Stratagus is a free cross-platform real time strategy game engine used to build other games. It is written in C. Lua is used as the configuration language. SDL, gzip and bzip2 are among the external libraries used.
Playable Stratagus games are: medieval Battle for Mandicor; Warcraft II port Wargus; futuristic Battle of Survival and space age Astroseries. Of these, only Wargus and Astroseries are complete.
Because of its history, all Stratagus games currently inherit the Warcraft II style gameplay.
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