General info

1. Timelines in the Game

1) Seasons

Each season lasts for a day in real life:
a. Spring: Produces 3 bonus Divinities.
b. Summer: 3 more Levies, up to 15 in total.
c. Autumn: Crops yields increase by 20%.
d. Winter: Battles between gamers are not allowed.

2) Refresh Hours

Time Format: 24 hours (Server Time)
a. 00:00 Refreshes the Turnover Capacity (TC) and resets the accrued transaction amount of Market.
b. 5:02 Refreshes Levy Event Rewards, Salary, Daily Quests, number of Levies, Seasons, League Farm Harvest and number of Caravans at Trading Post.
c. 22:00 Refreshes VIP Shop Items
d. 8:30 12:30 19:00 Refresh Bonus Divinities including Expedition, Attack, Colonize, Farmland, Silver Mine based on gamer level. One Divinity of each kind will be produced each time. Note that in Batheo, the divinities of Expedition, Attack, Colonize, Farmland, Silver Mine are separately abbreviated to E, A, C, F and S.
e. 8:30 12:30 19:00 21:00 Refresh the attack quota of Elite Troops (the red one) in Expedition view.
f. Every half an hour Refresh Crops Price (fluctuates between 1.9+ and 0.5+ every 4 hours.)
g. Every half an hour Refresh the Psyche Gauge (success rate) of Equipment Enhancement. It changes from the highest to the lowest and back to the highest in estimated 3 hours. The rate above 90% is the highest. However, the highest could be 90% or below occasionally.

2. Buildings in City

1) Assembly

Assembly is the administration building of a gamer’s city. More game features will be introduced as Assembly upgrades. The highest levels of the other buildings are determined by the Assembly level. Every Assembly upgrade will gain you a Divinity.
a. Assembly Lv 10 Granted Granary. Granary is a place to store Crops.
b. Assembly Lv 11 Granted Academy. Academy is where you can study technologies.
c. Assembly Lv 12 Granted Market. Market is where you can buy and sell Crops.
d. Assembly Lv 15 Granted Barracks. Barrack replenishes Troop loss from the battles.
e. Assembly Lv 25 Granted Tax Office. Tax Office increases your tax rate.
f. Assembly Lv 30 Commission becomes available In Shop. You can now Commission merchants to gain high-quality equipments.
g. Assembly Lv 35 Granted Mint. Mint increases the odds to acquire Gold in each Levy.
h. Assembly Lv 40 Daily Quests is open.
i. Assembly Lv 41 Granted Trading Post. You are allowed to send Caravans to other gamers within your Faction.
j. Assembly Lv 82 Granted Alchemy Lab. Refine stones in Alchemy Lab to acquire Drachmas.
k. Assembly Lv 85 Granted the second Training Ground.
l. Assembly Lv 110 Granted the third Training Ground.
P.S: Remember after Assembly level reaches Lv 35, every battle costs you one Divinity.

2) Training Ground

a. Training The higher the Training Ground level, the more experience the Hero gains from each training session.
b. Evolution You may spend Drachmas, Laurels or Gold to wash a Hero’s Attributes.
Regular Attribute Wash: Assembly level times 4 equals the number of Laurels needed.
Enhanced Attribute Wash: 2 Gold
Platinum Attribute Wash: 20 Gold
Ultimate Attribute Wash: 100 Gold
Every attribute added cannot exceed the Hero level + 20.
c. Only the default formation in Training Ground will appear in Battle.
d. The amount of experience added through Fast Track relates to the level of the Training Ground not the training mode.

3) Academy

After Lv 11, new technology and formation will appear every time the level of Academy hits the multiples of 5.
a. Technology level cannot exceed the level of the Academy.
b. When the Academy level reaches Lv 10, you can upgrade one formation to Lv 2. Max number of attainable heroes raised to 3.
c. When the Academy level reaches Lv 25, you can upgrade one formation to Lv 5. Max number of attainable heroes raised to 4.
d. When the Academy level reaches Lv 50, you can upgrade formation to Lv 10. Max number of attainable heroes raised to 5.

