All units have health (hit points) but sorcerers also have mana which gradually regenerates when used to cast spells or summon creatures. Wood is gathered by chopping down trees, and gold and stone are gathered by mining. Food can be gathered by harvesting crops, milking cows or killing them for meat, as well as fishing if the map has lakes or rivers.

There are four types of resources a player has to gather: food, wood, stone and gold. The main differences are the types of special buildings and the types of troops available. There are many different buildings and characters player can produce, each depending on which of the three races the player chooses to play as: European, Asian or Arabian.

The basic goal is to conquer the neighbouring kingdoms and destroy all traces of them, or destroy their castles, depending on the selected playing mode. The game is a basic real time strategy game that resembles the gameplay of the Age of Empires series. The gameplay is set in a fictional medieval age.

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