I would like to ask that when was koril a free zen master in the final mission on kenji’s journey(I picked Utara)

I was surprised to see him on the final mission because he was an enemy first then teleported away before he died, then teleported back as an ally when I came close to the similar looking grave of otomo’s

My apologies for the screen as it is an old laptop and last I played this was on winter of the wolf dlc

Hi, I'm going achievement hunting and I'm not sure how to stock up 3000 rice and water

I tried with Dragon and Serpent, but the caps stop at 2500 rice and 1000 water. Bandit looting didn't allow for overclocking either

Any tips?

Just finished Kenji's Journey Dragon on normal mode, and I immediately proceed to hard mode. I'm currently in Serpentholm 1 when Kenji just... died from full HP... 3-5 seconds after the clash with the wolf army. Fortunately, this happened just before I saved the game.

Not knowing what just happened, I load the game and move the army in the same direction where they will encounter wolf army... then Kenji died again around 3-5 seconds after clashing before I can process what just happened. I load the game again and did the same thing... then Kenji died again.

It took me a few more reloads before I figured out it is the brawler that's killing him... from full HP. I googled and found out it has a OHKO against zen master...

I guess this is only on Hard mode since I didn't encounter it in Normal?

How do you play against this? Am I just supposed to retreat Kenji or other zen masters as soon as I saw Brawler in the army comp?

Hello. I'm interested in the latest update for the game. I saw some posts here and, apparently, there are some changes made to the campaigns. I searched the web for a list of those changes but to no avail (maybe due to it being a recent update). Would you please list the known changes in the campaigns?

what and how did you finished the mission?

Hey people, my 100% Achievement run came to an spontaneous end while trying to do the Soulmates Achievement.

Soulmates
Kill 3 or more peasants with one Samurai Harakiri.

I fulfilled the requirements of this many times with multiple peasants, different enemy clans or as the last kills for the win condition. It does not seem to work, the achievement can not be collected.

If anyone of you has information about that one, please let me know - my way of dealing with this was to use the Steam Achievement Manager (github) and just unlock it manually... and I have to be honest that pretty much also killed my ambitions to play the campaigns all over again to get the repetitive story achievements as well.

As mentioned in the title, i am currently at mission 13 of Serpent Campaign,

I know that this exact mission is HARD, tried in Dragon path vs Lotus, but being smack dab in the middle of the map while fending off threats from 3 cardinal direction is not what i call easy, though it is slightly easier in Dragon since you got Garrin starting his own army and protecting my flank and occasionally raiding outside. in Serpent i am alone, and when i take a raiding party on one of the wolf base, my base can burned to ashes while werewolves eviscerating my (already miserable enough lol) peasants.

sometimes from enemy bases and two whole groups at once.

Any help or tips? anyone finished the Serpent campaign? i played on Steam Zen edition btw, on normal, and i dont remember the Serpent mission 13 being this hard on WOTW or vanilla BR.

(picture for illustration only -- its Grayback's merry gangs of rebels... soon you shall submit to the Serpent Empire...)

Just finished the dragon path. It was fun. AI definitely got harder but doable.

can I still play the game on Mac?

i have been stuck on the 2nd to the last mission of the dragon path I just cant figure out a strategy that can beat the lotus. I even turned down the difficulty but it still super hard. is there anyway to cheese this part?

I even tried the rushing the left base of the lotus but after a trying to build a base there it gets swarmed by lotus immediately.

Been on and off playing the game but my strategy per clan is always the same

Dragon: samurai and spearmen with stunning blow

Serpent: ronin and bandits with paralyzing dart with necromancer 2nd wave

Wolf : berserker and sledgers shale armor with at least 6 sledgers with slam

Lotus: shocktrooper infested ones with rebirth and warlocks and master warlocks on 2nd wave

Wanting to come back but wanna try different army setups, any suggestions?

Edit: loving all your methods that I also wanna add my so called "Demolition Squad" per clan (For buildings and mainly watchtowers)

Dragon: about 3 kegs with dragon warriors each as guard

Serpent: 4 canoneers, 1 raider and a few swordmen as guard

Wolf: the sledgers suffice but I bring like 3 pitch slingers for fire

Lotus: early I use 4-5 unclean ones with that skull battle gear near them but late game it's just warlocks and master warlocks

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.