On March 29, Tianmei's all-free real-time strategy mobile game "Return to Empire" was launched. At the same time, the game and the military culture program "Military Base Camp" launched a special program of "Return to the Empire" of military weapons. The program invited international relations expert Jin Canrong, former PLA Army Colonel Yang Xiaolin and the "Return to Empire" game planner to discuss the ancient war wisdom of "utilization strategy".
Depending on the terrain, use strategy
In the program, Teacher Jin Canrong proposed that the most significant feature of Chinese's war wisdom is "making use of the strategy", and Uncle Yang used the example of "Gao Xianzhi outwitting Xiao Bolu" to demonstrate Teacher Jin Canrong's point of view.
In the return to the Empire, the essence of the battle can also be recreated according to the terrain. Because the game has created strategic mountains, lakes and rivers, plus "Return to the Empire" can be free to march. Therefore, players can use terrain and mechanics to make "ambush", "guerrilla", "circle" and other operations, and use strategies flexibly like Gao Xianzhi.
Win with wisdom and fight with caution first
From ancient times to the present, "cautious warfare" has been the first characteristic of China's military thinking. And this kind of "cautious warfare" idea of "surrendering soldiers without fighting" coincides with the concept of "using strategy" in the game.
This kind of thinking is also reflected in the battle of the city in "Return to the Empire": the two major alliances in the game are eyeing a famous city, and one of the alliances prepares a night attack when it learns that the opposite main force is not online. In the face of the oncoming enemy forces, the eager players changed the ID to the name of the main force and scared off the opposite side with a move "Empty City Plan".
Make full use of the equipment, and restore the evidence
In the program, the two experts agreed that in siege warfare, in addition to using strategy, it is also necessary to use siege equipment such as catapults. In order to restore the catapult in the game, the "Return to the Empire" project team also conducted an in-depth study of the historical materials of the Warring States, Song Dynasty and other periods. It is worth mentioning that the city battle of "Return to the Empire" also restores reality. Players need to attack the city gates with catapults and control the army to dodge the arrow tower's attack range until one side is completely defeated.
Compared to other SLGs, Return to Empire is more focused on tactical flexibility. And this kind of game design intuition of "making strategy fire" may also be the hope that players can feel the war wisdom of their predecessors in the game, so as to appreciate the fun of fully free real-time strategy games.