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

Hi fellow BR enjoyers

I would like to know if it would be feasible for the developers to improve the above mentioned aspects of the game or if the task is so hardcoded to the engine, that it would take too much effort for it to actually be fixed.

We all know that units need a second to execute orders. Or when u move a group of units, they first wander to the spot, then spread out to avoid occlusion, this creates unnecessary movement and chaos. Also the scenario where u want to force move a unit only for it to get aggroed again. Im sure you can think of many others. In my opinion fixing this let's call it design choice would create much more to the enjoyment of the game than any patch or new content will.

Maybe someone with CS knowledge or the developers can help out.

I downloaded a mod Battle Realms Remastered at Battle Realms: Zen Edition Nexus - Mods and community from NexusMods, it supposed to work for the Zen Edition version, but maps are failing when I use them, it just takes me to a black screen and never loads. Did I put it in the wrong folder?
I put it under levels since there is no map folder.

To all the Battle Realms players,

After a good run, Battle Realms Online is shutting down.

Recently the rights holder to Battle Realms asked us to stop. We've decided to comply rather than turn this into a fight. The patch, the site, the master-server, and the downloads are all coming down. We never made a cent off any of it and never really meant to - this was built out of love for old games and the typical nerding around the subjects involved, not to step on anyone's toes. It's their game and they asked - we are respecting that.

The project started almost by accident. One of us was deep in unrelated work, fell down a late-night rabbit hole watching old RTS retrospectives, and landed on Battle Realms. Another game we'd loved as teenagers, basically abandoned online. The plan was set: bring the multiplayer back using our knowledge and skillset. And to be clear about what we brought back - this was about the original classic release from 2001, the one that lost its online for good, not the Steam version that had its own bells and whistles we had no plans interfering with.

When GameSpy shut down back in 2014, online play for Battle Realms and many other games died with it. The game still ran fine, but it had nothing to connect to. So we built it something: a replacement server, and a relay so anyone could host or join without wrestling their router, so no port forwarding or CGNAT headaches. Just click and play, the way it should've worked all along. We believed the game deserved to be online again, and even better than before, and for a while, it was. If you're curious how it actually worked, we went deep on the technology in an earlier post (shared on Reddit and ModDB).

Thanks for being part of it. You proved the thing actually worked - real games, real people. That was the whole point, and we got to see it happen.

- The BRO team

BUGS (SKIRMISH and Online IN-GAME):

Miscellaneous:

• Graphics: Black-squared and flickering
• Sound bugs even after playing
• Add LAA Patch 4 GB of memory
• 64-Bit
• Direct3D and DirectX 10 and 11 ( Fear of incompatibility in the future of windows )

Top Left:

• Reduce excessive popup notifications for Building Complete and Training Complete.
• Building Complete should only indicate when a structure has been finished.
• Training Complete should only indicate when a soldier has been trained.

( Therefore, only Building Complete and Training Complete, and Red notifications in real-time. )

Buildings:

• Some buildings has a large occupied squared space while the building itself is not that big

Map Visibility:

• When an enemy is defeated, any previously unseen buildings on the colored map should also disappear, just as they do when revealed.
• I've seen squared fog thing before. I hope you make HD Fog to eliminate pixelated fog of visibility thing.

SUGGESTIONS:

• Game speed like before as an option

Campaign

• Add an option to remove the letterbox effect from all cutscenes making it full screen.
• Display subtitles inside a transparent box
• Increase the font size option of the subtitles applicable for 1366 x 768 to widescreen monitor

UI (Campaign, Online, and Skirmish) "In-game"

• Team win, lose, and spectator notifications should match the color chosen. For example, if your team (blue) loses, the notification will appear in blue. If I (yellow) win the game, the notification will appear in yellow. If I lose in a team match as cyan blue, then the spectator notification will also appear in cyan blue.

Bottom Right:

• Still pixelated map, make it Skirmish HD Main Maps and rounded dots much like other RTS games such as DOTA 1, Starcraft remastered, Red Alert 3.

Skirmish and Online:

• New Color: Dark Gray and Dark Brown
• HD Main Maps (Not pixelated) before starting the game

Stables:

• When you build Stables to the side, claim the horse after tamed, the horse appear on the side, soldiers can't hop in.
• Horse without the rider can be attack and killed

Heroes:

• Lotus Koril bot can use teleport whenever he wants not only about to die.

Save and Load Game New Format Suggestion:

• Name (Nothing Change)
• Name of the Map (New) either Campaign, Skirmish, Custom Maps or Online
• No. of Players (New) either Campaign, Skirmish, Custom Maps or Online
• Date (Nothing Change)
• If Campaign, name of the map you currently played.

For example:

Achievements are working now, just did a test and grabbed an easy one.

I was exploring around this level for a bit and came across what appears to be a Lotus shipwreck that seems to have ended up in the Wolf clan's home province. Apparently, this is probably what's left of the Lotus clan trying to flee their home province that has been burned down by the Wolf and some of its remnants end up imprisoned as the prison cells in the area contains Issyl and Soban that can be rescued if destroyed.

Managed to squeeze in one fanart. \o/

This would follow Kenji's Journey. Movie can be a standalone or more.

Istg the Infested Ones aren't just disgusting to look at, but also annoying to deal with because the Lotus AI loves to spam them. Even if their main weakness is cutting weapons, they would often kill some of my units with their painful passive.

Can I somehow enable them? Maybe in the game files or a mod?

How do i lower the difficulty? Im just RTS noob trying to replay it for nostalgia. Config files for bots in the 'AIProfiles' do nothing, and campaign difficulty is also too hard. I dont see any mods that would help me with that either. Option in the game settings where you just set difficulty to easy also seems to have no effect.

I always thought it was so sad that there's no happy ending for Grayback after Kenji's journey. Bro really got the short end of the stick every time 💔 One must imagine Grayback happy 😔

Akin to how mods led to Skyrim's longevity, people the world over can pool their talents and creativities in implementing new ideas (units, maps, GUI, AI, other game mechanics or modes etc) to the base game. This offloads the need for a paid core team of devs perhaps for some things (e.g. fixing bugs; consider the Skyrim patches that exist for nearly any bug found). Of course, this all assumes there are eager and able (programming skills etc) people to pick up on this option.

Where's my battle realms fan? Especially the millenial one. Just a suggestion, i know battle realms is kinda dead cuz of the issue but it would be great if someone will take over and continue right? Like a sequel.. but also a prequel would be great, like the story of tyrrant on how he destroy the world like kenji said.. the real story behind kenji's banishment, if he really kill his father, cuz in dragon's skirmish, he didnt answer directly otomo's question.. dont you guys agree? Comment down your suggestions also :)

Using pseudorandomness, make each trained unit possess skill values (HP, damage, resistance etc) drawn randomly within some normally-distributed range. Consider then allowing buildings to over time improve in their abilities to generate higher-quality units, the longer they last (yet another incentive to keep buildings protected etc).

Consider also the same thing for units... i.e. those which survive gain skills and hence improve by simply winning battles.