loose formations. Romans don’t have the best cavalry but make up their strength with infantry and Legionaries. The three factions all have unique basic and specialised units with differing strengths and weaknesses. Army units are trained in a garrison which you need to build in a town or village, and a commander unit is required to be there to oversea this recruitment. Where Praetorians differed from this formula is it got the player focused just on unit tactics and strategies. In most RTS games at the time, you usually had to manage building your base, gathering various resources, as well as managing your army. The game doesn’t appear to be going for historical accuracy like in Commandos 2, rather picking a few poignant battles and letting us run wild. Players control the Roman army in the campaign and you can play as Gaul (Barbarians) or Egyptian factions in skirmish matches. Praetorians is based on Julius Caesar’s brutal campaigns in Egypt, Gaul and Italy with Marcus Crassus and the events of the Roman civil war.

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