4) Shop

a. When the Assembly level is lower than 10, the success rate of equipment enhancement is set at 100%. When the Assembly level is higher than 10, the success rate will become floating.
b. Commission will become available when Assembly is at Lv 30. You can Commission merchants to acquire high quality cloaks and mounts.
c. Commission Regular Horse Dealer to meet a Mid-level Horse Dealer at odds. The latter will only disappear upon being commissioned (Upgrading Shop will not create Mid-level Horse Dealer). Senior Horse Dealer and Superior Horse Dealer will appear following the same pattern.
d. The level of the Shop has nothing to do with the quality grade of the acquired equipments but the level of the dealers.
e. High quality items in VIP Shops are for VIP members only, when your Shop upgrades to a certain level. Upgrading your Assembly is not the only way to acquire high quality Items but through the VIP Shop.

5) Market

Market will appear when Assembly reaches Lv 12.
a. The trade volume will be refreshed once the Market is upgraded.
b. You can buy unlimited amount of Crops for twice as high as the current price in the Black Market.

6) Cottage

a. You can own up to 10 Cottages. Assembly Lv 48 is required.
b. Try to keep the Cottage and the Assembly on the same level to maintain steady tax revenue as well as to save on construction time once destroyed.

7) Barracks

Assembly at Lv 15
a. Upgrading Barracks will increase the number of volunteers recruited. Volunteer Troops are recruited every 30 minutes ten times a day.
b. The higher the level of the gamer, the more Crops it intakes to recruit soldiers.

Cool Trading Post

a. Apply for trade with other gamers by sending your Caravans to them. Upgrading Trading Post will increase the number of Caravans you’re allowed to send or accept.
b. Number of Caravans accepted by Trading Post is refreshed once a day. The Drachmas generated by accepting Caravans are insignificant.
c. You can apply for trade with gamers of Lv 41 or above within the faction. One trade per gamer per day.
d. When trading with your Colonies (level 41 and above), as long as the acceptable number of Caravans is high enough, you don’t need his approval to trade.

9) Treasury

Upgrade Treasury to increase Drachmas generated by each trade.

10) Mint (Assembly at Lv 35)

Upgrade Mint to increase the odds of receiving 10 Gold from each Levy.

11) Tax Office

Upgrade Tax Office to raise tax rate.

12) Alchemy Lab

Upgrade Alchemy Lab to Lv 82 to generate Drachmas by refining stone.

3. Battle

After Assembly upgrades to Lv 15, you should manually replenish your troop loss in battle. If the battle lasts for 20 rounds, it will end in a tie.

1) Divinity

a. One Divinity is restored per hour or per upgrade of Assembly. You are able to buy Divinity with Gold when you reach certain VIP level.
b. Your loss in battle will not consume Divinity before Lv 35 (including Lv 35).

2) Heroes, Troops and Battle Magic

Mouse-over the attributes, troops and battle magic in Hero Attributes panel for more details.
a. The hero level is limited by that of the assembly.
b. You can renascence your hero when he reaches Lv 51. His level will become 1 or above with attributes unchanged, but the grade of his troops will be leveled up.
c. Mobility: Mobility refers to block and dodge, which can effectively defend against the Valor Hit. The hero with high mobility will not increase his morale after blocking or dodging.
d. Comprehensive abilities: The hero has average abilities on dodge, block and critical strike.
e. Morale: When the magic troops are struck by Valor Hit or Spirit Hit, their morale will increase by 25. The troops that being struck by mechanical troops will not increase morale.
f. Inspiration: When the morale reaches 100 points or above, magic troops will launch a Spirit Hit. When being hit by Morale Suppression, the magic troop can still launch a Spirit Hit with 100 or above morale. The morale of magic troops will soon disappear after attacking.
g. Deserting: Reduce your number of soldiers in each round. Only the NPC can use this skill.
h. Dancer: Inspire one troop, but may miss the target sometimes. The success rate of inspiration is random, which have something to do with the level difference between Dancer and the target troop.
i. Bugler: The boost of Bugler is 100%. Bugler boosts the morale of all the troops while reducing the enemies’ morale. Bugler increases the morale by 30 points in each round.
j. Healing Priest: Element Hit affects the healing effect of Healing Priest.
k. Mechanical Troops: This kind of troops has higher Valor Hit against a single target. Cyclops' Armored Chariot with strong Valor Shield and Spirit Shield can be used as tanks in the front of your formation.
l. Troops and Formation: Deploying the heroes in specific formation wisely to win a battle. For instance, Toxotes with strong defense is effective in Testudo but not in Boar’s Head.
m. Rally: Rapidly increase the defense of formation. Any hit, except for the Element Hit, inflicts 1 point damage on the Rally.
n. Morale Suppression: this battle magic will not hit the troop of no morale.
o. Sally Outburst: Once the troop with Sally Outburst begins its Spirit Hit, its moral will not disappear until being stolen or suppressed.
p.Both Valor Hit and Spirit Hit can be dodged. However, when Valor Hit can also be blocked, Spirit Hit cannot be blocked.

