History VideoGame / BattleRealms

* BadassMustache: Shinja and Wildeye.

Battle Realm's greatest strength is the fact that the player is incapable of purchasing any unit. Instead, peasants (the worker of the game) are trained in a variety of schools, getting the unit the player wants. Sending a peasant to an Archery trains them into an Archer, for instance. Furthermore, the unit can usually be trained again. Sending that Archer into either the Dojo will turn them into the melee oriented Dragon Warrior (though they can still shoot using magic) or sending them to the Alchemist Hut will turn them into the Powder Keg Cannoneer heavy siege units. Couple in the 7 damage types and the inclusion of Battle Gears which allow a unit to change their damage type or initiate some other effect or change their role in combat period (The humble Archer, alone, can go from a Ranged Support Unit to a Scouting Unit with his Zen Arrow Battle Gear to a Demolitions Specialist if you give him the Fire Arrow Battle Gear) and you have a '''very''' complex game.

As of September 20, 2012, the game can be bought together with its expansion from GOG.com.

A sequel was announced by Liquid Entertainment, Battle Realms 2: Lair of the Lotus, but later cancelled.

* {{Calvinball}}: The Wolf Clan's wolfball. According to what little we glean from it in the manual it involves a pack of rabid wolves, a solid iron ball and a walled-in arena. No non-Wolf Clan player has ever survived the first round and even spectating is supposedly dangerous.

* SaiGuy: Vetkin

* BigBadDuumvirate: Zymeth and the Nightvol.

* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: Winter of the Wolf comes first chronologically, wherein each clan's town squares are upgradable and new units and heroes can be employed. However, even with the expansion intact, Kenji's Journey does not carry over the said upgrades, units and heroes.

%% * FiveBadBand: The clans under Yin.

* TheBerserker / LastStand: Guardians with the "Last Stand" Battle Gear. Upon losing all hit points, the Guardian continues to attack nearby enemy units for a couple extra seconds with increased damage and takes none himself before finally dropping dead.

* BilingualBonus / MeaningfulName: The Dragon and Serpent Zen Masters. Otomo, Kazan, Teppo, and Taro mean "companion", "volcano", "gun", and "eldest son", respectively, in Japanese. Utara is Malay/Indonesian for "north".

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: The Serpent Route is this, as Kenji and his men fight a seemly endless tides of the horde.]] If you read the backstory of the game. Their likeliness to survive is very dim.

* FiveBadBand: The clans under Yin.
** The Serpent: [[BigBad Kenji/Shinja]], [[TheDragon Taro/Otomo]], [[EvilGenius Vetkin]], [[TheBrute Budo]], and [[DarkChick Utara]]. Also, the [[SixthRanger Necromancer]].
** The Lotus: [[BigBad Zymeth]], [[TheDragon Koril]], [[EvilGenius Soban]], [[TheBrute Issyl]], and [[DarkChick Yvaine]]. Also, the [[{{Mentors}} Three Brothers]].
* FiveManBand: The clans under Yang.
** The Dragon: [[TheHero Kenji]][=/=][[TheLeader Otomo]], [[TheLancer Garrin/Shinja]], [[TheSmartGuy Tao/Teppo]], [[TheBigGuy Kazan]], and [[TheChick Arah]].
** The Wolf: [[TheLeader Grayback]], [[TheLancer Wildeye]], [[TheSmartGuy Longtooth]], [[TheBigGuy Shale Lord]], and [[TheChick Gaihla]].

* DamageIsFire: Ineffective against units, most potent against buildings. See also KillItWithFire.

''Battle Realms'' is a RealTimeStrategy game developed by Creator/LiquidEntertainment and released by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} in 2001. It follows the story of Kenji, one of the sons of the Serpent, as he unites the land under the reborn Dragon clan, or become a tyrant like his father.

''Battle Realms'' is a RealTimeStrategy game developed by Creator/LiquidEntertainment and released by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} in 2001. It follows the story of Kenji, one of the sons of the Serpent, as he unites the land under the reborn Dragon clan, or become a tyrant like his father. Battle Realm's greatest strength is the fact that the player is incapable of purchasing any unit. Instead, peasants (the worker of the game) are trained in a variety of schools, getting the unit the player wants. Sending a peasant to an Archery trains them into an Archer, for instance. Furthermore, the unit can usually be trained again. Sending that Archer into either the Dojo will turn them into the melee oriented Dragon Warrior (though they can still shoot using magic) or sending them to the Alchemist Hut will turn them into the Powder Keg Cannoneer heavy siege units. Couple in the 7 damage types and the inclusion of Battle Gears which allow a unit to change their damage type or initiate some other effect or change their role in combat period (The humble Archer, alone, can go from a Ranged Support Unit to a Scouting Unit with his Zen Arrow Battle Gear to a Demolitions Specialist if you give him the Fire Arrow Battle Gear) and you have a '''very''' complex game.

* GunsAreWorthless: Zig-zagged. Musketeers, Cannoneers and P.K. Cannoneers use gunpowder weapons. They're not particularly more damaging than their non-gunpowder using equivalents, nor cheaper or easier to train. On the other hand, Musketeers [[ImprobableAimingSkills never miss]], given that they're not using Blast Shot.

* GunsAreWorthless: {{Zig-zagged}}. Musketeers, Cannoneers and P.K. Cannoneers use gunpowder weapons. They're not particularly more damaging than their non-gunpowder using equivalents, nor cheaper or easier to train. On the other hand, Musketeers [[ImprobableAimingSkills never miss]], given that they're not using Blast Shot.

* GunsAreWorthless: Musketeers, Cannoneers and P.K. Cannoneers use gunpowder weapons. They're not particularly more damaging than their non-gunpowder using equivalents, nor cheaper or easier to train.

* ContestWinnerCameo: Teppo is created by James Malcolmson, the winner of Battle Realms' Design-A-Zen-Hero contest by UbiSoft. As depicted in Teppo's profile, he came from the land of ''Malcolmson''.

* LeaveNoSurvivors: Sending Zymeth into battle: "Spare NO ONE."
** Averted in Skirmish mode if game mode is set to "Razing" (destroy all enemy buildings) or "Kill the Keep" (destroy all enemy Keeps) as opposed to "Survival" (destroy all enemy signs of life).

* WalkItOff: Issyl, Crossbowmen, and all Wolf Clan Units can regenerate 100% of their max health idling. Everyone else, save Zombies, for whom this trope is inverted, only regenerate up to 80%.

* WalkItOff: Issyl, Crossbowmen, and all Wolf Clan Units can regenerate 100% of their max health idling. Everyone else only does it to 80%.

* WalkItOff: All units heal up to around 80% of their max health when idle. Wolf Clan units can heal all the way up to 100%.

* TheBerserker / LastStand: Guardians with the "Last Stand" Battle Gear. Upon losing all hit points, continues to attack nearby enemy units for a couple extra seconds with increased damage and takes none himself before finally dropping dead.