Guide
So I realized that my last article was a little confusing. Sorry about that. I’ll give you a basic overview of the game so that if you have no prior experience, you can still understand what I’m talking about.
Polytopia is a strategy game where you pick a tribe to play and then fight as the tribe. Each tribe has different strengths and starts off with different skills. The tribes I went over in the last article, Imperius, and Xin-xi, have special abilities. Imperius starts off with the ability to pick fruits, and Xin-xi has the ability to climb mountains. ‘Why would you want to do those things’ you ask. It upgrades the city you start off with, as you want to try and gain city levels to make more money. Xin-xi’s skill doesn’t quite have an economic factor to it, but has other good attributes from it (for a more in-depth dive into Xin-xi, check out my last article). You start off with small players, like chess pieces you can move around, that go and explore your world for you. Eventually, you run into other tribes and go to war with them. This is a third-person game, and you get to control multiple characters at one time. The goal is to manage three factors: domination of the world (or defeating other tribes by capturing their cities), learning more technology (or buying knowledge), and making a steady economy. While these pillars are interdependent, as you cannot gain knowledge without money from the economy, and you cannot create specialized warriors without technology, the game’s most important factor is to control the world by wiping out all other tribes (for those worried about it, there is no gore and purposefully low-quality retro-esque graphics).
Tribes & Tactics
Oumaji
Oumaji, if used correctly, can be an excellent tribe to start off with. They start off with the Riding tech, which allows you to create a rider in one of your cities. Riders can move farther than regular warriors, and have a talent called escape where you attack someone, and then you can move again after attacking. Warriors can only move or attack, and have to take 2 turns for what a Rider could do in one.
Oumaji Tactics
A popular Oumaji tactic is to gain the Organization technology, which allows you to harvest fruit. During your second turn, you harvest the fruit and improve your economy. You choose the Explorer reward from leveling up your city (every time you level up your city, you can choose a reward as well as gaining more money per turn), and continue going from there.
Bardur
Bardur, along with Imperius, is a tribe that can level up on turn zero. It starts off with the Hunting tech, which gives you the power to hunt an animal to gain population. This technology paves the road for other ones, such as Archery for range and Mathematics for catapults.
Bardur Tactics
Some Bardur tactics include leveling up your first city by hunting and then exploring. You don’t want to invest in technologies that improve your economy until you have more cities – which you can gain by finding villages, moving a unit to it, and then capturing it. After that, you should try out other tactics, but this is a great starting strategy.
RELATED STORIES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Polytopia
https://polytopia.fandom.com/wiki/Strategies
https://polytopia.fandom.com/wiki/Tribes
https://polytopia.fandom.com/wiki/Combat
https://polytopia.fandom.com/wiki/Combat
TAKE ACTION:
Like I said in my first article, you could start a Polytopia Club at this link