3) Equipment

a. There are 6 colors of equipment that represent different quality scales: while, blue, green, orange, red and purple (from average to top quality).
b. Following are the grades of equipment:

Shabby (G1) 1 to 10
Rusty (G2) 1 to 10
Rough (G3) 1 to 10
Mediocre (G4) 1 to 10
Sharp (G5) 1 to 10
Sophisticated (G6) 1 to 10
Awesome (G7) 1 to 10
Chivalrous (G8) 1 to 10
Mighty (G9) 1 to 10
Heroic (G10) 1 to 10
Majestic (G11) 1 to 10
Unique (G12) 1 to 10
Imperial (G13) 1 to 10
Heirloom (G14) 1 to 10
Epic (G15) 1 to 10
Artifact (G16) 1 to 10
Legendary (G17) 1 to 10
Primitive (G18) 1 to 10
Immortal (G19) 1 to 10
Heavenly (G20) 1 to 10

c. High-quality equipment has higher primitive attributes than low-quality one. And more attributes will be added to high quality equipment in enhancement. Select a high-quality equipment to enhance though it costs more.
d. The binded equipment cannot be degraded or sold. You should wait for 3 days to unbind the equipment. During this period, you can still cancel the operation of unbinding if you want to.

4) Formation

In Batheo, there are 8 formations for you to choose. You can upgrade the formation to deploy more heroes and improve your fighting strength. A Lv 2 formation can deploy 3 heroes, Lv 5 for 4 and Lv 10 for 5.
1. Testudo: increase Block
2. Lochoi: increase Valor Hit
3. Boar's Head: increase Spirit Hit
4. Crescent: increase Critical Strike
5. Inverted Wedge: increase Dodge
6. Gramarye: increase Element Hit
7. Padmavyuha: increase Counterattack
8. Skein: increase defense

You can check the formations in Technology panel in Academy.

a. There is no a versatile formation in battlefield, nor a perfect combination of heroes. You should upgrade at least two formations to flexibly deploy the heroes.
b. The decentralized formations like Padmavyuha, Skein and Inverted Wedge focus more on defense; Boar's Head and Lochoi, on attack. Strike in Line and Strike in Column are the bane of Boar's Head and Testudo.
c. Heroes with battle magic perform their skills only with full morale. It’s necessary to recruit one or two heroes with mechanical troops, especially when you challenge Aeacus. Of course, too many mechanical troops may become the easy targets due to their low defense.
d. The order of attacks in the formation: (the attacking side)
7 4 1
8 5 2
9 6 3

In the first round, the hero of the attacking side hits first, and then counterpart from the defending side.

5) Laurels

a. You can acquire Laurels by defeating NPCs or finishing Daily Quests. Laurels can be used to upgrade technology. You can also contribute Laurels to gain Prestige in Assembly, but it is not recommended.
b. The higher level of the hero, the fewer Laurels will be received when attacking the same NPC.
c. In Heath Aflame, you can gain more Laurels by repeatedly defeating the NPCs there.

