Detailed insight, explained by Sebastian Knietzsch – Senior Game Designer

Path of Glory is one of the new strategies to take over districts and as a result win games in The Settlers. You can recruit heroes, train them and send them into arena fights. For glory!

Recruitment & Training

If you want to recruit a hero, you need to build the “Heroes’ Retreat” first. Here lives, trains and eats the hero and their sparring partner. It is important to know, that your hero will arrive from the colony ship. Building the Heroes Retreat inland will mean a longer travel time for your hero, building it on a shore could mean a longer walk to the arena.

Currently heroes can be of 3 different weapon schools.

School of the Beak heroes fight with swords

School of the Pincer heroes fight with clubs and maces

School of the Claw heroes prefer heavy weapons like axes

If heroes have enough to eat and do not prepare for an arena fight, they can be trained. Training improves attributes which in turn affect stats, so our hero can take more hits, better evade attacks from the opponent or hit harder.