Trakisk erobring
Eventen "Trakisk erobring" er en helt ny type event på Grepolis. Noen opprørere begynte å forårsake kaos i det trakiske riket. Dette er da en god mulighet for deg til å bringe fred til landet ved å lede en hær av leiesoldater mot opprørerne, og ved det stikke av med noe tyvgods på toppen av det hele.
Kampanjekart
Oppgjøret mot det trakiske riket kan du se på kartet, og her vil du også kunne se de forskjellige kampområdene. Hver kampområde er markert med et symbol som er avhengig av hvilken status den plassen har:
Fra tid til annen vil du få muligheten til å velge mellom to forskjellige retninger. Det er opp til deg å bestemme deg for hvilken belønning du ønsker å gå etter!
Kampen mot opprørerne
Dersom du velger et kampområde som kan bli angrepet, vil et angrepsvindu åpne seg. Opprørerne du kan finne her, samt deres styrke kan du se på bunn og du velger dine egne Trakiske leiesoldater på den øverste delen av skjermen.
Vennligst merk deg at hvert kampområde har sin egen grense for hvor mange enheter du kan bruke. Skulle du ha flere leiesoldater under din kommando enn hva kampområdet tillater, er du nødt til å velge smart når det kommer til hvilke enheter du skal sende inn i kamp. Hver Trakiske enhet har sin styrke og svakhet mot spesifikke enheter. Eksempel:
Tribal Axmen deal 50% additional damage against Peltasts. If there are 50 enemy Peltasts at the battleground and you have 70 Tribal Axmen at your disposal, it is a good idea to select 50 Tribal Axmen. The damage bonus does not count for surplus Tribal Axmen. Let's assume the battleground limits you to use 80 mercenaries, you can then use the remaining 30 slots (50 are already occupied by the 50 Tribal Axmen you selected) according to your personal taste. However, it wouldn't be wise to send Spear Throwers as the enemy Peltasts would deal extra damage against the Spear Throwers!
As you can see, quite a bit of strategic thinking is asked for.
Should you be victorious, you will receive the respective reward of that battleground. Alternatively you can leave the reward at the battleground until the end of the event to claim it at any later point in time. If you collect your reward, rebels will repopulate the battleground again after 4 hours, but every time their forces will be even stronger than before. This way you can repeatedly get the same reward whereas the challenge continues to rise.
Another noteworthy feature is that, even if you are defeated when attacking the rebels, the casualties on the enemy side are permanent. This means that you can wear down the enemy with many smaller attacks until you are finally victorious.
Hercules
Hercules himself, the famous and imposing hero, joins your forces to restore order in the Thracian realms. When you attack a rebel battleground, Hercules can help you in that attack, which in turn will lift the morale of your mercenaries and raise their combat power by 20%. After his heroic act he needs to rest for 12 hours to recover. But you can also motivate him to go right into battle again with some Gold.
The Thracian mercenaries
Although you start your path of conquest with a few mercenaries (which were given to you by their leader Tenia), you shouldn't stick to such a small force. The following activities in the game will help you to find new groups of mercenaries at random and therefore to build a stronger army:
- Attacking and defending
- Recruiting units
- Research
- Construction of buildings
- Casting of spells
If you find a group of mercenaries, 8-12 random fighters will join your forces (Peltasts, Tribal Axmen, Spear Throwers, Elephant Riders, Veteran Warriors). Keep in mind that you can find a maximum of 10 groups of mercenaries per day. Of course you can also buy 10 mercenaries for Gold which will remain with you until the end of the event.
If your mercenaries get severely wounded, this is no reason to discard these tough, able fighters. Why? Because every 7 hours a healer will arrive at the camp of your mercenaries to tend to every injured mercenary. If you want to have your army ready for action again as fast as possible, you can pay the healer some Gold and he will arrive at once.