6) Prestige

a. After you relocate to a Lv 30 area or above, attacking gamers in other factions or investing gain you more Prestige. When under attack, if a gamer’s building is degraded by one level, certain Drachmas will be given as compensation. The area level affects the battle loss. The higher the level of the area, the more the battle loss.
b. You can check your Title and Prestige in Assembly by clicking Assembly – Promotion panel. The figure in the brackets following your Prestige indicates your ranking in the faction. Only the gamer within the top 100 can find his ranking in Promotion panel.
c. Raise Prestige to get promoted. You can receive Drachmas as salary every day.
d. Raise Prestige to increase the number of colonies (10% of the Drachmas from levy are contributed to you.)
e. Raise Prestige to get more Farmlands and Silver Mines. You can obtain two lands when Prestige reaches 120000 and two Silver Mines at 260000.
f. Raise Prestige to gain Prestige Heroes of your faction.
g. When Prestige reaches 100, you can retain two heroes. 15000 Prestige enable you to retain 5 heroes, 70000 for 6 and 190000 for 7.
h. Destroying another gamer’s building in battle doubles the Prestige you gain.
i. Certain Prestige will be deducted once per day when your Prestige exceeds 510000.
510000 to 520000, deduct 2000 Prestige per day
520000 to 530000, deduct 3000 Prestige per day
530000 to 540000, deduct 4000 Prestige per day
540000 to 550000, deduct 5000 Prestige per day
550000 to 560000, deduct 6000 Prestige per day
560000 to 570000, deduct 8000 Prestige per day
570000 to 580000, deduct 10000 Prestige per day
580000 to 590000, deduct 12000 Prestige per day
590000 to 600000, deduct 15000 Prestige per day
600000 and above, deduct 20000 Prestige per day

Promotion Bonus:

Agoranomos (M41) Increase your strike damage by 5% and defense by 0%
Taxiarch (M42) Increase your strike damage by 5% and defense by 5%
Polemarchos (M43) Increase your strike damage by 10% and defense by 5%
Strategos (M44) Increase your strike damage by 10% and defense by 10%
Praetor Peregrinus (M45) Increase your strike damage by 15% and defense by 10%
Praetor Urbanus (M46) Increase your strike damage by 15% and defense by 15%
Stratarches (M47) Increase your strike damage by 20% and defense by 15%
Quaestor (M48) Increase your strike damage by 20% and defense by 20%
Consul (M49) Increase your strike damage by 25% and defense by 20%
Dictator (M50) Increase your strike damage by 25% and defense by 25%

7) Levy

You can levy 12 times a day and 15 times in Summer. The amount of Drachmas gained from levy depends on the levels of Cottages and Tax Office. League technology and City Loyalty also affect the Drachmas of levy.

Levy Event: Levy Event will appear at random when you levy or apply Extra Levy. There are two options for you to choose. Different options bring you different rewards like Prestige, Gold, City Loyalty, Drachmas and etc.

4. Main Views in Batheo

1) Expedition

a. Troops with white flags are the ones you’ve defeated; the ones with red flags have not been defeated.
b. Once you defeat all the troops on the Map, the completion level will reach 100%. You may now collect the rewards of high quality equipment.
c. There’s an attack quota on every Elite Troop (in the yellow square). Some Elite Troops might drop quality equipment. The smaller the attack quota, the higher level of the map, the better the quality of the equipment dropped.
d. In red squares are the Mercenary Troops. Heroes from these troops can be recruitable once defeated.
e. The octagon is an Elite Legion. You need to assemble a group to attack the legion. In Polyphemus and thereafter, you can only group with the gamers in the same faction. Click “Attack” button to assemble a group.

2) World

a. After defeating Paris, you may go to a Lv 30 Area and join a faction. You cannot change your faction once it’s chosen.
b. You must defeat all the troops before relocating to a higher level area. Defeating the Elite Legion is not required.
c. If your Assembly level does not exceed the limit of the area, you can move back to a lower level area. There is a 24-hour cooldown for this relocation.
d. Investing in area can raise your Prestige. When investing with the same amount of Drachmas, the higher Prosperity of the area, the less Prestige you’ll receive. You are only allowed to invest in your current area. The cooldown of each investment is 3 hours. .
e. Investing in area also raise the Prosperity. The higher Prosperity of the area, the more Drachmas you will gain per Levy.
f. Area level affects the gamer’s actual battle loss. The higher level of the area, the higher actual battle loss rate.

