For instance, you can order a galley to try to board an enemy vessel, at which point the soldiers that you crewed the ship with will battle the opposing crew for control of their ship. Ship combat is a lot more intricate than in most real-time strategy games, as you can determine the makeup of the crew, which affects the ship's performance in battle. To its credit, Sparta does try to introduce twists to the familiar RTS formula. To buy enough time to do these things, you can build defenses such as walls and traps, though the latter seem fairly useless as the artificial intelligence always seems to know the location of traps and destroys them with ranged weapons. This ensures that most missions in Sparta have a lengthy buildup phase as you sit around and wait to gather enough gold to research all the technologies you need and build and the advanced structures. The most limiting resource is gold, since it's the most valuable resource and generally you can harvest it only at a certain rate, no matter how many workers you have. You have workers who collect three basic resources-food, wood, and gold-which are used from everything to building construction to technology research. If you've played a real-time strategy game in the past 10 years, then you'll likely feel at home in Sparta very quickly. The Spartans, for example, mine gold, while the Egyptians sift it, though all the factions are roughly comparable to one another. Each faction has its own unique units, such as the Persian immortals, and a slightly different way of doing things. Now-famous figures from history make an appearance, such as the Spartan king, Leonidas. Meanwhile, the Egyptians try to throw off the yoke of Persian oppression. Basically, the aggressive Persians under Xerxes want to conquer the world, while the brave Spartans stand in their way. There are three campaigns in Sparta that let you play from the perspective of the Spartans, the Egyptians, or the Persians.
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Yes, the game features Spartans and a king named Leonidas, but Sparta: Ancient Wars has nothing to do with the famous recent movie about Sparta.
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