3) Area

a. Each area is divided into several zones for gamers to settle in. The gamers will settle in the vacant zone one by one until it is full.
b. Silver Mines lie in the first several zones. The higher area level, the fewer Silver Mines. The high-yields Silvers Mines are always in Zone 1.
c. If you abandon a Silver Mine 1 minute earlier, you can still gain the Drachmas in full.
d. If you relocate to another area, you will gain Drachmas from Silver Mine in advance.
e. In the area of other factions, the names of gamers show different colors according to their Hostility level. You can defeat the gamers in other factions to acquire more Prestige. The more gamers you defeat, the higher your Hostility level.
Hostility level =Number of successful attack – Number of being defeated
Hostility level: Purple > Red > Yellow > Green > Blue > White. The higher Hostility level of a gamer that you defeat, the more Prestige you will gain.
f. You can also apply Ceasefire to start an 8-hour protection by clicking the button “Ceasefire”. You can find this button in area. Select your city and click to access city panel. The gamer that is being defeated will have a 20-minute or above automatic Ceasefire. Want to stop your Ceasefire protection? Just attack others to cancel protection.
g. Once being defeated in a Lv 100 area, you cannot acquire Drachmas as compensation when cleaning up the damaged buildings.
h. When your level is high enough, you can relocate to any Lv 100 area according to their traits.

4) Farmland

a. The figure behind the farmland yields is the bonus of league technology.
b. Abandoning your farmland before occupation expires will decrease the yields.
c. If you relocate to another area before occupation expires, you will gain fewer Crops.

5. League

1) Lv 1 league can hold 50 members. You can upgrade League Badge to increase member capacity.
2) League Battle: league host launches a League Battle before a specified time. Only the league members that join the battle can be rewarded with bountiful league contribution. League contribution is for upgrading league technologies and title in league. The gamer engaged in the battle can achieve 5 winning streaks at the most. The maximum number of participants in each side is 50. The fighting order of gamers is determined by their levels, from low level to high level.
3) League Battle breaks out when one league host launches a battle to seize the farm of another league or when two leagues fight over a farm.
4) The league members are able to harvest Crops after successfully seizing the farm. Gamer can harvest the Crops by clicking the Harvest button of the farm or by clicking the Harvest Crops button in Aide panel. Save your quota of harvest before seizing a farm with high production. The Crops production of farm is refreshed at 05:02 a.m. (server time). The occupation of farms is reset in winter.

6. Renascence

You can Renascence your heroes when they reach Lv 51.
The hero becomes Lv 1 with unchanged attributes after Renascence, but the grade of troops he leads will be improved.
The higher the level of troops, the higher combat strength the hero has in battle.
The frequency of Renascence is unlimited and is affected by the hero level. The maximum level of hero is 120.

7. Alliance

Alliances will be made in two ways.
1) For instance, these three factions are A, B and C. When the number of areas of A is larger than the total number of areas owned by B and C, B will automatically ally with C. Gamers of these two allied factions can together take part in the Area Battle against A. Gamers are allowed to relocate to each others’ areas and assemble a group to beat the same Elite Legion.

After alliance:
Gamers from B and C can refine items in the areas of these two factions.
Attack against the gamers from allied faction is now allowed.
Area Battle against the area of allied faction is not allowed.

In Area Battle, gamers from B and C can together fight against A.
Gamers from B and C can assemble a group to attack the same Elite Legion.
Gamers in the areas of B can relocate to the areas of C.

2) When one faction owns only 2 areas and it will automatically ally with another faction that has fewer areas.

The alliance will be broken off when:
1) The duration of alliance exceeds 24 hours.
2) The number of areas owed by the allied faction is larger than the third faction. For instance, if the number of area owned by C exceeds the total number of areas owned by A and B, A will make alliance with B accordingly. But if the number of areas owned by A or B exceeds that of C, the alliance will be thus broken off.

8. Lv 100 Area Traits

Political Center: Occupation is not allowed.
Economic Center: Investing in this area can double Faction Occupation Rate.
Trade Center: Gamer of this area can invest in other Lv 100 areas.
Military Center: Attacking the gamers in this area will double the Faction Occupation Rate of this area.
Cultural Center: Gamers from different factions can relocate to this area.

The area price level affects the selling price of refined items. The higher the price level, the more Drachmas you get from each refining. The selling price changes every half hour.

The cooldown of relocation between two Lv 100 areas is 3 hours.

9. Miscellaneous:

1) Daily Quests: You have more chances to find the high-difficulty quests per refresh. The sooner you refresh the quest, the more high-difficulty quests become available. High difficulty quests with 4 stars rewards you with magic book. Daily Quest grants you Laurels. The higher difficulty of the quest you finish, the more top quality magic books you will gain. The magic books are classified into different qualities according to their colors. From ordinary to top quality are: white, green, yellow, red and purple.

2) Main Heroes (the first hero you select at the beginning of the game): Augustus, Richard I, Robin Hood, Kratos, Beowulf, Atelante, Orianthi and Conan.

3) Achilleus, Odysseus, Artemis, Paris and Heracles are excellent heroes in the early-phased development. Artemis is your first choice in the early phase. You can recruit this Dancer after defeating her in Beasts in the Wilderness. Odysseus is another valiant hero with high critical strike.

4) Valor Hit is against Valor Shield, Spirit Hit against Spirit Shield, and Element Hit against Element Shield.

5) Remember to enhance your equipment if you fail to defeat the NPCs before Lv 10. Enhance the equipment first, then the Academy and the technology that increase Valor Hit and Spirit Hit. It’s necessary to upgrade a formation to Lv 2 as well.

Overview of Battle View

Gamer should strategically deploy his heroes and arrange the formation before launching an attack. Battle Report is generated after each battle, from which gamer can check the entire process of battle. Gamer will not suffer battle loss before Lv 15.



Overview of Colonization

Now that you know how to enhance the equipment, pick your heroes and deploy them accordingly, you can colonize gamers in your area. When you have colonies, you can get Drachmas as contribution from their levies.

Formation Deployment

Deploying your heroes in the formation accordingly is the key to win a battle. Batheo offers you 8 formations, each of which has its unique feature. You can deploy your defending heroes, attacking heroes, Healing Priests, Dancers and Buglers skillfully to make a strong team!



Here are some commonly used formations.

Testudo

Testudo is a formation that focuses more on attacking than on defending. With one troop unit sticks out in the front and the main hero is in the middle or back position, you can concentrate fire on the center of enemy’s formation. Upgrading this formation can increase your troops’ Block.

Boar’s Head

Compared with Testudo, Boar’s Head is more a defending formation than an attacking one. With three troop units guarding the frontline, this arrow-like formation can better protect the troop units in the back. Upgrading this formation can increase your troops’ Spirit Hit.

Lochoi

Lochoi is another formation that focuses more on defending than on attacking. It is a kind of highly mobile formation. Upgrading this formation can increase your troops’ Valor Hit.


Attack Enemies

Prestige is everything in leveling up your title (Promotion). To get Promotion fast, you should get more Prestige as quick as you can! Attacking gamers of other factions is the most effective way to gain Prestige. So it’s time to assemble your troops and beat up the enemy factions!



Overview of Divinity System

Battles consume Divinities, one at a time, with one being restored every hour. There are 5 different types of Divinities: Expedition, Attack, Colonize, Farmland and Silver Mine. One Divinity of each kind will be restored at 8:30, 12:30 and 19:00 (Perth Time, GMT+Cool. And every time your Assembly upgrades, you receive an extra Divinity. You may also spend Gold to buy extra Divinity.



After every battle, your soldiers have to rest for a while (Divinity Cooldown). The more battles your soldiers fight, the longer they have to rest. Divinity Cooldown will be reset at 5 a.m. every day (Perth Time, GMT+Cool